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I have to say, trad SF fans absolutely doing pretty good this year I feel, for the combo of Strange New Worlds S3, Andor S2 and Alien: Earth, all of which are like, pretty much potential top 10 favourite shows material (for my money). Foundation as well for some people, I'm not following it...

Listening to it, er yeah that definitely does sound like a musical reference point. LOL one of the comments is about Andor fans! It would be very unsurprising given that Tony Gilroy has specifically said the Battle of Algiers was a big inspiration for Andor. Haven't seen Battle of Algiers...

The stealth and perception rules in 5E are a disaster for sure. But they're a good example of not following good practice, not using a modern approach, not being goal-oriented, but instead trying to "freestyle" it. There were dozens of games they could have used as a model. Yet they chose a...

That could theoretically happen, but do you have any actual examples? I think the issue is too the closest things I can think of to being examples are like reverse-examples, where either an older game did something clunky, but worked really well for vibes, or an older game did something clunky...

I literally said I wasn't going to there re: naming names - did you miss that or are you being tricksy lol? :p I did mention Dark Souls already so that's one. I mention it particularly because it was so astonishingly full of issues that it actually didn't get 5/5 from everyone (and generally the...

I think the issue with this sort of thing is usually at the other end, as it were. Like, there are an awful lot of IP-merchandise-type TTRPGs which, with no insult to the designers (and I will avoid naming many specific ones to avoid starting fights), were not ever really, really designed to be...

Yeah it's important to avoid the temptation of thinking in straight lines about "the most efficient" or "most direct" method to dealing with stuff, when that's never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, all the back into antiquity been how humans have carried out warfare. Instead we constantly...

Yeah him and also the Vulcan captain (B'rel?) of the Farragut have some pretty seriously high-maintenance hair! Is there some Star Fleet directive that got sent out a few months ago saying "As captain, you must be a badder bitch than any of your crew. Your coiffure should ensure that they do not...

Having bought IM, I kind of wish it had had a narrower focus and more support for that focus. They give you the basic tools to support a wide variety of groups of pretty competent but like, basically S3 T3 WS3 BS4 W1 LD8-type imperial servants, but building a campaign seemed like pretty damn...

I mean, I agree with this completely, especially the last line, which is something I've basically said myself before. If it appeared otherwise that's just me being clumsy and/or not going enough layers deep (I wasn't considering the power source because to me that's a whole other problem that's...

Yeah just using existing ancestry abilities you could build out a truly huge number of races using the standard "mixed species" method and have totally acceptable results in most cases.

My personal experience is that the former reliably preserve a "superhero"-type experience, that actually feels like the comics, movies and so on. The very best-designed (albeit highly-specific) superhero RPG I've ever seen, MASKS, is clearly this type. Whereas the latter is always, always...

Yeah I mean the whole "sexual assault and general torture-themed god" is like, a lot in a TTRPG (sure he's also associated with excellence/peak skill and all other forms of pleasure/pain but somehow those come up less). The are AoS models where a dude has been turned into a harp where he screams...

I feel like Pelia would not have survived thousands of years just wandering the Earth, if she was the sort of rube who genuinely bought spin like that, but also she is 100% confirmed as a ham who loves a moment of drama so I don't fault her for pretending like it did, so long after it no longer...

I kind of like the idea because AoS has done far more cool stuff with Chaos worshippers/champions than Warhammer Fantasy ever did (I genuinely hate to admit it, but it has), but I'll be interested to hear how they make sure campaigns don't just devolve into essentially slaughtering peasants...

Overall on the episode, I was kind of glad at the reveal, because I was thinking the somewhat silly mouth on the ship looked like something only humans or, well, 40K orks would have built. It was a good episode generally, fun performances, especially from Scotty. Very watchable. I felt like...

You are 100% technically correct, the best kind of correct, to be annoyed by this, but I think it's acceptable shorthand, otherwise they'd have to either say "stationary orbit", which is a bit of a contradiction-in-terms and would confuse some people, or invent the event more babble-y...

Even posher, actually. Public schools are an an elite tier of private school, basically the Ivy League of private schools - i.e. old, very expensive, offer the opportunity to make connections if you go there (in theory), typically high academic achievement, etc. And we call what people the US...

I thought that, but according to this, Weyland (the person) and David were aware of LV-426, which is a different moon of the same gas giant as the one in Prometheus, and were aware because of a "faint signal". Unfortunately the actual source is gone and the Wayback Machine link to the page...

You mean Kirsh? He definitely has a similar vibe as well as appearance, like he could be Roy's cousin lol. Guess I've got my next Mothership character...