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That's not really true. Very few people seem to be aware the RPG exists let alone was released not just "people who play fantasy RPGs", but even if it was the latter, that's like 90% of the market lol given how dominant D&D and others are is. So a pretty peculiar situation. The videogame is...

There has to be, but sure as hell Pillars didn't find it. Two games of largely disappointing consumables. I'm sure they were "balanced" but sheesh. I think BG's problems are really: A) The game isn't very well-coded, to this day - for example, if you throw a bomb on to an already-flaming...

I agree, but I think we need to be real here, because there are two massive factors here: 1) We know what we're doing, in extreme detail, compared to "normies" with 5E D&D (and this isn't that different, and generally easier). A fight that's trivial with good builds and good knowledge of how...

The funny thing is I mostly agree! I don't think it's an exceptionally compelling argument. I don't think it's remotely in that bracket/tier of arguments! C+ at best. I think it's an opinion, and frankly, not one I'm married to, but I do think seems correct to me ("seems correct" being, imho...

It's pretty bad but some far from the worst L&O spin-off. I wouldn't watch it unless you wanted to see how funny the concept was (the England & Wales legal system is not an ideal one for this format lol, especially as the whole thing is set long, long after PACE became a serious thing, which...

I think that's maybe an unintentionally misleading way of putting it. Mearls' team absolutely provided Larian with information about D&D and the Forgotten Realms, and I'm sure that involved some amount of what is technically "consultation", but I'm not aware of any suggestion that Mearls or his...

I tend to agree. Metacurrencies can be very useful for some games but D&D isn't, fundamentally, a metacurrency game. I disagree that there shouldn't be any default-included metacurrency at all, note, but agree that it shouldn't be mechanically or mathematically required for the game to work, and...

It's interesting to see the ideas people have, there are a lot of strong ones with some very weak ones mixed in, which uh, I guess that's D&D in a nutshell! Like, alignment, bless its heart, is no more going to make a comeback than racial level limits. The most successful edition sees truly...

Have been continuing an HM run through BG3, pretty far through Act 2 now, and it is fascinating that, even beyond any amount "harder" it makes the game (and HM doubles-down on that by also increasing the difficulty of fights, though they eventually patched in that difficulty level for non-HM...

Fascinating. I was in Bali a few weeks ago and I didn't notice any, but I might have just seen "Bucket in bathroom" as so normal that it didn't even consciously register. What they did have in all the bathrooms I visited was bidets of various kinds, including "just a sprayer on a hose next to...

If it helps your quest, Hard West II is also profoundly mediocre, just like, determinedly "kinda ok" and really gunning hard for that coveted "nothing to write home about" award. It's definitely not a "bad game" or something, just profoundly non-compelling on pretty much all levels.

I mean, do they still appear though? It seems like it's been a very long time since I saw a 1950s car in an actual new movie. Late 1960s? Now that's a bit different. I guess there was a late '50s car in the Barbie movie but I feel like that was for a different reason lol. I offer an alternative...

No, the hat chooses for him. I've read text just now. He's crapping his pants about it selecting Slytherin, but it doesn't ask him to make a choice, it makes a choice for him, possibly (unclear) because he's crapping his pants re: Slytherin, which makes sense. But the idea he just chose is an...

That's basically a massive retcon though isn't it? There's no evidence, textually, that it has anything to do with the student's choice (with the possible exception of Harry, who himself continues to insist the hat chose for him), until, years after the fact, after years of people, including...

The hardship (which was much more severe for Monroe - Rowling's accounts are demonstrably exaggerated and self-contradictory, and increasingly more dramatic and Dickensian the more she tells them - the earlier versions are much more plausible) may have made more Monroe empathetic and socially...