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So, we had Amazon for long enough this Christmas for me to finally finish this series, which is amazing if uneven. I don’t know why Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation) thought it was a good idea to play dystopian capitalist sci-fi for laughs, but it mostly works and is all the more...

It’s that time of year again, and we all knew this was going to come up and all have some opinions. Just asking all y’all for your nominations for the following Christmas film categories: 1) Best classic Christmas film: A film that is clearly intended for Christmas viewing and celebration, and...

Hi all, thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide. I’ve been looking to see if there’s any sort of free Quickstart try-before-you-buy for PF 2E. It looks like as if there used to be a couple of free adventures (Big Trouble in Little Absalom, maybe?) but if so I can’t find them...

(I did wonder whether to put this under Pathfinder or one of the D&D forums but decided to put it here since the idea is system-agnostic.) In the D&D style fantasy adventure setting of your choice (I was starting from Avistan/Golarion/Pathfinder but the idea probably works fine for lots of...

I say Arabian adventures, but what I really mean is “what’s the best TTRPG we have to run a game set in the world of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Charkraboty?” Several of us have read this recently, as noted in the What are you reading in 2025 thread. In short, Amina al-Sirafi...

OK, that’s a little facetious, I’ll admit. I’m just interested to see that this seems to be something of a new genre, with Grimwild and Legend in the Mist being the obvious and popular examples. There’s at least one thread about each of these, and so I won’t rehash stuff from those here. Of...

This is, of course, a debate as old as D&D and roleplaying - to what degree do your hit points, Health Points, Life Points, Stress Capacity etc represent your plot protection and luck in avoiding injury and to what degree does it represent actual injury? A couple of games - Star Wars d20 1E...

Advancement - gaining experience, power, improved stats, other resources - in RPGs is always a bit of a tricky one, because it really seems to depend on the genre and indeed the feel of the individual game at your table. Some games don't do advancement at all, and that's fine. Other games do...

I don’t think I’ve seen this topic around. Which do you think is the best (whatever that means) superhero RPG adventure on your shelf, and why? Bonus points if you’ve actually run it. My personal favourites, though I haven’t run them - honestly, as a GM, I haven’t run a lot of published...

As some of you probably know, Poker Face is a recent murder mystery series created by Rian Johnson, who’s also behind the Knives Out murder mystery films (Knives Out, Glass Onion, and Wake Up Dead Man is due in December). Poker Face is a beautiful redeployment of the Columbo formula - we the...

From the same team that brought us the Spider-verse films, an incredible-looking blend of Korean mythology and KPOP musical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPop_Demon_Hunters Our heroines are basically bards who hunt demons that cross the barrier between their world and ours, and maintain...

I’ve seen and read a lot of these recently, and it’s interesting how modular and modifiable they are. But as I said in the title, I’m not sure that’s the right phrase or description. What I mean are games like DURF, Cairn 1E, or Kala Mandala, which have an OSR like design but similar simple...

It’s on Netflix. Now, I’ve only seen the first two Jurassic World films (and the first two JP films), enough to see some tantalising world-building and some really great ideas and sequences*, but honestly the writing was mostly hot garbage. I did like that Dr Wu finally admitted in the first...

I wasn’t sure whether to put this here or somewhere else - it almost belongs in VTT discussions. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had tried this? (For those who watch such things, I saw an ad on blumineck’s YT.) https://fablecraft.riftweaver.com/ ToFC seems to be basically a virtual...

I kind of expect this one to be very far ranging, because people have very different views of what they want from a mecha game. Some want the careful tactical gameplay of Battletech or Lancer; some want the finely balanced mecha creation rules of Mekton or GURPS Mecha; some want minimalist...

Since I don’t see a thread dedicated to my favourite science fiction media property I thought I’d start one, and make it spoilers even though the series is over thirty years old. I just rewatched the first episode, which I remember as being lacklustre, and have realised that 19-year-old me was...

Just saw this for the first time in cinema (and in concert, too) and thought it held up better than I remembered. As a kid, I thought the second half dragged a bit, but that seemed not to be the case this time around. It’s still spectacular, an incredibly seminal and pure superhero story. And...

OK, watching movies at the theater, if you prefer. We went to the cinema this week (to see A Real Pain, which was OK) and because David Lynch had just died, they put this clip on: Now, on the face of it, this is an entirely reasonable thing to say about most films. I’ve never tried to watch...

I’m in the habit of reading and summarising RPGs for my own fun and also to think about GMing, and my latest project this week is Stalwart ‘85, the latest version of the Stalwart superhero RPG by Michael Desing. Desing has been developing neat superhero RPGs for a while - the first one I...

Ah, this is an old question. For those who don’t know, wuxia (martial heroes) is a genre of novels, films, TV, etc mostly concerned with the adventures of martial artists in a version of medieval China that never was. These heroes fight each other, leaping from tree to tree with flashing...