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There was a Superior Spider-Man Team-up issue that dealt with this. The plot is that a young lady who romanticizes the past has just gone through Terrigenesis (the process by which Inhumans acquire their powers – this was during the period when Marvel was trying to sideline mutants in favor of...

I'd argue that one of the problems with Princes is precisely that it is thinking small. The early part, where you're going around investigating the kidnapped dignitaries, is pretty neat – the issue is that it then just turns into a dungeoncrawl. And the big threats the cults are supposed to...

Come to think of it, I am much more open to canon-breaking in RPGs than in books, comics, movies, or TV. I think it might be because in passive media like those, the story is what's on the page, while in RPGs the story is what happens at the table. The published material is more like a manual...

The only 5e adventure I've really run is Princes of the Apocalypse (I started in on Hoard of the Dragon Queen, but didn't really like it) which I have nearly completed (Covid got in the way and we never restarted it), and I would not consider it a classic. The only 4e adventure I got close to...

Unearthed Arcana didn't really have new uses for skills, but it did introduce a system for Complex Skill Checks that might be of interest. And of course you had epic skill uses in the Epic-Level Handbook (technically 3.0, but this particular thing would work well in 3.5).

I may have misread your "You should tell each story as if it is an entirely new story." I strongly believe that connected stories should be part of the same continuity. If Fisk is acting one way in Daredevil, he should act more or less the same way in Hawkeye, or at least have an explanation of...

I really can't agree with this. To me, some level of continuity is important. If a thing has been previously established in the same story framework, it should stay the same – at least in broad strokes – or the differences should be explained. If regular Asgardians have previously been shown to...

In 13th Age, pretty much all spells scale with level though. I don't think it actually has mage armor, but if you look at magic missile it goes from 2d4 damage as a 1st level spell to 6d6 as a 7th level spell. I think I've seen one of the designers mention that the early 5e adventures (don't...

Generally speaking, the Avengers movies have been the payoff to setup done in other movies. There's gonna be links.

The original boxed set had this to say about the Sea of Silt and the effects of wind on it: Note that the "fifty miles" mentioned is basically the whole OG map east of the Ringing Mountains except some areas in the northwest corner.

Doom in white? Looks like Secret Wars III, where the multiverse was mostly destroyed and Doom salvaged parts of it and made himself god-king.

Huh. Was that actual profit/revenue, or was it getting advances from their distributor that would then have to be paid back when the books didn't sell? Because my recollection is that book "returns" (not actually returns, book stores just send them off to be pulped minus the cover) was the...

From Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter, Unearthed Arcana: "The material components of the spell are a small feather, a tiny wooden paddle, and a minute tort. The tort is hurled at the subject, while the feather is waved in one hand and the paddle is tapped against the posterior of the...

Sounds pretty cool as a weird one-off. I probably wouldn't like it as an ongoing character, but as one more piece of weirdness? Sure. Similar as to how the Angel episode Smile Time was effin' hilarious, but I wouldn't have wanted David Boreanaz permanently replaced by a puppet.

At about 2:15.

Speaking of which, when a user is "on vacation", their profile can't be accessed, at least not by us mere mortals. It might just be my unquenchable curiosity, but when I see that someone's gone, I kind of want to know what sort of train wreck happened. But if the profile's gone, that can be...