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I think all this talk overlooks a very key element: No company can tell you what to do at your table. Even if Dark Sun is never published again, no one is keeping anyone from running Dark Sun. People that want to tell Dark Sun/etc tales will find the time and effort to put that game together...

I feel the Great Daryl Nathan (RIP) was almost a West Michigan version of Wesley Willis, minus the schizophrenia. My second choice to share - if I could find it - was this guy named Lee Goodman, who had a karaoke show on public access where he often was the singer. Guy was a massively rotund...

There's only one answer for me growing up in West Michigan - a tribute to the Great Daryl Nathan.

Depends on the author. I mean, in film, we've seen Riddick fight with his tin cup successfully.

I think this gets to the core of the problem I see: if you're having to make so many tweaks, are you sure that's the best system for it? I enjoy SW when I play its different iterations. If you're going to play Firefly, however, armor shouldn't be a factor at all - I'm not sure a situation...

The Traveller game I'm in has been a hybrid of Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. We began with the starter set's Fall of Tinath, and when Tinath fell and the fleets fled, our crew (with our S-class Scout ship) began taking on missions for money ala Firefly. I saw someone recommend Savage...

As was said, I did NOT have this on my bingo card.

I was already playing the Basic Set (1982, with the red dragon and the warrior with their back to the 'camera') but I think the first thing I bought was either the old FASERIP Marvel Superheroes in the yellow box, OR Top Secret. I do remember Star Frontiers in there at some point too though.

Booing Blade is my new favorite awesome typo I would love to see as a spell.

A good turn-based computer version of Twilight 2000 1e. Maybe something that felt like Fallout Tactics - there's something satisfying about driving a vehicle in a turn-based game while five squadmates unload light machine guns out the windows.

Personally, I would place Nentir Vale over near the Moonsea. To me, it always seemed to give off a Dalelands vibe.

Aerosol grenades beat heavy lasers. (Traveller 2e)

If you're asking 'when should dice rolls be used in social interactions?' - I think I find they should be used like any other role: when a failure can have serious results. Do I think a barter session with a shopkeeper needs a dice roll? Generally no - UNLESS the players are trying to...

This will always be my favorite part of the Watchmen, movie or graphic novel: Time is always moving. Plans are always in motion. As was said, "I'm not a Republic serial villain. I wouldn't be telling you this if there was any way you could stop this. It all happened ten minutes ago."

Personally, I feel it depends. If you're going to run a module where certain choices may be vastly underpowered - say the original Ravenloft module - or some options aren't available - clerics in Dragonlance - I think you absolutely need to let people know. I'm getting of an age where I have...

I will offer up Orkworld by John Wick, of L5R and 7th Sea fame, amongst others. It began when he was told he could not play an ork bard in the company D&D game because 'orcs are speedbumps'. He got his boss, the DM, to agree if he wrote a 4000 word essay on ork culture and why they weren't...

Barrel rolls are great defense. (Traveller, as my pilot charged his scout ship at a far trader, heavily refitted to be a pirate vessel. Luckily, we were able to use two 100-ton scout class vessels to take it out - only one of the scout ships got hit with the pirate's ion cannon, thank the...

I think the 'Concern' over the Purple Dragon Knights of Cormyr is interesting, given how much more Sword Coast/Icewind Dale stuff we have given to us. I mean, 'Everyone' is still bonkers over BG3 - to the point where people don't know about how they laid out the Flaming Fist way back when...

As far as Brandon Routh roleplaying, there was a Wizards one-shot they did when Rime of the Frostmaiden came out with multiple streams. For example, one was a GoT actors stream. There was a 'superhero actor stream' also, with Routh, Karen Gillan, and David Harbour that was pretty good if I...

Generally, I agree. However, when you look at Star Wars in particular, the fan base really raised Hell after Rian Johnson made changes to things. I clearly remember the uproar because of a random stablehand used the Force to grab a broom. And so we went back and had to have Palps return, and...