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Hi, Hope it's allowed to post this here. I have no affiliation with Cubicle7! I just found that there's a Humble Bundle containing all the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space in PDF format. I consider DW:AiTaS to be one of the best RPGs I've ever played so wanted to share. It has...

Thanks Kanye! ;) I understood your argument. I said I wasn't disagreeing with your argument but simply that you had picked a bad example to illustrate which you had. Had the example been Lord of the Rings, Firefly, Star Wars, it would have supported your case. You picked one where there is a...

I get the argument being made but the chosen example was a mistake. The Doctor Who role-playing game by Cubicle 7 (very good, btw) explicitly supports playing as the Doctor. In fact, he's one of the pre-gen characters that comes with the game! Given the nature of the setting, there is almost no...

I have a simple question: Do licensed settings bring new players to the hobby of RPGs? I already have an answer ready: Yes. And now, I give my conclusion: Hooray for licenced settings! We desperately need new players. Apologies for the lengthy post! :)

I think that's best. I find the movie very offensive. So do very many other people. It's not for others to tell us we should be fine with someone portraying Kazakhstan as a nation of bigots. And I would never portray Germans as a nation of anti-Semites nor try to justify doing so by saying there...

'What though the field be lost' Thus speaks the protagonist of the greatest of "Villainous Poems", Milton's Paradise Lost. You could do worse than quote lines like the below: Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens...

I think there is a substantial difference between a teasing caricature based on exaggerating minor national pasttimes or national costumes and making jokes about "the town rapist" and anti-Semitism. So I don't think you do feel exactly the same way. Most Americans have an idea of Germany. That...

Please do not photoshop "Borat" in there. "Borat" is an offensive and really, really ignorant character / movie. This is Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan: Borat depicts Kazakh people as backwards inbreds who are proud of their sisters being top-rated prostitutes, as racists and ignorant...

80's? Do you mean this? ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6cX2FBKlvA

I apologise that my reply will be so brief to such a long post, but essentially my reply is that I get it. I got it the first time. I read that Thing fiction a long time back and Peter Watts is one of my favourite authors. Yes, all of what you say might make sense from the Tyrannid perspective...

Okay. I'm going to interrupt to say that I don't think humans are meant to be Good Guys. WH40K is a vast, sprawling setting and you get things like the Gaunt's Ghosts novels where it's all written from the point of view of Imperial Guardsmen and so yes, humans are the Good Guys. Especially as...

Thanks for that. Very helpful. I'm leaning more and more towards getting the 2016 Mongoose version of Traveller. And Mindjammer to add transhumanism. Minor thing, I actually meant Star Trek style transporter when I wrote teleporter rather than psionic teleporting - sorry if I wasn't clear. Star...

I have a question if I may. I have never played Traveller. Adding on transhumanism suddenly makes it a game that I am interested in. Reading a couple of reviews on Mongoose's 2016 edition of the core book, it seems psionics is a core part of the game. Psionics is an active repellent for me. It...

The Eclipse Phase setting is a very fun one (despite the rather overt anti-capitalist views of some authors leaking into it). But the big weaknesses I found in the mechanical side of things were (a) the hacking which was very rudimentary and (b) it couldn't scale. The latter one requires...

The life force idea is really neat. I love this sort of detail because it allows for clever tricks on the parts of the players like your self-inflicted wounds. It also opens the possibility that some life forces might be too "bright", such as a particularly holy cleric or a divine figure...

Good luck having a conversation with the local hobbits when you're a disembodied voice or riding a horse when you are a disembodied voice. Also, I always had the impression there was more to it than simply being invisible. When they are unhorsed in the river flood by the elven magic, Gandalf...

Depends on the campaign setting. If magic is common, undead common, careers stalking into 10'x10' rooms to steal treasure is the norm, then maybe it's normal that a wizard in wizard school is told "undead are unaffected" as part of Invisibility 101. My setting is a lot more of a LotR, Wizard of...

Oh, Hell no! Why would I do that? Imagine the fun when a PC turns invisible and cockilly strolls through a bunch of skeletons. And their skulls all turn to follow her. Bonus points if you can contrive it so that only the party hiding in the shadows at the back notice the skulls turning. For...

Thanks both. I'll check them out.

Are there ever any gaming conventions in Europe / UK? I know there used to be a Gencon Europe once upon a time but i think it ended.