Recent content by RangerWickett

My name's Ryan Nock.

The Nock family, hm?

Are your players the sort to let themselves be spooked by a haunted mountaintop, or was it business as usual for them?

The lion's share of the credit for the giant riders of the apocalypse is owed to Cartoon Network and Brendon Small.

Well, I don't want to bring down your mood, but we have creeping fascism taking hold. Then again, I went to one of the huge protests this past Saturday, so that was heartening. If you're talking about my personal life, though, I'm good. My wife and I went to Italy in April. I've written a...

So glad to hear from you again! I hope life outside of gaming is going well.

I am intrigued by the neo-romantic typo for necromantic. This write-up is making me wish I'd done more with Goodson.

You could have the article be ghost-written by the PC's rival, and published in a different paper. Then the PCs can investigate, figure out who was behind it, and get the guy fired for a breach of journalistic ethics. You could have competing newspapers pushing different versions of the events...

Yeah, high level combats get exhausting. I'm not sure how I'd handle it differently if I wrote it today. I mean, you want the climax to involve some big battles, given the campaign's name, but I think I overdid it. Lord of the Rings didn't have the Battle of Pelennor Fields last multiple days...

Man, be careful with the yellow journalism. Or at least have some other paper report on them more favorably? I ran an Eberron game set in Sharn where the session recaps were written by a journalist who had decided to turn the PCs into villains by blaming everything on them. Sadly the campaign...

I mean, parasocial or not, I would be okay seeing Mark Zuckerberg get eaten by an alien. The showrunner is excellent. I have no concerns other than the fact that I don't currently have access to the channel that this will be on.

In a recent campaign I GMed, I had an NPC point out to the PCs that, like, nobody has mapped the planes. And since you get to these places through portals and dimension hopping, there isn't a consistent passage that you can chart out. Like, for as much confidence as a wizard might say, "Oh...

PF has been around for, what, 15 years now? How much metaplot has happened in the real world. Various regional revolutions and a few wars that led to the collapse of regimes, a few major companies rising and falling (akin to gods being created or dying), and the pandemic, and numerous countries...