• New game to my table, would play again (after some down time) I’d heard a lot of talk about Alice is Missing (2020) on various game reviews and top ten lists, so I was excited to get a chance to play it when a buddy offered to run it for a table of us. I… Read more

  • Every table has their own take on the rules. Early editions of D&D encouraged making these things up, later editions took more a hardline attitude towards homebrew as not playing the game as intended, and the current 5E has swung back to house rules as dials for customizing the feel of your game. Here are… Read more

  • Episode 2.7 – “What If … Hela Found the Ten Rings?” Essentially, what if we took the the MCU Shang Chi and made his mom a power mad Norse goddess with entitlement issues? There’s the classic grade A parenting by Odin when he sees his daughter / weapon of war getting out of hand, he… Read more

  • Two very different What If … ? episodes. One is a return to a previous What If … ? character / world and another creating an entirely new one. Episode 2.5 – “What If … Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?” Up front confession, I’m a fan of Captain Carter, with or without super powers… Read more

  • For me, what make What If … stories worth following, the question of “Wouldn’t it be cool if …” that we used to play out in our own head cannons and action figures. Marvel wasn’t the only one to play with this idea. DC Comics had a number of stories that started as dream sequences… Read more

  • Back in the day, I was a fan of the What If comic series. At the time, they would be narrated by the Watcher Uata, providing the way things had gone in timeline and then proposing, “But what if …” (what if someone survived or what if someone died (Gwen Stacey, Uncle Ben, etc.) what… Read more