Recent content by timbannock

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that sequence. But I also can't deny it was expensive as heck and wasn't the necessary means of moving the plot in the way that it did. A different scene with Themberchaud talking with them in this film would have been fine and probably a 10th of the price...

Repeating what others have said, but maybe with my own spin... Absolutely brutal editing. Whatever words the author things are brilliant, the editor should be ready to excise in the name of brevity and clarity. Ample cross-referencing: use page numbers often, even if it's ugly. But if you get a...

Yeah, all of that. The D&D movie was a victim of timing and over-budgeting. Strip out stuff like the Themberchaud sequence and you still get a dragon in the story in a much less expensive way (the one strafing the battlefield in the flashback). Strip out the many non-critical CGI inserts and you...

Yeah, could be something like the typical nepotism of Hollywood writing is at play: Levy and/or his closest writer-buds just aren't the right people for the project, but because they want to work, they'd rather keep making half-hearted swings at it rather than get the Right Person For The JobTM...

Given the apparent takeaways from Honor Among Thieves, I suspect they would do well to be pretty grounded, as well, if they are going with live action. But in the current market of "MOAR EPIC!!!" I bet that would create an ever more difficult hurdle in that they have to come up with a hook that...

I have just stumbled into the rare opportunity of running a campaign length game for a party of mostly new-to-TTRPG players through Curse of Strahd... But I'm deathly sick of 5E, and they don't really care about system, so I'm between Shadowdark and Nimble. Two very different experiences, in...

For powers, you kind of just need to decide on templates that combine XdX damage + [insert list of conditions]. The Xs in XdX grow based on tiers of some kind, and the [list of conditions] changes based on the same thing. Like you shouldn't have a level 1 character doling out multiple d10s of...

Similar but different from DIE (comic+RPG).

I only know of the TMNT board game.

Yeah, it's looking like exactly what I want/need. I picked up the Encyclopedia Magica 2E books a while back as a source of treasure for my games because there's such a mixed bag of items, but I think I'll easily be able to replace them with this book. Same thing happened where I replaced...

Yeah, the No Art edition is what sold me on it. Immediately after reading, I tracked down a print copy right from the source and gave them all my money.* *Not all my money, but you know what I mean. Buying from the source is nice for the creators.

It becomes a lot easier if you move into a coffin-sized apartment in LA. I had to dump 95% of my collection. That said, I'd still organize it the same way whether it's the 30-40 books I have now or the many hundreds I used to own: By game Core rules on the right (as I'm right-handed) Rules...

It seems to very much want to exist in the space of making 5E even more of a tactical combat game while also making it way, way simpler. For my money, that's exactly what I'd want out of a game revisiting the "vibes" of 4E, because I just don't have the willpower to slog through even more...

Shadowdark. Admittedly, I "house-rule" it with Errant, replacing the torch-timer with event dice, and handling a lot of out-of-the-dungeon stuff with Errant. It's my favorite because... It's laser-focused on making dungeon crawling fast and fun, and that's what I want out of a D&D-like game...

I would think the below statement from the press release suggests they won't keep the other books in print, but I don't know what that would mean for the SRD. Maybe it'd be fine, but they could also change it to be the SRD for the version of the game they keep in print, since doing otherwise...