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I slightly regret reading the description of episode 5, as it made me guess who was going to show up. As irritating as the remarketing of nostalgia based properties can be these days, it's also nice to live in a world where a relatively minor unresolved plot thread from 30 years ago might...

Yep. That's the page I'm on. The Coruscant stuff was perfectly fine as Star Wars content (at least as a change of pace) but if you leave me waiting to go to the fireworks factory so that we can go do something unrelated and tonally wildly different with characters I'm just meeting for the first...

I suspect what happened in this case was that had they tried to develop that deliberately-paced character introduction over multiple episodes is would have been a recurring tedious section of episodes with no payoff in sight, so instead we got way too much of it at once, at least from our...

I think the cardinal sin of OneD&D is confusing simplicity with accessibility. The two are usually related, but you have to actually approach it with care. Having three spell lists is "simpler" than having spell lists for each class, but it's not making the materials more approachable for the...

If it's that flexible why not just charge people to beam it to their brains in the comfort of their own homes? But yes I will argue their are limits, because even the most high level magic still works within the basic limitation that there are also non-magical things around it. Otherwise it's...

I mostly agree, but I guess if we are okay with a given ability being once per encounter and (effectively) at-will out of combat then I prefer the narrative of it being tied to short rests to the gamier "per encounter" concept. But you highlight the basic problem with a 5 minute short rest...

While they do cheat it to make that look like the case at about the 1:49 mark when it goes out to the crowd, by making the walls only about twice as high as the passages (and walls) are wide, and only giving us the displacer beast for scale (a creature we have only a loose sense of the scale...

Well this looks like a very cool sequence for moviegoers... but I suspect the arena audience is pretty bored by watching people disappear into a maze for several minutes.

And thus the truth is revealed. Everything not in the trailer is a shot for shot remake of the prior film.

I suspect it will survive because changing pact magic would be the biggest change to any of the classes. While I, and many others, may rant and rave about the changes they are making, overall the changes are probably too conservative to rethink a class that thoroughly. And if they were...

It's a galaxy built on plot convenience and moral clarity. Making specific plans seems illogical when whole planets or regions of planets come into existence to suit the plot need of the week, and I feel like any good and virtuous leader will just kind of succeed, until they meet a tragic end to...

Heavy Armor Master will be way better at low levels. At the point where you take it you will be better off on hit points if you manage to take damage twice than if you had a higher con mod. I would go that route because a) ambitious campaign plans often fizzle, you've got to enjoy the low...

Yes, to an extent. But I would say there is room with the creatures in the 5e monster manual (a rushed product, at least given its scale, designed for a game they didn't really understand the balance of yet and that had to be worked on while the rules were in serious flux) to add more lore to...

Interesting. To me remembering a numerical conversion rate I almost never use is vastly harder than remembering a place name I almost never use. To other people it is doubtlessly the other way around. It sounds like for you they rate about the same.

I rewrite monsters all the time. In this case, whether or not it's an improvement depends on usage. It has a lot more lore embedded into it than the vanilla version, so if you build it up a little bit before hand, such that players go in afraid of getting their hearts snatched when they fall...

Even in places where willing the lands to a non-natural heir is possible, noble titles are overwhelmingly not the holder's to pass on to whom they like. At the very least adopting the step children as her children would seem necessary (usually not allowed in a medieval European context, but...

Yes, that would probably be the most likely solution, unless the barony was in another kingdom or otherwise a matter of particular national or international contention and someone had to be assured of it never being united with the royal holdings, or something along those lines. Generally...

Alien, because it lends itself to the sort of game I could find friends who would want to play, and Princess Bride, because it's one of the nostalgic properties that I'm not burned out on merchandising for.

We should note that the ability to will a noble estate to a particular child of one's choosing was pretty rare, but since there is a king involved all things politically possible are legally possible. Generally noble titles and estates are not something the possesor can bestow on another (at...

I mean that just makes their advancement in dragon punching more quadratic (assuming number of Ki is still progressing at some rate while they level up). It might be justified; it depends what dragon punch does and what the progression of other classes looks like, and what other demands are...