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My guess is that we will not be able to avoid hearing about this movie over the next year.

Sure, but it is still weighed down by all the multiverse nonsense. I would have rather seen a clean start like FF.

I wish they had just given the Averngersverse a rest and turned back to the X-Men.

There is a Thor one as well.

We had the session 0 for my Monday night group tonight. We landed on a setting where the PCs will be part of a "second wave" of colonists to the New World (specifically landing in a desolate Roanoke analog as a spur to adventure). The Old World is a roughly Europe where the Western Roman Empire...

I have seen the term "opinionated design" before, too, and it is surprisingly difficult to find a concise definition of the term. It looks like it comes from the world of software development, and basically mean "constraints." But if anyone has a good blog post, substack, whatever digging into...

The War Machine mass combat system from BECMI/Rules Cyclopedia can be used with any D&D adjacent game, including Shadowdark. It is a really great abstract system with just enough depth to make choices feel important with getting bogged down in minutia.

It's possible that the "fun" part of development is over and he's done. And it seems reasonable that his "consultant" status is for the Exodus TTRPG. One asssumes it will get revisions and maybe tie in stuff when the video game releases.

I will get to the 2nd season of Arcane eventually, but IMO the first season is perfect as is.

Yup! I watched it just after watching Fextralife's video on lone wolf builds.

I decided to go with DOS2 mostly because while researching I discovered that there is a "lone wolf" perk that let's you play it with a single protagonist. I like party based CRPGs, but I LOVE single protagonist ones (like Fallout 1 and 2). So I am diving in and ready to cheese my way to...

The problem with that is that XP does not come from recognition. A party could be a group of 1st level unknowns, then head off to the dungeon and hit 5th level before moving on to a totally different town. Their "deeds" are known only to them.

So my brother just bought me Pillars 2: Headfirst so I am down to deciding between D: OS 2 or Deadfire. Does anyone have any compelling arguments for either game? Note: I have not completed either D:OS1 or Pillars 1.

It is interesting that he is "only" a consultant. I wonder what he will be doing "full time" or if he is semi-retired.

I hate it when games, movies, comics or even just memes turn truly evil things into cutesy figures or heroes. No, Cthulhu would not save Christmas.