Recent content by Paul Farquhar

I don’t mind metal and horns, but the ability to punt me across the room with a little finger when I get annoying is a bit off-putting.

Wherever the setting says they come from. The rules deliberately avoid ruling on that stuff.

What has been realised is you don’t need any mechanics to do that stuff. You can just write it and roleplay it. So 5e has dialled back on the mechanics. Leaving nothing that can “define” a setting.

Wyll is just too nice, even the devilish pact and big horns can’t make him sexy. Gale is an unlikable creep, and Jalhera is everyone’s mother.

I’m not familiar with the original context, but my cat would ignore the note. I just wish she would clean up the feathers after.

It’s boring and humourless, but it’s not embarrassing.

I think it manages to get comedy, character beats, action and horror together in one movie, and still remain coherent. But for me, not having Shatner in it is a major plus. Also, the only one with Broccoli.

These two (and 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10) lack the element of allegory that are characteristic of a TV show episode. Insurrection leans heavily into the allegory. I guess 5 is trying to be allegorical, but it’s messaging is very confused. “Cults are bad” I guess.

First Contact edges it out as my personal favourite, but that’s just because I prefer TNG cast. But Insurrection is the most like a movie length episode of the TV show.

It’s not just bad, it’s embarrassing. It discredits the entire franchise.

Frankly, they are still a little slow on the uptake. Despite progress, D&D players are still majority male. That’s a bunch of potential D&D players to market too.

Romantasy is certainly where WotC needs to be looking to grow the brand.

I’m not sure copies sold is a good guide. I’m pretty sure there are a pile of soppy romance novels that have outsold all of them!

What is being depicted is apathy. No one cares what they do, because it has no meaning. So they choose to do nothing.

Those are considered genre classics (at least the 2nd two) on a par with LotR. WoT isn’t quite at the same level, but it’s close. Drizzt is Doctor John Thorndike.