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It's John Wick's dog - have the Cult interfere or seriously damage things the party wants or has planned. Make it personal, make it dirty and nasty and the players will have every desire to wipe the Cult off the planet. Doubly so for loot and power

I look at this, and I compare it to the brush-up we've seen recently with born Wizards and Paizo, and I'm like... this is how you address stuff. I could be wrong.

I think Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale would be good to cover, because, other than the Dalelands, those have been the main focus of a lot of the computer games people may be familiar with. I grew up with the SSI Gold Box games, so most of my knowledge still is largely Dalelands/Cormyr focused...

I'm reminded of the Old Grey Box, and I'm pretty sure Ed's intention was to never develop Sembia officially. I know things change, but just a random historical fact that areas were carved out specifically for DMs to develop on their own. Okay - went and grabbed my book. DM's sourcebook to the...

I liked the saints article and have used some of the ideas over the years. There's another article in Dragon - not sure when - called "Small Gods" I believe, and had ideas about villages with a local god or the protective stones from Temple of Doom. I used it in a game I ran that was eternal...

I believe - and it's been awhile since I read the original Chronicles(?) - but I believe Tanis had auburn hair. And Sturm, I'm pretty sure, was always depicted with black, or at least dark brown, hair I believe.

You joke about number 6, but it reminded me of the power of the Oxford comma. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/think-commas-don-t-matter-omitting-one-cost-maine-dairy-n847151

The build metagame -- people up-comment were talking about giving the consumers what they want. There is no D&D meta build war without websites like we're on. You can see it in threads. The books are the books - it's the fans on websites and on Youtube that spend hours making meta builds and...

The thing is -- when Wizards did this, few people applauded the fact they were listening to people. We forget that that was still when people wanted to tank the D&D movie as payback. Paizo does it, and it's a case of 'what good corporate citizenship!' There's still plenty of hate towards...

I definitely had that issue, because I remember the saints article and the Ordeal which was... really kinda cool.

Traveller meets Fiasco to fill out missions during a two year time skip.

Regarding Question 4, I knew Blade Runner and Alien connected, but I had to go google to be sure. Dallas' bio shows that he served as a Warrant Officer on a Tyrell Corporation vessel. https://screenrant.com/blade-runner-soldier-alien-connected-how/

In a lot of ways, that sums up generally any media IP though doesn't it? Marvel going back to decades old storylines for the MCU or shows, Star Wars always needing to have Jedi and Skywalkers in everything, Star Trek always seeming to need to find a way to work Kirk and/or Pike back into things?

I'm pretty sure that's Kelek - Kelek - but you'd figure Venger still needs to factor in there somewhere

Great piece. I think it's all good advice, especially the Talk to Creators aspect. A lot of creators I think want feedback on their settings and games if you catch them at the right time. One of my favorite memories - I'm not sure, but I think it was Gencon 2000, because it was still...

Not a system, but I wanted to add some fodder to the conversation. I know when people hear ALIEN, as was said, they're expecting waiting around for the xenomorph. I think the whole setting could be interesting for a lot of other reasons, depending on what people sign up for. I've been...

I'd think if this valley is isolated and insular, the one thing of most value would be updated information about the outside world - updated maps, updated information about nearby threats, possibly requiring the party to scout - but not always end - these threats. It sounds like human expansion...

I'm not sure what I will remember most about this Olympics: 1) Raygun and that ... manure. Definitely reminds me of the snowboarding lady who shopped around for a country to snowboard for, and then only just rode the pipe back and forth. 2) Turkiye's hitman 3) the pole vaulter who lost because...