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What makes love actually matter to the players? Well, it's a pretty decent movie. I mean, my wife likes it enough to watch it every Xmas season.

Early reports are that director/actor Rob Reiner and his wife have been found stabbed to death in their home. https://extratv.com/2025/12/14/rob-reiner-and-wife-of-36-years-michele-confirmed-dead-knife/

Well, that tenure was mercifully short. Weird.

The OTHER Jim Ward, the voice actor, has died. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jim-ward-dead-fairly-oddparents-ratchet-clank-1236448605/

As I see it, that doesn't make it not a trade-off. You like tactical play, you trade that as a significant focus in the game for an opportunity to improve the game for K's benefit when they're in the game. You defer tactical play to another group for play with K. Trade-off isn't a dirty word or...

Do you always get exactly what you want out of a game like that? Or do you sometimes ease off on some of your preferences because you know other players don't favor them the way you do? Do you ever come up with an idea but adjust it for someone else's sensibilities? That's the trade-off (or I'd...

I think it's highly likely to be the case. Sometimes you just need to have experience with the perspective on the other side of the GM's screen. Similarly, having some GM experience is going to enable someone to be a better player.

Sigh. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

Novelist Sophie Kinsella has died. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/10/madeleine-wickham-aka-shopaholic-novelist-sophie-kinsella-dies-aged-55

I can understand the design and maintenance incentives they might have had by using a unified house system, but this was an extremely disappointing decision by GDW in my opinion. Moreover, Traveller had always gotten criticism for militarism since most adventurer characters are...

First RPG was Holmes Basic D&D. Played it once as a solo player with a party of 6 PCs. One survived. Then I got roped into DMing out of a mix of the first Redbox Basic and AD&D. Those PCs kept going a LONG while - from about 1982 to 1996 (on and off play). Favorite campaign - that's harder to...

Oh, good god, no. People make mistakes and learn from them. There's no point in retconning if you're long past that moment. Even Advanced Squad Leader incorporates this rule - once you've moved on, the mistake stands.

Sometimes that guy seems like a really cold fish.

Well, that's the main solution for groups that aren't in agreement about what to play (or to be one-game gamers). Splitting the group. But for some people, that's not an attractive or attainable option.

Traveller is a REALLY WEIRD example to use here because it sure changed over the years. I mean its main rule engine was the Twilight: 2000 rules for a while, then GURPS. The fact that it (in the form of Mongoose Traveller) appears to have not changed much is because it came back around to it roots.

In isolation, this is true. No individual should ever need to defend why they're a one-game gamer. But... gamers are rarely in isolation (aside from computer/console gaming). They have fellow players. If they are all in agreement, again, no problem. They don't owe anybody an explanation or need...

The Netflix offer doesn't include CNN while the Paramount one does. If the Netflix deal were to go through, CNN would have to be spun off along with some other properties not part of the WB/HBO cinema family. Paramount has been negotiating for the whole enchilada. And while traditional news...

Moreover, Paramount has already tanked the integrity of CBS News. How do you think CNN will fare if Paramount ends up with WB?

I like the d12 - mostly because some manufacturers use the dodecahedron to make d4s that won't injure your feet if you step on them.

Call of Cthulhu - for horror, investigation, and non-leveled character ideas Masks: A New Generation - for superhero genre, narrative game with PbtA-style mechanics James Bond 007 - for alternative and licensed genre emulation Dread - for radically different mechanical options - and definitely...