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Geometry, the way that 5E killed Pythagoras and took his stuff. a^2=b^2=c^2. Also, fireballs that are cubes.

Henny Youngman, the classic one-liner.

Knee-jerk reaction: I like beginning characters having Reputation 0, conceptually. With this change, Rep 0-2 must represent only the peasant farmer who never comes into town.

P.277 (p. 283 of the PDF). A cone is 90 degrees, thanks.

That's about a 30-degree cone. It would be helpful if the rules mentioned the spread angle.

Scrabble? 3-D print the letter "J"? One of these brands is not like the others.

In practice, they don't speak up at once. I'm sure that's happened, but normally, one will announce a counterspell, and if that fails (or the opposing caster counters), another will announce. That's generous of me, but I try not to let AL games be very adversarial. If timing conflict really...

A very good point. I have been declaring spell slot level (this is in Adventurer's League). But, AL tables can have as many as 4 casters with Counterspell vs. one poor enemy caster. I should pull back on the info and make it more uncertain.

This would be my preference for continuity reasons. They haven't really written themselves into a hole; it was just one group of (atypical) Skrulls. Also agree, Skrulls can wait. It's a big universe. Also, I believe Skrulls are part of the FF license that is only now coming back to Marvel, and...

I generally agree with you, but I didn't like this. The Skrulls are invading bad guys in the original Kree-Skrull war. If Marvel wants to do any more K-S, and I assume they do, we have to see more typically evil Skrulls at some point so that Earth can be a neutral 3rd party to all that. Now, we...

There were a few too many long shots that hit their mark for my taste. But, we already know Gordon is likely the best pilot in the Union, so we do have the foundation for two of those crazy attempts. (Or three. Putting a human in a Krill fighter?) The Orville should have been vaporized as soon...

Some things will always be scarce - prime real estate, original art, honorific titles. Even now, I can get free water, paper, flu shots, and various other goods that have a marginal cost to the provider of nearly zero. But, money is now and probably will be the most efficient way to distribute...

Yup. There's apparently more than one bard/druid out there, a combination that would never occur to me.

That's a lot of left-handed characters in the Paizo preview (4 of 8).

If it's 3 fights per day, I think players will adjust. 6 per day is tougher (and was the designers' target). Characters want to do something every round, which was the motivation for creating cantrips. Clerics and druids have other things to do (weapons, Wild Shape), which leaves the wizards and...

I wouldn't try it before the various technologies have stabilized (stopped improving). Otherwise, ship #2 passes ship #1 and arrives first. Actually, that's also a way to send new supplies and parts, so maybe it's not a show-stopper.

I wasn't asking "why" to insinuate you're doing a bad thing. It's because we weigh the various aspects of the game differently. I can't read your mind, so I don't know what you consider balanced. As a constructive question, how many fights do you expect your players to handle in a day? (I don't...

Well, the first question is "Why?". What problem are you trying to fix? Full casters only get one spell of levels 6-9 (disregarding refilling slots). This gives them an extra Heroes' Feast, for example, which has a rather bigger effect than casting a cantrip every round.

I never bought the claim in the Star Trek universe that the Federation had evolved beyond money, and I don't buy it here. (Have we heard of this before on The Orville?) Replicator technology makes most resource shortages disappear, but it's still damned efficient to have a means of tracking the...