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Partially agree but also partially disagree. Reacher (Amazon Prime) mostly has a new cast each season, and it's doing fine. Yes, there...

Tell that to GRRR Martin. Tell that to long-term fans of any sports team. Sure, everyone probably has specific favourite players at...

While a few key characters made it all the way through, I'd say Game of Thrones did just fine with a lot of turnover of main characters.

I think this might be the big design lesson from 4ed. Trying to enforce narrative tropes via rules seem bound to get into conflict with...

In a movie the mooks are ignored after they fall for reasons of runtime. In an RPG runtime is not a concern; the players can take the...

Ante was a very good way of keeping some of those overpowered and expensive cards out of play so the rest of us could have a chance. :)

I often do also. But if the dice don't co-operate then it's on me to be flexible enough to pivot to plan B or C or D while shelving...

Double Vision would also do for Mirror Image, hm? Head Games has to go with any illusion spell e.g. Minor Image, Colour Spray, etc...

Funny thing I have a stock enemy NPC villain in my games that is a human mage. And all of the Foreign Mage's spells are Foreigner...

How do you bake defense into class (other than Monk)? Only to a point, particularly when a la 1e some classes are gated behind stat...

Depends. Is this a Cyclops movie (analagous to one-on-one play with the DM) or it is an X-Men ensemble movie (analagous to typical...

Human --- Foreigner --- --- Hot Blooded? :)

It very much is. For example in combat you choose to attack - You roll and attack roll and if it is low it misses, if it is high it...

My thought was you are more likely to get something you wouldn’t choose. Thus you would have to RP something new and at take you out of...

In its early days Magic was played for ante: each player would shuffle then put the top card of the deck aside; the game's winner got...