Recent content by Umbran

You say "filler episode" like they are a bad thing. Today's TV seasons of 10 episodes have enlightened us on the real purpose of so-called "filler episodes" - they are episodes in your series less devoted to any arc plot, where you have time to focus on character development.

I just finished that one. The end is... a lot.

This was addressed in comic form in, "The Shepherd's Tale", published by Dark Horse.

Then maybe you aren't in a good position to argue his statements should be tolerated.

I am not sure we really want this thread to become about Mr. Baldwin. But this? This is a form of "whataboutism". What other people do, or don't do, does not stand as an excuse for someone's behavior. His behavior must stand or falter on its own merits.

Um, I think you are confused. I was talking about Wash, played by Alan Tudyk, who hasn't done anything objectionable so far as I am aware. Adam Baldwin, who played Jayne, is the questionable one.

With reports of how the writer's room worked with him in it... I am mot convinced that the show was actually improved by his presence. Like, the "gang rape Inara" episode plan was apparently Joss', and might just have killed the show if it ever aired.

For 5e, I have more than I am apt to need for the rest of my life. If for some reason I picked up 5.5e seriously, I would need some more stuff.

Well, Wash was a fan favorite, and part of the core crew dynamic. I don't know that the show works without him, to be honest. Yeah, you can fit some story in there, but unless they pull scifi shenanigans not normally seen in the show, there's a pretty hard limit presented... largely by River's...

I mean, he hasn't done anything since the flop that was The Nevers. It isn't like Hollywood is beating down his door these days.

The typical Orc Stone does not contain the spirit of the orc whose life was saved, though : "You saved my life, so you get a few services from one of my ancestors." Which is a bit more benign than the OP, who has the "saved" orc in the stone themselves.

Yeah. Batman isn't a fan of the hail of bullets that is the primary Plan B for Shadowrunners...

Yeah, but the archtype of the contingency-planning character is a super-genius, smarter than anyone at your table, with more in-world knowlege than even the GM has. So, what you suggest will fail to produce the desired result. This is why many games that have contingency-planning as a motif...

blink. Karma, its meta-currency, was central to effective play in FASERIP.

Yeah... but they are generally tied to metacurrencies.