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One way is to just give everyone a token they hand in after their go, and then next "go" they get it back so you know a "turn" has passed for them. Personally I probably wouldn't run D&D with full-on DH initiative because of stuff like that, but if I ever run it again I'll definitely do...

There's some weirdly very "1980s Judge Dredd story" about that concept!

Honestly it's shockingly easy to picture the Empire of Man's customs enforcement, a very bored looking guy in a dirty uniform standing next to a parcel scanner the size of a semi-truck, with gothic spires like it was a cathedral, multiple tech-priests attending it, waiting for one of the...

I think the idea is that the name is foreshadowing - i.e. all the defences they have against these aliens will fail, not that the ship itself is literally the Maginot line. The "on the nose" name would be to call it The Pandora (or any of a million names for hell). However, given how incredibly...

Wait wait I got another: Sorry I'll stop now!

The Maginot line was a massive line of forts and defenses that were built to protect France from invasion by Germany after WW1, but Germany just went via Belgium, which the line didn't cover. Thus presumably it is a reference to all your careful defences be completely worthless when you get...

That's right! Churl vs churl action! I did check and apparently Ripley being in 3 and 4 was indeed entirely due to The Studio insisting (virtually every proposed script for Alien 3 wanted to be separate to Aliens - though often more Aliens-like than Alien-like), and I feel like Fincher and...

I mean, they do explain that at some length. She says her emotions are all muted, and they explain they're trying to simulate them in her software because she doesn't have an endocrine system or a nervous system or actual physical brain full of chemicals or the like, but might need to turn them...

I'm not familiar with it sadly. I suspect there are edgier/punkier MtG settings than that but I'm also not an expert on MtG. That said, BG3 is considerably more "punk" and "risky" (and risque) than that I daresay. Yeah which is a much bigger problem with Dark Sun than anything else about Dark...

a) isn't special to the proposed scenario. It's absolute constant of all customs operations through time and history. It's been an issue in 1000 BC and will be an issue if there are customs in 40,000 AD. You fight it via enforcement. That's how you did it in 350 AD, or 1950 AD or now. If you...

I thought that was a little odd myself, I feel like there's probably some behind-the-scenes reason for it, like they tried it and it looked stupid as hell, or endangered the actors/stunt people, or was technically doable but would have been pushing what I suspect is a pretty pushed budget even...

Oh for sure! There's some pointless stuff (primarily the above). Just make the city-states incredibly oppressive and like serfdom and/or indentured servitude and like wildly unfair working conditions/horrible deals the norm instead of slavery (YA novels and anime are full of this stuff, I...

Templars definitely seem like a Paladin subclass to me in a 5E context. Probably the only Paladin subclass (though yeah maybe genie-based ones also work so long as the Templars are out to get them). I don't think Dark Sun works as Dark Sun unless you do lock out some options though. Hopefully...

Ahhhhh that's probably a pretty major factor! I guess it will be interesting to see what % next GenCon.

Yeah makes me wonder what % of D&D games at GenCon were 3.5E by the GenCon after that arrived?

Exactly. That is the late 1980s/early 1990s spirit it embodies. Yes, and you encounter them continuously when you actually play it, where the gods stuff is a backstory element 100% irrelevant to day-to-day life, because literally no-one but maybe one or two of the Sorcerer-Kings even knows what...

I just don't agree lol. I think that is a really wacky take on both points. Especially in 1991 no-one was thinking that. I think you're backprojecting like, 1998 thinking to 1991. The prevailing opinion where? Not the US where the book was written, not at either of those times. EDIT - What is...

Yeah that's a take and a half lol. "Sure every single person on the colony except Newt died. Sure every single marine except Hicks died. Sure they faced a totally uncertain future. But any time more than one person survives - preferably infected - that's going too damn far!" I mean as a...