Recent content by Umbran

Book #8 comes out this May. I would recommend having at least a little bit of a throttle on the binge - insert at least one non-DCC book after each DCC-book.

Found witch. Beat up demon.

Be enthusiastic. Wait, not like that! One of the consequences of being important is that people will get wrapped up in it. You cannot have the importance without the fervent engagement.

So, it looks past time for social media to come with warning labels about its content. Maybe a nice dialog, every time the page loads or content refreshes?

On the scale of human endeavor, it could be said this entire site is "wasted energy". So, folks really should not let that stop them.

Mod Note: Did you think the emoji would save this from seeming insulting? Because it did not. So, next time, think a bit more yourself before posting the witty barb, hey what? Thanks.

Agreed. It gives mechanical support to pulling out stops as things get more dire, rather than always opening with the biggest gun in your arsenal.

I wouldn't know, but it isn't relevant. You choose whichever is most severe to determine what status you use. So, if a character comes into a scene beaten up, the scene may be Green, but the character Yellow, and will use Yellow status. If a character has managed to not take any damage all...

In voice acting, age is much less relevant.

I am not sure that's a valuable distinction, but okay. In general, I'm fine with them, if well-implemented. But then, there are few game design elements I am against just on principle. You have to do it badly for me to dislike it, I think. That just makes time the resource you have to...

Yep. I wouldn't mind an arc that showed Simon as a growing criminal mastermind. Everyone focuses on his sister, forgetting that he is, in fact, a certifiable genius himself...

Given that, as I recall, the crew didn't have Wash's body? Yeah, he shows up some time later with a bunch of cybernetic organs to replace what got obliterated, and his behavior a little... off (which is totally in Tudyk's wheelhouse) and you're off to the races.

So, having done a little reading and some thinking... I, at least, have already come up with a couple of ways to get Wash back that I personally wouldn't hate, doesn't violate any current canon, doesn't involve time-travel hijinks, and might actually build story. If I can do that in an...

Bad is fine. There's at least one episode Joss planned to make that was really, offensively and misogynistically bad in concept, that it is unlikely any amount of good writing would have saved it, for example. I have seen the term "midquel" being used.

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.