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My impression is that Morrus learned a lot from that. Back in the day, as you note, ENWorld had a lot of custom code, much of which had been hacked together by the late Michael "Spoony" Morris who was volunteering as admin. He eventually left ENWorld amidst some animosity, which meant there was...

Shareholders and executives should be kept as far away as possible from running companies. Leave it to the employees who actually know how the business works.

Going the other direction, I am reminded of GURPS Technomancer, a setting that takes place in the modern world (well, modern-ish – it was made in the 90s), but where nuclear detonations have infused the world with magic – first the test detonation at Alamogordo, and later a much larger Soviet...

I would not classify them as metacurrencies. Metacurrencies, as I understand the term, are mostly Doylist in nature – they tend to represent things like luck, fate, and such, and with a few exceptions (e.g. TORG possibilities) they aren't things the characters are aware of. For example, in...

In 5.0, healing magic (at least cure wounds) didn't affect constructs (or undead for that matter). In 5.0 they were humanoids, however, so that was a moot point. I don't think 5.5 has any such limitation on healing magic though. Back in 3e, warforged were an exception to how cure X wounds...

Because warforged aren't made to specs. There's a lot about them that the designers have no idea why it's there. They have some control over what happens, but a lot of what's going on with warforged is throwing stuff at the creation forge and see what comes out.

That's not true. What we do have is a 14-day "right of withdrawal" period for anything bought "off-premises" – online, mail order, doorstep sales, and so on. Some countries extend this to 30 days, but the EU minimum is 14 days. There are also many exceptions, such as personalized or...

Warforged didn't have darkvision or low-light vision in either 3e, 4e, or 5.0. Why should they start having it now?

Bahston also has a pretty distinctive accent. I'm not sure if it's a more general Massachusetts thing or if it's specific to Bahston. On the topic of supers, I'm hoping that when they get around to doing X-Men and hopefully including Emma Frost, they'll have her speak in a very refined voice...

Arent these the kinds of things that will tend to get a case dismissed without prejudice? Basically saying "You're doing this incorrectly, you can try again and get it right"?

I don't think that's related to age per se. That probably has more to do with their habit of contracting actors a rung or two below super-stardom for several movies, and once those movies are up those actors have often been able to climb those rungs making it much more expensive to renew those...

Oh yes, on a Doylist level shifters are definitely lycanthropes-lite and changelings dopplegangers-lite. I was thinking about the in-world lore.

Speaking of which... I don't know to what degree you're running ENWorld as a business versus as a hobby, and to what degree it is separate from EN Publishing, but I definitely remember ENWorld running a fundraiser back in the day as the result of being hacked, and offering bundles of EN...

There's definitely some Eberron material out there that implies that lycanthropes are shifters taken to 11 rather than shifters being watered-down lycanthropes. I can't recall if that material is presented as fact or if it's an in-setting theory.

Didn't LaNasa try something similar with the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum? Donate X dollars and we'll put a plaque with your name on the wall?

Ah, I did not know that. It's always nice to hear movie people appreciate TV stuff.

I'm not as much into Superman lore as I am X-Men, but I've definitely seen both LexCorp and LuthorCorp. Smallville, for example, used LuthorCorp, primarily because it was being run by Lex's father Lionel (with Lex being put in charge of a Smallville-based subsidiary to prove himself, IIRC). I...

Right. Same as this guy.