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Yeah. What else do you talk about at a kid's birthday party?

I don't consider RPGs to be an intimate form of play. Not any more intimate than most other social activities.

You can run a Star Wars game where the Emperor and Darth Vader never appear. Given that most D&D games don't go past level 10, it's not like most groups are going to be taking on the sorcerer kings anyway. You can easily focus your games on ways to resist the evil empire, I mean sorcerer...

Even if someone did, it's likely such an individual is abusing other social conventions as well. The fact that a bad faith actor could abuse the X Card isn't really a fault with the card itself.

I've never tried running anything long term as I felt the rules were more suited to one shots or very, very short campaigns. I also found the game did not work very well for a Aliens style marine game as combat was somewhat tedious.

I get what you're saying.

Are you joking? We've had some fairly heated threads on this board about Lovecraft with some arguing his books shouldn't be in school libraries. For a while there it seemed like you couldn't have a thread about Lovecraft without someone helpfully reminding us he was racist.

Maybe we can make Dark Sun an allegory for crypto coins? Okay. Your idea is better.

Still working on a squad of Rebel Troopers. I used a wet blending technique for this trooper’s head and I like how it turned out. I might need to try that with humans as well.

There's always the possibility an unexpected issue might crop up because nobody, including a player, thought of it. A year after my father died I went to the theater to watch Return of the Jedi where I had an emotional reaction during some of the scenes between Vader and Luke. I knew those...

Zahn's work was among the best of the Extended Universe. It's just that the EU was mostly crummy. The best Star Wars books produced between Return of the Jedi and Episode I were all published by West End Games. Even the third X-Men movie? Blech! I don't know if that's so controversial...

I've witnessed a severe case of arachnophobia come up in one game. It was running a bog standard fantasy using Savage Worlds where the PCs encountered some spiders. Player was weirded out, so we paused the game, I asked if it was okay if we continued if I cut out any description of spiders, I...

I've never seen it deployed in a public or private setting. I'm going to GameHole Con this October where I hope to play in a lot of horror games, so I'll keep on the look out for any of those safety tools.

As far as content of the one shot goes, my suggestion is to keep it appropriate to the venue. I try to be mindful of content not just for my players but for anyone nearby who might be listening in. If the venue is in a game store where anyone including children might be able to hear me then...

I'd welcome the opportunity to play a character who was an enslaved person in Dark Sun. As other have pointed out, slavery wouldn't be like the chattel slavery practice in the Antebellum South of the United States until the 1860s. A PC might very well be a trusted slave sent out to perform...

When you're building an army you kind of want a uniform appearance. I'm painting up the Rebel faction of Star Wars Legion, a game I purchased brand new in 2018 (I think), and when all the miniatures are on the table you typically want them to look like they belong together. I've painted a few...