Recent content by Clint_L

It's one of my favourite films of the 70s, which is saying something, and the grit is what makes it great! A lot of people probably do tend to focus more on 80s Rocky. Which is a whole different tone.

It seems like you have an answer from Gygax himself, and no good reason to doubt his word. He and his friends were nerdy types, and when he came of age those folks were mostly listening to jazz and folk. Country and rock were lowbrow music. But he doesn’t seem to have been that into music.

We just watched the first episode and really liked it, but at the end my son commented that it felt like a Twilight Zone episode. Which left us wondering the same as most of you, it seems: how do you turn this premise into a full series? I’m interested in finding out.

With no subtitles. Put the work in!

Your description of this subclass is exactly why I have strong reservations about it. I do not want players assuming that their character is the party leader/battle captain because of their chosen class/sub-class. I worry it'll lead to players trying to tell others how to play.

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.