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Meanwhile, the post credit montage where we see what happened to various supporting characters was brutal.

The way Dedra uses Syrill wouldn't have as much impact if they weren't in a relationship. Her treating a life partner this way tells us more about her character than if she was just using a work colleague. Without their relationship we also get none of the dynamics between Dedra and Syrill's...

You kinda answered your own question. Their relationship mirrors, or rather it contrasts with Cassian and Bix’s relationship. That’s part of the point. It emphasises how Syrill and Dedra’s relationship is transactional, and based on personal benefit by comparison. There’s a banality to it which...

Exactly, she was a cog in the machine who ended up making cogs for the machine. Her ending was poetic to me.

A few quickies: Wild Beyond the Witchlight - we steamrolled the first Witch, she rolled poor initiative and was dead before her turn. Homebrew 5E - We picked up the game after a bit of a break. During the session we got ambushed by a group that included a Raksasha. BECMI game - I found out...

I thought one of the many interesting things about Dedra and Syrill was that under different circumstances they could have been a part of the rebel alliance. At least, that's what they show hints at.

Just while we're on this tangent, Acolyte always felt like a YA show to me. Anyway, now back to the Andor memes...

It's a shame, I really liked inspiration as a currency players could use to effect the narrative (even if it was just a house rule).

I was going to mention this in my previous comment. In the groups I play in players do request things outside the rules after rolling a nat 20. It's not something that happens every time, nor is the request always granted. But's it does happen. At the start of 5E I allowed inspiration points to...

Just as an aside: I had a friend in highschool when we were first getting into 2nd edition DnD who loved Psionics. Like, he believed in it as a real thing, that with enough practice he would one day be able to move things with his mind. When the psionics handbook came out he joined our group...

I never felt like RPGs were in danger from the satanic panic. I thought it was basically free advertising that tripled sales. If anything it was more dumb luck.

Yeah, I do for the most part, but not always. Like, sometimes a 1 is a miss or a 20 is a success. It depends on the situation, it’s a ruling, not a rule.

I don't think it's just 1's and 20's. I agree with John in the post above, you can narrate any roll. You might narrate the scene if a player only just makes a successful skill check, as an example: Athletics check DC 15 to jump across a pit: Player rolls a 16 You leap across the pit and just...

Fantastic film, it really lived up to all the hype for me. It had one of those scenes that reminded me why I go to the cinema.

It was the movie length pilot of DS9 that really got me into Star Trek. I remember catching episodes of TNG previously and liking it, but maybe I was a bit young. I still remember a review that called the DS9 'Neighbours in Space', which I thought was a bit harsh.