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That largely eliminates 1 & 3 and gives them a chance to reduce 2 and an easier run at 4. Obviously it also generates other potential issues, depending on what choices they make, but that's probably a better starting point. Slightly more optimistic about it being decent on that basis, though...

In season 1? I doubt it. You don't get those kind of numbers, nor is your production that competent, in a season 1, typically. And that's assuming a lot. This is a show with several potential points to fall down on: 1) Not giving a compelling onboarding point to people unfamiliar with the game...

I mean his problem there would be that Aaronovitch almost certainly agrees based on his Twitter (just placing the peak of the 1990s as probably 1997 post-election, or maybe seeing things as peaking at some point before the 2008 crash) so it would be awkward to write his villain that way! I feel...

I can't really blame people for the delusion, because it's so well-supported by the tiny exposure modern British people tend to have to that war, which usually boils down to: 1) Some Agincourt-related media and/or teaching. Longbow longbows longbows as you say. 2) Henry V by Shakespeare...

It probably was authentic! Many US Indian restaurants are more authentic TO INDIA than British ones. British ones tend to serve "Anglo-Indian" cuisine, which is quite different - like there's a very classic set of curries which don't exist in or are not similar in US restaurants (Madras...

I'm talking about the facts, not my "memories". I can support all of this. It's very easy to show what I'm saying re: Classic servers because you don't need a "memory", you can literally go to one today and get screamed at by weird nerds because you aren't playing super-super-super optimally...

That's a fascinating one because it's essentially been astroturfed into being a thing by (I suggest by initially paid) influencers. The UAE have been looking into and willing to put their huge amounts of money behind anything they could claim culturally for quite a while (as people may be aware)...

Even ignoring political aspects and people not wanting to channel switch, I think that also reflects the relative popularity of the acts involved. Is Bad Bunny at least 25x more popular by all possible measurements than Kid Rock in 2026 AD? Yeah probably. I'm pretty sure even at Kid Rock's...

My mum still drinks posh versions of Bovril, i.e. beef tea, albeit extremely rarely and she is in her 70s. I am not aware of anyone younger who does. One thing I must note about the UK that fascinates me - maybe it's true of all countries/places, I dunno but... - is how much fast food and...

That only follows logically if you believe the sole sin is deviation from the original at all, not the nature (or arguably degree) of the deviation. Which would be a very strange and unusual view. Almost universally, people grade deviation from the original on the basis of whether it serves the...

Yeah I can think of a few things which would be close to unarguably "GM force" but it's not much less fraught as a term as you say, and it's group-specific but also game-specific. I know the "pay a Fear" in Daggerheart lets you get weirdly high levels of buy-in on stuff players might be moaning...

That's an interesting question. I think when they're not setting the course the PCs must take in any meaningful way, they're force but not railroading. That's going to be judgement call on a case by case basis but so are all "railroading or not?!" questions. Like, if you stole the spell...

Ooof wow that's pretty bad. Particularly as there were a lot of real pagan places (in Central/Eastern Europe particularly) being attacked by Christian invaders at that time, but very much Britain wasn't one of them. Also the Normans were really awful (c.f. The Harrying of the North, which was...

Sure it was. One act of railroading is still railroading. It's just a less-bad kind. This all feels a bit "Do they give a nobel prize for attempted chemistry?" as an apologia. This is silly literalism of the kind that is seemingly preventing you from understanding the issue. Your analogy...

They don't though. This has been shown time and time again. Those fans have a good idea of what they, personally and specifically, like and dislike, but not the larger group of people who will go and see a movie or play a game or the like. "Serious fans" have very often predicted something...

That's obviously wrong. It's not even arguable. If you force the PCs into a specific situation with zero buy-in, and then delete the most obvious solution in a way that may be perceived as questionable (which "Uh this one specific material component vanished" is imho), that's absolutely exerting...

1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way the universe works to force a specific course". It's not outrageous railroading because it's not totally inconceivable that someone would come up with a spell...

Wooooooooooowwwww there's named after someone controversial or dodgy or with allegations around them, and then there's named after a guy primarily famous for being not only insanely pro-slavery (even by the standards of the time he was regarded a "radical" on slavery) but also a self-admitted...

The media in general was, as the laws around it tended to be a lot more restrictive. The situation we have now though isn't the laws restricting the media. It's the media choosing to not to show stuff without even being told not to. (I will say this weirdly seems to be war-type violence...

Londoner here, born in the sound of Bow Bells so very much technically a Cockney. Still live in London, back in North London (near Tottenham). I have an apparently somewhat transatlantic accent a lot of the time (my wife is American) so get accused of being "Canadian" by people trying to place...