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    Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

    I'm wondering when exactly this is set. It may actually be pre-Solo, in which case we won't see Qi'ra. (Also unlikely to be voiced by Emilia Clarke, unfortunately; the animated shows have never had the OG voice actors - Katie Sackhoff was the only one to go the other way.) I liked it initially...
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    D&D General Actual Play: Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set

    It's been a while since I taught a new player how to play D&D. This set's booklets seem to do a good job teaching a new DM how to run the game, but unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't seem to provide much guidance on how a new DM can teach new players about the rules and such. When you guys run...
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    D&D General Actual Play: Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set

    OK, so the adventure includes not one but two abandoned wagon encounters. There's the one that Pral and his gang looted on the wilderness trail, and there's the one that Oleira is expecting that's running late because its driver got eaten by a stowaway ooze. The latter has some quirks. I'm...
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    D&D General Actual Play: Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set

    Sounds a lot like the start to Lost Mine of Phandelver!
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    D&D General Actual Play: Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set

    So the Quick-Start Guide suggests that new DMs begin with the Wilderness booklet. That booklet suggests they start with the Trail region. The first bit of read-aloud text indicates that the PCs are traveling on "a well-kept trail east of the Keep on the Borderlands". There's no attempt to...
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    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    Fallout 4 is still the only Fallout game I've played. I've played through it three times - Minutemen, Railroad, and BoS. Don't think I could ever side with the Institute. I've tried and failed to play it without engaging with the settlement mini-game. Building settlements is so much fun - and...
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    Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord

    This looks fantastic! I love that Star Wars found an animation style that works for them and have stuck with it. I also feel that animation is where Star Wars truly shines. This looks like it will be about Mail finding himself a new Jedi survivor apprentice (the Twi’lek). I wonder if we will...
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    D&D General Actual Play: Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set

    I don’t know what each of them will pick. I like that the set gives the players a choice of two subclasses at 3rd level (e.g. assassin or thief for the rogue).
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    D&D General Actual Play: Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set

    I'll be running this for my daughters and their friends on Monday (Auckland Anniversary holiday).
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    D&D General [Name Change]Red Hand of Doom Conversions

    I've been toying with doing a RHoD conversion. I ran it once in 3.5e. It was a tough but fun adventure. One thing I'd been toying with was swapping out the goblinoid army and the dragonspawn and mixing in elements of both DragonLance and Tyranny of Dragons, so the main invading army would be...
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    Must be geoblocked cos I can’t see it on YouTube. Just trailers and reviews.
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    I just watched a video clip from this yesterday! So hilarious.
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    Spoilers Star Trek Academy [spoiler thread]

    The Burn was an event that caused most of the galaxy’s dilithium to suddenly go inert, which in turn caused all active warp cores to explode. Lots of people died, and the galaxy collapsed back into a sort of Dark Ages since warp travel became so rare. By the time Discovery shows up, even Earth...
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    You're talking about Solo here right? The movie where everyone except Han, Chewie, and Lando is new to the Star Wars universe? (Oh, and Maul at the very end, but that hardly counts.) I quite liked Enfys Nest. Would be cool to see her and her proto-rebels again.
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    Star Wars prequel questions

    Exactly. Instead, they made him the butt of Poe's jokes.
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