Recent content by overgeeked

True. They were all labor camps. And some of them were death camps. Far more likely the Nazis just rounded up everyone they didn't like and stuck them in labor camps.

Yeah. It's not about who's right. People being shocked about character death in D&D is not a new thing is all I was trying to say. Expecting PCs to survive has been a thing since the mid-to-late 80s. Yeah, those people are wrong. I came in after all that. I was surprised by the death when I got...

Yeah, probably.

To be fair, that's effectively been the baseline for D&D since the Hickman Revolution back in the 1980s.

If the Nazis took over the US, then they likely built camps in the US. Depending on how long it took the Nazis to round up and eliminate the various populations they hated, the camps might not be all that historical. Given the size of the country and large number of isolated areas, it's possible...

I get it. But you need someway of making sure people are at least roughly on the same page. I've made pitches before where I thought I was crystal clear about the type of game I was going to run and still had people who were absolutely not a good fit or outright didn't want that kind of game.

When running sandboxes I'll have some local stuff semi-prepped, say within a day's travel of the PCs' current location. I'll have generated points of interest for another day or two outside of that. And I'll have a couple of locations roughly prepped in the wider world. When it comes to more...

Yep. They've been clear about that for awhile now. The controversial death might also be altered. Not sure, but it's possible. There's not a lot I'd want them to change of the major beats, so here's to hoping they didn't go wild.

Neil deGrasse Tyson did a StarTalk on it. Likely several more by now. He cautioned against people replacing the “god of the gaps” with the “aliens of the gaps.” That is don’t assume aliens just because we don’t know. We don’t know. That’s the point. When we get more evidence, we’ll know more and...

That's in my infinitely-long TBR pile. It does sound fantastic. Can't wait to finally read it. For the pirate angle, there's always Pirate Borg. It's a perfect resource for all things pirate, but it's decidedly Golden Age of Piracy and the Caribbean. Still, useful book to have. There's also...

I’m not big on FR, but this is a great book. I do love Al-Qadim and Maztica though. Set in the FR but not core. Great stuff if a bit…problematic in places.

Peacemaker brought GI Robot with him, right? Right? Guess I'll have to catch up on Peacemaker along with Creature Commandos.

It's fairly easy to get a game session to feel like a story by using scenes, which is why so many games call out running games that way. You don't need to plot things out, only throw opposition in the PCs' way.