Recent content by Felon

Y'know, many shows take a while to hit their stride. Angel was pure crap until the middle of its third season. Then, almost out of the blue, they stopped relying on glib banter and trying to impress us with how self-possessed everyone is, and how unconditionally supportive they were of each...

Like studies on the harmful effects of salt or diet sodas and so many other things, it cannot distinguish between correlation and causation. Having said that, most people don't know how to react to things that run contrary to what they want to hear. For every mean-spirited troll, there's a...

Like studies on the harmful effects of salt or diet sodas and so many other things, it cannot distinguish between correlation and causation. Having said that, most people are jerks. For every mean-spirited, there's a passive-aggressive Princess Unikitty. If you don't have a Chicken Little...

For me, this just flat-out stops after about five seconds in. An "x" appears in the middle of the screen.

Treating the 5d8 as 17.5 damage on average, it's a step up from 10.5 of magic missile. They have very different areas of strength, as the sleep requires tactical placement while magic missiles are quintessentially precise, but if you're looking at it from sheer knockout punch against a single...

:eek: As stated in the OP, my concern is with it being leveled against single creatures, particularly those who would be most vulnerable (like casters). As others have treated it as essentially an all-or-nothing damage spell that either wipes out a foe's current hit points, or does no damage...

Haven't been active here in a couple years or so. The site's undergone some big changes. Looking to get rid of the old signature, but when I go to my profile, there's no little pencil icon next to it. Are signatures a subscription feature now? I'd just as soon blank it out.

I took a long break from RP'ing. Been a couple years at least. I'm very interested in this new editionless edition. Looking through the PHB, I'm very impressed overall. I like the classes, I like the approach to making components like feats and alignment optional, and I like the idea of spells...

Of all the Ministry-of-Truthesque oxymorons that permeate western civilization, the elevation of impatience to a virtue is possibly the one that most contributes to its ultimate collapse. More D&D stuff will come. In the meatime, there's plenty of diversions out there to chuck into one's...

Armed with gold and fashioning them into arrows, I thought they'd be more likely to be hunting the cybermen than vice-versa. Hearkens back to Silver Nemesis, one of my favorite serials from my favorite doctor.

Pretty shoddy episode overall, at least for the irascible malcontent sort like myself who does not subscribe to the notion that a Doctor Who episode is wonderful as long as it's glib about its silliness and unabashed in its contrivances and ooh there's people being all giddy and plucky and...

It hurts me physically that you thought that was a skrull. That line about "courting death" that evoked an inhuman grin from Thanos was so deliciously perfect. Marvel films already had a superior commitment to portraying superheroes in a large-than-life context rather than the more subdued...

Law & Order was a masterpiece early in its run, when nobody was watching it and it struggled to avoid cancellation. It was so different from everything that came before. There were plenty of episodes that focused on the ugly reality that the good guys don't always win. Remember the one episode...

There really isn't as much disagreement as you guys are making it out to be. Major networks (and that's NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) play it safe for the most part, while smaller networks take risks. Makes sense. If you have a large established audience, you avoid risks in order to keep it. If you...

There's only a few major shocker scenes in the original. One is with ED 209, the other with Murphy's "death" scene, and then later towards the end there's the guy getting doused with toxic waste and run over. Many a torture-porn film that exceeded this level of violence has come and gone...