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World of Tanks. I am driving a Sherman. They are driving a pair of Tigers and a King Tiger. I killed them all. Game awards me with a special medal for tankers who show that even the puniest tanks can slay giants. Can you remember the circumstances? That sounds like an legitimately badass piece of t...

EDIT: Thinking about it, I think I agree with your earlier point, K: In a perfect world we'd both get our way. Ideally every NPC in every book is quirky and unusual and interesting, and also their maths works and they're able to do their schtick effectively. I'm simply tired of having to stat up orc...

This may have been posted already; if so, apologies.

It's in the First Great Exodus, after "What Price Perimeter?"

It's not quite a tautology, because Aliens. But the principle holds. Also, it's past my bedtime and I just finished watching Strange Days so I'm exhausted and sloppy with my language use. I should go to bed.

Fuck you, Saw, indeed. But the rules are a little different for horror movies, as you point out. (At least for deliberately-bad horror movies; I can't imagine a sequel to something like Jacob's Ladder.) The issue I'm complaining about isn't that direct sequels are automatically bad. Some of them can...

No worries. Real life comes first. We've all had work stress by the sounds of it.

Open the grave. It's a clue and we need clues.

That's awesome, thanks for posting it. Now this leaves me with the slightly awkward question of how a Russian-speaking wolf living with a bunch of Latin speakers in the Ukraine asked for his name to be spelled with a "The". Ah well. We'll call it an error from when our campaign was transla...

You rather shot your argument in the face by bringing up Aliens. I remind you: that movie is already a sequel. Alien is one of, if not the best haunted house movies. Aliens, by contrast, is one of, if not the best adventure movie. Alien dropped the mic on haunted house movies, and the way they made...

Of course the question becomes will people figure this out? It's a bug in human nature: we like hearing people tell us things that we wish were true but know aren't. Humans are by nature drawn to snake oil salesmen of all description, whether those snake oil salesmen be genuine fraudsters or simply...

I suggest the priest. If Sir Mansley is the sort who calls his horse a name with the word "God" in it, then he might get on better with other religious sorts than with beer-swilling tavern types.

I would argue that Shadowrun, at least in its archetypal form, is an example of a stealth game. You cannot win a standup fight because the megacorp can and will bring in assets that will crush you, so you need to rely on speed and secrecy; and if all goes wrong then violence becomes merely a method ...

K wrote:Diablo II had hardcore mode where you only ever had one life and lost your character if you died even once.

I saved two strangers from situations where they were mobbed and about to lose their character. It made me feel like a proper hero.

That is legitimately badass.

Creating a memorable character with an interesting concept is the work I'd like to offload to an adventure. Stat blocks are just grunt work that anyone can produce. Interestingly, I see it exactly the other way around. Creating stat blocks is grunt work and I hate grunt work. It's what I'd like to ...

Michael Bay is the cinematic devil. People sell their soul to him in exchange for filthy lucre. The sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was announced two days after it opened, and William Fichtner has claimed during an interview that he was signed for a trilogy. Goddammit, movie industry. I under...

Ancient History wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translatio_imperii

That's awesome. Thanks for that link.

Creating a memorable character with an interesting concept is the work I'd like to offload to an adventure. Stat blocks are just grunt work that anyone can produce. Interestingly, I see it exactly the other way around. Creating stat blocks is grunt work and I hate grunt work. It's what I'd like to ...

The Unnamed Covenant. 26 March 1220. Spring. (Morning)

The Wolf grows deep in its throat, a deeply atavistic warning. "Lupo? I don't know what that means but I dislike sound of it. If this was not council chamber I would rip out your throat.

"I agree to second draft."

Just commenting on the ones I can speak on with authority: 3. The LHC is the largest circular accelerator in the world, because the French are metal as fuck when it comes to physics. It can get particles up to an energy of 14,000 GeV (which is crazy high for particles) which works out as 2.2x10^-6 j...

I've been told that the 4e Warlock's marking was quite fun. I have no personal evidence to support this assertion in any way, though.

The Unnamed Covenant. 26 March 1220. Spring. (Morning)

The Wolf looks up blankly, then tilts its head to try to make sense of this strange term. "Wolves don't live in houses. Did your mother drop you on your head as child?"

Management job? Congrats, I must have missed the announcement. Work's been sucking me in too; I've got a really interesting project which is now almost over but which has been dominating my energy for the past few weeks. Still. Real life comes first for everybody, and gaming comes a very distant sec...

I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally would not play a game in which the GM needed to go off and run a minigame for one player whenever the party rested. That's bullshit above and beyond the call of bullshit. Yeah, that's really the problem with the overall concept. Maybe just a survival ...

I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally would not play a game in which the GM needed to go off and run a minigame for one player whenever the party rested. That's bullshit above and beyond the call of bullshit.