Former Dragon Magazine editor Roger Moore also never appeared in a single Bond movie.

10 foot pole or GTFO.

It still would have done well. It's hard to remember, but the look of a Burton movie was fresh and exciting at the time. The trailer for Batman was getting enormous applause leading up to its release.

That's great. I haven't played Pathfinder, but I did play it's predecessor, D&D 3E, and it was so much work to prep for. I'm glad to hear Paizo is doing things to make it easier.

Same here. The savings on deodorant over the last 25 years have really added up!

The people I play with are almost dangerously proactive, but some players do need concrete hooks. I just always try and present a couple of hooks with groups like that.

Plots are good, especially if they are in the form of an NPC's plot. You can make a timeline of what a major NPC is going to get up to that month. As long as the players don't get involved, it rolls along like clockwork. When the month is up, you look at your major NPCs and decide their plots for the next month.

Sure. There is nothing wrong with a little pre-planning on story here and there (deciding on events that NPCs will get up to in the future if the PCs don't get involved can be really handy), and I like to make my own maps as well.

Yeah. Story-planning often results in a GM fudging do the villain can get away so he can still be around for the next scene he shows up in or having the players succeed at something to get the "right" result.

Just to make another point. The advice annoys me because it is deliberately intimidating. "To be a GM, you need to be insanely creative, like a TV showrunner!"

You certainly want to have some hooks built into the setting. Maybe there is a dungeon full of loot to the north. There are some bandits on the road to the west. The local lord is kind of a dick to his subjects. Then you let the player choose what to do. Like you say, there need to be some bones to it so you don't get…

The AV Club is already working on a scathing review based on it lack of Trump-related content. Seriously, how is anyone supposed to be able to review the episodes for TV Club if there is no Trump angle to discuss?

The Kickstarter for it starts in three days.

“Where I grew up, the people who played D&D were insanely creative. If you think about it, the job of the dungeon master is the equivalent of a showrunner on a TV series. You’re tasked with creating a storyline or narrative that’s potentially going to run for years."

I took my 5-year-old nephew to see that in the theater. That was the point where he told me he wanted to go home.

Thanks. I'd forgotten that.

Pac-Man is a game were everything happens on a completely predictable pattern. Isn't this the kind of thing an AI should be good at by default?

I've been wondering about that too. We only got a brief glimpse of the real Dougie. He did seem kind of "soft", but it is hard to say too much about him.

That's all very true. The other problem it used to be commonplace for lots of directors either on the way up or way down to be given a small budget and a short amount of time to crank something out with not a lot of supervision. For every one that had something compelling, there were a hundred lackluster to bad ones.…

When people think the worst of Jimmy and tell him so, he seems to react to the pain by sinking to their expectations. Early in the episode, Jimmy is certainly self-interested in wanting the settlement to go through, but it actually would be a pretty good deal for the clients to not have to wait years and years at…