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As neat as the martial arts option could be, rules for athletic games is something I haven't seen much of and would be a handy thing!

As a note: I have no involvement with this project, other than the creators - Cloud Curio - have a local brick-and-mortar store, and I have enthusiastically backed this Kickstarter. Monstrous is basically a system-neutral monster sourcebook, emphasizing "flavor and narrative impact", with rich...

Could it be a post-GenCon, -Origins, etc. slump?

Moria is very tempting. Also: Monstrous just launched, and it looks GREAT. It's a book of system-neutral, in-depth monster lore and what-not. It's by a creator who has a local store, and they had printed previews of one monster entry, and they look great and the content is great. I've already...

Yeah, with so many robust 5E-compatible options out there and on their way, I kind of doubt I'll buy any of these new core books. Granted, part of my thinking there is that people at my table will buy them, which makes it easier for me to not buy them.

I'm not sure how interested I am in getting it for myself, but it looks really, really nice!

I really appreciate these insights. I've read through a lot of LU, but only used bits of it: traps, because they're easy to integrate into O5E; and exploration challenges, same reason. Those worked quite well for me, and of the two I especially like LU's approach to traps. But I haven't played...

60,00- is the attendance number I remember from pre-COVID, and as much as I don't mind crowds at all that was too much even for me. 85,000 basically 150% of that, which I can't even wrap my head around. My favorite thing about GenCon was the exhibitor's hall. I just love seeing all the amazing...

That's insane. I went to GenCon every year since it moved to Indianapolis. I went whichever year was their first con since COVID, and was struck by how manageable it was with half the pre-COVID attendance - which just convinced me further that normal GenCon was too big for me now. I won't be...

There's a very racist, cultural-ist "garbage in, garbage out" problem with most automated recognition systems, be they visual or linguistic. For now, yes.

The best use I've ever seen of ChatGPT has been on the Cinematic Universe podcast. When they were reviewing episodes of the recent Secret Invasion series, the were so frustrated with the execution that they asked ChatGPT to generate plot synopses from basic prompts, and those synopses sounded...

Thanks for the excuse to post what I've thought about posting this whole thread:

I do this regularly and have no problem with it. As a GM, if I think ogres are cool and I have a neat idea for how to run them and use them to move things forward, I'll get them in there somehow, regardless of the PC's decisions. I'm there to have fun, too, and if I think my ogre encounter is...

Yeah - it's always the "End-Times" - that's the whole point of end-of-the-world stories. If it weren't, we wouldn't keep telling them.

Generally my eyes/brain can't not see these kinds of flaws, which is a problem when I'm trying to enjoy something. I didn't notice the voice discrepancy (I assume you mean Harrison Ford's voice as WWII-era Indy sounding too much like old Harrison Ford?) like you've noted and I've seen others...

I picked Yes, there are intelligent aliens there, and they have contacted us or been here, mostly because how would we know one way or the other?

There were shots that worked beautifully, and a few that didn't quite work for me (mostly around the edges, where the de-aged face met the actual filmed head and body), but overall it was really impressive. I loved it.

Christopher L. Bennett's Star Trek novel Ex Machina. It takes place maybe a month after the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and does a really good job of incorporating the repercussions of events and character development in that movie. It does the same with the TOS episode "For The...

Well, I guess I know where some of my next paycheck will be going!