For the gamer who already knows the big names, here’s a sampler flight of very different current games to give a broad experience of rules, styles and design sensibilities.

Blades in the Dark
The One Ring
Eclipse Phase
Star Trek Adventures
Mork Borg

Feels like I took a club drug made from the pineal glands of Tasmanian devils and watched all the CGI from The Lawnmower Man (1992) at once

Deep fakes? Is this where we’re at? This is bleak for so many reasons

A dark, liminal quality, absolutely

It’s like standing in front of the monolith from 2001 but with depression instead of aliens

I make a big dumb religion to heap praise and veneration on the simulation-running entity, then subjugate my surroundings to make everyone follow it. Look upon this work, Unknown Entity, and know it is tax exempt and glazes You constantly!

I’m still mad about the early 2000s Decipher Lord of the Rings RPG where fighting orcs is a really slow difficult process and the GM section tells you to just handwave it. What am I PAYING for?

New Yorkers quickly perish when exposed to the slop we eat in the rest of the country. They’d last a maybe week, or 36 hours if they accidentally ingest our version of a “bagel”

It exists, it’s free on YouTube. Features musical alien invaders.

The scene where Bashir and Garak go to Bejor and there are a bunch of Cardassian orphans sticks with me. They were under Dukat’s rule during the withdrawal. The Cardassians talk about their families constantly. Even by the standards of his OWN people, Dukat is a monster