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I'm getting the impression that the sampling of gamers I've played with regularly are not the norm. I can't remember any iteration of groups I've gamed with regularly having players who as a habit did no prep and just sat there waiting for the GM to make things happen.

I 100% mostly feel the same way! 😃 Although I'm not interested in just dungeon crawling, the great thing about a streamlined system is that it's easy to tack on (hopefully) equally simple subsystems for the non-crawly parts of a game.

At-Will, Encounter, and Daily powers/features. These are so easy to understand that they would make the game easier for new players.

Walking, hiking, and running - although as I get older there's less running and more walking. Being handy around the house and yard. I'm not very handy, mind you, but we get by. Drawing. I like some simple pencil and paper, despite having a fair amount of experience with digital art...

A feat of Dexterity, too - and maybe feat of Constitution. Really: lot sof ways to focus their energy to boost physical activities of various kinds. This could include boosts to saves, physical skills, movement, etc.

I voted for Ranger, if only to see what this game's approach boils them down to.

The only thing I'm seeing in the free preview docs that I don't like is that the monster statblocks, although much simpler than 5E (yay!), are very densely formatted. They're difficult to scan. That's a pretty small complaint, all told!

I think maybe the writers don't understand command: Shaw blames others for his mistakes, and I thought this was a way to make him look lesser-than; but now Riker blames Picard for his own decision (which Picard recommended). Maybe there's a story thread about taking responsibility, and this...

Part of the let down of LaT is that Ragnarok balanced the drama, action, and comedy so well (for some, myself included). Also, I've only seen LaT once, but did they tie together the death and grief themes of Gorr's story and Jane's? I just felt like Riri had no personality and was a complete...

It was nice to see Picard get genuinely, openly angry, even if it was at Beverly. And it was great to see Gates McFadden can still hold up her end of a scene. Also great to see that Beverly is still an amazing doctor. She has a really good podcast, by the way: Gates McFadden Investigates. I...

I respect that Shaw keeps his bridge dimly lit.

This is kind of where I'm coming from, too. I'm frustrated with 5E as a GM, so I'm looking at all the 5E-ish things out there, with an eye on how easy the rule books (especially monster statblocks and magic) are to use.

The way Arcane Library's products are written and and laid out makes them very easy to digest - a real breath of fresh air for someone like me who struggles to find information is paragraphs of "natural language" text. I've looked at the preview and I will absolutely be backing this.

Five doors is too many.

That's a really good point! I think with all that Jane stuff - which I'm all in favor of - the Gorr stuff gets minimalized. I recall a point in a the movie where we see him again after lots of other stuff happened and thinking "oh yeah - this guy!"

It's one of the low-points of the season, creatively. At least the flying cgi Vision fight evolved into a philosophical debate.

Interesting! I watched the first two eps and have been meaning to get back to it. Thanks!

Ditto. R’lyehwatch sounds almost too fun to pass up. Raven is very tempting: Poe + "New Nation"/Expansion U.S. + alternate history - this just yells "BUY!!!" at me. Porcelain Souls is the kind of thing that seems intriguing but that I'll probably have to not buy for money and time reasons. Deep...

You just had to go and remind me, didn't you? 😁 (I thought all the actors did great with what they were given, but Hawkman especially was done dirty.)

I'm surprised how interested I am in this movie. The trailer makes it look bonkers-awesome, and setting aside his problematic behavior (if such a thing is possible), Ezra Miller is an engaging performer. And I love that Michael Keaton is getting a lot of love for his Batman these days. He...