“Sweet Chowder”??? Holy crap! That’s from a game recorded by Role Playing Public Radio! I wish I could remember the name of it; it was a 70s action/crime game, and it wasn’t Damnation Decade.

An adventure path is a series of individual published adventures (no publisher calls them “modules” any more unless they’re deliberately trying to be retro) that form one big story. Basically, a campaign module split up into several books, often written by different authors and made coherent by having an editor for…

There are a lot of audio podcasts of people playing role-playing games out there. “Actual play” is a good search term for that sort of thing. My favorite actual play podcast, The Gutter Skypes (http://www.anim5.com/IDDFOS/TGS/), is actually doing D&D right now, but they play a lot of different games.

If he actually signed on to the game as “Vinny” at any point, I’m convinced it was just a bot. I can easily see a developer setting up a fourth-wall breaking AI as people were abandoning the game.

Now if he never used the name “Vinny” when creating his account for the game, it’s either a set-up or a live person who…

How could you do this retrospective with nary a mention of Lobo the Duck? I mean, yes it was basically one gag, but . . . Lobo the &@^%! Duck!!!

Overall I don’t mind the Scooby-Doo art, but Velma looks like she’s about four feet tall. Is this Scooby-Doo in the Shadowrun universe and Velma’s a dwarf?

Just once I'd like to see some Traveller designs in one of these things. I mean, if they've got WH40K . . .

I'll give you that no one quite ever hit the level of Michael Wisher, but Julian Bleach came damn close. Less scientific curiosity, more batshit insanity, but by that point in the character's existence it makes sense.

Intergalactic?

Been a while since I've read the novelization of "The Abominable Snowmen," but I'm pretty sure the Yog-Sothoth thing was first brought up in one of the New Adventures novels, which are ridiculously non-canonical at this point.

"Winter is coming" is a recurring phrase in Game of Thrones.

Ditto

I really want Clara to be a Time Lord who chameleon arched herself into a human but found a way to give her human self serial mortality.

Depends on your definition of "alien." She's from Earth, yes, but 65 million years ago might well qualify as "not around here."

I'm calling Thea as the copycat. They've set her up nicely for the role.

Does Spock's jacket look rather Romulan to anyone but me?

I think Tintin had better name recognition, even before the movie, than Asterix ever had in the states.

It's been a while since I've read the book, but are we sure that's actually supposed to be Spock? I thought "The Final Reflection" was almost exclusively set in TOS's past and told from the point of view of a Klingon ambassador to the Federation.

What we really need is those editions with at least the sound quality they had in the 1970s and 80s. The video is OK, although I'm not sure if they remastered it or just did a transfer, but the 2.1 sound? They're the movies THX was *invented* for, for crying out loud!

Pacific Rim's tech is starting to sound like BattleTech's.