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Basically WotC's full book campaigns are bloated messes with too many moving pieces (and little cross-referencing) that make them way more trouble to run as is than they're really worth, and by time you adapt them to work for you, you've written half a campaign yourself. The one you all already...

I mean you do you. To me, having spent most my life in homes overcrowded with too many possessions, appliances whose only purpose is to have the same flavor profile of food in a different shape are kind of top of the list for things to not own.

To me its all about context. Waffles are just a needlessly fancy version of pancakes. If I'm at a restaurant I prefer the former, but I am very much opposed to living in a household that has reached the level of excessive consumption required to own a waffle iron (be it a separate small...

Well... presumably it will be a very modest remodel.

Has anyone else heard the rumor that Disney is selling their rights to the Tron franchise to finance a remodel of Bob Iger's office washroom?

This thread seems dominated by people who are much more openly opinionated and controlling over other people's odors and eating habits than me or anyone I've ever gamed with.

And it is thus that we finally learn that he is from the Highlands.

What is "broken" with Star Wars is that it had too much time lying fallow during which fans' ideas of what Star Wars is "supposed to be" crystalized around an amazing trilogy of movies that, whatever their flaws, stood so far beyond anything else at the time in scope and achieved ambition within...

Gift giving and guest-friendship are pretty ubiquitous in the early warrior cultures which mythology tends to be set it, whether it be Greek myth and epics, Norse myths and sagas, or a panoply of other examples less influential on Western Fantasy literature. The leaders give grand gifts to...

Indeed. It will of course depend on what a court determines to be the facts, and is far from automatic, but all anecdotal signs point to LaNasa being the type of person who probably kept slapshod books in order to play fast and loose with the money of his various businesses when it suited him.

The why she was hanging out with Hugh Grant is that she utterly lacked the people skills to put up with running the city, as demonstrated in the scene where she has to explain the arcane seal on the vault, and was awkward and off-putting. The part of the plan that didn't really make sense was...

Okay, but how did "not-immediately clear villain motivations" contribute to the movie "bombing", which seems to be the thesis of the click-bait piece? I don't think anyone demanded their money back over that, doubt it contributed to any poor word of mouth, etc. etc. Glancing over a list of the...

Definitely the prior over the latter. You can drop anyone you want into the Forgotten Realms as long as it's small scale and it won't disrupt the balance. The Forgotten Realms is a world where every type of weirdo exists somewhere and the overall vibe accommodates it. It is a bristling, messy...

Or Marvel movies, which have gone full multiverse, or DC movies which are about to (with the Flash movie, but since that movie involves two Batmans it also seems worth pointing out that they also have both the "the Batman" movies in active production and the so-far-Batmanless "Joker" movies in...

I mean one of the basic, often unspoken conceits of gaming is the idea that the boss has greater personal power compared to their followers. High status characters are expected to have high combat stats. It goes against the grain to make someone in a leadership positions just another commoner...

The issue, fundamentally, with all professional critics is that they are people who, as a job, have to digest media whether they like it or not, and have to digest it all with an eye towards creating a review with some sort of take on it (usually on a deadline). This leads to deeply loathing...

It looks like the game will have really cool cinematics. Hopefully the gameplay will also be impressive. I hadn't noticed until now that Disney is using the old "Lucasfilm Games" brand and logo from the 80s for their Star Wars games (and evidently has been since 2021). I don't know quite how to...

Unless it is a very rigidly RAW DM I expect Nat 20s and 1s to get some sort of special treatment on ability checks. It may not be auto-success/failure per se, but the RAW approach of not making them special at all is clearly out of sync with the overall D&D zeitgeist of these rolls being...

Indeed "flop" traditionally denotes a "total or spectacular failure". For a movie, the term is usually applied to one that absolutely hemorrhages money and/or one that is infamous in its production or marketing missteps (which sometimes includes movies that eventually show modest profits like...