We used the pregens in our first play through of the campaign. They are a great place to start and ours all really took off and established their own character. Hardly remembered them as pregens after a bit.

54mm plastic toy soldiers are not anywhere near the clean sculpts of most 28mm modern plastics. The proportions and anatomy of the ones I'm working on from BMC tend to make up for that. 28-32 mm tends to feature big heads and chonky fists. It takes a little getting used more proportioned models.

TBH, history books. The Achaemenid Persian dynasty makes Game of Thrones look tame. It happened, it was not forever. New people both awful and good enter and exit the stage.

Also, painting toy soldiers. USMC WWII camo has a zen to it. I can't paint and freak out at the same time.

Now wealthy sociopaths can learn the value of empathy when they are out numbered and their money is not going to save them. Gold only buys obedience, not loyalty, faith, honor or any worthy thing.

Exactly 100% this. I let people know that I need to hear the how of the what before they roll the dice. I modify targets and results based on approach.

You know, I get it now.

Hey cool. Ravensburger has a lot of my favorite Washington grown gamer crafters. You got a nice ship to board there. Congrats.

My Brother in Trek, will you be doing Deep Space 9. Because whoooo boy, does that show remain relevant to a lot we have going on just now.

Shadowdark, Dragonbane and Dungeon Crawl Classics. All easy to learn, dynamic and roll to cast for magic.