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Sex Appeal + broody loner + cool powers. http://geekalitarian.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/gambit-and-the-female-gaze/ I'm sure he'll do a good turn with the character, but I wish they'd given Taylor Kitsch another shot at it.

Well at least the car looks like a car and the costume less like a suit of armor.

Yeah, there is a huge stage to have spin-offs. The Nova Corps, and Quasar for starters, which would solidly tie it back into the whole superhero thing. Not to mention the Avengers and Captain Mar-Vell. The Eternals would be a good series for a high-end cable series. The Annihilation Wave would...

Production values certainly look high, the cast looks great, so I have to wonder why we get once again a superhero show with no friggin' superheroes?! It's just inane. I wish someone would someday be able to do a Batman and Robin show as a high-end cable series, where you have the cash plus the...

When I was much younger, if you had a savings account you could reasonably expect an interest rate on the order of 10%-12%. Almost everyone I knew had a savings account as well as a checking account because you could put in a moderate amount and have a decent second income supplement every...

Loved the first episode. It's almost enough to make me get Showtime.

Many more people than you might think are at best 1-2 paychecks away from a homeless shelter. After the whole idea of a savings account collapsed, there seems to be little point in it.

That would be my take. I really enjoyed it up until that point. More and more, I wish that some movies were really high-end cable series. You need a season or half-season to really build up that Peter/Harry relationship before things finally go bad. Having Electro carry this movie in it's...

Yeah, that's the thing I was thinking of. I remember being very amused at 5E specifically because it had a way to build a rules-legal flashlight.

You're welcome. That said, it'll still be absurdly expensive to replicate even a relatively low-level D&D character because the D&D spell system is not a 'system' at all, and some spells with seemingly innocuous effects are hugely prohibitively expensive in HERO. A classic example used to be a...

You might want to look at this site: High Fantasy HERO, which features some different ways of converting 3E spells. Mage Hand (Total: 15 active Points, 4 Real Cost) Telekinesis (5 STR), Invisible Power Effects (Fully Invisible; +1) (15 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Turn (-1...

Of course they do. For my groups, at least: most of us don't own laptops. Laptops are clumsy and cumbersome at the table, and trying to power the darn things is a nightmare. One person I know owns a tablet but she doesn't have any gaming apps on it. So, almost all of us buy a copy of the main...

It would have been OK if this was 2001. The non-instanced questing and the fact that you cannot team up across factions were huge turn-offs. About the only thing I really liked was the character creation section, which is at least detailed enough to be interesting. Someone might be nostalgic...

The problem being that 'Xerox' is still a trademarked term and one they've fought long and hard to prevent becoming diluted and 'genericised' (aka, Zipper, Aspirin, Escalator). Being an engineer and thus used to very precise language, the poor guy is probably unwilling to say to a lawyer that...

I'm pretty sure the main guy will be John Boyega, who is cast as a Jedi apprentice. I think he'll be our viewpoint character. Check him out in Attack the Block.

Another hands-up for Eberron. Most of the novels produced for that setting were quite a bit better than any other game fiction I've ever read, with the exception of Nigel Findley's ShadowRun books.

Download button doesn't work for me, but it might be work-blocked somehow.

it kinda of depends on how greedy and fearful companies want to be. So many right now are scared of 'teh piratz' that they want to create their own separate playgrounds instead of putting their stuff on Netflix/hulu/etc. The best system might eventually be a combo of pay-per-view like Amazon's...

Here's the most recent fantasy I've read, that I'd recommend The Sorcerer's Widow (Legends of Ethshar) The Unwelcome Warlock: A Legend of Ethshar -- Lawrence Watt Evans Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant Point of Knives: A Novella of Astreiant -- Melissa Scott A Dance of Cloaks (Shadowdance 1)...

Well, we got that last night: OK, that was a good episode. We have, I think, our first identifiably-Marvel superpower: a Darkforce manipulator.