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I think any science fiction setting with a space navy resembling what we're used to with surface navies is going to require a shot of some good old fashioned suspension of disbelief. Make it a double if we've got faster-than-light travel and alien navies. Shows like Babylon 5 tried to strike a...

It's been more than 30 years since I've played SFB, but they have drones, and I think the Kzinti were famous for them. As I remember it, there were different types of drones, fast, heavy, ECM, and maybe a few others, and a ship could only control so many at any given time. A dedicated drone...

Didn't Baldur's Gate 2 start out with my character tortured and imprisoned, my beloved pal Khalid murdered, and my sister gets taken by the magic police for casting spells? The first BG was all about the child of a murder god running around trying to kill all his siblings so he could have the...

I will defend d20 CoC to my dying day. It's never been my preferred version of the game, but it was a well thought out game that did a great job adapting CoC to the d20 system. It did an especially good job of providing players and GMs new to CoC with information about what it was all about.

That's exactly the beaty of GURPS, it's just I don't think that particular type of game is currently in favor. Rather than building a game from the ground floor, most gamers would rather buy something ready to play out of the box. But who knows? Maybe in 10-15 years GURPS will make a comeback?

I tend to view GURPS less as a game and more as a toolkit to build a game with. With most games, even a complicated game like Pathfinder, you're getting a complete game in the package. The GM doesn't have to create the player character classes, species, spells, equipment, skills, etc., etc...

I sure has heck wouldn't want to be the studio trying to follow up on Larian's success with BG3. Those are some mighty big shoes to fill.

I always feel like I'm kicking someone's puppy when I say GURPS isn't popular these days. GURPS certainly has a very loyal, active fanbase. A fanbase made up of intelligent, attractive people who love tinkering around with building their own unique settings or adapting an existing setting for...

Just trying to play Phoenix Command was a horror in and of itself.

Isn't GURPS pretty much on life support? It's a great game, I cut my teeth on 3rd edition in the late 80s, even played a little 4th edition in 2005, but it doesn't seem anywhere near as popular as it was in the 90s. It used to be that I could walk into my FLGS and see tons of GURPS sourcebooks...

I'm eight episodes in and it's on par with the original series. The tone and humor is pretty much spot on.

Some players care. One of the things that makes D&D so popular is it caters to a wide audience. If you don't care about the particulars of a setting, it's generally not going to be a problem. You can essentially play the exact same D&D character in Forgotten Realms that you can in Greyhawk or...

The escape pod boxed set came with both droids. They were a lot of fun to paint. The colors aren’t a 100% match, but you can tell who they are, so I’m happy.

The trick to white is not to use white. I'm only breaking that rule because R2-D2 here is a robot and his stark white color comes off as "natural" for him. If I was attempting a white cloth I'd start with some light grey and move up to white highlights. But white is something I still struggle...

So here’s something I’m trying. White is a pretty difficult color to work with at times. I put down a base of Spaceship Exterior from Army Painter and then I put down some glossy varnish for the next part. I’m using some Tamiya panel liner to make things pop. The varnish helps the panel...

The last time I saw the original trilogy in theaters was in Dallas circa 1993. A local theater decided to show all three movies in one sitting and a bunch of my friends and I went to see them. Han did shoot first as I recall.