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It doesn't, but I love it anyway. Logan's Run is in the unfortunate position of being the last great SF film before Star Wars, which just blew everything else out of the water. I was too young to see it in the theatres, and it was always on at like 2am, so I didn't see it until 1982 or so (I had...

I'm pleased we get to have some edition wars in this conversation. You're right, in my view, that the 1982 release is the most satisfying.

Urgan feels Valendra stop struggling, but he remains cautious. He's not going to let go of her hands (with his own spells, if his wrists were held, that would prevent casting, and he presumes the same is true of her). That doesn't eliminate the threat of a spell (Command, for example, upcast...

That's a reasonable explanation if there is no identifiable source. I don't want to assume that, though, which is why I am asking. I'm not sure this is parallel, however. I understood this in 1977 because I had heard the exact same phrasing in the few contacts with drag racing I had seen --...

Sorry -- just checked, it's issue 7. And so Joe Gill.

Yes! It's a Denny O'Neill issue (writing under the pseudonym of Sergius O’Shaghnessey). It's the "type six" spells that interest me!

I'm reading a 1968 Charlton Hercules comic, and Hera casts a "type six" spell (with the implication this is pretty powerful). There's no previous context in the series for this sort of talk -- is there something in pop culture? What previous fiction used numbered spell power-levels that this...

re: Prolong. I wonder if this is how they will introduce permanency to 5e (beyone what is possible for a small handful of spells already. (I know it says "hours"; but I can hope). (also: should this thread be tagged for 5e (2024)?)

Tim Minchin has you covered. A beautiful Christmas song, true to the spirit of the holiday, even as it disavows the central tenets.

As Urgan holds on to the spellcaster, he feels bombarded with multiple images of her, flickering back and forth, in his grasp and outside of it. The mirroring spell she has cast continues, but he knows he has her, firmly by the waist. His allies aren't attacking so he drops prone, holding tight...

Hit her!

That's fair. The whole-hit-points-to-weapons thing is filed with artificiality. It bugs me that you swing a dagger with the same speed as a greataxe ,but I have to let it slide. :D

It's too finicky to say "if you are using the arm to attack you don't get the shield's bonus" so it's easier just to say no.

Not equipment, but here's two combat things I would like to add (I put them into a game I ran pre-pandemic, but no one wanted them. I do, though): 1. Sap. Finesse weapon, 1 pt bludgeoning damage (but which would qualify for rogue's sneak attack). Mastery effect would be (unsurprisingly?) sap...