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For better or for worse, I think this is my default way to run a game. Sometimes I use a published adventure as the scaffolding to hang scenes on. It's just convenient: the adventure has one or more possible sequences of events, maps, statblocks, etc., but mostly I'm interested in "cool"...

Immovable Object on arch-devil's mace!

I love that this exists, and I will probably buy it come payday. The odds of getting someone else in my local group to run STA is diminishingly small, so playing it this way is the best I can reasonably hope for.

From what I gather, Tolkien's elvish (specifically Quenya, I assume, but maybe other elvish languages) has two words for "hope". One means hope based on an reasonable understanding of how things are likely to play out. The other is a different kind of hope, a hope without any reason to think or...

Tolkien has this wonderful, distinct structure for the characters' experiences in The Hobbit and LOTR: harrowing trials, followed by suprisingly comfortable stays in safe environments, followed by the need to continue to the next harrowing trial, etc. The comfortable stays are often a surprise...

Please keep us posted on your progress with this!!! I lean toward wanting a spell-less ranger, with spell-ful subclasses fur those who want that. 5E's interest in dealing with the challenges of nature and travel is so anemic that it's no surprise the ranger feels weird. I get why they chose...

Regarding theater chains and such: our two local theaters are both AMC, and if I have to see that Nicole Kidman promo one more time I cannot be held responsible for my actions. So much so that we drove twice as far to see DoD, in far more comfortable seating, with better sound, and for less...

Good points! It was a big budget for a movie that Lucas had a hard time getting a studio to commit to. After the success of the relatively low-budget, very relatable American Graffiti ($777k budget, $140 million box office), I suspect studios wanted more of that from Lucas - not some weird...

I'm not sure the OT is a fairy tale - or at least I don't see it that way. I see it as more like something from mythology or legend. Regarding Luke, there are plenty of heroes from legend who make a big mistake after their big victory. I don't have a problem with Luke's fall 20+ years after...

Thanks for that! Looking at the goliaths write-up in that playtest packet, I think what they've done is pretty elegant. My write-ups were in the 2014 style, with a few additional traits for each "sub-race". I kind of prefer having the latter, with more ways to differentiate them, but they...

Did I miss an announcement that this is what they're doing? I mean, it makes sense, I just don't recall seeing that. I home-brewed a full array of half-giant subraces a few years back, so I'm curious to see what they do with this.

Trapped on the zombie highway.

Out of curiosity, I found an "adjusted for inflation" calculator, and in 2023 dollars ANH cost $51 million. Imagine a movie made for that now becoming the hit that ANH was, leading to the cultural phenomenon that Star Wars is. It's hard to wrap your head around, but things were so different...

The core cast of the sequel trilogy are all great, so to some degree I would do what they've announced they're doing, and make another movie with them, set 10 years later or so. I know they've only announced Daisy Ridley, but if they have any sense they've get Boyega and Isaac back, too. And do...

[Having written the post below, I realize it's kind of off-topic, so I might start a new thread on the subject of how games depict spiritual traditions and the characters who follow them.] Agreed, and this is a pet peeve of mine. It betrays the predominantly Christian (or culturally Christian)...

Agreed. I get that 5E was trying to streamline things, but the way weapon proficiencies are handled just feels too broad. Characters should start with fewer, varying by background, and it should be easier (or clearer about how) to get proficient with a new weapon. This also opens some design...

Honestly, I want more non-spellcasting character options. Adding exploration and social class features could help with that. I'm going to try to sell the DM on a spell-less ranger variant for my next character. The 5E LOTR games have done a good job of making classes with very little if any...

The list posted above includes games written as teaching tools or as "indoctrination". (I put that in quotes because it seems like too strong a term to apply that generally, but it's the term the poster of the list used.) I'm not sure this makes sense. You could also end up with an Islamic...

There's almost always someone playing a fighter in our group. I tend to alternate between playing a spellcaster of some sort (although rarely a full caster), and then the next time I need to make a character I'll go with a fighter or maybe a barbarian. I tend to find the options available to...

This begs the question, @chongjasmine : are you curious about games written from a Christian perspective, or games about Christian ideas, dogma, practices, history, and the like - or both?