I suppose you never get past the rip off stage (No, I'll never get over Macho Grande).

But, for me, there was a point it felt like it became its own thing rather than me pulling disparate elements of stories that I like and putting them in a blender.

My first attempt at a more serious science fiction story involved a Venom like alien symbiote, and blue and red shirts to indicate rank among alien military members. It has since improved

Writing for my own science fiction universe.

A lot of the concepts and the outline of the whole book are coming together in weird, random ways, and I'm finally having the chance to write it down. It is exciting to take a lot of things that I have learned and put it all together.

Also, my eldest daughter just turned 6 and got her first bucket of Legos. Already excited to build things with her.

I'm in the same boat as Invid.

I just don't feel the energy or the time to go see a movie. I haven't been since the Hobbit: Bo5A came out.

Question: do I need to have seen Mad Max before seeing this one?

Sweet! Such a fascinating concept. I love tabletop games in concept, but mostly because I really want to participate in the elaborate model and world building. There are many Kickstarter projects that I would enjoy supporting due the options that are presented in the model making.

However, this tablet concept, in my opinion, allows for so much more versatility that I could really get behind that concept.

I hope it works out.

That's incredible work, Eddie.

Thank you for sharing!

Well, I was never a fan of their water but I won't be buying any.

I keep hearing about it on the news. It's kind of scary.

I think it would be fun to have different voices for NPCs, and take a bit of the strain off the GM.

And, this whole discussion reminded me of a Frasier episode. It happens to be up on YouTube.

Great news!!!

I agree, and concede the point. But, you and I (and others here) know what an RPG is. Not everyone does.

Though, that's technically how they started it out, as mocking the DM as basically taking a D&D campaign and adding in futuristic sounding things, such as laser swords and the like.

I'll have to listen to the podcast, but I think its more accurate than you give them credit for.

I was excited too...for a minute.

Oh well, still my favorite Indy film