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With the fragmented, non-systemic approach D&D/Pathfinder takes to magic, I don't think that spell lists represent much of anything, fluff-wise. At best they might represent the most common spells that wizards can learn.

At that age, I would have some serious second, third and fourth thoughts about doing it. I am adopted, and my mom was 37 years old when they did this. My dad was, I think, 43. They had finally attained a position in life where they could both afford to have a child, and where Mom did not have to...

All of them have been tough - you pretty much have to be to run around with Batman. All of them are master martial artists, with most of Batman's other skillsets - Dick is better acrobat, Jason is arguably better with weaponry, and Tim was a computer genius. Tim was also a master detective -...

Nice; I hope it spreads. My car and my house should just 'know me' by this point, to get in and out of them, to use services, etc. There will be privacy concerns but I'd bet that the convenience of , say, walking into a store, grabbing a loaf of bread, and walking through a scanner on the way...

Only after last episode. Before, they were just generic no-name stand-ins with no connection to the Marvel Universe. Ratings have dropped almost every episode and there was no bump from Thor or Cap 2, meaning most likely the people that went to those movies either are not and never have been...

Daredevil certainly is. He will be getting a Netflix Original Series, along with Power Man, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones.

It's even more fascinating to realize this was just an offshoot of a general level of 'Satanic Panic' that swept the US at the time, where people believed there was an actual palpable Satanist conspiracy reaching into all levels of society, mostly concerned with child molestation/sacrifice...

They should be easily able to do this. The four Netflix series will create a Defenders/street level hero track. You can easily see movies for Doctor Strange, Cloak and Dagger, some of the Young Avengers, Nova, The Inhumans, Sub-Mariner (though that might bound up with Fantastic Four), Werewolf...

I really think that the main thing wrong with the show is that, with the exception of Greg Clark, most of the actors are simply bad fits for their characters. Only Fitz and Simmons (and Mai to a lesser extent) have any real charisma or appeal to them at all. Making Sky the focus for things was a...

Several reasons: They don't feel like Batman films, they feel like mundane crime drama films with a character that sorta resembles Batman who appears in less than half the film. The first half of the first movie was very good, since we've never gotten a film with Bruce's training. Also, kudos...

Yeah, afterwards I think he was also kind of bitter that Star Wars made more money for him than all the other acting jobs he'd done in his life, combined.

They make the statement in the film about man as a 'steward of the land', which contradicts the view of some that Man was placed in dominion of all the beasts, etc, etc, ie, Man is on the top and everything else in Creation serves him. You also have the people that conflate any whiff of...

Just played my first game of Burning Wheel a couple weeks ago, where we did world building bare bones, and character creation. I'd love to see a version of the basic book where the author didn't have such a Tolkien boner, though.

I had a friend with that exact problem. His mom would let him play any RPG under the sun except D&D, which was just.. bizarre. Of course we easily solved the 'problem' of anyone's parents not liking D&D by simply lying to them about what we were doing. It was a bizarre time, and I'm glad...

TV shows and movie cannot be 'ruined forever' because everything will eventually be rebooted or re-imagined or re-done or whatever. You just need for it to come around again. Right now, to me, most of the DC universe is just plain unreadable. That will change in the future, just as it always...

Nimoy was 34-35 when cast as Spock, Quinto 32. Not a huge difference there.

I'd feel a lot better about that if college football coaches were paid on the same scale as the physics or biology professor, and not multiple millions of dollars per year.

It's not too bad at all, and no, it's not for kids. You get some cool backstory bits (Like, seeing Veronica's mother meeting Sabrina's aunts, or how Mr Lodge became the big man in town), along with a perfectly in-universe reason for this horror: Jughead's dog gets run over and killed, so Jughead...

Allston's articles in The Space Gamer got me into Champions, which grew to be 'My Game' for many, many years. He was the first game designer I ever wrote to, and he responded at length about his personal Strike Force campaign. He will be sorely missed.

I would probably react negatively. There is far too much crunch in most games, these days. I certainly don't think it needs a Renaissance.