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On the other hand, if the game in question was invented for the movie or show and doesn't exist outside of it, can it really be said to be based on a game? You wouldn't say a movie was based on a novel if that novel only existed within the fiction of the movie.

Netflix.

Yeah, it is understandable, and as part of the campaign's premise it'd be tough to single out a PC as not having been implanted. And while, in the videogame, it's not like the characters are constantly under control, there are definitely struggles for control involved. Getting around it would...

In the original Klingon.

It's a smaller ship, but that's not a bad thing. We don't need to go out adventuring in a massive Galaxy or Sovereign class. Could definitely do with distributing some more power to internal systems though, enough to run a couple of light bulbs.

Helmsman Ortegas: "Hey Captain, I fly the ship. Any idea where I should fly it?" Captain Ortegas: "Not a clue. I fly the ship. Comms, any messages about where we should fly the ship?" Comms officer Ortegas: "Having trouble finding the "receive" button, Sir. I just fly the ship."

Voyage Home lacks allegory? I'd have said it's more like it wears it right on its sleeve.

It reminds me of the Discworld novel Soul Music, which I managed to read cover-to-cover without ever getting the "I could swear he's Elvish" reference (I think I finally picked up on it in the animated movie).

Regardless of whether we've seen it as a vision, Pike choosing in that moment to knowingly sacrifice his future is what his character arc throughout the show has been about. It would be odd not to conclude that arc.

Not top faves for me, but Free Guy and Ready Player One are worth putting in the mix as being more parodic / referential of video gaming culture in general.

A full 80-piece set of Heroes of Faerun dwarven-crafted figurines, still in their original packaging, scattered across several floors and tucked in amongst a whole literal hoard of other stuff. Worth an absolute fortune to the right collector, but only if they can gather up the full set.

Only when talking about it tunneling through solid rock, which is understandable. Through earth I'd tend to consider it optional.

Unrumble! The first thing that occurs to me is the players trying to game the system - i.e. if any of the guards start out dead or badly wounded, the players avoid attacking them so that they don't get healed. This is going to require a lot of player buy-in - quite often players are more...

Boosting its speed and burrow speed would be a start, these things should be using ambush tactics, rising up to spit some acid and then burrowing away, but they don't have the speed to do so very effectively. The trickiest part of fighting them should be pinning them down before they retreat...

That also allows for some playing with the concept - is he a centaur cursed to turn into a nightmare, or a nightmare cursed to think he is a centaur?