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BLAM! is execution via boltpistol for heresy. It's not a niche IP per se, but the Dawn of War franchise was fairly small, in a genre that these days is not booming with players. As for the Battle Royale thing, Take Two says they're just watching the situation and finding it interesting...

Nothing wrong with that; especially in well-constructed worlds, it's easy to fit in details that flow naturally from the established fiction, letting the difference between pre-built and GM-made become nigh-invisible. As someone who once ran a module and tried to spin a world out from it when...

I was talking about this the other day with a fellow DM - What's your strategy for making up a world and presenting it to your players? He has an unusual blend of hard-and-fast truths and wide latitude. It may be because he heavily railroads, but he can say exactly what the internal politics...

I think it was Burnie Burns who gave this advice on an old Rooster Teeth Podcast; put the thing in a drawer and walk away for a while. Might be a week, might be a month, might be six. When you come back to it, you read it with fresh eyes and see what mistakes you made trying to get where you're...

This. So long as it all looks nice, I can watch a pair of dudes have a fistfight or Team RWBY fly around and fight a dozen monsters.

Thank you, thread, for reminding me to change up my background. Now it's art based on Firewatch. I do the same thing. Nothing warms me up on a January morning like seeing a roaring fire and feeling the fan exhaust with my fingers.

This. For example, Robb Stark (who I guess didn't get a POV or Zhukov forgot him) seemed to have a big storyline ahead of him as the Stark who survives and outdoes his father, becoming King in the North and rescuing his sisters; he was the pivot point for the war in the south, while Jon had the...

I am amazed at how successful this thing is. I wonder how many sales are directly from streamers who wanted to showcase how many flaws there are in it. No doubt the people behind Dead by Daylight are annoyed to realise that they were a license away from having to put in a quarter of the work and...

Ron1n said "survival/Battle Royale" genres, and given how one is an outcropping of the other it makes sense to still lump them together.

The problem with a 'well-budgeted studio' doing it is the lack of time. DayZ came out in 2013, and that's the first big one in the genre I can think of. Greene has been involved with at least 3 different BR games in the past couple of years (the original H1Z1 mod, the standalone in development...

The wording (from the book Samwell was reading) was that the Targaryens used to decorate their weapons with dragonglass, without knowing what the First Men used it for. Adoption of cultural aesthetic, not conscious empowerment of blades. Valyrian steel continues to have nothing to do with...

Which ended up costing them a fair amount of market value when that truth was acknowledged. Nintendo stock spiked up when Pokemon Go came out, but after a couple weeks Nintendo came out and said it won't directly profit from the game; they have 32% of The Pokemon Company, which is the one that...

Interesting that the list mention Long War 2 a couple of times, but never includes that mod itself. Too popular to be worth it's own listing, or the confines of 8 items strike again?

It definitely deserved to be on the list. But if they're looking for Top 8 subjects, pull out Escapist Weekly articles and give us a list of some of the old greats.

We'll start our own petition. With online blackjack and camgirls!