It might make more sense once you know that the full title of the fictional book, in its final published form is: “The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings, and the Return of the King.”

The only response is Noooooooooo!

Its not out yet, should be up for preorder next week. GW have a weird thing where they tell you a week early what’s about to go on preorder, but then only keep preorders open for one week before the general release happens. I think it's about building hype and expectations.

Well... yeah?
I know you have to write articles about stuff, but this is neither surprising or strange. I’d argue its not that they’re not sentient. Rather its that you capitalise the names of nationalities and ethnic groups rather than species. If all Bith are ethnically Bith then it should be capitalised, if humans…

Why would you give Obi Wan the green lightsaber and Luke the blue one though? That should really be the other way around!

I actually thought it was great that Xavier lost his hair in a freak brain transference incident. That's almost the most "x-men" way it could possibly have happened!

Maybe you don’t need to make live action versions of everything? Some stories, some worlds, some characters just work better in animation. Some things just can’t cross the divide between those media. I really think that a lot of what makes Avatar so... Avatar, is down to its format. I just don’t think it would work as…

Mask wearing should be encouraged in a Zombie plague. Not because it stops you breathing in the virus, but because it makes it harder for you to bite people when you turn into an unthinking zombie.

It is very strongly implied that the junior officers are emulating Riker’s love of poker, as part of the command ensign’s attempts to get into his good graces. They want to understand the game because he senior officers like it.

Nice! I started out in the 3e era, so have only recently read Realm of Terror, it was a fantastic read though, and after dabbling in ravenloft stuff for a while it was nice to see that classic version. I’ve never read the original I series modules, though I might do so at some point. I’ve got CoS and Expedition to…

Welcome back. 5e is great, and is doing a lot of good stuff getting people back into the hobby and new people interested in playing. There is no real need to know the history of the game, 5e certainly doesn’t require it. I just happened to know the answer in far more detail than you needed because I’d lived through mos…

Unfortunately I think that the current design team are kind of of the opinion that the original Ravenloft is a classic in need of constant updates, while the expanded setting was just a spinoff that they don’t see much value in. When you look at CoS it is very much the original module writ large, and little connection…

Not quite. In the run up to the release of third edition, wizards discontinued most of their old 2e campaign settings (the ones that were still kicking anyway). They kept the Forgotten Realms, made Greyhawk the “default setting”, and shut down everything else. However, there was interest from other parties to keep…

I’ve kind of run that campaign. Though with slightly less overt communist revolutionaries. Taking a step back, and saying “is what the books say true? who actually wrote that elves were great and orcs were barbarians in setting, and was it the elves?” provides great fodder for some really interesting adventures.

The price point is unfortunately to be expected, but its not as though this is going to be the only version for Curse of Strahd going forwards. They are reprinting the hardback books quite regularly, this is just a one off special edition by the looks of it. I neither need nor want another edition of Curse of Strahd,…

Yeah. It is a classic example of a series with great ideas which was executed... poorly. I can usually put up with the first season and a half, but then really can’t stand seasons 3 or 4. Weirdly, season five is just about watchable. It in no way feels like a continuation of Andromeda, I think they saw Firefly and…

I’m one of the folks who really likes discovery, but I can’t read teasers for the new series and not think:
“The Long Night has come, the United Federation of Planets, greatest civilisation in the history of the galaxy has fallen.

To be fair, I’d probably be screaming too if people thousands of years from now dug me up, and put me in a museum, then prodded, poked and scanned me to try to figure out how I died. The ancient Egyptians believed that their bodies had to stay in Egypt for them to access their afterlife too...

Agreed, I was sure I’d seen him say something along the lines of “not without Terry Pratchet” I really don’t feel that the series needs a sequel. Unless he has a really solid idea ideally one that came from that collaboration back in the day, then they should leave it at that.

Belgium guys, just pure belgium.