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To quote wikipedia: "Paramount+ constructed a video wall to allow for virtual production, based on the StageCraft technology used on the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019–2023). The new virtual set was built in Toronto by visual effects company Pixomondo, and features a 270-degree, 70 feet...

I think there's apt to be issues when it is just tacked onto an otherwise traditional approach to running the game, and when it is new. When everything in a player's experience is that the GM does not want their input, or will use their input against them, or that they might just do it wrong...

Especially when Doug Jones was sooo good, and they had the whole fearful to fearless dynamic for him as a leadership development arc. But, also, this thread's about SNW, not Disco, so... to at least continue thematically on captains... How are folks taking the slow-slide-in of Kirk? I am...

It is actually okay - you asked a question rather than make an assertion. :)

So, I have no problem with Disco season 1. But... while I give Trek loads of leeway on its science.... one kid growing up around a lot of dilithium destroys pretty much all the dilithium in the galaxy, instantaneously, because he gets scared once? That was just too frelling goofy to bear...

I haven't watched Picard season 2 yet, only S1 and S3. But, lemme tell ya, Mecha-Space-C'thulhu from Beyond the 5th Dimension there in Season 1? Not impressive. A bit too on the nose of "deus ex machina".

Enemy Mine (the novella, 1979) predates The Return of Starbuck (Galactica 1980, 1980), which predates Enemy Mine (film, 1985). And that novella won the Hugo and the Nebula awards, so it wasn't obscure at the time. Base credit to Barry Longyear.

I think the issue we are considering is more complex than this. One element at hand is that we are playing a game, and that game effectively give results the players desire, or don't desire, based on choices. But, that game is also set within a fiction, and the game does not, by any means...

The snark is not likely to serve a useful purpose in this discussion.

I don't know when Mr. King made those comments, but if it is recent, there's an interesting point here: Mr. King just opened up the universe of his book The Stand to other writers in an anthology, The End of the World As We Know It. Now, The Stand, and the anthology, are all about the impacts...

Yes. And immersion is a chicken sandwich - despite being nominally a burger joint, Wendy's sells a lot of chicken sandwiches, too. Then, by all means, don't try to engage in it. Nobody's stopping you from disengaging. Just don't get in the way of others in case they want to try.

That you can make sweeping statements about literature and cinema doesn't mean you should, or that those sweeping statements actually have any utility in considering literature or cinema. The value in critique is not found in its hyperbolic statements. But, either way - there is no "must" here...

What, as if you only ever discuss things that are required? And, in general, even setting immersion aside, we each like different stuff - each person has their own personal desires for their gaming experiences. It is an entertainment. You should expect discussion of it to be figuratively...

Look, I get you didn't like it. And would expect that this kind of statement expresses some feelings you have about the game. But, as a flat assertion, it is unconstructive hyperbole that will more likely start an argument than communicate truth.

Everyone has their own definition of "fun", but somehow that word hasn't been stricken from gaming language, or normal language. Ambiguity is a thing you have to deal with by discussion. This is a discussion board. Exactly the place for it!

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Noting, of course, that these days there are RPGs that codify that, such that using that codification well is a skill. Which is basically required for any other "skilled play" scenario.

The jokes write themselves, folks. And, of course the Giff killed you. 'cuz that was rude.

The secret is in realizing that the AD&D rules are themselves only vaguely compatible with the AD&D rules.