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Boy, was that Ignore overdue. I can’t imagine why I waited so long to pull that trigger.

It wouldn't support stagnation unless kids were the same from generation to generation. I think it's pretty easy to see that isn't true. The zeitgeist the kids grow up in is always changing and their values and interests change with it. A game continually targeting younger players is going to...

Ultimately, with the movies this is already what they did. How many Bond villains were actually Cold War spies or governments? Very few. The villains are most often those very technofascists, billionaires, and international criminal conspiracies operating from outside of the Cold War...

Moreover, when the corporations fully shifted over to plastic bottles instead of glass returnables, it was largely when Boomers were the generation in control of those decisions. Boomers drinking out of returnables as kids doesn't really absolve them of the responsibility of the higher...

You have to avoid seeing Forrest Gump. It's not for you.

Item hoarding, cutthroat PvP, griefing, and breaking rules are all given due homage in the Munchkin card game. It really does skewer the player type brilliantly.

One possible factor is that a lot of early combats with the Mighty Nein are with 6 PCs instead of 7. Ashley was away on other work a lot during that time period while she's been on hand throughout Bells Hells consistently. Add to that the overall oddballness of Bells Hells chaos monkey PCs and...

I'm quoting that one for emphasis. This issue is so bad it cannot be overemphasized.

Oh, I'm pretty sure he recognizes that the discussion here isn't about allowing people to build their characters in a competent or even highly-competent way. Nor do I think he's actually characterizing the discussion incorrectly. This discussion, as I see it, is mainly about defining how a...

Boy is George Lazenby gonna be surprised! He's probably ringing up Pierce Brosnan about now with that news.

But isn't Tom Cruise out there saying that MI: Final Reckoning is his final go-around as Ethan Hunt? So, which franchise is moving on?

Well, sure. But it's also modeling a group that's still learning its way around a new game system, which is how a lot more games are gonna look when they first pick up Daggerheart. It can be helpful to see other groups that aren't perfect with their system mastery when you're unsure about your...

Oh, I totally get that impulse. There are live plays I won't listen to because I have little to no interest in the ruleset. As I see it, there are a number of different hooks a live play might have for its audience - the specific actor-players, the ruleset, the general subject matter, etc. The...

One of the hardest ones to deal with is talking over each other. It happens - it will always happen to a certain degree because its hard to keep people from chiming in simultaneously without being excessively restrictive. You just have to accept it, stop people when you can, and ask people to...

Nice choice to include moving around out of turn when the software won't prevent it. I was in an online game during the pandemic (PaizoCon, I think) and the GM was using Roll20 with dynamic lighting. One one hand, it was cool to experience it. But MAN did the other players move around scoping...

I think it's a little weird to require the cameras be on, however, I can see how it helps foster a human connection when you can't play in the same location. We turned those cameras ON during the pandemic, for example. It was helpful to have a fellow gamer's face. Now, when we play online, it's...

Even with low spending on self-defense forces, Japan's economy has been big enough for so long that they field one of the top navies in the world right now. And they aren't trying to project American power globally - so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for the Japanese navy to achieve local...

Foment a feeling of opposition to Cardassian colonization, true. But considering the power differential and ability to surveil, fomenting actual ACTION from recruiting to carrying out operations would have been pretty tough. Powerful states with sophisticated surveillance capabilities are...

Oh, sure she does. Freedom fighters often do engage in extreme forms of violence that inevitably destroy some of the lives of the people they are trying to free from the colonial yoke. Some people feel that successfully doing so is what redeems them and is possibly the only thing that can...

Vedek Bareil also represents the forward-thinking, patriotic statesman to the narrow, parochial interests of leaders like Vedek Winn. While she comes up on top, Winn finds she actually needs Bareil’s sensibility and rationality to gain lasting results. One could draw contemporary parallels...