So I've skipped Inside Out. Following my guide alphabetically, that leads us to The Jungle Book. You know, unless we want to look at Rage as the antagonist, and I don't personally find that healthy... Now this being an animal bad guy, in an animal based world, we might need to postulate a very particular kind of TTRPG for this to work.

I am a history teacher, and I have used Minecraft to teach my students. When you want to help someone learn, at any age, you start small. You begin with a simple concept, and then you build on it. The better that starting point, the easier it is to add more information. It also helps if that starting point is interesting and relevant to your audience.

Now there’s a blog title I can be proud of for a long time. In my ongoing battle against the pile of games labelled “Want To Play” play sat upon various shelves and inside hard drives, I wandered into the side-scolling Mexican playground that is Guacamelee! One of the many aspects of the game I enjoyed were the the power-ups (special wrestling moves) which can be used in combat and in the platforming sections.

Most advice on how to beat bosses in FromSoftware falls into one of three camps. Camp One: Accurate, but very technical, assuming the reader has accrued some amount of skill. Camp Two: "Git gud". Camp Three is the most nuanced: "What-are-you-talking-about-that-boss-is-easy!". With the exception of the Witches, who I repeatedly beat by running around in circles and swinging carefree, I will always acknowledge that all bosses will be difficult to…

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I hope you'd agree with me that a TTRPG set in the Incredibles would be amazing. Super heroes abound but heavily controlled, scrutinized and often ostracized. Retro-futuristic vibes. Good grounds for a superb adventure. The villains in Disney I've scored so far tend to perform well on Presence (because they are great characters) but fall away on being an actual villain.