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I don't think they do. They know Darth Sidious is, but they do not know that Darth Sidious and Palpatine are the same person.

On one hand I'm going to say yes, because Abslantis will not be denied. On the other hand, I have a feeling Doomsday will have quite a lot of other stuff going on. Maybe there'll be some heated looks and Namor and Sue can get up to something in a later movie.

He's not just supposed to be in hiding. He's supposed to be keeping an eye on Luke, for recruitment when the time comes. Hard to do that from the other side of the planet.

I can't read that sort of stuff without this going off in my brain (even though OG Red Sonya isn't too bad either): "Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one’s shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades. Words like...

IIRC, 1e had some text to the effect that the price lists for equipment assumed an economy much like the 19th century gold rush in parts of the US, with adventurers bringing out loads and loads of ancient treasure and that leading to adventurer-style equipment being proportionally more expensive.

50%? The only ones I'd count as somewhat weird are: Bredbeddle, Olothec, Time raider, Valok, Voiceless talker, Wardogs, and Xorannox the Tyract. And many of those have direct counterparts in D&D: olothec are aboleths, voiceless talkers are mind flayers, and Xorannox is a named overmind which is...

Are e.g. time raiders more weird than e.g. githyanki? Or are you just more familiar with githyanki since they've been in D&D since the 80s (or whenever Fiend Folio was released)? Orden is at its core a pretty traditional vanilla fantasyland. On the periphery there's some weird stuff, but that's...

Clerics had major access to their elemental sphere and minor access to Cosmos (which was the "everything else" sphere). Druids had major access to their elemental sphere and to Cosmos. If their guarded land could justify it (e.g. a volcanic hot spring) they could also have minor access to a...

Create water definitely existed in 2e, as a 1st level spell conjuring 4 gallons/level. Dark Sun modified the spell to only conjure half a gallon per level, and it was only available to priests with access to the sphere of Water (which meant clerics of Water, druids whose guarded land was...

It's got a more-or-less medieval tech level, with elves and humans and dwarves and hobbitspolders and castles and knights and towns and dungeons. If your definition of "generic fantasy" is "Greyhawk with a slightly different map", it's not that, but it's pretty close. And the monster book is...

Hyperspecific? Orden is pretty vanilla fantasyland. There is some fantasy space stuff, but that's all out on the periphery of the setting, much like the planes are in D&D. It would take some effort to use most D&D settings with Draw Steel, but that's because those settings are specific in...

I think we have different definitions of "branches". A branch is what happens when things start developing along different pathways. So you have the root of OD&D, and from there you have two main branches: the "Basic" branch (1st, 2nd, and 3rd version followed by the Rules Cyclopedia) and the...

I'm not super fond of that list because it intermingles branches. Including Basic D&D/Rules Cyclopedia is like calling your uncle an ancestor.

I think the major complaint with the marketing was that there was a fair bit of it surrounding the original kickstarter, but that in the period following it most of the communication about the game seems to have been via Patreon which, by its very nature, is preaching to the converted. In...

If I were in charge of the game side of D&D, I would have started thinking about 6e back in early 2014. It probably wouldn't be much more than a folder with loose ideas though.