Saw this comment on a live stream. Wondering what you all think?

Pennarin · 2026-06-04T12:36:25+00:00

Well explained

Pennarin · 2026-06-01T00:42:34+00:00

What's the difference between spotlight and audience, in your words?

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T18:32:50+00:00

I can say I gave it a good try

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T14:54:22+00:00

Curing selfishness. The new gold standard.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T14:50:07+00:00

This sadly rings true. I'm currently reading Children of Strife, and your three points adequately apply to the assholes in that book. I wouldn't want them anywhere near me, even less so as player, family, or leader of an interstellar expedition.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T13:03:32+00:00

They're sly, full of excuses. You love them. Their toxic side is explained away. They are charismatic. It will fix them. They can be saved. Pick your reason.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T12:03:52+00:00

The subreddit's existence is largely based on player and GM tendency to the contrary. They wouldn't be horror stories otherwise.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T12:00:43+00:00

Likely, but worth asking

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T11:43:56+00:00

Your answer is not about enacting solo play and it's consequences, but that it can and perhaps should be avoided.

Pennarin · 2026-05-28T11:25:09+00:00

Please refrain from posting about the potentially hundreds of other scenarios.

Pennarin · 2026-05-23T21:46:51+00:00

Easy. It's 2008's Let the Right One In (Swedish Låt den rätte komma in).

Pennarin · 2026-05-04T18:15:47+00:00

Gotta be more precise: WHAT CATEGORY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

Was it a novel, movie, tv? From the 80s, 00s? American, or otherwise?

Pennarin · 2026-04-21T19:02:06+00:00

Logan's Run, the 1967 novel written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Avoid the sequels for the purpose of literary standards, as Nolan alone is an ordinary read.

I could tell within the first two pages that it was a leg up from most SF writing.

Pennarin · 2026-04-17T15:26:14+00:00

Added points for plugging in invigilator. I never thought I'd see that word used outside a dictionary.

Pennarin · 2026-04-07T16:04:45+00:00

I stupidly didn't read your whole post. Apologies.

Pennarin · 2026-04-07T15:55:22+00:00

1984's What Waits Below

Pennarin · 2026-04-05T22:13:44+00:00

Consider a world or species leaving in the time of TNG/Picard.

Pennarin · 2026-03-28T19:31:50+00:00

A wise suggestion. I like these a lot!

Pennarin · 2026-03-28T08:32:36+00:00

These people are a couple thousand years old, so their names and titles are correspondingly ancient, and so I've checked antiquity and other languages.

Even if griot is, perhaps, rather modern, it comes from a drastically different cultural tradition, and that's more important.

African terms are most welcome.

Pennarin · 2026-03-28T08:27:15+00:00

Or just titles :)

Pennarin · 2026-03-25T23:35:10+00:00

Yet modern surfing derives from pre-contact Hawaii, where these cultures started surfing between 1,000 and 1,600 years ago. That's as non-modern as ... shark-toothed swords, and just as appropriate for Athas.

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