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Speaking of which, Jenna Ortega makes for a great slightly-older Wednesday Addams. I'm not sold on the rest of the recasting (it is hard to top Raul Julia, unless you are Anjelica Huston), but she is stellar in the role.

They kind of did that with the 13th Doctor, and the results were... not great. That probably had a lot to do with Covid though. I have little to no connection to classic Doctor Who, having started with the 2005 reboot, but I like having variety in the stories. I don't mind two-parters (which...

Mostly this, but sometimes I get an esprit d'escalier moment right after posting and edit the post to add additional stuff. I pretty much always mark that though. Something like "Edit: Just thought of bla bla bla"

I don't think I have ever played D&D or any other RPG in a store. The closest is at a gaming club that's open to the public, and we pretty quickly moved that campaign to the home of one of the players because it was pretty annoying to play in public. I've also played at cons, but here in Sweden...

Sure, but you don't need to get in particularly deep on the Planet and/or Historical Period of the week. 16th century Venice with fish vampires, go. Archaeological dig on a planet orbiting a black hole, go. Planet-sized library haunted by flesh-eating shadow swarms, go. The settings in Doctor...

I haven't seen Murderbot, but I think it's fairly essential to Doctor Who to be pretty episodic – the Doctor and their Companion(s) show up somewhere, get into trouble, and solves said trouble. So to me, it is important to develop the characters, but not necessarily the setting.

Thor: Ragnarok? I mean, the core plot is a remnant of the past showing up to take over the seemingly good kingdom, and in the process revealing its sordid history and that the reason it's so rich in comparison to its counterparts is that they used to run around kicking everybody's butt and...

The comics version canonically has a genius-level intellect, but I read that as raw processing power/memory, not "brilliance". That's why he can read a book at super speed and understand what the book says. So if, say, Superman and Lex Luthor were to face off in a math contest or something like...

The way I see it is that the problems of the 3e engine hadn't changed appreciably in the 10 or so years between the release of 4e and the release of PF2. It's no great surprise that the solutions to those problems would look fairly similar as well, even if they aren't identical. That said, I...

Anyway, the Swedish game Eon used to use the equivalent of race ("ras"), and had that apply both to species and tribal/ethnic/clan affiliations (e.g. you had six different types of elves, with some pretty serious physical and cultural differences), but now uses "folkslag" instead which would...

With the larger customizability in 3e (total of 7 feats that don't compete with stat boosts; or 11 in Pathfinder 1e), there were several attempts at providing feats for those who wanted to build on or explore more racial traits. I thought these worked pretty well in general, and Eberron in...

Sense8 was pretty good, at least the first season. I never did get around to watching season 2 or the final tv movie though. It even has a Doctor Who connection, with Freema Agyeman in a supporting role.

There have definitely been box sets containing non-hardback books (e.g. the original 5e Starter Set), but I can't recall any physically published standalone non-hardbacks. The Elemental Player's Options (or whatever it was called) was a softback when I ordered it as a POD from Drivethru, but I...

That's not my understanding of metacurrencies. My understanding is that metacurrencies are things that do not exist as such in the actual game world, but only in the game – that's why they are metacurrencies. In D&D, Inspiration is a metacurrency, while things like spell slots, sorcery points...

I'd classify things like Wrath, Discipline, or Drama as resources, not metacurrencies. They are no different from something like Power Points in Savage Worlds, other than how they are gained and regained.

I would reckon that he probably has a fair bit of knowledge about Kryptonian science by way of the Fortress, but that doesn't necessarily translate to knowledge of Terran science/technology. He can build/repair the robots in the Fortress, but that doesn't mean he knows how to change a hard...

Sure, Steam provides a license agreement when you "buy" a game. But laws can override that kind of thing. For example (from a different sector), EU law specifies that all workers are entitled to a contiguous 11 hours of rest per 24-hour period as well as another 24 hours of contiguous rest per...

Second best, after this one:

I think there's a cooler version of that victory, where Superman outsmarts Lex instead. Lex is giving verbal commands to Ultraman, which Ultraman then carries out. But that has a delay – Lex gives verbal commands to his minions and the minions forward them to Ultraman. That's like a second or...