This week’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post is about the Stranger Things Season 3 climatic finale: The Battle of Starcourt. As always on #ifthiswereaTTRPG, spoilers ahead! There’s a fascinating meta-narrative about Stranger Things that says the plot of the show is actually a group of people playing a home-brewed version of Dungeons and Dragons and we, the viewer,…
This week’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post is all about the Kessel Run in Solo, A Star Wars Story. According to the film, the Kessel Run is an 20 parsec long (65.2 Light Years) Jules Verne-esque smugglers’ route which took hyperspace fuel called ‘coaxium’ from the mines at Kessel past the Imperial blockades. In Solo, Han Solo and…
In honor of the upcoming release of #thelionking, this week’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post re-imagines the scene where Mufasa’s spirit is able to impart sage advice onto the newly grown-up Simba as a tabletop role playing game. As always, spoilers ahead! After Scar is able to convince a child Simba that he’s responsible for his father Mufasa’s…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post comes from one of my favorite childhood movie cameos of all time: Christopher Walken as Caeser the Exterminator in Mousehunt. As always, spoilers ahead! Mousehunt is an adorable movie about two brothers who inherit a dilapidated old home from their recently deceased father. Similar to Home Alone, just with a mouse, the…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post imagines the scene at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger where Captain America wakes up in the future as a tabletop role playing game. As always, spoilers ahead! In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers (Captain America) makes the incredible transition from weakling with a heart of gold to…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG is all about the crucial series of “social rolls” during the pre-prom scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming. As always, spoilers ahead! After Peter Parker is chewed out by Tony Stark for “going rogue” and trying to be “too big for his britches” in going after Vulture, who Peter has been tirelessly dogging throughout the…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG is all about the detention center shootout scene from the Death Star in Star Wars IV: A New Hope. As always, spoilers ahead! The rescuing of Princess Leia and the accompanying escape from the Death Star is a defining sequence in the first Star Wars film. It’s somehow hilarious while being action-packed and…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG comes from one of the most famous crawls in movie history: Andy Dufrense’s tunnel crawl in The Shawshank Redemption. As always, this #ifthiswereaTTRPG post contains spoilers. The Shawshank Redemption is a legendary film which, as of this writing, still holds the spot on IMDB’s Top 100 movies of all time. It tells the…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG comes from a famous Season 1 episode of the Simpsons: Bart the General. In Bart the General, Bart and a number of his classmates are being routinely bullied by Nelson Muntz and his cronies. This bullying comes to a head when one of Nelson’s minions steals one of Bart’s sister Lisa’s homemade cupcakes…
Today’s #ifthiswereaTTRPG post is about imagining the “Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves” scene in Kill Bill, Volume 1 by Quentin Tarantino as a tabletop role playing game. There are certainly spoilers ahead! An enormously bloody affair, this legendary fight scene has Uma Thurman’s character The Bride absolutely destroy waves of ever more competent…