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Don't worry, by the time it makes it back from Phoenix it will be Sunday.....

Postal worker "hold my beer".

Absolutely. It was as if someone decided to just put their rpg session on the screen. When it was made there were very few fantasy movies out there.

Just watched Hawk the Slayer. Brought back memories.

I don't know. I have had issues in the past with deliveries to my house. USPS, UPS, FedEx and so on. My neighborhood also started to see mail disappear and packages get stolen after delivery. So I made a small change. I got a post office box at a nearby UPS store that I have pretty much everything except the unstoppable junk mail delivered to. Since I did that I have had pretty much no issues at all. At the most I have had things take a little longer, but I have been getting everything, and in undamaged condition. In the last few years with stores reducing their on hand stock to nearly nothing I want I have been ordering more than ever before. It may not be a direct correlation, but cutting out the extra "to the house" step of delivery seems to have gotten rid of 99% of my issues.

Just looked. AC#12. And he does have a hood and no forehead sigil. Good memory on the hood though.

"The ball" looks like an angled side view of Ankylosaur's head. First ed version. I haven't found anything like the moon forehead guy...

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Well to be fair, the D&D cleric was developed/designed when it was the only show in town. It fulfilled a character ability need while staying vague and non-specific on any religious details. They may have added supplements to fill out choices like Dieties and Demigods. But in the original build there were no specifics. For me the class/level type game system hasn't aged well. But if played as intended within the setting intended, they do the job and can make a fun game.

The best novel(s) I have ever read concerning a paladin was The Deed of Paksenarrion. It really portrayed the old D&D Paladin concept that most players never came close to.

Well to actually answer the question. I tend to prefer fantasy games where the PCs are the heroes fulfilling a quest. The extremely rare virtually non-existent the PCs are good guy heroes that save the village/town/kingdom/what have you. The "we wander around aimlessly kill'in things and a'stealing their stuff" sandbox games are too boring to play as a player or GM. A good quest where the PCs slowly discover more and more concerning the overall plot as they resolve each session/arc. I have shifted to awarding XP a little different than RAW. In addition to the regular session XP, I also award directed XP for the successful use of an ability/skill. A player or party can also receive Perks or Disadvantages. Rewards beyond "Ugg..me kill'em, give me stuff".

Oh no You can't do that. Smurfs, Smurfett, HR, public outrage and all that. Nope... don't do the smurf thing

Thank you n nI know what I am watching tonight.

I just ordered the movies. I couldn't find them on any stream I have. I did find an old three book series, not on audible dag nabbit.

Totally agree about McGavin. I remember seeing the TV movies. But it was a long time ago.

I really hate using a mobile. My dissertation on the topic said it posted. Really it did. But no. Nothing.

I guess I think of everything I post about gaming as being driven by "preferences in play environment and style". But even I spend a lot of time looking through history books/sites, reading up on reality and seeing what I can use in game. I still haven't found that perfect village/town yet so I am in the process of breaking out and relearning Campaign Cartographer. It has been literally years since I used it, but you can make some amazing things with it. Even I wasn't too shabby with it. I don't remember exactly where, it may have been on this board or another, and I just don't remember the details. But it involved finding a good usable map of a small to mid-sized fortified village/town. The long and short was I was an idiot because to such thing ever existed in all of history because it was too resource intensive for early village/towns. Stone walls were just too expensive until the advent of large kingdoms. And he ignored the idea of palisades or earthworks. It was as bad as the idiot on the Modiphious boards that aggressively insists that no one had ever successfully made deck plans for Star Trek ship and stations and people should just quite asking about them. I look at my shelf of them and my hard drive with 39 folders of Star Trek detailed deck plans. I have found that in any game from Golden Age of piracy to scifi a printed deckplan (I prefer 11"x17" too small for mini's but large enough to see) really explodes player participation and immersion whether they are trying to cut out a Brigantine to boarding a Akira class starship. For players just seeing the layout allows them to come up with cool things for their PCs to do. But I am getting away from the thread. I really like using a map for the PC's base city/town/village because it helps build player buy in and a sense of ownership. It becomes "their town" instead of just somewhere they are storing their stuff. Building up named and recurring NPC's is also part of it. As I mentioned I am still looking for a "usable town/village map" by which I mean usable for me. No labels and with enough fortifications to be plausible for a frontier where threats (monsters/raiders) are not unknown if not frequent. Maybe palisades, earthworks, maybe some rougher stonework. Perhaps blockhouses such as was used in Colonial America which were borrowed from blockhouse style defenses from eastern Europe (?? I think?). Anyway, I'm still looking and think I will pretty much need to make my own.

Pretty much the same. There may be knowledge of legendary distant cities, but locally they are small enough that individual PC heroes can have an actual impact.

Kolchak, I loved that show when it was on TV. The 2005 hot mess was bad. Hollywood didn't seem to understand that the original series was only able to be what it was because Kolchak could never actually get any real proof. You just can't duplicate 1970's tech issues in the 2000's not to mention the painful research. I'd love to see the franchise be resurrected as a 70 or 80's period piece, but that will never happen.

I didn't really watch Lost so I can't say either way. But so far, and one episode is not enough to know much, the show seems to be about telling an adventure story rather than preaching an agenda so I am happy.

Watched episode 1 of the new "La Brea". Not a bad first episode, looks like just a scifi adventure show telling a story. Maybe it will be good?

No need for invented fantasy when we have real horror unleashed.

But Netflix is running into issues with flattening. Which is why they started framing everything from a subscription angle instead of income angle. Their US subscriber base is falling and they are padding their numbers by saying that the total number of subscribers is up, which is true but misleading. A US subscription is $14 (or is it $15 now) but the same level of subscription in India is 75 cents. A million US subscriptions is $14 million. A million in India is $750,000. I have been getting ready to cancel mine because of Bollywood. I hate musicals of any kind and Bollywood is nothing but. And for some reason even though I don't watch them my feed has been over run with Bollywood. Everything I login that idiotic auto play trailer feature starts banging out that hideous musical crap. It sets my teeth on edge and the new releases seem to be all Bollywood. Ack! Matt I hate you. I just snorted my soda.....

--snip-- I really REALLY hope they can keep the feel and look of both. New film/TV technologies should allow them to greatly improve what we see on screen. But I really hope that we will get a wider view of the Centari and Narn. I also really look forward to their ships. The CGI they used was cutting edge a visually incredible when it came out. But compared to what you can see now it can almost be painful to watch. I can't wait to see fleet battles with modern effects.

There wasn't any deal. Everyone I knew that saw the show just accepted it as the show. The only time I can remember anything is recently with the advent of social media with people claiming "they remember" and it is always a routine "toxic male story" or some such. But I can't remember ever seeing anything. Like Worf and Dax. Fans of the show thought it was cool. Non-fans didn't watch any way.