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...oh darn it, you're right!..i'll have to chew on that for a bit: aliens is too action-adventure for my science-fiction, so maybe i'll give lynch's dune adaptation the nod if i can resist tapping akira...

...last week goodman games confirmed that chris doyle left the company in august; they confirmed that original adventures reincarnated will continue but it sounds like old school adventures will replace fifth-edition fantasy as their ongoing 5e module line, now styled more similarly to OAR's...

...i'll do feature films by decade, starting from the space age... 1950s - The Forbidden Planet 1960s - 2001: A Space Odyssey 1970s - The Black Hole 1980s - Alien 1990s - Ghost in the Shell 2000s - Moon 2010s - Blade Runner 2049

...at the time we received every dragon magazine article as canon alongside the core rulebooks, so our group embraced unearthed arcana without complaint... ...it's important to remember that at the time, AD+D was cumbersome and unbalanced by design, so modern complaints about unearthed arcana...

...i don't have the 5.24 ruleset, but from the 5.14 basic rules introduction to classes... ...it's an asymmetrical ruleset, with one set of rules specific to PCs while NPCs (including commoners) use stat blocks; i think that mechanical conceit follows from the introductory premise...

...it's lying open on my table right now and i can assure you that it's very much a campaign setting despite also serving as an overlay; in fact it readily supports either playstyle or both...while the lore is more distilled than i'd've preferred on account of player-facing mechanics squeezed...

...editorial tone most prominently; it was designed from the ground-up to support the multicultural cosmopolitain-fantasy assumptions of late fifth edition, from the lore implications of anything-goes player mechanics to the deprecation of alignment, to the fantasy-theme-park grab-bag of...

...not exactly; it's structured as a meta-setting weaving through material worlds but it can also be run as its own thing, borrowing liberally from this-and-that to suit a GM's needs...

...the labyrinth was created expressly to serve as a default setting for tales of the valiant...

...the radiant citadel flares in your general direction... (in my opinion ravnica and theros should count, too, but to your point, they weren't bespoke creations for fifth-edition D+D)

...i make suboptimal choices all the time because algorithmic gameplay is boring as heck, but it's always driven by playing my characters from their own in-world perspective...

...good excuse to revert to early 5e +gritty optional rules at my table...

…while the supplement includes a couple of time-portal hooks into modern færûn, i can’t find any direct references to ythryn or rime of the frostmaiden; have i overlooked anything?..

...star frontiers, i think, although we branched out pretty quickly around that time... ...we never distinguished between OD+D / holmes / moldvay and AD+D as separate games; like a lot of groups, everyone we played with considered the latter to be a superset of the former...

...lush abstract covers and cloth maps are my weakness for any crowdfunding campaign; i have a stack of linens from free league, ghostfire, hit point press, privateer press, and now steamforged (and i suppose origin systems too!), but nobody does them better than free league... ...the new ceryl...

...that is the most compelling conception of a modron i've ever seen; typical characterisations are far too humanised for cosmic archons of pure order...

...warforged are not robots; they're more akin to mechanically-sophisticated golems...

(FYI - robots and crashed alien ships were not only integral to blackmoor as the seminal campaign setting from which D+D developed, they also featured as prominent plot points in the first published D+D adventure; greyhawk came along later with gary's sword+sorcery weird-fantasy pastiche, but...