Recent content by MarkB

I played superhero MMO City of Heroes for awhile when it first released, and it had a variety of traversal options. Flight was most popular and web-swinging was in there, but I had fun with a character that used Hulk-style leaping, and another that used Nightcrawler-style chained short-range...

Top Maul complaint: "Look, I know you're trying to be dark and sinister, but can you please stop getting your shadow all over my face?"

The funny thing is, it still works as a jab at his title. "Only a master of evil, Darth." As in, sure you can call yourself a master now, but you were never a Jedi Master.

Palpatine couldn't think of any more 'in" words to attenuate ominously after insidious and invader, so he just gave up on the whole naming scheme and let them pick their own.

What artifacts would a good & free, fanmade D&D magazine have?

Hard-won lessons.

The value of named space flight.

Yes, climate change is an issue. But it's an issue we can solve more easily than we can colonise space or other worlds. Ultimately, the easiest planet to terraform is our own.

Even if space exploration turns out to be a viable solution for the survival of mankind as a whole, it isn't going to be a solution for the vast majority of mankind as individuals. We'll never be able to economically lift more than a tiny percentage of the world's population off the planet. So...

There's a concept that author Larry Niven came up with in his Known Space stories called "Flatlander syndrome". It's the idea that anyone who's grown up and spent most of their life on Earth have an innate belief that the universe is basically set up for their convenience, because that's how it...

I mean, he also tried to brainwash Jabba, and his alternative to negotiation was a plan that, by any sane standard, had an extremely low likelihood of being pulled off with no friendly casualties, but sure, we can pretend they're equivalent situations.

Okay, so it's the very specific premise of that story that you had an issue with. I took the mention of that title to be more an indicator of where it would sit narratively, i.e. and expansion on the existing course of events that focuses on other characters, rather than a suggestion to clone...

What, setting an original story within that framework in general, or just that specific premise? Heck, I ran a campaign about 20 years ago about another group investigating goings-on in southern Mirkwood concurrently with the events of The Hobbit, was I peeing on Tolkien's grave?

The fact that they're adapting the relevant chapters of Fellowship of the Ring as part of it suggests that there will be flashbacks, and those would logically feature Frodo.

If they're making a Tom Bombadil movie, it'd better be a musical.