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Hey! I resemble that remark.... But hey, I guess I'll own the dorky label. Because the thing is, I do believe that these are baby steps towards space colonization, and I think that colonization is just about the best possible good on the horizon that humanity could achieve. Earth constitutes a...

So with assisted launch, there are a number of real advantages, and there are some advantages that turn out to be overhyped or undercut by some disadvantages that the tech has. TLDR, it has a niche which includes gimmick "space" tourism and maybe small or specialized satellites, but doesn't look...

I like the mythic monster implementation. In fact, I think it looks cool to use for another Magic setting, the recently released Ikoria, where monsters in the wild mutate and evolve in response to challenges, growing new limbs/new powers/new capabilities as circumstances challenge them. I could...

Mythic actions arent designed to be any better or more competitive than any other action, they are just meant to be more interesting or more complex, to allow the designers to explore new design space without having it impact each and every action for the more casual players. reports that the...

To share my perspective, learning a new rules set is a lot like work because the rules arent what I enjoy about gaming. The rules are necessary, but what I enjoy are the stories, the characters, the fun of triumph and the frustration of getting set back, and all the goofing off that happens in...

That's hilarious. I'm from Monterey, CA where we are super proud of our clam chowder even though it's just New England style chowder that we just happen to make on the West Coast. It is really darn good, though! I'm always interested in the history of food though, thanks for the trivia! Uhh...

Nice! 2 posts and one is edition war bait (admittedly not a surprise in a thread about comparing editions) and one is platform wars bait. I think if your next post is about console vs PC and the one after that snidely mocks Manhattan chowder in favor of New England (which I mean honestly that...

As another 3.x enthusiast, the way it broke down for me was this. When I am playing 5E, actually sitting down and playing the game, there is almost nothing I miss about 3.x. The rules are simpler and more streamlined, and skills and noncombat abilities are designed such that it's easier to just...

I'm not a programmer myself, though I have done a fair bit of coding back in the day. And I was mostly staying out of the conversation about new conflicting ideas of ownership in the new millennium, but this particular comment jumped out. The idea of nesting emulations of operating systems...

Look we all know the Romans took the Greek gods and changed the names so that they could own the IP and do their own merchandising. Wizards was just following in their illustrious footsteps.

I'll buy paperbacks and then buy the ebook/audiobook again if I want to be able to read/listen to an old favorite on a road trip or long flight. I pay to stream anime as they come out and will still buy the DVD sometimes to support a show I really loved. I'll watch a movie in a theater and then...

I dont know, using the Lego movie again it was clear that the first movie was very interested in both the story of the Lego characters, but also in exploring lego as a toy that appeals across generations. Lego Batman really cared about the title character and his adventure, and didn't touch on...

I think a Llorwyn/Shadowmoor return is pretty unlikely, especially given that they now have a home for almost any faerie tale type stuff in the newly created and successful Eldraine. Ravnica is probably going to be rested for a while as well, given that we just had 3 sets in a row there. Still...

Yeah something playful like that could work! I know it would be an incredibly difficult balancing act, and that most people's first reaction on hearing about it would be skepticism, but honestly what makes D&D uniquely itself and not just any generic fantasy has so much to do with table dynamics...

I'm 33, started playing by picking up the old AD&D starter set, read it religiously, prepared for the first session with my friends who had just bought the actual books and were starting up their campaign, then realized that they had bought 3.0 literally the week it came out and all my careful...

I'm curious if the D&D movie will go the route of being essentially a general fantasy movie with some D&D names and set decorations and tropes, or if it will do something that brings in the actual tabletop game into the movie as something to be directly commented on and portrayed. The former...

There is Chult from FR, Maztica also from FR that also has plenty of Mesoamerican flavor, and Xen'drick from Eberron which is also a fantastical jungle adventure setting in a land where forerunner civilizations have mostly been long lost to the wilds. I mean none of them have dinosaur riding...

I'd feel bad that I was wrong the many times I insisted that MtG just can't handle printing stuff from another canon in their super serious magical wizard card game because of nerd reasons... But it turns out I'm too happy that I can put Mothra in my Magic deck to be upset! That is, I'll be...

I have no inside knowledge of how/whether MtG has made any money off the crossover, but I do know that there was a couple of promo cards printed for MtG using D&D IP, and they were very well received and in great demand even though you can't actually play them in any competitive context at all...

It's the "given where we are now" part that is the most frustrating. When this is all over, we need to take a serious look at the failures all along the line that led to us not using the time and warning we had to properly prepare for this crisis. I'm on the "inside" somewhat, in that the lab...