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What you're talking about could be something like Dark Matter for D&D. The world is grim, and different from what people think. You would be turning it on its head, in that the world is thought to be more magical than it really is, rather than the reverse. Once your players get used to that...

Farming: They are cannibals, and probably keep some captives alive to serve as livestock and entertainment. Charming. Basic Sanitation: They fly spaceships with unshielded reactor cores. Basic sanitation is probably not a high concern. Navigating/Refueling: The small percentage...

Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black...a movie that is amusingly about aliens living among us in secret.

Just FYI, there is a Webisode that specifies that BOTH kinos were found the third time around. I'm not sure how that makes sense logically.

I really don't think that in the case of Firefly it couldn't have found an audience. Really the only mainstream barrier was getting over the "in space" element. I know from personal experience that it can be entertaining for folks who "don't like sci-fi," just as shows like Heroes, Battlestar...

Set it up so that when the players get to the castle, they run into another group investigating the wizard...make that group a third faction in the conflict. Let's say that a cabal of evil cultists as figured out what is going to happen, and they want to use the chaos of the takeover attempt to...

I haven't watched anything on the History Channel in a while, and I'm sorry to hear that they're so focused on the -tainment rather than the info-. Folks already get too many instances of made-up history from films like Pearl Harbor, The Patriot, and Braveheart.

The clever part was that he was presented with a pre-defined solution to the problem (untie it), and he chose an alternate approach that was much more effective. It is somewhat of a questionable assessment, as it can be seen as a metaphor for either thinking outside of the box or for brute...

The problem with time travel in popular science fiction is that the vast majority of stories completely ignore the implications of time travel, using it as a convenient reset button in a bottle. At its best, speculative fiction explores the implications of technology on the human condition...

Apparently, I'm not the only one who hasn't been watching it. :P

The cast is definitely a strength of the show. Generally speaking, they do a good job. I have a hard time seeing Wash from Firefly as evil, though. I keep waiting for hiim to say, "I think we should call it...your grave, ha ha ha...mine is an evil laugh." :)

The sad part about this episode is that the revelations about each other that would humanize them to each other were lost in the time loop. Eli's talk to TJ about his mother, Rush's movie quote, and Greer's teaching Eli how to shoot...the Kino from the first loop never made it through to the third.

All right, this is totally off-topic...but having said that... We were at pre-natal class in Ohio, and you're supposed to bring pillows. My wife bought a little pig pillow a friend gave her. The class instructor commented that it was cute, and I said, "It's a traditional Korean pig pillow,"...

Here's an interesting question: Does the Forgotten Realms espouse an American idea of celebrity? Some of the epic level DM PCs wandering around Faerun seem to act more like rock stars than heroes...

Godwin's Law suggests that eventually, ALL RPGs will have Occultist Nazis, or at least conversations about them.

If you try to avoid a prophecy, will you accidentally fulfill it? That question is older than dirt. I'll be curious to see how the show answers it, or even if it will answer it definitively. I'm also starting to suspect that our two Brits are not as guilty as they think they are...

I knew a Pole who was very unhappy with Mongoose's B5 Earth Alliance Fact Book, but then there was a lot of complaining about that. Specifically, she didn't like: "Poles seek out comfortable, familiar surroundings and do not do well in changing environments. Faced with the choice of a...

I've known folks from London say that Americans have asked them in what state (of the U.S.) England is. Now that I think of it, though, I wonder if sense of scale might be American. A lot of game worlds tend to depict large continents for adventuring. My French teacher in high school told us...

Some of those strike me as modern conceits, so in a sense they could be considered "for the game" in the sense that many gamers probably couldn't care less about the lack of availability of credit or the need to eat what was available rather than having a huge selection based on modern logistics...

You don't have to go to Tolkien for that. There are often common languages established for various purposes. In Roman times, Latin was commonly used throughout the empire, even though it wasn't the local native tongue -- it was the ruling tongue. In Europe during certian periods of time...