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Before George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney, he had plans for a new series, and several scripts were written. I've heard the story involved more background about Palpatine and explain his motivations. So I guess Lucas also kinda felt the need to explain their villains in a more sympathetic...

I remember I remixed KotS as well. I think I cut down the monsters and made it so that the background story was told in visions people visiting the Keep experienced. I also altered some of the story. But the details are fuzzy.

Well, usually the problem is the duration of such abilities, and I don't remember enough of these abilities to say if they have any and what it is. But principially - even without summoning spells every "smart" villain can hire and recruit people to fight along his side or to hunt after them...

I haven't been playing 3.x since forever, basically, but CR 11 doesn't sound that outlandish. DR, fast healing and energy resistance aren't that impressive against a Level 11 (moderate challenge) party or Level 8 party (serious challenge). They will have magic weapons, and a fireball will deal 8...

Pah, my idea of the Rack of Jealousy was much better, and even worse, they picked the idea of that stupid cambion whose-name-I-won't-even-acknowledge from the Eternal Discomfort department.

I think that's actually season 4 in the first episode of that season, Way of the Warrior. The 3rd season begins with meeting the Dominion and its Founders.

Which isn't really something that's wrong for any other franchise or non-franchise piece of entertainment. That we care about what is being fought about is usually the key to making a memorable and widely succesful action movie. It doesn't always require much (he's a widower and they killed his...

You mention a lot of good points. I kinda mostly look at the first when I think about it: The way media is presented to us is now chosen by engagement, as you mention. And that might be good for the platform, but not good for us. I have some hope that this is something governments in the world...

It kinda feels like a cheat code to the human brain. It doesn't matter how smart you are (or think you are). You see such headlines, and they do something to you. Even if you get cynical and ridicule the emotionally manipulative headlines, they are already doing something to you. Since they...

I can't even remember right now if we actually played it or were just discussing it, but someone in my gaming group at the time mentioned that this unfortunately felt to them more like the game playing them then them playing the game. The "if you roll an odd/even number thing" sounded like an...

I kinda feel it is, because 4E has a lot of "slide/push/pull" enemies x squares powers, including powers where the x was variable depending on your attribute and certain class/role/weapon stats. 3.x and 5E I think usually only had something like "makes person run away as fast as possible" or...

I dunno, maybe not, maybe I would. But I kinda liked it when in 4E, the different monsters of one species had shared abilities that made them unique and play different against than other species. But I guess sometimes you just need quick stats for a brute or mage or whatever.

I kinda want to see two 4E versions on some aspect: I would like a grid-based and battlemat-less ruleset. But I am not sure the latter really works. In play, I think using the grid and all the position stuff is really fun, but needing some form of grid to adjucate can make things more difficult...

On that vein, I think 4E prime feature is that it does really nice set piece combats. So a change I would make is to make this explicit in the DMG and account for it in any published adventures. Instead of having a dungeon with 10 rooms full of party level enemies, boil it down to something...

I think it might be interesting and possible to do a non-Starfleet Star Trek, but this movie had too little of what seems core to the identity of Star Trek. The characters seem mostly outsiders of the Federation or Starfleet - except Garret, and they deal with mostly people outside Starfleet and...

Numerical Bonuses I would probably ditch the 1/2 level bonus. I did this for my Star Wars and Arcana Evolved hacks. I am considering cutting the hit point bonuses at higher levels, for similar reasons- extending the usability of monsters, and also to make the power level differences between 1st...

It almost seems it would have been easier to call them "hit dice", even though they are class+ability based and not level-based. Maybe it would still be more revolutationary than turning THAC0 in to Base Attack Bonus, but it would be a familiar expression; I guess? That said, I don't mind the...

I kinda feel that is a design space 4E overlooked for classes, adding some passive benefits or talents. That said, there are someutility powers that almost fill that role - some at-wills work pretty similar, and some of these things are feats, but being feats and pwoers, they remain optionals...

It was just not that interesting. Tying it back to Mirror Georgiou doesn't really help, either, it just makes the world feel slammer again. I - against all realistic expectations - hoped for something that actually discusses either Section 31 or Mirror-Georgiou's moral and ethical "challenges"...

I started playing D&D (and roleplaying in general basically) with D&D 3E, and was slowly introduced to the cosmology of the Great Wheel. I think for any setting I made myself, I wouldn't use it. It just contained too much stuff that I didn't need or find interesting, especially with alignment...