Recent content by Paul Farquhar

I think that’s her natural colour, or something close. GoT certainly wasn’t.

There is also some interesting stuff on Azalin in VGR, under a mist wanderer called Firan.

Given a choice between what someone says and physical evidence, I go with the evidence every time. People are not honest, even with themselves. Not that there aren’t some writers who go in for master plans, but it’s far from universal. There are many ways to create a story.

In Yorkshire, everything is served with Wensleydale.

They used to do a lot of running in in old Who too. But I don’t have a problem with poor FX or stunt work if it advances the story.

You can tell how something was written by examining the result. Agatha Christie started with the solution and worked backwards. Lost was made up as it went along. These are both apparent without the author having to tell us.

He is unalive and well in Tome of Annihilation.

Sure. And Beowulf is pure entertainment without anything deep to say too.

This is all useful material, the trouble with those adventures are pretty much forgotten, presumably by the people who work for WotC these days too. I assume none of them were of a quality to consider bringing back, but if you are going to do a Vecna adventure, you need to find a way to work...

Who are expensive. Which is why they are limited to megabudget Tom Cruise movies. Personally, I would rather watch something that blew its budget on actors rather than stunts. 1970s Doctor Who. Didn’t have the money for expensive FX, so it didn’t try. It was theatrical, depending on the...

Does he? I've never read any of those adventures. What personality quirks and traits does he have? How does he speak? Why has no one ever said "well Vecna, he is like this:"? Skeletor is sardonic. Acerecrak is sadistic. Azlin is authoritarian and academic. Soth is gloomy and tragic. Strahd is a...

In game terms, if it says you "break" something when you use it, it means in no longer exists afterwards. It's gone, the same way that a potion is gone when you drink it.

It means here is a pretty picture, please give me some money in exchange. I know this because I do it myself.

A quote that is itself propaganda. An artist trying to pretend that what they do is more important than it actually is. Art is most often just something to hang over a stain on the wallpaper. It’s sold for money, and there is nothing wrong with that, artists have to eat the same as any job...

I love Star Wars. But it’s just light entertainment, not great art or divine revelation. It’s fundamentally unimportant. It’s nice that a good many people owe their livelihoods to it, but that’s all.