Can we close the whole poster ranking system and just agree that Séadna is the best poster in this imaginary establishment? Head over to the “Issues with the forum” thread and you’ll see what I mean.
As a kid I had Masters of the Universe, Thundercats and of course Thundarr the Barbarian on the TV growing up. I was primed from an early age to love SF/fantasy cross-genre stuff.
Playing Borderlands 3, every time I draw up the star map I have the urge to stat up a Traveller sector based on it. And this is why I will never be an “ex-gamer” — no matter how long I’ve been away from the dice... it’s there. Like a gaping wound.
Traveller has to feel pulpy, in the "men's adventure" sense of the word. Star Wars, Firefly, Borderlands and even The Expanse all drink form the same sources; Westerns, Republic serials, early-to-mid C20 SF (which in turn drank from Spengler, Toynbee and other historians who believed in cycles of civilization of barbarism).
Ten of us will strike at you like thunder
A hundred of us will strike at your hearts
A thousand of us will strike and obliterate you
Ten thousand of us will strike you like the wrath of Heaven!
The days grow warmer and longer; the sun rises earlier and sets later. The cicadas sing from the tree-tops and the mosquitos attack with renewed vigor. We break out the sunscreen and the repellent. We call it spring, after a colonial affetation, but there can be no mistake -- summer is here.
I should really run ACKS. I love D&D5 but my DMing heart still belongs to the OSR. (Please do not introduce Mythras or Savage Worlds into this conundrum.)
TIL the Dragonlance fans in my old gaming group still get mad when I suggest the Dragonlance novels are less than stellar. (To wit: we're all late 30s, early 40s)
The thing about not gaming is that it’s sort of a self-reinforcing state, isn’t it? The longer it’s been the more difficult it becomes to pierce the non-gaming bubble. At least as a GM.
Savage Rifts still too crunchy. Wish I could like Fate or something similarly abstract because that seems like the best strategy to decrunchify without losing the fun bits.
Reading The Anubis Gates for the first time (fuck, it's good) and watching Dark (first seasons, also really good, if confusing at times) so yeah, on a sinister time travel mood. How to gamify this?
People complaining about the GoT finale: WTF were you expecting? That a series infamous for narrative turnabouts would deliver a nice and tidy finale that would make everyone happy? It was rushed, indeed (and I still can’t fathom why) but it was an interesting conclusion and true to many of the themes explored throughout the series. Spoilers fair game in comments.
Fucking impossible to order a gin & tonic in town these days. They come in huge goblets with a bunch of nonsensical garnishes. I hope these people never “discover” the Tom Collins.