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To-do: hide artifact in dungeon.

Now I want Amazon to make a dour bleak police procedural set during the events of the Akallabêth. Slap some pointy ears on David Tennant and spend a hundred million or so. Is that too much to ask?

“The negotiations concluded in the 6th Age of Middle Earth.”

I know this is a joke, but I would totally watch it. I bet I'm not alone. Inveterate world-building DMs hang out around here...

Also, if you‘re into JRPGs @Gimby a game called Ys: Lacrimosa of Dana has a similar setup. By chance have you played it? If not, it’s very good.

The simplest way to do this is decouple the mutiny from the stranding. A mutiny occurs and then a storm or monster shipwrecks them. The PCs may or may not stop the mutiny, but can’t do anything about the ship-wrecking event. You get to start aboard ship, gradually raise tension as the mutiny...

How about making them fantasy Transhumanists? Worshipping the children of the Singularity to come? Their gods are their future ascendant selves. This gives you plenty of space to play with idea 'the gods are just mirrors of ourselves'.

The US are the cargo shorts of North America worn in winter.

After taking a look at the ALA's Top 100, I'm recommending Vaughn's Saga and Satrapi's Persepolis. Both are timely, in their own way... And for old time's sake, Burroughs's Naked Lunch. It's the first banned book I ever bought (at a mall Waldenbooks).

Ok, so aside from an instance of obligatory unnecessary violence that bore a distinct resemblance to later seasons of GoT, it was very good. A bit flat in the very beginning, but that gets fixed as soon as Matt Smith pops up (sporting the traditional awful Targaryen wig).

I thought I wasn't interested in the prequel series. Turns out I was lying to myself because of course I am. (I'm probably less disappointed in GoT's final season than most of the audience. Whatever mistakes were made, it ended with the same 'punch epic fantasy in the face' attitude that gave...

And cliched.

First reactions: The animal-headed celestial race looks great. Because I’ve wanted to play a character based on those cynocephalic St. Christopher paintings for years. Also because I put an entire city of similar creatures in my latest homebrew. Great minds and all… Moving ASIs to Backgrounds...

I like the expanded role of backgrounds and starting feat. It's a little bit of classic Traveller chargen (with the chance of death removed).

I finished it and I've read the comics (which are excellent). In some ways, Amazon's Paper Girls is better than Netflix's Sandman adaptation, and that pains me to say because I have much more affection for Gaiman's seminal work. Not to say Sandman was bad. There's a respect for the characters...

I think that kind of flexibility shows how the game is best played.

A 2e game sounds great! Maybe 2e will be our next D&D campaign. We’re playing 5e now after a 2-year 0e (Labyrinth Lord) game and I admit it a nice change of pace to be able to do heroic practically from the start. 2e with the common house rules and all the kits/splatbooks would make a nice...

Intradiegetic criticism is a species of fan fiction. Sometimes entertaining, sometimes… not.

The thoughts of a character are a fiction the player authors. Characters exist within the fiction as their players ‘write’ them and as their actions are ratified & reified by the DM and other players.

Always. The metagame level is the actual world, where all character decisions are ultimately made.