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Back in 3.5e, there was a magic variant that worked in a similar fashion (True Naming or something like that, from Tome of Magic). As I recall, it was not particularly popular – the main thing I see people missing from that book is the Binder. The problem I see with systems like this is that it...

Is that "quarter of" or "quarter off"? To me, "quarter of two" makes no sense, but I could see how one could get from "quarter off two" to 1:45.

2e did a lot to simplify initiative, though it did so with three different tiers of individual initiative (not counting the entirely different rules from Combat & Tactics. Basic rule: Each side rolls d10 each round. Lowest goes first. The only modifiers that apply are those that cover that...

I didn't mean that there was a problem having spoilers right in the open in a spoiler thread. I was reacting to the Facebookian "I'll put in this post as a spoiler buffer", which felt a bit redundant compared to just using spoiler tags.

From what was written in the other thread, Gatwa apparently didn't renew his contract once his two seasons were up. The most likely reason is that he's a rising star, and it doesn't seem things are determined about the next season yet, and he didn't want to be locked into keeping an open...

You do know that this site has spoiler tags, right?

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. You can probably draw your conclusions from there.

"I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'what if life were fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?' Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe." —Marcus Cole...

The Sistine Chapel is a bad comparison, I think. The Sistine Chapel is an amazing work of art, and is the peak of its genre, but it's not groundbreaking. There were plenty of similar fresco paintings before it, just not of that scale and quality. By comparison, I don't think I've ever heard...

To me, "ancestry" seems the better term, as it can cover a lot of non-biological bases as well. For example, in a human-only setting it could be used for different human cultures (e.g. like the Belgariad books). I wonder if Wizards chose not to use it because they didn't want to be seen as...

I don't think the system likes giving earlier access to a spell to specific classes, at least not as a prepared/known spell. Spell level is inherent to the spell in 5e, unlike 3e where different classes could have the same spell at different levels (e.g. bards getting suggestion as a 2nd level...

The problem with that is that background is more used for things like "jobs" rather than culture. I like the way Level Up does it, where you have Heritage (biological species, which includes some choices about abilities), Culture (upbringing), and Background (job/training). So things like...

It also has one of the most badass lines ever said by a Ferengi. As far as badass lines said on a Star Trek show, that is up there with "You may test that assumption at your convenience."

I'm pretty sure they all think that. A reality where magic works according to the whims of mages is far too dangerous for mortals, and solidifying the laws of reality means mortals can exploit them to build mundane technology that helps them.

Yes. There's been a lot of giant skellingtons going around: Sutekh, Bone Beasts, Omega. There's another interesting tidbit that I thought of, if they're going to shake things up with Doctor Who. Back when Chibnall quit, JMS mentioned he had inquired with the BBC about doing Doctor Who...

Sure. My point is more that since there are no real psychic powers, anymore than there are real wizards or miracleworkers, there's no firm ground to stand on to say what psionics are. It all depends on which fiction you'd like them to be. My idea is very much colored by the 2e Complete Psionics...

Ship combat is often one of the big problems with sci-fi games. 1e Star Wars D6 is probably the only one that's done it fairly well, and they did that by focusing on fighter/light transport scale, and by centering things on one-on-one or one-on-many fights, not many-on-many. Though the Clashes...

IRL, "psychic power" is a veneer of pseudoscience over magic woo. But in fiction, there's definitely a difference – particularly from the scholarly type of magic D&D wizards do. And as with most fictional things, the edges of the concept are kind of nebulous. It is clear that at the center of...

I agree with the consensus that "arrived at" (or sometimes on or in) is correct, and not "arrived to". I would expect that "arrived to" is the result of a non-native speaker whose native language does use the equivalent of "arrived to" – Swedish, for example, would use "anlände till" which...

You probably don't. Arkham Horror and (I guess) Candela Obscura are for people who like the Cthulhu Mythos concepts, but not the Call of Cthulhu system.