It's in the label: escapist entertainment is entertainment that lets you escape.
Escapism is entertainment that takes you away from concerns, issues, troubles, etc. you face in real life - it lets you vicariously experience an alternate environment where you get to not have to think about your...
I'll see your American state driving distances and raise you Canadian (non-Maritime) province driving distances! (Plus, we even have another continental time zone.)
The more RPG forums the better, I think. Even if I might not totally get along with everyone who posts on a particular forum, any public discussion of games I like increases the chances of someone else discovering them and buying them so increases the chance of more gaming material for me!:grin...
It does, thanks. And yeah, most of my gaming nowadays is online chatting through Discord. We've found a dice roller app that's easy to integrate but working with cards has proven much more challenging. Each using our own decks sounds like a reasonable option, so that's good.
Thanks! I went with beginning character rules to keep it simple, since Vimes changes so much over the books (he starts out a mostly-non-functioning alcoholic doing essentially busywork, and grows to become a world-renowned wealthy noble who is so capable and respected that the Assassin's Guild...
Okay, let's get one in.
I've chosen Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Vimes is almost an archetypical jaded cop, except that he's not jaded - he's bitter and cynical and distrusts everyone but he still believes in justice.
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Here he is in Blade Runner:
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Apparently they are sticking with 2d20 but "streamlined" (but also backwards-compatible so not too "streamlined" or not too mechanically backwards-compatible). I hope the streamlining includes toning down the metacurrency.
The announcement says playable non-Federation species in the core...
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