Recent content by pukunui

Mind you, I have not seen Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection. I have also not seen the AvP movies (except for clips on YouTube). As you probably know from other threads, I'm not a big fan of the original Alien. I do, however, like Aliens and Alien: Covenant, and I can sit through Prometheus. I'm...

I wonder if something will happen with Ortegas' brother at some point. They can't have introduced him just so he could annoy his sister by flirting with Uhura, and because he's making a documentary of multiple Enterprise missions, he is going to be a recurring character, even if he's not in...

I can't find it in any of the 3.5e books I've looked in. I'm so sure it's in one of them, but I'm just not finding it. I suppose it's possible it only ever appeared in Dragon Magazine ...

I don’t have the book in front of me, but IIRC there was a caption … it just wasn’t a very enlightening one. The exact context was left to the viewer’s imagination. EDIT: According to artist Jeff Carlisle's website, he painted that picture of Lidda for the "Class Acts: Body Modifications"...

She got the trauma in ep 1. We saw her experiencing some PTSD in ep 2. She endangered her crewmates by deliberately disobeying an order (for which she received a suspension) in ep 3. Number One recommended she be un-suspended early in ep 4. That’s four in a row out of six episodes. Ortegas is...

And I'm saying that I don't agree that it has. Just because it doesn't come up every episode doesn't mean it's been dropped. La'an's Gorn-related trauma didn't come up every episode in the two prior seasons.

It’s not a matter of how much time has passed. Number One tells M’Benga that, because everyone is “pulling an all-nighter” during the neutron star mission, she “even recommended” to Pike that he reinstate Ortegas. M’Benga asks if Number One trusts her, and she says yes. (Ep 4, just before the 19...

They didn’t even leave her hand mangled. I guess M’Benga can regrow fingers more easily than eyes!

As much as I liked the revised 5e alt covers, I am waiting for the inevitable slipcase with errata before purchasing physical copies.

I must admit when I first saw the guy, I thought the reveal was going to be that they were Terrans from the Mirror Universe. That would’ve made as much sense as anything else!

The GV adventure set in the Nine Hells-themed casino has magical security cameras. Again, this works in Eberron, where it makes sense that some magewrights would have found a way to employ the clairvoyance spell in that way.

That first adventure is one of the reasons why I chose to run the Golden Vault series in Eberron. A museum with a gift shop and an animatronic dinosaur doesn’t feel out of place there. It definitely would in the Forgotten Realms (except maybe in Baldur’s Gate or Lantan). This thread got away...

Thanks for letting me know. I think I'm OK with that. I don't think D&D as a specific game needs to be all things to all people. It's allowed to have its own aesthetic and its own limitations, just like other games do. I know, and I don't like it. I especially don't like that WotC has put them...

Not sure if you're directing this at me specifically or not, but I want to be clear that I am not complaining about the specific non-European cultures / ethnicities depicted in the Radiant Citadel book. I like that they gave us more variety on that front. I also want to say that I either like or...

Really? That's interesting, since in his intro to the original grey box, Ed talks about how they're called the Forgotten Realms because there used to be portals between Toril and Earth, and it's we Earthlings who have "forgotten" those realms on Toril. Having ancient Egyptians, Babylonians...