Recent content by Paul Farquhar

It's a good question. The is a Traveller 5e coming soon. Dunno if that will take gameplay in a less grounded (i.e. more space opera action) direction. The only one I've read is Esper Genesis, and I thought that was a bit too far out and fantasyish for my tastes. I've been intending to check out...

But that's using something for a purpose it was not intended for. If you use something incorrectly, it's you fault if it breaks, not the manufacturers.

That's a matter of writing, not acting. And in a visual medium you can leave things for the audience to deduce, not everything has to be spelled out. It's entirely understandable that Holmes should become frustrated in explaining every little thing to someone who should be able to work it out...

The ability to correlate information and recognise patterns does not require you to first stuff your brain with huge amounts of information. If you think it’s an ability specific to the medical profession, then you have already failed to understand how it works. It’s something people start to...

It not specifically “diagnostic skills” it’s any form of problem solving or critical thinking, and it’s certainly true that it’s not taught anying like enough in schools, although it also helps to have some inherent aptitude. If you couldn’t do it at 18 then I’m glad you aren’t my doctor...

I’ve been replaying Phoenix Point recently too. Haven’t really looked at Chaos Gate.

You can turn turn based off for trash mobs and on for difficult fights.

The camera is similar to other games, I guess if you have played those you have learned the skill of controlling it. If you haven’t you are likely to struggle at least at first. But it’s certainly true that the camera in NWN and its sequel was far worse.

Because he is angry that he is being forced to do things he is bad at by a stupid system. But a doctor who is polite to everyone and kills their patients with incorrect diagnosis is a good doctor?! Yup. Frankly the vast majority of doctors are rubbish at diagnosing anything remotely rare or...

Sir Lancelot Spratt.

It doesn’t really matter what is and isn’t canon. It’s what someone - Chris Avallone, who is a pretty good writer - thought would fit into the Star Wars universe. And canonicity didn’t stop KotOR Easter eggs popping up in Andor.

Darth Sion manages to come back from being blasted into chunks and deep frozen by vacuum (KotOR2). And he can do it so reliably that he uses it as a tactic.

Charles Grey played Mycroft a couple of times in the 70s and 80s, with at least a degree of corpulence, as described in the books. (Christopher Lee also played Sherlock several times, and was rather good.) However, the novels should be considered doubly unreliable. Watson is called out as an...

Why do you consider House a "bad Doctor" when someone who is good with patients but a lousy diagnostician (something I have plenty of personal experience of) is considered a good doctor? I would suggest that the system that insists House does something he knows he is bad at, rather than letting...

If you want Enid Blyton you would be better watching the modern Mallory Towers on the BBC.