I've read a lot of reference and rpg books from both before and after the reboot, and my conclusion is the plot points have been rebooted, setting details haven't. I think the consider it the same SW universe, with all the same playing pieces on the board. It's just how the game plays out that's different.

You so frequently see posts saying “the hobbit shouldn’t have been three movies, there wasn’t enough material “ but I contend this isn’t true. Even a short book translates to hours on te screen. Splitting the film wasn’t the issue, it was how they did it. There is no through line in the book. Is a series of episodic…

Yeah! I get that they were made to change it and were disappointed, but in context “fight” works so much better. Wanting real profanity just strikes me as wanting to be edgy and “grown up” for edginess sake. There is really no need for that when you can express the same or better without using curses.

This could set some very interesting precedents around copywriting game mechanics. While it sounds as though that isn’t the intent here, the judge is likely going to be a non expert where the long history of tabletop games are concerned, so how they rule on the contract issue could accidentally test more fundamental…

Perhaps this is a naive question, but for those of us not versed in the machinations of megacorporations...

I hate to be down on things, but I’m sceptical. An add supported 24h tv channel seems like the abolute worst way to deliver APs, which really benefit from the on demand format they get online. D&d’ back catalogue is four bad movies, one great movie and a mediocre Tv show. You could literally play al l content back to…

Normally I’d agree, but in this case the trailer suggests that it’s a pretty straight sequel to the previous series, not just a stand alone with some nods to the past.

I wonder whether this could benefit from an Ahsoka themed Machete order. Watch season 1 of rebels, as the best intro to the animated Star Wars saga, then when Ahsoka is introduced, go back and watch the final three or so seasons of clone wars. Or at least a few of the key Ahsoka arcs leading up to the finale. Something…

A dice tray. After years of dropping dice on the floor and having them gradually spread out over the table its great to just keep them all together.

at sounds terrible. Linking xp and character advancement to killing has been an issue for a long time. since the early days of D&D. Certainly a character trying to follow jedi philosophy while also fighting highlights that especially egregiously. Maybe video games should take a leaf out of RPGs again, and think more…

Its debatable as to who played the largest role in creating Dungeons and dragons itself, but i think it’s largely accepted that it was Arneson and his group that invented the idea if RPGs as a whole.

This list is excellent, but is needs to feature Ursula Le Guin.

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Really you just need the players hand book and some dice. Everything else you can make up yourself. Sure prewritten campaigns can be fun, but they are also pricey, and I tend to think that their utility is over stated.

Really you just need the players hand book and some dice. Everything else you can make up yourself. Sure prewritten…

With a post credits scene.

I do wonder how trolls would fare if there wasn’t a culture of annonimity online. It seems as though companies like Facebook and Google can increasingly tell who you are regardless of what witty user name you pick. But there is still the idea that you don’t have to put your name to things you say online, and so can…

Agreed, I don’t like to put anything online that I wouldn’t put my name to. Clearly not everyone feels that way, but the fact that anonymity has become so normalised as a part of online discourse is fascinating. I’d love to see what historians in the future will make of the online “society” which we are a part of.…

I think its also interesting that online discourse has been built around a foundation of anonymity. I am not publishing this comment under my real name, and very few people using this site do so. Instead we have usernames and handles which make it far easier to create fake accounts, and proliferate the kind of…

The more I read about this game the more fascinating it seems. At what point does a video game become a social experiment?

Great stuff! In my experience anyone who successfully GM’s their first game is usually hooked for life.