One of my magic items was published in this book as part of their open call! It was cool to get a small paycheck from White Wolf. :-)

The weighted companion cube level in Portal or “we don’t go to Ravenholm anymore…” from Half-Life 2 come to mind.

Cosmic Patrol by Catalyst Game Labs.

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Disregarding Tim’s decades of important investigative reporting here in NS to accuse him of being “ignorant of reality” because he was born in the USA is … certainly a take.

A good quick-start can accomplish a similar purpose, but will the person buying the core book be aware of the quick-start and have access to it? I think a lot of established TTRPG players remember some of the bad starter sets of the past, which makes them reticent to “waste” money on it.

Approximately 10 years ago Fantasy Flight Games starting splitting the rules manuals for their complex board games into two books: a “learn how to play” book and a reference book for looking up during a game. I thought that was very clever.

I commissioned an artist friend to paint a picture containing all of my spouses’ cats from the last 30 years in a cat family photo.

Yeah, don’t chase for clout in someone else’s grief.

I’ve seen it at the Bayers Lake Indigo fairly recently :-)

Yeah. Taschen has made some amazing replicas using photography and a resilient facsimile of the 60s paper stock, but those are very expensive books.

Or just start manually stapling every issue of DIE and Power Fantasy. I’m sure the printer would love the help.

*Mandalorian theme music intensifies*

I just picked up the Reborn master set and the first two Red Rains boxes, looking forward to getting this at retail!

All hail Woody.

I enjoy Venom as a character, but I’m always happy to read a story where Peter is wearing the black suit.

Looking back, how do you feel about Soul of the Hunter? I know it was created in response to people who didn’t “get” KLH, but I really enjoyed the reverse Christmas Carol premise … and the Kraven zombie of course :-)

The hero we need.

Cool! Since Capcom seems hellbent on never re-releasing the NES version, this might be as close as we get on Switch. (I wouldn’t hate a re-release of Rearmed though)

Can’t carry on Play-Doh?

Looks like this is a meme they are trying to ride the coattails of. The original ones had a woman and said “come to the nail salon” or hair salon. Encouraging stalking is never great, but it just accentuates it when it’s a dude.

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I remember grocery shopping at the Queen St Sobeys at 2 AM after finishing homework.

I’ve really enjoyed all of those lines. :-) I’ve only played the Delves in Kinfire so far, but hope to try the other games someday!

Genuinely, as someone who plays several live service games I always have a checklist that's like
- Ask yourself if you're having fun
- Never have a "forever game", play or read or do other stuff alongside it
- Don't set paid subs to auto-renew
- Think about what you want, not what the game wants

A former classmate recently told my partner that so long as they could buy their kids favourite brand of mac and cheese at the supermarket for a good price, they didn’t care what else happened in the world. :-/

That’s awful! Hopefully everyone recovers.

Glenn Greenberg discussed the process of creating Peter Parker: Spider-Man #75 years ago, and how he felt Bob Harras misunderstood Norman and Peter’s relationship: www.benreillytribute.x10host.com/LifeofReilly...

… sure, but under the same logic, the company wouldn’t admit to union busting either.