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Jessica Jones is probably my top pick too. There was really nothing I didn't like about it. I'm just finishing up the second season of Daredevil. Although I really enjoy it, I think the first season ended weakly, and the second season started off just as weak, and was incredibly sloppy on a...

The anime series Berserk always felt like it would make for a great D&D campaign.

I worked on The Last Witch Hunter. That film was exactly what you're describing. He was a producer on a 100 million dollar movie that was his D&D character playing D&D, and it was a train wreck throughout production and in the box office. Also he didn't take a pay cut.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man "Hey Vin, would you mind taking a 20 million dollar pay cut to be in a movie that will probably...

Oh my god, why did you remind me that that movie existed...

My first hand knowledge of shields is only really through stage combat, but a LOT of that was blocking choreographed sword hits with steel shields. The round riot shields Tom posted are almost entirely (as others have pointed out) to protect someone from things like rocks and bottles while not...

Oh my god he's an expensive actor.

I'm very much on the end of the "it's not the toys, it's the people playing with them" end of the spectrum. I tend to run with a lot of technology at the table. I'm using a laptop as a DM screen, I've got either a monitor or a projector set up to show players maps, and pictures. I'm running...

Me think you crazy.

I mostly suck at top ten lists, and since everybody else already cleared out most of what my actual top ten would have been, what I figured I'd do is list my top fantasy movies that I didn't see on anyone else's list. NYTMARE'S TOP TEN FANTASY FILMS THAT NO ONE ELSE PICKED YET, AND IN NO...

Also I finished up Song of the Beast and was incredibly unimpressed with it. I disliked it so much that I had to put it down three separate times to read other books. On the plus side I read Stephen King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams (really liked), and the first two books of his Bill Hodges trilogy...

Yeah, I really think that I read Ender's Game too late. I only picked it up when I was in my 30s, after a lot of pressure from similarly aged friends who had read it in their teens. I could see how I probably would have been more impressed/less bothered by it earlier in my life.

My group is finally going to have a chance to dive in this Friday, going with three players instead of four since we haven't been able to get the right tablefull together at the same time since December. BUT, I have questions. Should I open up the box ahead of time and prep, or am I better off...

Dagnabbit. I absolutely HATE the fact that my summers have been so totally choked with work the last couple of years...

A single entry point is tough, since the game really needs the benefit of the internet's hivemind. The fact that there even was a game was recognized through the different versions of the trailers and movie posters, and maybe a comment or two from the director and producers. What finally...

The ongoing ARG (alternate reality game) that painted so much of the backstory of Cloverfield picked up and has tied itself directly into 10 Cloverfield Lane. I'm really excited to see what else they have planned for this universe.

It's been a long, loooong time since I played, but is that a version of the magic system from a newer edition, or is that just another one of those things that I've forgotten in the last 24 years? To be fair, I think my only real memory of Shadowrun is my 6 foot whatever...

I read The Stand once about every 3 or 4 years.

Probably less alternate history, and more alternate, overlapping realities.

Ah! I missed that you were talking about Minecraft. They're probably not at all what you're looking for, but just in case, have you heard of MCDungeon (http://mcdungeon.bubblemod.org/) which is a map editor that adds customizable, randomized, pre-generated dungeons to existing Minecraft...