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I think sometimes, it's a safe way to get on here and get an idea vetted without attaching it to yourself. By posing it as a hypothetical cousin in law, it doesn't feel like an attack if someone starts in on how they're wrong, and this was Bad Fun, etc.

I had made this point when Fantasy Flight made the new L5R... with different dice. ... which were also different from their Star Wars dice.

I was actually really surprised by Hugh Grant. I expected much more of the bumbling doofus, but the moments he actually had malice surface up... wow.

I went to the local showing and brought my kids' mom, who is a non-gamer who is usually into crime shows although she liked GoT and Walking Dead (for awhile at least with TWD). She actually really enjoyed it for what it was - in her words 'a Star Wars or Marvel movie'. No connection to the...

Ten minutes to bind wounds makes sense, but there are so many other things that recharge on a short rest you'd need to worry about in a global/all-players sense. Again, I think a lot of the difficulties arise from what's awesome for one table may not be so great other places. Something else...

I may try to run something this weekend during an off-week in our Traveller game. I'm gunshy because my previous group always had issues because I'd start running something and it would seem to fall apart, so I always felt it 'wasn't worth their time'. My current group is online and generally...

Exactly. I don't remember too much upheaval when WoD came out with other editions. I don't know if it was because the systems were largely the same, to my understanding (at that point, most of my WoD gaming was LARP or playing on MUSHes). There wasn't so much inflammation about feeling...

Know what's awesome? That you recognize ways to improve. Don't beat yourself up! I'm sure everyone had an awesome time.

Every new edition of D&D seems to bring about this discussion. People will play what the table wants to play, generally. People are still playing Basic/Expert/Etc, 2e, 3.x, Pathfinder, 4th edition, etc. As a long time gamer, it only seems to be D&D that sprouts this discussion. I don't...

Absolutely this. It's like, what, a five room dungeon? Fill it out with extraneous things that might tell a story. I do love the easiness of the prep of spend some points, make an interesting few fights, and then wrap up the rest of the set design

As someone who ate Hot 'n Now religiously in Michigan, back when the burgers and fries were 39 cents (49 for the cheeseburger), I concur and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. There still is one open. What happened to Hot 'n Now? Competition, bankruptcy and now nostalgia

Not sure I recognized the first party. Definitely recognized the second party.

I respect that. I don't know that I think the spells are what give cleric oomph or interesting play. I know it's not an example everyone will like, but as risk of diverging the comments, I look at Critical Role. 400+ hours of campaign 2, with a cleric from the beginning and later adding a...

Reminds me of Girl Least Likely To: "She lives for the written word/ and people come second, or possibly third..." :)

Given that the last time I ate at the Pondo-pit was late 90s and they did AYCE steak and chicken with the buffet... yes please.

A truer statement of the American doctor office, I've not seen recently.

I get the feeling, or at least hope, that this isn't as much bribe/manipulation in the traditional sense as much as... if these content creators have X million constant followers per stream, that is way more effective than research groups for having a finger on the pulse of what's going on. As...

This is interesting because, to me, it brought up the possibility/probability that there are games out there where your wealth isn't something owned, but something along the lines of political/social clout. Something where your ability to bounce back from defeats is based on you owing/being...

I love this. Scorpions especially in L5R are almost set up to be caught in impossible loyalty situations. A long time ago, I was in a pre-Clan War L5R campaign as a Scorpion. We were on a quest to craft a weapon and one of the steps knocked us into sleep for years. We woke up, post-Coup, and...

First-edition 7th Sea was the same way. As John Wick said, dying isn't the worst that can happen - being utterly and completely caught is with no way to escape. 7th Sea followed the rule that people basically fall down, unless someone takes a specific action to kill someone who is down. Or if...