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1. Having Enough Time to Plan Arguably the most important thing a good dungeon master has is time. Not only do you need time for actual game sessions, but you need time to prepare the game before you play. If you’re creating your own adventure, you need to write it. If you’re using an adventure written by someone else (either Wizards of the Coast or a third-party) you have to read it and learn it in order to make gameplay smooth....

5. The Hateful Eight (2015) Quentin Tarantino found himself in prime form for this tense, claustrophobic thriller. One of his most unique films,The Hateful Eightfollows the collision of eight strangers who all find themselves taking shelter from a blizzard in Wyoming, 1877. John Ruth, a bounty hunter, needs to bring in Daisy Domergue to hang for her crimes. They arrive at the inn and tensions are apparently high—nobody at the inn is telling the truth about their identities and they’re being strangely opaque about their intentions....

11.Machi Koro Legacy We mentioned the originalMachi Koroin our article on board games for people who hate board games. Lo and behold, there’s now a legacy version of the board game with all the same mechanics and fun gameplay, now wrapped up in an evolving 10-game series. Machi Koro Legacytells a complete story within the original game’s world, and your decisions in each playthrough will unlock new aspects that widen the scope and set up new things for the next!...

The Appeal of Anthology TV Shows For many, anthology TV shows are an interesting breath of fresh air in a landscape full of serialized TV series with slow-burning, sprawling plots that meander across five, ten, or even more seasons. Instead, we can expect a discrete story that only requires one episode (or one season) of investment. If it’s just an episode, you can treat it like a movie; if it’s just a season, you can treat it like a miniseries....

5. Bottom (1991) With brilliant performances by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson,Bottombecame a staple of 90s British television. The show centers on Eddie and Richie, two housemates who are misogynistic, antagonistic, and violent. Their crude attempts to seduce women and improve their living standards are the source of comedy in this classic anti-sitcom, but a handful of aspects putBottominto the category of anti-sitcom: This banter between the two characters makes for laugh-out-loud interactions, but it also makes them deeply unlikable....