Recent content by roger semerad

Hmm... In general, I don't watch a lot of old t.v. series. Through most of it's history it has been a lesser form of storytelling, at least in the U.S.A.. There are some real stand outs though, particularly in the comedy genre. Star Trek - is overall a great series with interesting concepts...

I picked Craig, Connery, and Lazenby. Craig and Connery are the standouts that really nailed the character, everyone else is below them. My third pick was between Lazenby and Brosnan and I had a hard time picking between them. Lazenby only got one film, but it's one to the best in the series...

Great writeup as usual. As with so many things with rpgs it comes down to talking to your group and making sure everyone is having fun. I do like optimizing to an extent, but I'm a little different about it. My personal way to "optimize" rules could be more accurately called "exploring" the...

I was only active during 3.5 and 4th, so all my picks are from there. 3.5 Player's Handbook 2 and Book of Nine Swords - This was the peak of class design in 3rd edition. There was a lot of good experiementation at the end of this edition, but these are the ones that stand out to me. 3.5...

I personally really prefer the later sleeker designs. It's not about aerodynamics, it's about looking cool. Like those cars from the 30s and 40s that had cool sculpting but were aerodynamically naughty word. When any engineer puts so much work into a design, they want it to both look good and...

Nice, it's always a pleasure to talk to another transformer fan. I'm glad that the Transformers line is getting more female transformers lately. It really adds to the variety out there and expands the appeal to new fans. My favorite female transformers in the main lines so far are Prime first...

I collect transforming toys. It started as my love for the Transformers growing up. I was born in 82 and the original show was my first love. Getting an Optimus Prime for christmas is even my earliest childhood memory. But as time passed and I got older I moved on from toys, it was the...

I'm looking forward to your feedback. It will take a while, but also tell us what the high level experience is like. I felt that high level enemies were absurdly tanky in the original. The only efficient way to take them out was to cast weakness to magic-weakness to element-damage spell, in...

I'll start off by saying, all genres are poorly defined, and any definition starts to break down the more you test it. Trying to define a genre is an intellectual exercise for the fun of it, because clearly there are some common similarities between works in a genre. Few are going to agree...

I have never liked theaters. I've had all kinds of problems over the years, unclean seats and isles, laser pointers aimed at the screen, phones not turned off and ringing during the movie, talking throughout the film, and even crying babies (not children, babies. As in under two years old. Of...

I don't have Paramount streaming so I have only seen tos, tng, ds9, enterprise, and voyager so far. From that list here's my picks. Captain - Picard: This was the easiest pick for me. Picard is what I see when I think of a Starfleet captain. Very intelligent, but more importantly extremely...

I'll have to disagree as well. Most cartoons aimed at kids are pretty bad, regardless of the time they were made. I see the 80s about the same quality wise as previous gens, but with the higher overall production values they paved the way for cartoons to be taken more seriously in the 90s with...

I didn't even know it existed until around the 2010's. I was born in 82 so I was a bit too young. It's a shame, I loved fantasy growing up and read a lot of fantasy books. I probably would have liked it if I saw it at a young age. The cartoons that caught my attention in my earliest years...

I'd definitely have sandwiches in my games if I was a DM. It's not a question of if they could be made, of course they could. The real question is what the foods in your game can tell you about the cultures that they come from. It's a world building tool. Sandwiches have probably existed as...

I'm in a weird place when it comes to Christmas movies. I like the honest comedy of what Christmas is actually like in Christmas Vacation and Christmas Story, but as much as they make me laugh, they don't really get me into the Christmas spirit. I want sentimentality, but not sappiness. I...