Recent content by Paul Farquhar

In the original module, there was no demiplane of dread. There was only Barovia. The demiplane, and its rules, were not invented until the boxed set.

Sure, it’s not like you can use irony, satire and sarcasm for comedy, just to amuse people.

It doesn’t modify stats, but creature type does affect some spells and abilities. In which case, the effect is discribed in the spell or ability description.

It changes their creature type. So a cat familiar is a fey or a fiend, not a beast.

Nope, khoravar are a separate species, and always have been.

I don’t know, us random school teachers need to have a pretty versatile skillset.

I was just role playing as Wes Anderson posting in a thread about Wes Anderson, in the style of Wes Anderson.

Cats, can use boots.

It's not just a matter of pronunciation. It's quite possible for a bad reader to break a book, or a good reader to make it, irrespective of accurate pronunciation. I'm currently trying to listen to an audiobook of Revelation Space, and the reader is pretty bad, flat and monotonous.

He knows he is a prisoner, and that is why he wants to escape. Indeed, one of the ways he is tormented by the possibility of escape that it is just beyond his reach. But it is not impossible for a dark lord to escape: Vecna, Azalin, Soth have all escaped one way or another.

I think it's quite well known that Fincher had a lot of interference with this, and it isn't the movie he wanted to make. I'm not exactly a Fincher fan, and I though Gone Girl was pretty bad (but that goes for the book too), but I'm willing to let him off the blame for the terribleness that was...

I was assuming they were referring to visual media, not the written word, where the skin colour of characters is often left unspecified. But when it comes to movie villains, they aren't just white, they are usually British too, with an American hero. Is this perceived as anti-British? No...

That’s an easy one. Soft g would be a more correct, Spanish pronunciation, whereas hard g is anglicised. I would pronounce it with a hard g.

Kind of like a puzzle without a solution?

A lot of the errors I have heard are old fashioned terms in historical fiction, or English characters using US/Australian pronunciations, and, of course Raymond Luxury Yacht is often pronounced wrong.