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nyvinter reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General Mike Mearls' blog post about RPG generations with
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As for my own response to Mearls' comments...I'll just leave it as "I disagree with this about as much as I do with most things Mearls... -
I preferred Michael Praed's depiction of Robin over Jason Connery's. It felt like the show lost something when they switched Praed out.
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Mine ... Buffy and it's spin-off Angel are still comfort shows for me. Despite Whedon's fall from grace, I still consider both shows...
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Right but my perception is that you may be insisting that mechanics are the only determinative factor in how others play the game, and...
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nyvinter reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th with Like.
It’s the difference between potential and kinetic energy. A game can be potentially deadly and it can be deadly at the table. They’re...
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nyvinter replied to the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th.Sure it is but in a dramaturgical way rather than random. And it's way more inline with the grimdark literary genre it's inspired by...
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nyvinter replied to the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th.I did see some people complain that Age of Umbra wasn't enough soulslike, and I'm sitting here going "no, it's way more deadly." A...
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nyvinter replied to the thread Critical Role Announces Age of Umbra Daggerheart Campaign, Starting May 29th.If deadliness is only defied on character actually dying during the game rather than how the rules interact, then Call of Cthulhu isn't...
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nyvinter replied to the thread Old shows that you enjoy?.Yes. And shares a lot of people with the later show in the same city, the Wire.
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nyvinter replied to the thread Old shows that you enjoy?.It's a bit like when Showtime decided to cancel Odyssey 5 because "we're not interested in science fiction right now" despite it was...
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nyvinter replied to the thread Old shows that you enjoy?.Max Headroom has aged surprisingly well — the channel 4 movie more so than the tv-show. And while I personally don't consider it old...
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nyvinter replied to the thread Old shows that you enjoy?.Callan. Edward Woodward as a spy who shouldn't be out in the field because he's already broken as heck. And yet his bosses keep using...
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Sapphire and Steel.
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nyvinter replied to the thread Old shows that you enjoy?.Sandbaggers was the number one inspiration for Greg Rucka's Queen & Country comic — a bit less cold war than the Sandbaggers tv show...
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nyvinter replied to the thread What do you use to stream on your TV?.Google TV. The older version with less storage and no Ethernet port. It has most of the apps (including Kodi for NAS-access and...