If you're serious about that, go with old-school Inform or TADS, rather than Twine. A parser-driven game would be much more effective with the unreliable narrator aspects of the story than a CYOA structure.

I'll never forget the weather on the day I watched this lush, surprising, heartbreaking film - when it started the day was sunny and bright, but at about the midpoint, dark, fast-moving clouds occluded the sun like a curtain, and by the end a ferocious storm was whipping and beating at the windows, lighting crashing…

Eskimo.

More articles like this, please! It's great having perspectives outside the BGG/grognardsphere.

Actually, no. The only joy of them being spotlit so much is watching Romo fail in some spectacular manner.

I thought Thompson killed it as well. She sold every important bit of nuance of the best character in Todd - a fine Lovett indeed. Personally, I was glad to see Todd himself as a hulking, tragic brute again - a skinny Todd just sits wrong with me. I really liked a lot of the staging, as well, as it bent the fourth…

Agreed, although I still love the world and character building enough that it works for me (also: best Wondy supporting cast EVER). It's too bad goddamn Infinite Crisis pretty much killed his run; I think it could have been the one to finally pull the fanboys around.

For Rucka, "The Hiketeia" OGN is excellent, and his run begins with "Down to Earth", which does some important tone-setting for the rest of his run…though you could always skip a bit ahead to "Eyes of the Gorgon", which is just incredible.

Rucka's is the best ever, for my money. Give it a shot, especially if you liked the Simone run.

Like a surprising amount of people in this thread, I love to soak in a big fat rulebook - if I'm picking up 5e, I'm going whole hog (though I will definitely wait until I can scoop up some cheap copies!)

I don't mean to imply that "the average person" would have either made them or even used them. Making a dodecahedron out of glass or stone by hand is not easy (and if they were indeed used for gambling, economic forces would pressure the craftsperson to make as Platonic a sold as possible); someone well-educated had…

The fourth season is a good time to shake up the formula, and i was a bit disappointed to see everything start to work out for our heroes, even getting a cool new lair - though the building of an off-the-grid communication network was a good idea for the first ep. Hopefully things get more dire soon - one of the…

I gotta admit, it was kind of cool having Benjamin Linus and Abu Nazir in the same room.

One Shot is my favorite podcast, hands-down. Most of the revolving cast of players have improv backgrounds, and the guy running most games is just an astoundingly good GM. They play pretty much a different game system every episode (or set of episodes), and it shows off the breadth of the current gaming scene.
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I haven't played D&D in years, but I love game systems, and can sit and read a rulebook just for fun. Going through the Basic PDF of 5e, I was really struck how elegant the systems are, and how much they seemed to present a cleaner, faster (…purer?) version of the core ideas that make D&D D&D. Purloining ideas from…

Gambling is as old as property, but I think more than a bit of it had to do with cultures with advanced understandings of geometry and math.

Snap judgments on the source-material characters:

I am one-hundred-percent down with recurring flashbacks to Timothy Busfield (Timothy Busfield!?!) as Benjamin Franklin: Know-it-All Ass.

That's pretty much what Pinata is saying, I think. And I very much appreciate that a non-comic fan recognizes how diverse comics really are.

I never played it until I was nearly 30, having got my hands on an N64 and the cart. I loved it, spending a good couple weeks exploring every nook and cranny and completing everything I possibly could (and I avoided hitting the walkthrough for secrets until I was ready to beat the game). However, I got to play it on…