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That’s great. I’d also put a lot of pulp sword & sorcery fiction much higher on my list of influences than anything by Tolkien. And comic books. My gods the comic books. Along with anime and manga. At a guess those three are far, far more influential to those coming up than Tolkien ever will...

This is honestly one of the reasons I homebrew so much and prefer super-light systems. There’s so much great stuff I’ll never be able to afford much less get even more than a tiny fraction of to the table. When the options are $60 each for stacks and stacks of fancy-ass hardbacks or ten...

Way too many people give you way too much benefit of the doubt.

I’m not sure about the dislike, but he did eventually multiclass into a paladin.

I started in 1984 with B/X before moving on to AD&D. By that time I had already fallen in love with the cartoon trilogy of Tolkien's works The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and Return of the King. (Yes, I know. You don't need to @ me.) But Tolkien was not really high up on my list of influences...

Yeah. The Mighty Nein is wildly better than Bell's Hells. It's not even close. Vox Machina is good, but MN is so much better.

Travis, Laura's husband, swiped the warlock out from under her.

Gods the level of cope. Just let it go.

They were also coming from Pathfinder where magic items are seemingly more common than in 5E.

They've said they'll change some of the story, which I'm bracing for. But there are quite a few moments that I hope they're smart enough to not touch. Really looking forward to this. Especially Jester and the theme song. They really need to keep the theme song.

Too right. The wiki lead me astray. To the broader point, yes. Gladiator is a Superman clone. Pure and simple. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainErsatz

In that case it was Superman copying Gladiator. The FF issue is from 1961. The Superman is from 1987.

Which is hilarious because Grant Morrison tries to be Alan Moore and misses.

The Discworld core book PDF was released to backers. I’m absolutely devouring it. Such a great light system. I’m honestly surprised Modiphius made this. The rules themselves take maybe 5-10 pages. The advice is mostly stellar. Though there are a few missteps and glaring omissions. This is...

And we should all fight to keep it that way. I want Superman holding up planes by the nose with at worst only a few hand-print dents to show for it.

That is absolutely true. If you’re in the mood for an upscale churro, find a Don Bigote. Amazing.

LOL. I was going to mention them. When one opened relatively near us we drove out to try it. The food was meh. The shake was good, but I’ve had a lot better.

I'm similar about the hype train but for different reasons. The first 1-6 mentions I'm curious, between 7-9 I begin to doubt if anything could be that good, and after 10+ literally nothing could live up to the hype so I don't bother as it will inevitably be a let down.

Yep. Do it all the time. More often than not the rules get in the way, so we ignore them. This happens all the time in just about every game I play or run. Some examples. Playing unoptimized characters. This is wildly more fun for me because the whole point, the whole fun of the game is...

I have. It was a blast while it lasted. I had the added wrinkle of almost a West Marches set up and that’s what killed it. I also used the Arkham book as the basis, though an older one. I cannot recommend using an investigator organization enough. It makes everything so much easier. I ran it...