It is frankly kind of strange, from a game design standpoint, that the typical TTRPG is constructed around talking creating a shared imaginative space, except when what you're describing is a fight, and then you set everything aside and play a wargame with miniatures for an hour.

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Not strange in the sense of being inexplicable, because of course it's a result of D&D's genesis as some narrative rules bolted onto the Chainmail miniatures wargaming system, and then RPG designers aping D&D until the format stuck. But it is strange from a step-back-and-ask-why perspective.

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I mean it was always likely to be the first to go. At least other media organisations are alerted to the risks now.

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:)

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Went to a pumpkin patch today. When we got home, Dalton asked for a Biollante Jack-o’-lantern. Could not have asked for a bigger bitch in the Godzilla universe to draw, let alone carve. And of course no stencils exist. But dammit, I love my son. With that, behold: Biollante

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