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They opt for brute force. Lief, the infantry, and Sariel position themselves to pry the doors open as one. Lief hammers a piton between the doors to allow fingers in along the seam, and Capt. Anvilheart leads the group with counts of "One, two, three, PULL!" Starn looks on, wondering what...

Between backing Nirvana on Fire and it showing up I fell out of love with Mothership. It's a really cool, really beautiful book, though.

LIEF is entirely befuddled by this situation, and his eyes keep flicking back to the immobile guardian statue. Shouldn't we bash it to pieces now, while we can? But as he steps gingerly through the antechamber, he hears Starn chatting with Captain Anvilheart about a hidden door. They're looking...

LIEF Loping fast, surrendered to pure predator instinct, Lief hurls himself up and against the Bluffs. He digs his claws into fissures. Snarls when one claw splits like a dried corn husk. As he climbs he fills his mind with the trader's smug face and the mildew stink of the sellsword. Lief...

Starn, sensing Sariel will be quick to investigate, walks in the direction of the children. He picks out one who seems likely to be amenable, and talks to the child, asking him what he's seen. "Did you see what happened to Elijah? Have you seen anything like this here before?" Intent: Starn is...

LIEF Lief sniffs at the mud around the boy, fangs bared, frantic, hoping to catch the sellsword's scent, or his horse's. The sharp tang of fresh blood brings him back. Muttering prayers in the Mogul's primordial tongue, he takes the boy in his arms and knocks on doors until one isn't answered...

LIEF "No!" Lief snarls, the sound turning wild in his throat as he launches back onto the roof and gives chase. He's hunting this filthy sellsword now, anticipating when and where his prey will veer off to try to intercept the boy. Lief means to get there first, and knock this would-be...

Cowboy Bebop and Scum and Villainy both use mechanics to try to reflect narrative elements of those kinds of stories, while Orbital Blues is more of a traditional, rules-light, almost OSR (or Nu-SR) game. But yes, Cowboy Bebop is a huge mess. I think Scum and Villainy works best out of those...

I only have the PDF of Orc Borg, but I flipped through the print version in a store, and it is big and beautiful. Really fantastic colors.

LIEF Lief stalks his prey from above, gliding into position to drop through a hole in the roof between the two cultists. He comes down whirling, ready to spin kick the ritualist while lunging at the other with his spear. But the floor Lief lands on is wet with decay—his leg jams through the...

LIEF Lief watches the miserable scene from a remove. He cycles through a handful of unwise impulses, but remembers his training. Locate potential threats to His will. Seek the highest ground. He walks down the dirt road, then pivots back toward the abandoned manor, stepping between the dry...

Lief sees Starn's longing looks toward those stairs, but the prospect of spending weeks entombed with his new friends—he considers them such, assuming that this, doing dangerous things together, constitutes friendship out here in the fallen world—watching them gulp their final breaths until the...

Lief closes his eyes and steps lightly, swiping the chamber floor with the balls of his feet, letting his balance flow like a tipsy dancer into the natural depressions where years of old acidic leavings must have flowed together and gradually eaten away at the stonework. A well-timed blow, right...

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

Paramount+ is so desperate to keep their subscriber numbers up. A few months ago I went to cancel, and they offered me two more months at a quarter of the normal price. Then, I went to cancel after that discount was up, and they offered another two months ... for free.

Dragonbane is not a system you need to teach, in that sense. It's dead simple, especially if you're coming from something like 5e. Ultimately you're still just rolling a d20.

Dragonbane seems like a great choice. I'm not personally into d20 games, but it's got a lot going for it, and definitely seems pretty low-prep—or at least better allows for low prep. For SF, you could look at Traveller? Definitely easier to run and prep than Starfinder or similar. And it's...

Are there specific streamlined games you're looking at? That's definitely a step in the right direction, though.

Great point. But the D&D movie was in the works for much longer than that, and development deals for shows also tend to move slow. Why undercut themselves just as they're positioning themselves to possibly hit the jackpot? For comparison's sake, imagine if Marvel had sold off Marvel Studios in...

But why sell right before the movie release, and as all these other deals were freshly in place? Only thing I can imagine is if they got the sense that the overall push wasn't going to work.