People are looking at it with rose-colored goggles. It had one of the best pilots of all time; an epic 2-parter that was full-on Tolkein levels of amazing. And when the show was good, it showed tremendous potential and I do genuinely wish it had been given the chance to realize that potential. But it was mostly an…

Reading other responses on this article and similar articles in the past , I really don’t think many people know how to run a linear, story-driven campaign that also allows for a wide array of player choices and decisions. It seems like people think you can only either totally railroad your players into doing things yo…

Edit: looking at your other comments, it looks like your group rolls up characters on the night? Bad idea, man. No wonder you’re strapped for time :P

I just feel like you’re so limited in what you can even do in just one evening. I mean, coming up with an event fun enough to get excited about but small enough to be finished in one night? Hell, it can take hours just coming up with and statting out characters to play! So there’s only, what, a few hours for most…

It’s crazy when I hear about RPG groups that do one-off games or jump around to different systems all the time. In all my years of gaming (and it’s been decades, which makes me feel older than I am when I type it) I have never played an RPG that wasn’t a sprawling, years-long epic. Not since a couple stop-and-starters…

Where in any corner of male-oriented genre fiction does it not suck to be a mom? Even Disney movies hate moms.

The biggest quandary I can think of for my players in the last game I ran (which was too long ago - I am deeply jealous of people who have the time to still play regularly) was one involving what was essentially a huge murder-cult.

Yeah, I’d like to think so too, but we weren’t being conditioned to base our entire sense of self-worth on how many hits and likes we got. And we didn’t have games that got us psychologically addicted to throwing infinite money down a drain (though they certainly would have if they could have). The interaction between…

Running Man is also one of the most quotable of Arnold’s movies. Many fantastic dialogue gems in this one, from an era where action movies were allowed to be sillier and more fun.

I really do try so hard not to be the old guy hating on kids for being kids, but... uuugh. The stupid, inane, borderline- (or beyond) offensive shit I see kids getting up to on YouTube makes me feel twice my age and fading. And our future is only going to have worse versions of this kind of crap. Hell in a handbasket,…

Siiiigh still no Zarya love.

Maeve doesn’t have control beyond the techs, she just has wi-fi in her brain. The techs could do what she can do if they had one of those fancy tablets and hooked up to a host. Maeve connects wirelessly with verbal commands. It’s more advanced than what they’re doing, but I presumed it was because her brain is a…

...The bedroom wouldn’t have a shred of furniture left in one piece. The kitchen either.

Agreed.

I was gonna say, other than Tank, Isabella in DA2 fills all the roles in one. If only I could have ‘Bella and Bull in one party together...

Absolutely. This is a really, really good take.

Different divisions. Marvel can’t just do as they please because it’s a Disney property, they still need approval from either Lucasfilm (which still exists as a division within Disney) or some bureaucrat in the film department somewhere whose job is to be a go-between.

I always love seeing how different artists try to deal with Guile’s hair. It’s so tricky to get the “feel” of it right! Few characters have such a wide swing between how cool they can look when done well and how bad they can look the rest of the time.

In the most recent TPB, they’ve started photo-tracing more than just the main cast. I think they meant it to balance it all out, but it somehow makes it even more off-putting. I’m amazed anybody at Marvel (including the penciler, who is capable of some extremely nice artwork) thinks it looks good. Makes me think it…

Agreed, but I’d say the same for any fast-paced 1st person game. The POV makes it extremely difficult to follow what’s happening if you aren’t the one playing. 3rd person is just so much more enjoyable to watch as a spectator.