Recent content by Aellic Mornbringer

Hmm good point. I'll have to rewatch the episode but your point about Wendy coming to the realization about humans vs Neverland does line up better with the observation you made about the series riffing on Ridley Scott's themes. I would definitely agree that Kirsh's worldview seems to be the...

In my mind's eye I've created a scene where the Eye inhabits a human host other than Kavalier, and they both sit down to have a conversation. Kavalier's grin is so wide as he is finally engaging with someone/something he truly considers a peer...then the camera zooms out and tracks to the...

Great points. I felt the same way with the mind wipe, that was the one thing that strained believability. I get the point in that the conversation needs to end with Wendy/Marcy realizing that Neverland ain't all it's cracked up to be but I think they could have reached that point by having the...

Given it's intelligence, the Eye also has the benefit of having watched the experiments conducted on the other specimens so even if it doesn't have an ability to communicate with them directly, it knows a lot more about them (probably including little details that the scientists didn't notice...

Yeah...his actions in the episode pull in seemingly two different directions. First we have the charged conversation with Morrow in the elevator. No ambiguity there, they do not like each other (to put it mildly) and they are both expecting, I daresay wanting, a confrontation. So Kirsch is Team...

Good call, I meant to mention the art on the tokens as well. I get what you're saying about the art. The latest 5E art seems to straddle a wide spectrum, from cozy to what I'd call 'modern old school'. The token/monster art and a good bit of the booklet art seems more on that sharper edge side...

Point of clarification, I haven't watched the video either, this is from my reading of the material (I received my physical copy from DnDBeyond yesterday.) With that said...

Upon my first reading, I find the story very intentionally light which makes sense to me given what the point of the introductory set is. Now with that said, I do feel like contains it a good number of seeds scattered around that any DM, new to experienced, can riff off of and expand. Edited to...

Agreed, the NPC cards are well done. As I perused the adventure booklets, at first I thought many of the area descriptions felt light (moreso the Keep but also with the Wilderness areas) but then it dawned on me after reading through the NPC cards; the "missing"* content were the rumors and...

Same, supposed to arrive by end of day tomorrow.

Great read, thanks for posting the link! Definitely interesting when they're talking about the Eye's potential long term plans. One thing I just remembered, given that the facehugger continues to implant the embryo into Bronski while he is in the cryo-sleep chamber, and the embryo gestates to...

We know the ovomorph (Alien egg) can tell the difference between human and synthetic. Presumably xenomorphs can tell the difference as well. I wonder if the Eye attacked Nibs under the assumption that she was human based on physical appearance and it only learned during the attack that she...

I second the desire for a prequel story of how they managed to capture the different creatures. Whatever methods were used, I imagine they were messy affairs. I also second the fact that they seem pretty incompetent but I have some thoughts. I can't find the comment right now to give proper...

Fair point. Xenomorphs are probably not accustomed to anything trying to go mano y mano against them beyond a Predator. Also, while Xenomorphs aren't stupid, the drones are certainly expendable when a Queen is around. I'm thinking of the xenos that were cut down en masse via the automated...

I will have to watch the scene again but was the Eye trying to warn the scientist that the Blood Tick had escaped or was it trying to distract the scientist from noticing that the Blood Tick had escaped? My initial reaction was that the Eye was trying to warn her but I'm not 100% sold on that...