So the network says you have to have a Christmas special, even though your characters live in a science fiction universe where Christianity has never existed. Or they're living in a year with A.D. in front of it. Or they're rabbits. What to do? Why, make up a completely Not-Christmas Yuletide holiday. >>>See the list.

Okay, so we lied. This grid isn't just about episodes of TV shows where people take physical trips to the internet. It's also about that episode where they get sucked inside a video game, like for real!! Or the one where the lives of the programs inside computers are shown to take place in paradoxically dark and luminescent cities. It's a tribute to all of those brave designers and writers who have attempted to present a purely non-physical concept as a place that you could walk around in and interact with. Frequently through the medium of horrible puns. >>>See the list.

So you're thinking about doing some redecorating.  Have you explored the wide range of options available in sorcerous decor? The use of such items can significantly improve your day to day life, and are all extensively product tested and child-safe. >>>See the list.

Floods, fires, and earthquakes? Mundane. Zombies? Aliens? Played-out. Draconid Aspects of death? YAWN.

If we’re going to go out, let’s go out with a bang.

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This week we showcase worthless wizards, crappy conjurors, inept incanters, mundane mages, awful occultists, and socerers of suck. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you never know when one of them just might be a complete dud. >>>See the list.

Remember, remember the fifth of November / The Gunpowder Treason and Plot / I know of know reason why the Gunpowder Treason / Should ever be...

Should ever be... uh.

Wait. There was something we were supposed to do. Something...

Oh well. Here's a Power Grid.

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Maybe you’re not of the age where you can really go trick-or-treating, and you’ve got no kids of your own to wander around with. You can at least give out candy, right? Somebody has to do it.

So to console you while you let all of that delicious stuff slip through your fingers, we’ve made a list of a bunch of other candy that you’ll never get your hands on.

That’ll make you feel better, right?

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So you're a villain. Oh, I'm sorry, you're just morally unentangled management. Anyway, you know how it goes: not enough hours in the day, amirite? You've got to delegate. So you get a henchman. But you can't just let him out there all alone. It's a big dark scary world, and he barely even has a name, much less any characterization! He needs a buddy. Bonus points if the buddy is the physical opposite of the other, skinny where he is fat, or short where he is tall. Extra bonus points if you can use them as stand-ins to personify a much larger fighting force. Good luck with your first henchmen! If you're lucky, they'll be with you for years, eternally untouched by the danger of their jobs, messing up every single one of your grand schemes with a far more personal touch than any hero could. >>>See the list.

This Power Grid is dedicated to every elderly secondary character who tricked us into dismissing them at first, and then dropped our mouths open when they stood up and laid waste to a bunch of bad guys. And we realized that the only difference between a young hero and and old hero is that the old hero has managed to survive to old age. So why age gracefully when you can age like a boss? You don't necessarily have to be ex-CIA, either. >>>See the list.

This Power Grid is primarily about design and color. In the same way that you can always tell the bad knight by the spikes on his armor, the bride by the color of her dress, and the evil aliens by how many tentacles their ships have, there are certain design tropes that come up again and again. Namely, have you ever noticed that if an alien has blue skin, then it's probably friendly? When we want an invasion, we picture little green men or red eyed robots, but when the aliens want to be our friends, or if they come bearing technology, spiritual healing, religious salvation, or simply some potential for sideboob, blue is our go to color. >>>See the list.