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POCGamer aka PanzerLion!
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CRIT Award Nominated Freelance #TTRPG writer and critic, Black and 🇨🇦. For all my content, contacts, & support: https://linktr.ee/pocgamer

Cool things I've worked on:
- Blue Planet Recontact
- Night City 2045
- Hard Wired Island

⚠️ Harsh Language
Binti is the place to start.

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The Binti Series – Nnedi Okorafor
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December 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
2/2 And Genesis Survivor Gaiarth was the critical entry point. I was already falling down a sci-fi and fantasy hole, and this smooth combo of fantasy trappings with sci-fi backing was a POWERFUL influence on me. Still is in a lot of ways.
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I like solarpunk and its technological and ethical optimism.
December 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Yes. Especially at reasonable prices.
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
2/2 Now all I need to do is track down a set of Genesys dice and I'm back to full speed. But for the usual games I'm in or experimenting with? I am set for dice again!
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Absolutely to all of this.
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
That's something I've noticed too, with older gamers from when multiple systems were the norm and with new gamers who came in from other games. We all see D&D as "a" game, but not "the" game.
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I believe it.
December 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Right? I understand why Harmony Gold peeled the canon back to the shows, IDW comics, and whatever they're producing now. Stuff got *weird*.
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yes, some of these were OGL, but the point is that they all do D&D type adventures better than D&D in more ways than one. And if you're in the "we don't really use the rules, we just like the framework..." camp, why are you paying D&D prices to ignore the content? Get something easier to create in.
December 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
And for the record, D&D doesn't even deliver the best D&D experience anymore either. Hasn't for a while.
Here's some that do:
- Basic Fantasy
- Pathfinder (all editions)
- Palladium Fantasy (all editions)
- Dragonbane
- Forbidden Lands
- Tales of Argosa (Low Fantasy Gaming 2e)
- Low Fantasy Gaming
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I loved that era too, but damn... Palladium kept making it *weird* for no reason.
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Robotech: The Sentinels and the Southern Cross era are my guilty Robotech RPG activities. Played a lot of Sentinels...
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Damn... We made so many characters with this book during our comics phase in the '90s. Like, dozens upon dozens to match all the characters we were drawing.
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I found a copy in a used bookstore in Smithers BC (literally in the middle of nowhere, check it out on a map!) while working an archaeology job and you better believe I picked it up! It felt good to finally own my own copy of the game that got this whole show rolling.
December 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
2/2... season and a movie that was that season truncated.

The mechs? Good. The characters? Good. The Marduk? Way scarier than the Robotech Masters. But yeah, the whole thing was undercooked and now it's a forgotten alt-history of the Macross timeline.
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM