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From what I heard, the original movie consists mostly of an extended conversation between the two principal characters in a hotel room, and doesn't have much in the way of action. (don't really know how accurate that is, though) Anyway, I thought the first two-thirds of the movie were great...

Well, like I said - I think Second Wind is a relatively minor (but still possibly important) example of that sort of thing. I was thinking more along the lines of the example fight with the dragon - it's a solo monster that's supposed to be able to challenge the party, so it apparently has tons...

I think there's a real possibility of all these "trigger abilities", Second Wind included, becoming really freakin' annoying. Maybe it's just me, but it drives me completely up the wall when - whether in a PnP game or a CRPG - the enemy you've been beating the crap out suddenly hits the big red...

The rest of it is worse. Much, much worse. You saw the best parts of the movie. :p

Our party got into a fight with a Large black dragon - it was tough, but eventually, things started going our way, and it retreated into a really unfriendly-looking fetid lake. My dwarven Barbarian waited long enough for the cleric to cast Freedom of Movement on him, then dived on in and gave...

You really thought The Host was a masterpiece? I went to see it because of the amazing reviews it was getting everywhere, and I thought it was really bad - not just a lot worse than I expected given the critical reaction, but simply wretched. It wasn't scary at all, it was almost never funny...

Sure, but if that's the case, why would the terminator arrive butt-naked, whining about his "phased-plasma rifle in the 40-watt range". ;)

Depending on where the line gets drawn, you could also arrive missing hair, nails, the very outer layer of skin, tooth enamel, the dead bacteria which make up a large part of the contents of your large intestine... :) The only hand-wave I can see (short of them saying it's not a matter of...

For the sake of being picky, it wasn't just a hand, it was a hand and a damaged CPU that led to Skynet... I'm not saying that the TV series won't crash and burn - the Terminator stories don't have a great record in that respect, with every new piece of fiction put out adding to the list of...

That rule got shattered in T2 and T3 already. T-1000 and T-X were completely inorganic, but somehow managed to travel through time anyway. Besides, it was a stupid concept to begin with - the idea of being able to fool the laws of physics governing time travel by covering a machine in living...

That'd only work if they traveled forward prior to the date (sometime in 1997) when Sarah was supposed to die of cancer in the T3 timeline. Of course, it's not impossible for them to reconcile the series timeline with the T3 one - they'd just need to travel back in time far enough for Sarah to...

It doesn't have to veer from the T3 timeline if you believe that John would somehow forget or neglect to mention the fact he used to travel through time with a hot robot chick while being chased by terminators... Or think it makes sense that in the T3 timeline, he'd be completely surprised and...

All T3 showed was that Skynet and the war were (supposedly) going to happen no matter what. It didn't really show that the future can't be changed - there are still two different dates for Judgement Day, for example (and we know the first one was real, since Reese and the first Terminator were...

Yeah, count me as another vote for the "It's a good thing they decided to write things as if T3 never happened". T3 was not the finale of a trilogy - the whole point of T1 and T2 was that you can change the future, then T3 comes along with the big reveal that no, you actually can't, rendering...

I don't think this Terminator is any less accurate than his predecessors - they're always mysteriously incapable of hitting the main characters despite being able to slaughter the supporting cast at will, and they always - even in T1 - go about their job in stupid and impractical ways. Which...

My reaction to the DDI concept is similar to the one I'd have if Amazon suddenly introduced a monthly fee that you'd have to pay in order to browse the site, read book reviews, and place orders online - or if my bank or my credit card company decided to charge me a fee to be able to view...

So quality is now measured by popularity? Does that mean you're going to come around on LotR, since it has sold over 100 millions copies worldwide? :)

No - I think that Anime and JPRGs should not be an influence on D&D because I don't like them. It's a very subjective point of view, but I think I was pretty open about that in my initial post. The fact that FFVII and most other JRPGs feature terrible writing and make for a really poor standard...

1. He wasn't asking me, as far as I can tell. 2. Only one of my favorite fantasy authors was brought up in this thread so far, and REH isn't him, so I feel neither especially qualified to speak on the subject, nor too interested in the outcome of that particular argument. 3. It has nothing to...

Where did all this straw come from? :uhoh: Seriously, dude, what the hell does Tolkien have to do with me saying FF VII sucks? Since when does saying I don't like Anime and JRPGs imply that I have to like Tolkien, or that if I did, I'd hold it up as a model for fantasy fiction of all kinds?