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Presumably you mean no reason not to use a computer? But that doesn't really follow, because just because someone "has access to" a computer of some kind doesn't mean that they have one which is appropriate for use at the table. In fact I would say, in my experience, it's a fairly small...

Yeah, this is what I've been expecting for quite a long time, now they're calling it "digital first" but previously it was also the logical consequence of them wanting to move D&D to being a "lifestyle brand", plus ca change I guess.

Uh-oh. Last time WotC did good and was profitable, and non-WotC Hasbro did poorly, WotC saw huge cuts to staff. Maybe the stock going up will prevent them feeling the need to do that at least.

I sincerely hope the two lead writers are in that meeting and not really Vincke who has kind of a contempt for the setting.

I don't think it has an official genre name, but the furthest back common ancestor of this kind of game is Desert Strike, which was directly inspired by Choplifter, but took the similar gameplay into an isometric perspective (and added a lot more weapons) which worked a lot better. That also...

As an aside, not an attack on you, no-one should really be using the term "Caucasian" nor really expecting anyone outside the US to understand it. It's an outdated, not-just-inaccurate-but-outright-wrong and inherently racist term based on weird pseudo-scientific myth-making from literally the...

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...