Recent content by GrimCo

Agree. You don't need to geek out on guns, with calibers, balistic trajectories and penetrations. But just giving modern gun real effective ranges changes game drastically. It shifts from up close and personal skirmish game to tactical firefight games with longer engagement distances, even i...

Was 4e best version? Yes, no, maybe. Depends who you ask and what they want out of game. Was it best designed from perspective of heaving focused vision, intended play style and rules that supported that style very well? Hell yea. At it's heart, it's mmo style tactical skirmish game. If that...

IMHO, D&D set in modern time works best in Secret World type setting where mundane world and supernatural one is separated. Dresden Files is prime example of it and with use of magic fries modern tech, it bypasses most of the problems modern tech brings into fantasy game. It keeps tech level in...

John Wick, from 2-4, is live action anime gun fu movie. In first movie, without stupidity of "kevlar lined suits", there is bit of real tactical gun play showed. When John attacks compound where Viggo's son hides, he takes outer perimeter guards from distance with silenced DMR. Same for 2 times...

Problem with guns isn't lethality per se. Sword and arrow can kill you as easily as 5.56mm round. It's ranges. Rules of d&d are centered around melee combat. Longbow has 150 feet/ 50m range without disadvantage. Your run of the mill regular 9mm pistol has 75ft/25m. Regular M4 semi auto with...

My main group: D&D - we are sticking to 5 and no plans to update to 5.5e in foreseeable future. 7th sea 1ed - i read 2ed and just nope. Changes are so radical, they are esentially 2 different games that just share name and setting oWoD/nWoD - by that, i mean original White Wolf run ( VtM...

I fell in love with Shadowrun as a setting, read all the novels, played Shadowrun Returns, Dragonfall director's cut and Hong Kong extended and i think those are excellent tactical isometric rpg-games. I would be first one to fork out some cash for new title in that format. One thing that...

I get the same feeling sometimes. Few weeks ago, buddy from university called me, he's organizing reunion of our old uni class group. I asked him why now. When he said, well, it's 15 years since we graduated, it punched me right in the gut. Another big shocker are kid's birthdays. It feels...

Not annually, but aiming for that 18-24 month window. With 7 seasons and gaps of 2.5-3 years, that's 15-20 years of commitment. Movies ran for 10 years since release of 1st till release of last one and that's already massive. Personally, since first 2 books are rather short, i don't see them...

On the topic related, i read somewhere they should start filming S2 in mid to late 2026. Which is great. But yeah, post production on show like this is probably massive undertaking, specially because of heavy use of VFX. There will probably be overlap with post production of one season and...

You are approaching it from perspective of anglosphere, probably from USA or UK. Personally, i read portals, regional ( from SE Europe), Italy, Austria and Germany. Italian portals for most part ignore anglosphere all together and focus on internal stuff. Austiran and german portals, they are...

All the cool 80&90s cartoons, be it sf or fantasy. Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Nathan Never comics. ST: TOS, Space: Above and beyond. SF B movies with cool covers i rented in local video store. Anime, i got hooked pretty early on anime, with Akira, Evangelion, Gundam, Legend of the galactic...

We got it later, in mid 90s. In my grandparents building, they had one antenna on the roof of the building and then signal from that one was routed trough regular tv cables in the building. Call it "building wide cable tv", just free. Before that, people had big fishbone antennas, and depending...

What people? I'm talking about international casual fans and casual fans in general. Regular people, mostly older now, for whom HP is just part of childhood nostalgia. They have bigger things to care than what some author of kids books said on social media. Things like rising prices of...

You would be surprised. Franchise ended, people grew up, had new interests and didn't follow author on social media. Specially outside of USA. Controversies are mostly on english speaking side of social media, and mostly twitter/x or reddit or specialized forums, it didn't really bleed in on...