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Complexity is the currency with which you buy depth. Having attacks be more interesting than "I hit, do damage" is complexity well spent, and what allows combats to be more interesting than just rolling a die for each side to see who wins.

I agree that these make for boring spells, but the solution isn't to do a Savage Worlds-style reduction of damaging spells to the single-target bolt and the AOE blast. The proper solution is to add more pizzazz to the spells. Have fire spells literally set fire to people (adding a DoT effect)...

Sort of. Original Coriolis was made by a company called Järnringen, who had previously made an edition of the Swedish post-apocalyptic game Mutant (which has some links to Mutant: Year Zero, but takes place far later when society is in the process of rebuilding rather than falling apart)...

I can see how they made the calls that lead to The Muppets. For one, OG Muppet Show had the format of a variety show – something that was still fairly popular around that time. By the time of The Muppets, that format was dead as a doornail so instead they went with a talk show format, and then...

Matt made a post not all that long ago about it over on Discord:

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...