Recent content by Benjamin Olson

An effort was made to give more creatures a distinctive ability of some sort, and (more importantly) to make distinctive abilities bonus actions they take in addition to their normal attacks, to better highlight these features. In 2014 distinctive features often just never came up in the three...

The first episode seemed like an awesome game for everyone involved but not likely to be something I watch much more of. "Other people playing D&D" is something that has to be at least partially a second screen activity for me or I'm just never going to find the time to get through a whole...

And by the dark necromancy of the Lizard King's tomb it is foretold that this thread will rise again every ten years until the end of time...

Kiss from a Rose overall as an oddly medieval or Renaissance vibe, both in the intro choral bit and all the talk about flowers and towers and such, so I assumed it was "grave" because throwing in a momento mori into a love song would very much fit that vibe.

I find the earnestness with which the journalists are astonished by this is the video comical because I assumed everybody already had some (usually less elaborate and extensive) version of this experience with AI one to three years ago, but I suppose a television audience will have lots of...

I give it a 30% chance of getting a product out before it is shuttered or subsumed into another game studio. I'd go higher, but the fact that the corporate parent also owns a game studio next door all but mandates, by corporate game studio ownership law, their merger as soon as either one slips...

I haven't bought, played, or more than thumbed through a bookstore copy of Tales of the Valiant, but to me the issue is that it seems like it's mostly just 5e with the non-SRD elements getting their serial numbers filed off and some very small and conservative improvements. And, to be clear...

Had this issue most of the day on certain pages of certain threads. Frustratingly that included this very thread discussing the issue!

Well whatever happens it's got all our main characters staring at it in horror and/or wonder a lot.

So there's one major thing that basically every Star Wars hardcore completionist is likely to "get wrong" (by which I mean more miss out on), along with many people creating Star Wars media to cater to completionists, but that I think a casual fan is likely to "get right". And that is that Star...

I like class and subclass abilities that: A) are reasonably straightforward without being overly fiddly or confusing (ie: user friendly); B) are powerful enough to be worth keeping track of but not game breakingly powerful (so: worthwhile in a balanced way); and C) are evocative of the...

Emphasis on this looking like the "AI mill" end of the AI trailer genre, where it's just a series of "look we have these characters" shots. It doesn't seem to reveal nearly as much plot and world-building as something like:

Of sure. I just meant that in this "casuals don't know X" vein I used to officially have the deep knowledge of X, but now I just have "legendary" knowledge of X, and someone else gets to one up me with the "official" deep knowledge and consider me a casual. It was mainly a joke. The point is...

I disagree with the hardcore/casual dichotomy for this franchise, because it is a franchise where I think your version of "hardcore" are less common than the third group: people who were hardcore for some part of Star Wars, but drew the line at others. Whether it is because of aging out of...

See the the AT-AT scene just made me think "why is there an AT-AT sized trail up a mountain?" and "well having one fall off like that is pretty obviously the the main reason you wouldn't try to take AT-ATs up a mountain even if you had such a trail" (the other reason being that they could not...