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The holiday for the rest of us! I expect you've all completed your feats of strength, aired your grievances, and are now dancing around the Festivus pole.

https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1337.html I wonder if Rich intentionally waited to that strip number to have the collision between the parties? Oh -- anyone read his Dim Sun comic yet? I'll have to pick it up.

What's you favorite holiday song? As we're drifting toward the end of the year, pick your favorite non-specific winter solstice festival song ... or another holiday, should you choose. If you're response is Wham's Last Christmas, then just get yourself to the Whamaggeddon thread and...

Just tripped over this new digital dungeon crawler ... free demo on Steam pending release of the game. Has a very OSR feel with the black & white art and old mechanics. It also reminds me of playing Eye of the Beholder back in the day. Video intro:

Vampire movies always seem to carry their weight. Would a Ravenloft movie make a good D&D/vampire crossover film?

I don't recall @CleverNickName doing this thread ... if it's a repeat feel free to debate In-N-Out vs Five Guys vs Whataburger. What's your go-to burger? What ingredients? What's your stack? For the purpose of discussion let's start with defining a burger as a meat (or pseudo-meat) patty...

Meeting a mysterious stranger -- or even meeting the new adventuring party -- in a tavern or inn has become a common fantasy and sci-fi trope. On a certain level, this makes sense. Inns and taverns are meeting places and cross-roads, and likely places for strangers to encounter one another by...

Now go have second breakfast.

#1333 After all these years, I'm still fondue Rich's jokes.

It's pretty convenient that their abilities, alignment, likelihood of speaking and using magic, and danger level is all conveniently color-coded like a threat condition chart. What are the in-world and metagame reasons? How would the game change if the bag of Skittles that are dragons didn't...

What are your thoughts on RPG-style Board Games? What makes a good one, what do you like to have in the ones you play, and/or which ones would you recommend? Define "RPG-style Board Game" as broadly or narrowly as you'd like -- for me it could be anything from a dungeon-crawler like Descent or...

I found myself wondering whatever happened to the likes of Aggro the Axe, Barjin, Blastum, Gutboy Barrelhouse, and the like. Have they popped up anywhere since?

WARNING this thread contains spoilers for the various films in the Alien franchise. So ... What are the unanswered questions, or things you would like to see addressed, in the Alien universe? Here's a couple for me to start (I haven't seen Romulus, and don't really remember Prometheus, so if...

No, no -- hear me out. Imagine Middle Earth along the lines of Redwall. Disney has acquired the LotR License gasp horror -- FOCUS HERE PEOPLE! -- and you need to cast the various characters and races with appropriate anthropomorphic animals. What do you choose and why? Here's one: Elves are...

Sorry of this is a repost; I just came across this: Have I been hiding in shadows? I didn't know there was D&D Lego. Well, I mean you can repurpose fantasy Lego or Lord of the Rings Lego for D&D of course. Super cool! Way to pricey for my blood, and standard minis are much cheaper for...

If you were to list the greatest fantasy warriors of all time -- a top ten, whatever -- who would they be? By warrior I mean a character who is primarily seen as a user of weapons who fights physically, not a wizard who fights with magic, though some magic might be part of their makeup -- so for...

What are the best examples of Wizard's Duels in media? What games best replicate a wizard's duel? I like to think of the duel between Merlin and Mim in The Sword in the Stone -- each wizard countering what they other wizard puts into play. Saurman - Gandlaf in Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring...

The ancient tale of Beowulf has been adapted many times across many types of media. What's your favorite or the one you think best? For me, in print I like what Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did adapting the story to interplanetary colonization in The Legacy of Heorot. In film I like the...

... and why is it this one?

Side-based or individual initiative? Player sequence or action (shoot, move, melee, spell) sequence? Back in the day I ran B/X and 1E with side-based initiative, action-sequence combat ... more or less as written in the Moldvay Basic book. When 3E came out, I was taken with cyclic individual...