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Snarf was talking about taking a break for a week - may have requested a Mod to do temp ban so wasn't tempted to come back and post?

For an investigative journalist , does seem to be a lot of inaccuracies in the post.

Holy Overreaction Batman

Does seem a bit of a mixture lately really of different books, and agree marketing does seem to play up the Space Marines as heroes, but then you get books like Day of Ascension by Adrian Tchaikovsky come out just 2 years ago (so more recent than the Warhammer Adventures books) that shows why...

Hopefully this doesn't isn't too long that I'm necroing the thread, but in regards to the initial question, I've been thinking on this, and based on my (probably limited) understanding of narrative style gameplay, I'd put it as the difference between the Lord of the Rings books to the Lord of...

I like the Trails series, JRPGs but I think pretty good the ones I've played, and always seems to be one coming up, though gets confusing with lag between Japanese release and English release, and at least one remake coming up, which makes it tricky to specify a title that may fit.

I believe one key thing around rogue-likes is being procedurally generated, so each run through would be different, allowing for quite different expectations / possibilities of scoring. Whereas my memory of a lot of arcade games were that they weren't random, so could learn from each play...

I liked the way Fre League did it with Alien starter set - inasmuch as if you wanted to keep playing their cinematic scenarios being released, you could just use the starter set rules and core book not required. The core book would give more options, and allow for more free form campaigning...

For me, I feel that type of quantity doesn't quite match up to what I'd like, albeit I understand why they do it they way they do. My preference would be a bit less adventures, and a bit more lore / setting type books instead, though on that note happy to see the two forgotten realms books...

Assuming WEG is West End Games - they didn't do a Star Trek RPG did they? Only Star Wars. Similarly FASA did Star Trek, but not Star Wars. I wonder if prior poster is confusing Star Trek for Star Wars in the prior post, thinking Aramis was talking about Star Wars RPG, when talking while...

I think though there is a difference between saying the rules are there to make a game, and not accurate model physics/ economy, and saying that means the players are supposed to be uber powerful squashing everything along the way.

Ah found it, while unarmed you take a -3 penalty to skill checks

Minimum starting skill is 7 though isn't it? So sounds like something happened to drop it, else bug, rather than getting it down wrong initially.

This is where IMHO Herbert muddies his own waters. Dune then Dune Messiah were looking to show the dangers of putting trust in / following heroes, but then later books suggest Paul and Leto were right to do what they did, and humankind would have lost a lot of lives or gone extinct if they...

while I don't have a problem with the changes Villenueve made, I'm not sure he achieved this part that well, or at least he triggered an abrupt change. There seemed to be a pivot point after the Harkonnens raided that Femen home, where the Fremen wanted him to go south but he didn't want to...

Rome did get to 1 million at it's peak, so twice the size in a place that is more advanced and with magic available doesn't feel too much of a stretch to me.

I was wondering whether Part III will just be Messiah, or incorporate Children as well - especially with how II ended and Chani leaving Paul, could leave room for Paul to become the God Emperor instead of Leto.

Just on this part - my impression was that Herbert was saying that Paul is a hero, but that heroes aren't necessarily good - a warning against hero worship /charismatic leaders. “The bottom line of Dune is beware of heroes. It's much better to rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.”...

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One thing I like with some of the older special effects, and for me this is especially true when comparing the original The Thing vs it's sequel/prequel movie - the practical effects in the original made the alien more 'alien' as such - it didn't move as creatures on earth do. Whereas the...