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It is an interesting choice, as the 90s cartoon was the one place* where they didn't include the stuff where Scott was the dick. Not sure why they wanted to bring it into the animated world so long after it became immaterial elsewhere**. *arguably also the early 2000s movie trilogy, where he had...

I like the movie itself well enough. Between Joaquin Phoenix in the first movie and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, the part that I'm not looking forward to is a whole new batch of internet memes. Apparently everyone identifies with the joker and they can use their most iconic lines to...

If you include folklore and myth, it's a pretty mixed bag (but generally not studious guy with books very often). Ancient societies like Egypt and Babylon a lot of magic is interwoven with priestly rites or with trafficking with demons or the like. The later seems very warlockish, but there's...

That space is full of ceiling, you can't teleport to it. They are (presumably) teleporting to as close to the ceiling as they can and grabbing it just like if they were climbing up to the ceiling on a ladder (or at least at the top of a jump to the ceiling, where they have no net downward...

I'd agree. There's less self-selection into the social categories of old, but there are real personality types. There are computer, math, and hard-science people that are shy or introverted*. I think that will always be the case because those qualities don't strongly inhibit the exploration of...

Uranium emits a lot more alpha and beta radiation than gamma. Water absorbs the first two handily. It also attenuates gamma better than you might think (super dense and high-atomic-number material like lead only provide 20-30% better protection-by-mass than less dense material like water and...

The answer is always talk to your DM. However, in this instance, there's no specific reason to think otherwise. They are transported to an area where a constant ongoing transit mode they have (they have an innate climb speed) is applicable, and thus would normally be able to use it. If not, and...

I don't think Charisma is the real concern. OP has never been convincing in all these improbable tales where their players are being so unreasonable and/or incompetent or the like.

The Clockwork Sorcerer is a sorcerer who gets around the rather limiting spells-known issue by getting free Absorb Elements, Shield, Enhanced Ability, Knock, Counterspell, Dispel Magic, Banishment, Polymorph, Animate Objects, and Telekinesis*. *or a similar list of generally useful...

I think the word you are looking for is "sheeple." Believe me, barring someone truly new to the internet, we've all seen this routine before.

The entire Madeline Pryor plot arc is one with enough garbled storytelling that it's best not to look too closely at it in the comics where all the supporting facts were well-established. There was no way it was going to work well as a single-episode plot. It's especially jarring because the 90s...

It's worse than that. This is the edition where acting outside of your expected role could effectively double to quintuple the effort/adventuring of gaining levels. This happened through the training rules*. Since most of your XP came from GP acquisition, you tended to have approximately as much...

I think Reynard provided a helpful response for you, but it's probably not bad to analyze this a little further. I find it helpful to remember the following: Your game is your own. No one is coming for your game books to replace them with things you do not like. Whatever way you played in that...

Oh, definitely. I always assumed that travel time shouldn't be the same. One because they are both abstractions and simplifications, but also because the activity is different (speed when measured in rounds is when you are being more cautious, but also willing to exhaust yourself more quickly).

The movie -- it wasn't good. It wasn't terrible, it just had no reason to exist, didn't add anything of its own, and wasn't all that interesting. Of the sequels, I think Afterlife was a perfectly respectable 'tangential' film (took place outside NY, focused more on Egon's granddaughter, etc.)...

...and nice knowing you all. Too bad, it was a nice thread.

For me, oftentimes, the thieving is a backstory. We don't spend much time thinking about exactly what Han Solo smuggled*, because it all took place before he did the things we really care about him doing. Likewise, character X in my game Y will often have developed their skills used in acts of...

I think this is one of those cases where we've ended up pretending we're a lot farther apart than we are. IMO everyone knows there's a point too far with agreeing to participate in an activity and then not substantively participating. Also IMO everyone knows that hobby activities do not have...

Oh, and to be clear, I 100% get that and agree with it too. I think, for people who want to focus on “verisimilitude “ and “simulation,” it should be on the top of the list. Top of the list for what they want to answer for their game world (and thus why ideas threads like this can be so...

The game rules have always been rather player-facing -- economies that don't make sense, monsters or magic items that would destroy the world if left to their own devices, occasionally 10' poles that cost more than 10' ladders made out of two 10'poles, etc. In the case of monsters, I've always...