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  1. Clint_L

    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    That's where I was coming from, too. It's not my personal favourite, even though I do love it and play it. Speaking of behemoths, I think Lord of the Rings is both over and underrated. I think critics tend to underrate it and fans tend to overrate it (this is true of a lot of pop culture...
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 - Do magic weapons bypass resistance now?

    Sorry, I was focused on reality rather than theory. In reality, as many folks have expressed, the 2014 immunity to magic weapons attribute was usually a ribbon rather than a meaningful weakness. At least AD&D recognized the reality of the situation by adding gradients to the immunity.
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    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 - Do magic weapons bypass resistance now?

    Magic items, especially weapons, were mostly given out like candy in AD&D (check any official published adventure from that time). Sounds like you had an awesome experience, but lack of access to a magical weapon would not have been a plot point in most campaigns, and there is nothing stopping a...
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    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    I love it but can agree it’s overrated. I do think it’s the greatest RPG of all time for cultural impact alone. Obviously that’s as subjective as “greatest movie” or whatever, though D&D is unusual in having no real rivals in its genre.
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    Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

    Major nerd points for recognizing the difference between “mutant” and “mutate” in the Marvel mythos!
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    Trailer Andor Season 2 Trailer

    My Scottish literature professor in graduate school was very emphatic that Scots is its own language.
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    Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

    Pssst...it's a super power. Get out of here with your "facts" and "science." ;) Not that you're wrong.
  8. Clint_L

    What Game Publishers Are Saying About The Tariffs

    Okay, so this headline from their release makes me very disinclined to buy from them: "How We Can Help Support Your Transition to USA-Based Manufacturers, and Our New Factory!" Why should I want to support jobs in a country that is currently basing its tariff policies around cancelling jobs in...
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    This is just not true. I have read through many, many psych-ed reports in my decades as a teacher, as well as doing a required minor in psychology with a focus on adolescent development. It is just not true that brains are all an equal tabula rasa with identical capacities. And the assumption...
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    WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

    I don't agree. I do think that hard work is the most important thing. But I also know that, however hard I work, I could never be as good as my cousin, a very talented and successful musician. Even when we were kids, he could pick up any instrument and play a tune on it almost instantly. I don't...
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    How do you choose a class?

    Same. Plus, probably like most of the folks on this forum, I tend to be the guy in the group who knows the rules, so it's pretty easy for me to step into any class or role.
  12. Clint_L

    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    I think Babylon 5 is massively overrated and DS9 moderately so. I watched and enjoyed all of DS9, but it’s not especially groundbreaking. Babylon 5 is just bad IMO.
  13. Clint_L

    An examination of player agency

    In a very condescending way, yes.
  14. Clint_L

    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    Huh, you're absolutely right. Somehow I've missed it and been playing it like 1e this whole time. Eh, I think I'll keep doing it that way.
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    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    No, you still need the identify spell. Maybe a super high arcana check depending on the DM, but a character with high arcana probably has the identify spell. In our 1e games we just said identify was happening during the plentiful long rests while we waited on the cleric, which meant it was...
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    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    Yeah it’s in with other age modifiers near the start of the DMG.
  17. Clint_L

    What Game Publishers Are Saying About The Tariffs

    On top of the tariffs, it's also a question of quality: and also: These companies are stuck with almost no way out. But I appreciate that they are looking at as many options as possible, including shipping directly from China to countries other than the US, so that their international...
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    Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

    Yeah, I'm not sure where this series is going with Fisk's strength - in Hawkeye, he was obviously superpowered. This final episode gave him that moment (which I loved, but I enjoy a good gore shot), which is definitely superhuman, but not to the same extent (i.e. it seemed like he really had to...
  19. Clint_L

    Overrated/Underrated Geek Media

    There is definitely art that I was originally dismissive of but have grown to love, and often because enough people wax poetic about it that I decided to give it another chance. In fact, I hated the first episode of Severance so much that I haven't watched another, but so many people on this...
  20. Clint_L

    D&D General 1e feel for 5E

    Another thing that 5e would need in order to feel more like 1e is way more magic items, and those items should be more powerful. No attunement slots, and bonuses up to +5 and (in certain circumstances) beyond! In 1e, magic items were a primary means of character progression, whereas in 5e they...
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