Recent content by Umbran

Mod note: Some things are true. Some things are false. And yet other things are matters of interpretation and impression. Everyone should make sure they are leaving sufficient room in their rhetoric for that last one, or problems will arise.

Mod note: Some of you are getting a little pointed and heated. I suggest you cool it off off, before the red text also has to become pointed.

So, with all respect, this isn't an issue of reason, or numbers - it is about how individual GMs want games to play out. If they want a fast way to ignore environmental effects and allow payers to have their rests work out when they want them, they include the spell. If not, they exclude it...

Bleh. Babylon 5 already showed us what comes of that position - fire, death, and no long-term advancement. Real progress comes when we stop fighting over crap.

That there is true or false discussion is an imaginary, artificial dichotomy of your making. I find your image of discussion to be horribly limited, encompassing only a subset of all good discussion. I don't have to disagree with someone in order to have an interesting and useful conversation...

Except, I don't think it really came back for 5e, which seems to be doing better than 3e or 4e. I don't figure many of the new players of the past decade think much in terms of GNS divisions.

Similar for Steve Harrington. Originally, the "redemption arc" was planned for Lonnie Byers, Will & Johnathan's estranged father. Joe Keery was just too darned charming, though, and they adjusted.

That's not what we mean by "Great Cleave".

The look that says, "I'm not wearing proper padding under this chainmail, and my boy here is a prisoner of his facial hair"?

No, I look at you weird because in New England an axe is more appropriate than a machete.

I'm worried for Steve Harrington. At this point that boy will step in and take the hit for just about anyone, and his redemption arc has made the audience love him so much....

More "Wild Boys" I think... "The wild boys are calling On their way back from the fire In august moon's surrender to A dust cloud on the rise Wild boys fallen far from glory Reckless and so hungered On the razors edge you trail Because there's murder by the roadside In a sore afraid new world...

Could have been worse - they could have chosen Oingo Boingo, "No One Lives Forever". "...it's the hour of the wolf and I don't wanna die!"

My wife and I have been doing a rewatch of the entire series, in preparation, and last night we got to Season 4, Episode 1. Hooray Eddie!

R2 isn't subtitled, because: 1) He's got quite the potty mouth (lack of actual mouth notwithstanding). 2) We can all tell what he's saying anyway.