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I don't want to look like I am insulting your post (like some others in this thread, I appreciate it when people elaborate on what they mean rather than hide behind the term "videogamey"), but this part here is one of the reasons that I have a hard time interpreting the term "videogamey" as...

Honestly, I have never heard any kind of definition for "videogamey" that made much sense. More often than not, when someone uses the term "videogamey" they come off as ignorant and elitist, and the only meaning they get across is that they don't like whatever it is they are talking about and...

Err... why not cannons, (primitive) grenades, rockets, and the like? How exactly is this "slippery slope" supposed to be a problem? Sure, if you include firearms of any sort, then you basically need to include cannons and such. I don't see how that is inherently a drawback. In fact, it may be a...

If you stretch your definition widely enough, most of the Japanese "Tokusatsu" genre probably qualifies. That said, it can be hard to find futuristic examples of a genre that is practically defined by being set in ancient China... If I had to name a single story that would probably qualify, it...

Honestly, I don't see Wray as being so much a middle ground between Young and Rush as she represents a third flawed example. She doesn't share Young's reluctance to take risks or Rush's recklessness, but she has her flaw that may be worse: she refuses to stop and make her decisions. Wray doesn't...

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the final scene between Eli and Colonel Young in this episode ended up being the moment where Eli stopped trusting him. Certainly, the difference between Colonel Young's attitude of risking his own life to do everything possible to save Lt. Scott on the ice...

I think your definition of "role-playing game", which depends on this idea that all "role-playing games" have an infinitely variable story, doesn't work. It is restrictive enough that it probably excludes a significant fraction, if not the majority, of actual D&D campaigns. It is the kind of...

Someone beat me to this, but... Video games are not pen-and-paper/tabletop role-playing games. Those are indeed different things. That said, "role-playing game" has been an established genre of videogaming for decades, to the point where it would probably be pretty easy to find someone who knew...

As far as I am aware, WotC has all kinds of internal policies regarding fan-made material that are far more fair to fan works than people tend to give them credit for. For example, I am fairly certain that various Magic: The Gathering designers are forbidden from looking at various parts of the...

I really liked the episode. The depth and complexity of these characters really came out in this episode, and it is that aspect which is this series' real strength. If nothing else, this is the first episode that I ever really got to understand and like Greer, which says a lot considering how...

Lavos is certainly an amusing pick, and I will strongly support Luca Blight as a great villain. However, I have to disagree with "Kafka". His name is Kefka, not Kafka! He is a great villain, though. He is basically a Final Fantasy version of The Joker who manages to attain godhood. How can you...

You are really making a mistake in equating Syndrome with "state enforced mediocrity". Syndrome is absolutely not the guy going around making everyone feel good about themselves pointlessly. He is the guy paying everyone $50 to bow down, lick his boots, and sing his praises. He is the guy going...

You know, I don't really agree. For one, I think the context of that scene and Bob's current mental state when he says that may be a strong element of what we are supposed to take from it (single lines out of context can be taken to mean anything, really), but it has been so long since I have...

You're wrong. You're just adding stuff into the movie that isn't there, oversimplifying various aspects of the movie, and blatantly forgetting very important parts of the movie. Alright, here are a few basic facts about the movie. Dash is just an exaggerated version of the typical boy who...

Actually, in some variations of the story "Jack the Giant Killer" he kills at least seven. Of course, he kills them all with totally different strategies and tools, from a pit trap to a cloak of invisibility and a magic trumpet. I guess that just goes to show that in folklore there is no such...

You really have not been reading my posts... I was only saying that classes like the Fighter had a "role" in 3e for the sake of that particular argument. As I've said just earlier in this thread, the only roles 3e had were the need for spellcasting, especially the Wizard and Cleric (because...

If you honestly believe that an assumption of four specific classes and an assumption of four categories of classes are "the same variety", then I really don't think I can say anything to persuade you. Still I may as well make a simply mathematical comparison. Assuming a four person party that...

You pointed out, and Hussar agreed, that it is not explicitly called out in the rules, which is true. There is no point in any 3E core rulebook that says the game assumes you have a party of a Fighter, a Rogue, a Cleric, and a Wizard. That doesn't change the fact that it is indeed an implicit...

I wouldn't say that anything other than a pure Divine caster works anywhere near as well. Sure, other classes can almost make up for the healing difference (though they never get the really good healing spells), but something like a UMD Rogue can never make up for the lack of a Cleric's ability...

I can understand that. Basically, the rules of 3E really require that the team have at the very least a primary Divine caster such as a Cleric or Druid, and strongly recommends a Wizard (though a Sorcerer or Psion may suffice). This is not explicit, but your average group of players will have a...