Recent content by delericho

When Pelia was first introduced it was as a bored Academy professor. So it fits pretty well that she's a bit more hands-off and playing the wise mentor figure to the talented prodigy. And, as @Umbran has noted, she has shown that she can do these things, when called on.

That explains a great deal.

Sadly, I thought the finale was the weakest episode of the season. Though I did enjoy the DW reference. :ROFLMAO:

It depends on intent. If you truly intend to do a retroclone then the goal should be to emulate the rules as closely as possible. That said, I think all the ones that are actually possible have been done now, haven't they? I do think there's a market for a near-clone, which makes fidelity to...

I'm really enjoying it. I only have one nitpick. Well, two. Okay, three: The first is that this season isn't quite as good as the previous two. But given that that's such a high bar, that seems excessively harsh. The second is that there are only 10 episodes - it feels like we've barely got...

Yeah, I was resistant, albeit only fairly briefly - around the time the first book came out WotC published an art gallery on their website and that sold it to me. AFAIK, that's the only time I've been moved to purchase by the art alone; it's not usually much of a consideration for me.

My daughter (7) is obsessed with the film. I've only seen bits, but have heard the soundtrack rather more. Our cinema actually did a set of showings of the singalong version last weekend. Alas, we were busy, and it seems to have been a one-off.

To date I've only ever started at 1st level. While that remains my preference, it's not set in stone - for the right campaign I'd happily start later. (It's just that I'm less likely to be running that "right campaign" - when I prepare them for myself, I default to 1.)

:eek: And also... :eek: Core rulebooks are absurdly good value for money. Everything else drops off massively. Provided you actually play through most of the adventure in each of these volumes, yes, they'll be good value. But looking at the campaign books on my shelves, there are almost none...

Simon Pegg's character isn't Scottish, but otherwise that's more or less the premise of "The World's End".

Given how big the US market is compared with the rest of the world, and given how thin the profit margins are in the RPG space, my outlook is much less optimistic than yours. IMO there's a very real chance that devastate will mean destroy. WotC will no doubt be fine, but I really don't have the...

I think that may be wishful thinking. This is likely to devastate the market, so that gaming stuff may well not exist to be picked up.

I'm not a fan, and as I get older and more curmudgeonly I become increasingly less keen on the idea. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that a game can assume I have the standard polyhedral dice and some standard playing cards, but if they require me to get anything else that will be an automatic...

It was an exciting time. I'd been away from D&D for a long time, mostly playing VtM at the time, but the excitement around the WotC buyout and the new edition drew me back in. I'd been eagerly following the various developments in Dragon magazine (having started buying it again), on usenet, and...

In all honesty, my answer to the poll (or the OP) is "yes, please" - I'm pretty happy to eat any or all of them. Not sure I'd even venture to name a "best". The best fries I've ever had came in Antwerp, where I was lucky enough to visit Firuur No.1. If you have the opportunity, it's well worth...