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And there’s stuff that originated in the films, or that they claim originated in the films. It’s tricky and ugly, as it can be when one party is out for every scrap of profit it can squeeze out of its property.

These days I respond to that the same way I respond to characters set up to keep a party from cohering other guaranteed to make immediate chaos the other players don’t want: design something else. Lots of concepts of species and culture origins don’t require such things. Go with one of them instead.

The Cruse version did have that great scene with the burning train. People’s expressions of exhausted despair were a very Wells-like moment. There’s a comics mini-series by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli called Scarlet Traces. It’s set ten years after the novel, with Martian technology...

So there we were, watching the 1943 Phantom of the Opera, complete with the subplot about getting Lizst to play a concerto composed by the Phantom to lure him out things end as they must and the credits roll. “Franz Lizst: Fritz Leiber” blink blink blink Turns out it was Leiber Sr, father to...

I really liked The Difference Engine, but it’s really different from anything else I’ve read by either author solo. It goes deeper but not faster. If you’d like to read some 19th century alternate history with super tech that turns out to have a solid physical rationale and radical politics, and...

That’s a very good sign.

I’m not a Sanderson fan and completely uninvested in the Cosmere, but these modifications to 5e are sounding like exactly what I’d like in a “better D&D”. Thanks for rousing my curiosity! If a friend buys in, I’ll have to peer over their shoulder, or something.

I’m this way with so many things. “I don’t know…” “…but I don’t think so.” “…but it seems likely.” “…and I really can’t even guess, thanks to so little evidence[1]/so much conflicting evidence.” [1]: For this purpose, evidence includes personal accounts and other forms of anecdote, because...

Yes. I realize last night that a good companion question would be “How important is your answer to you?” For me, it’s not very important at all. The world is full of things that I personally have no explanation for, and even that the experts have no explanation for, yet. I have confidence that...

Lots of other things are in this condition, too. If you’ve been in love more than once, the experiences probably had some very distinct differences in feeling, but is not feasible (at this point, at least) to render them into anything testable and confirmable. Qualia are really annoying that...

I think a lot of regularly playing rolegamers vastly underestimate the halo of people who have games, may game occasionally, and could game more regularly if something hooked them. I know that among both queer communities and disabled communities, there are a lot of nerds who look forward to...

I’m warming to it gradually. It’s not my favorite, but it works, and when it’s part of an overall good system, I don’t really have significant complaints.

Much thanks! And, um, it’s not like I’m a stranger to imperfect posting, let us say.

Could people please do a little more spelling checking? Several messages have been genuinely incomprehensible thanks to having no solid idea what key words might be.

I would pick an “I don’t know” option. My evaluation of others’ experiences is conflicted enough that I don’t feel comfortable picking either Yes or No.