Yeah, the trick seems to be maintaining the puzzle’s puzzleness, while still making it into an encounter. What you could do is have the players make something like an attack as a way to observe or study the puzzle and if they are successful an aspect of the puzzle is revealed. The more aspects of the puzzle that are…

Inside the house, I rarely have to wrestle anything from my corgi’s mouth. Not much makes it to the floor that’s not alright for her to eat. The only thing I can think of is she does like to eat crunchy cat turds out of the litter box, but we solved that ages ago by just positioning the litter boxes so only the cat…

Unforgiven is my favorite. Gran Torino is really good from his more recent work.

Did he give it to her with a nice bottle of Chianti and some fava beans?

Fair enough. Like I said, I think IM3 is one of the better MCU movies. There’s enough action blockbusters. I mean, so many of these movies just seem like Transformers, which I’ve never had any interest in. Just lame CGI fight scene spectacles. I love the MCU, but I’d like to see different kinds of movies in the Marvel…

The first thing I thought of. Immediately came down to the comments to make this very comment. Now I don’t have to.

That’s what I figured, which sucks. As I’ve gotten older, I don’t bother much with consoles. I ended up getting a Switch during quarantine, but I don’t use it much. Most games on X-Box and PlayStation you can get on PC and I’d almost always prefer to play with mouse and keyboard than with a controller.

I don’t know, maybe I’m thinking of it differently, but I’m imagining an encounter as something like combat. Like there’s rounds and an element of time sensitivity and you’re given options as to what actions you can do as opposed to being presented with like a riddle or logic puzzle that just just sit and ruminate…

Oh I feel you on all this. Once you get into the nitty gritty there’s so many factors you have to consider.

Not gonna lie, I get really frustrated when my fast food orders get messed up, but at the same time, I’m never going to complain about it to the store or go back to the store and make them fix it. If I happen to notice when they hand me my food, I’ll probably say something politely, but I get it. It’s fast food.…

Care to share anything about your system? In my spare time I’ve been designing a game system for fun, knowing full well I’ll never actually complete it or turn it into anything of actual substance. It’s just a creative exercise. However, I’d love to see how others go about designing their own game systems.

Oh man BattleTanx. That takes me back.

The big issue is whether or not they’ll have access to Rare games. I was trying to think of the games I would want and at least half of them were Rareware.

I didn’t quite get a buddy cop vibe from it, but I do think Iron Man 3 is one of the better MCU movies.

I wish we’d see more genre films. It wasn’t MCU, but I liked that New Mutants was essentially a horror/thriller.

Didn’t Ewan effectively disown Greg because he refused to stop working for Logan though?

He doesn’t say that it was the best food he had in France, just that it was amazing.

These people are really showing their brain.

I see “salt pork” at the store, but have never used it for anything. Tbh, not a big soup guy myself, but my wife is. I’m not sure what kind of pork she uses when she makes soup though. I think she gets ham hocks from the butcher.

I’d rather see a Vigilante 8 TV show...