Recent content by bloodtide

Not many. Maybe 25%, but this can go up a lot depending on things. I do run a strict game. You miss a session and your house did not explode and I will just drop you from the game. So most players only want to commit to the once a week game. they will grumble that they had planned to water...

But he was alive. He could have rejoined......or did he take up teaching at Cambridge?

Well, it is just Fan Service..... Is there a Directors Cut of the movie or something with this in it? But he came back in Picard........

He did?!? Gee there is a whole episode about him literately not joining Starfleet and finding his own path. So after that he re-re applied to the Academy....for like the 6th time, graduated and joined Starfleet. When did all that happen? Would make more sense for Dr. Crusher to have a third...

So it will be some sort of Mad Max 90210? Wow what a concept. Bad enough it will be "an academy" so it will be CW teen drama taken up to 11......but worse with all the propaganda. Guess we will get show after show about how One Viewpoint is Bad, but the Federation Hollywood Viewpoint is...

This is accurate. But it is more then just character level. Time-- an average game will take at least a couple months to get to around 7th level, Assuming they play each week and assuming the game for all of the game time......many groups do neither. So three months even of doing 'a game' is...

I always use my own homebrew world and Multiverse, so that is not really an issue. Game 1 and 2 are set roughly at the same time, though they are thousands of miles apart on the map. Game 3 is set in the far past of games 1 and 2. (The winter games on summer break now 4 and 5 are spelljammer...

I might do the categories a bit different as I would include the amount of time spent gaming and how much interest is shown about the game in general. Diehards---I plant my flag here. DM three games a week, more in the winter...plus some once a month games and pick up games. I have a lot of...

I got into reading at an early age. At the time, the average Yard Sale had a box of ten cent books. A lot of old yellowed paperback books printed in the 60-70's. Most of them were reprints of old pulp fiction from years before. The bygone fun days of walking around parking lots to find lost...

It is a big question. A lot of games have a very narrow very set vision: this game is X and nothing else. The idea is if you want X, play X game. You want Y, look for a Y game. And this is great for that one thing. Game like D&D are generic. The game has only a few over arcing views and...

Well, saw it.....

I'm not sure your point here. For more then the last 50 years nearly everyone has agreed on what the basic generic elf is and looks like and all that. There is an accepted general consensuses. Even all the people that say "My elves are different and special" have to go off that base. And...

Well, it is what is being described.....

Except for the part that it does get pointless. Sure you can call anything and everything an "elf". But what go does that do? True. Most DM stick with the tropes. They don't make two headed reptile people and say "they are elves". Well, I would say that just like that author go write your...

You are not. The player? No. The whole point of Role Playing is to play a role, not just be yourself. Only bad players just "act like themselves". Any and all games. Easy enough, this is a book smart individual with very little common sense. The Doctor is the classic example here. As is...