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For shows, The Last of Us is fantastic! My favourite board game movie is Clue. I thought DnDHaT was good fun and captured the spirit of the game well.

That series is the definition of the novel as popcorn entertainment. I grabbed the first one on a whim, and my immediate reaction was that it was kind of dumb and obvious...and then I kept compulsively turning pages. So what does that say about me? Now I am impatiently waiting for book 8 to...

The voice is still Sam; it’s not a stand in. He’s modulated it a bit, for sure. The Nott voice was originally meant to work comedically, so much so that if you look back at the first game of C1 the others laugh as soon as he speaks. This show is going for a more serious tone, so I assume that’s...

I sort of go halfways on equipment. Characters have what’s in their pack, but I basically trust them. And I can’t be arsed to count number of arrows, torches, rations unless it’s a scenario where that’s a dramatic issue. And then I just establish the nature of the crisis narratively: “after days...

I love this book. There are tons of adventures that I can nab for my own campaign. They are basic enough to be easy to transplant and graft the story into ours. I am not currently playing a FR campaign, and I still think this is great value.

There was some discussion of the "frontier" concept that was famously Roddenberry's initial pitch for the series, "wagon train to the stars." I'd like to see the new film, if it happens, go back to that concept and focus on an adventure of discovery rather than conflict between the established...

Hmmm...ranking Star Trek films (original cast): II IV VI III I (by some distance) VI Star Trek I was incredibly underhwhelming when I saw it in theatres and I mostly remember struggling to stay awake, though I have some fond memories because my grandfather took me. II and IV are very close for...

Instead of giving out specific skill abilities, I encourage players to come up with creative uses in particular situations, and I set a corresponding DC. Example: "I would like to flip over top of bad guy and kick him in the back of the head." "Sure, you're proficient in acrobatics so that's...

I really liked it. The backstories are quite a lot more developed and in some ways substantially different from the campaign, but that's fine; this is its own thing. The tone is a lot more serious and epic, but that's to be expected in this medium. One thing that I'm unsure about is that all...

Why does almost every team story feature members with different skill sets? Because it makes the story more fun.

Painted up the D&L Minotaur and Ettin from the stretch rewards:

Leaving the central story unfinished between seasons is especially irrtating to me in the age of streaming. Sometimes it has been so long since the last season that I've forgotten where we were, or lost interest altogether. It was a bit more viable in the era of network TV when you only had to...

I agree - I like that seasons have a complete story, even as they leave threads to picked up in the future. Fast Horses is a great example of how to do it, IMO. That said, I did think season 1 of this show gave us a fairly complete arc, in that by the end we know the kids are in charge with...

Yeah, plus as soon as you fire that weapon the Death Star will catastrophically implode while being be hurled in the opposite direction.

A year or so ago he speculated about purchasing WotC because he didn't like that the foreword to the 50th anniversary book acknowledges that some of the original publications reprinted therein are racist, sexist, etc. But yeah, it just seemed like more attention-seeking behaviour. He didn't...

Usually it goes without saying that your choices are what your character would do, so if you have to say it, there's a good chance that you know your choice is going to be objectionable. I just veto choices that are likely to cause strife. I don't bother coming up with a story justification, I...

The dire fate of the earth seems pretty obvious here. I'm more interested in what would happen to the sun in that scenario. If all of its radiating energy was focus down to a narrow beam pointing in one direction, wouldn't that push it in the opposite direction?

I'm on reading week and finished the first draft of my Term 1 reports, so I'm powering through books now. Next up is the first Hunger Games prequel. I enjoyed the original trilogy, particularly the first book, and don't begrudge it the host of lesser imitators that followed. That said, I'm...

I wanted something short after Anathem, so I grabbed Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which won the Booker last year. It’s gorgeous, but is it a novel? Or a prose poem? There’s virtually no plot, but rather a paen to earth from the perspective of six astronauts as they complete one day (sixteen...