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The Walking Dead television series had zombies in it, so I don't know if the presence of fantastical elements makes something immune from being misery porn. I think we all need to agree there's going to be at least some misery it a post-apocalyptic setting, right?

I finished up some Rebel Commandos. These these are the newer style harder plastic miniatures that come on sprues. The original Legion models were made of a softer plastic and had a little less detail on them. The newer miniatures are an improvement in quality in my opinion. I didn't think...

Do you like movies that don't include zombies, aliens, psionics, magic, or other fantastical elements? Okay, movies aren't games, but have you ever had fun just trying to run through a hypothetical situation? I mean something that could theoretically happen in real life? In 1984, not that I...

It's really set at the end of WWIII following the last major NATO offensive in Europe which ended in abject failure and resulted in the total collapse of command cohesion at anything above the platoon level. It's more of a realistic version of the apocalypse where governments have collapsed and...

I think Twilight 2000 is likely one of the best candidates for a post-apocalyptic setting based on current events. For a certain value of current. It did come out in the 80s after all. Hell on Earth was a post apocalyptic setting based on an alternate history where the Confederacy won the...

Sean Connery did a pretty good job as an older Robin in Robin & Marion (1976). The movie covers the end of Robin's life which isn't the part of the story most of us are familiar with.

When I played, very often there was no reason not to concentrate all your lance’s fire on one particular enemy mech. Is that still a thing?

It's been a little more than 30 years since I played Dark Conspiracy. It was a game I actually owned, but not one we played all that much. I'm looking forward to seeing what Mongoose does with it.

I can't help but think part of the reason might be because vehicle scenes in most RPGs are pretty boring for a good number of players. When it comes to automobiles, there's only one driver and there's a limited number of things for passengers to do during chase or combat scenes.

In the words of Harrison Ford, as remembered by Mark Hamill, "It ain't that kind of movie, kid." A lot of people seem to forget Star Wars was never meant to be taken any more seriously than an episode of Flash Gordon. Stop looking for deeper meanings behind the Force, the sentience of droids...

I’m once again trying to improve flesh and especially faces. I keep reminding myself most people aren’t ever going to get that close to the mini.

A work becomes a classic because of lasting significance. It might remain in the public eye because the themes continue to resonate with an audience, maybe it’s just so well produced it continues to attract fans, or maybe it continues to influence other works. Sometimes a work simply becomes...

It's not an issue for me because I don't take D&D seriously. I don't say this to disparage D&D, I'm running a 5.5 campaign right now, but I simply accept D&D on its own terms silly as they might be. I simply don't narrate a final, gruesome death for a PC because they might be healed later that...

It really depends on the game. In Cyberpunk 2020, when your character loses 5 hit points in their left leg due to a gunshot it's because a bullet has physically hit their left leg. Maybe your character takes low damage because of amor or the shot just grazed them, but they've definitely been...

I thought it was Harlan Ellison who said all science fiction is hopeful. Even a dystopian future assumes there's going to be a future.

Let's talk about what a literary theme is to begin with just so we're all on the same page. A theme is the underlying idea the author is trying to convey with their work (though you could argue unintentional themes exist). For example some of the themes explored in Wrath of Khan include...

Can you point to anyone else who argues a major theme of cyberpunk fiction is technology is bad?

There's very often a big difference between the narrative of any particular game and the fiction. In could be that we're just looking at a snapshot and the exciting things happening during that particular game. Or perhaps mechs just get repaired over and over again.