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I didn't get that sense at all - she was hiding under a corpse, so he couldn't see her. He's about to headshot the body she's hiding under, only to find that his gun is out of bullets. Then he leaves. The ending was a little odd. I, too, expected to see some real resolution with the Governor...

If you mean the 48 fps, I didn't have any issues with it. I thought the picture looked great. The only real "mistake" that I noticed was that the CGI of Bilbo's plates being bounced around by the dwarves when they were cleaning up looked obviously fake. But that was less about the framerate and...

The movie was pretty much what I expected it to be. Overlong, stuffed with unnecessary subplots and a desperate need to make the principals into "serious" (read: violent) heroes. The opening could have been cut drastically, as many have noted, but I feel that one could say the same for the final...

I thought he sounds kinda like James Cromwell. Anyway, not everyone living in Georgia is going to have a southern accent.

So, it was looking like the prisoners (one white, one black) were heading towards being a part of the group, despite Rick & Daryl's protests. Then T-Dog gets bitten. Then it becomes clear that both prisoners will be integrated into the team. The Law of Conservation of Black Cast Members holds true.

The combat system is surprisingly fiddly for a game that, in theory, is not about combat. I don't think the rulebook has a summary, but I think the important bits are: DEX determines initiative. Most guns can shoot 2/round, ammo willing, if you have the gun ready to fire at the start of the...

Well, the comics have been around for 50 (Marvel) - 80 (DC) years, so I would say their shelf life is pretty long. :) The most comparable property in movie-land would probably be James Bond, and he's still going strong after 50 years himself.

Wait until one of the characters does something bone-headed. :) Like, er, their trip into the twisty halls that was all organized until the second they ran into some walkers. I thought drawing the arrows on the walls was pretty clever, but of course they all panicked and ignored the arrows and...

Err, what are the writers researching, exactly? We're talking about Tony Stark, a guy who invents the future before it happens and runs around in a suit of flexible air-tight metal armor that can fly and shoot "repulsor" beams and has a force field and self-contained power (and has done so since...

I don't think that Tony Stark's (or any other superhero tech-person's) technobabble has ever been scientifically researched by the writer. It's all sci-fi, and fantastic (not hard) sci-fi at that - it just has to sound somewhat plausible. And hopefully be internally consistent. Proving that a...

HOMM 1 is kinda fun but it's kinda basic. HOMM 2 is a lot of fun but very primitive - you have to micro-manage your side and there are some exploits in the rules. The AI is not great and relies on cheating on the higher difficulty levels to beat you. HOMM 3 is probably the best of the series...

Play goes fast once people understand the dice mechanic (which is used for everything in the game) and are familiar with their character. Character writeups are pretty short, and the dice mechanic is fairly simple, so none of that should take too long.

Magic, magic, magic. Magic is vague and mysterious and rare and often risky in the LotR books. D&D magic is scientific, repeatable, easy, and safe. The arcane/divine split is a D&D-ism that permeates the rules but has no place in Middle Earth. Safe, easy, and repeatable healing magic has no...

I would go with the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game. I've read a lot of stories of people teaching the game with a lot of success to kindergartners and grade schoolers. The mechanics are pretty basic and very flexible, which is good when dealing with whatever out-there ideas your son comes up...

Well, I thought the movie did a really good job of that. In the big action scenes, there are HUGE threats for the super-humans, and smaller-scale stuff for the humans to deal with. In an RPG context, it's a bit trickier because you have to count on players to self-select the proper threats, as...

Wait, I thought the system didn't matter? OK, that sounds reasonable. You're saying to not be a rules lawyer or a jerk. I think we can all agree on that!

I can't XP Neonchameleon; can someone cover for me? Terrya, I think your tale is a good story of how the edition wars ruined a nice, friendly, casual game. But not everyone plays in such game, nor does everyone want to. Your argument, to me, leads to the idea that there should be any rules at...

Interesting how some of the GM/mechanical problems he notes would have been solved if the game was based on 4e instead of (basically) 3e. It's occurred to me in the past that 4e D&D would have been much better suited for Star Wars than SAGA, and SAGA would have been much better suited for the...

FWIW, my experience with the game matches Merric's and not Umbran's. Using skills to target defenses is crazy over-powered except at the upper levels, and healing really, really sucks. The UtF thing isn't even really a matter of abuse - all the force characters in the book have Skill Focus: UtF...

I haven't had a chance to run it in a RL game yet (sadly!) but I've been using it to run a PbP game and have been playing in other MHR PbP games. While it's not perfect (what system is?), it is the first superhero RPG that I've seen that "gets" what a supers game should be (IMO of course). I...