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Cordoning them off to be a master of one of three trades goes against the spirit of them being a jack of them all. The bard to me is a character who ignores the boring lecture about the grand taxonomy of magical types and just picks up the smattering of spells that suits his needs. Interesting...

So to my mind the problem with 5e spellcasting abilities, from an accessibility standpoint, is that they subtly work differently for each class, but get described in a mostly boilerplate several paragraphs of text, such that someone reading the entries for multiple classes for the first time...

I think choosing Arcane, Divine, or Primal is a complete and abject lore failure. To me the essence of the class is being the class that transgresses the arbitrary boundaries between what other classes can do. A Bard should be a liminal, transgressive figure, much as the historic wandering...

I have no skin in the Canada game. But given that the show is shot in Toronto metro area, and the standard thing would be to do this episode on location in the Toronto area and have it stand in for New York (or possibly some other American city), I really appreciated the "Kirk thinks it's New...

For a kid with the attention span for something not made specifically for them and no prior Star Trek knowledge, the average episode of TOS was probably in some ways easier to follow than Prodigy. It's slower paced and usually drops fewer difficult concepts (since there isn't a long franchise...

Well I do have a MA in History, a J.D., and an LL.M. in international and comparative law, so you'll forgive me if I am more confident in my own sense of law writ large through history than people summarily dismissing me on the internet. But I am quite happy to not discuss it in more detail.

A. Star Trek has to fundamentally be about people recognizable as people, or else audiences, 100% made up of actual humans, will not relate to them. This is a franchise that actually faced a bit of an inflection point on that front, because during the early era of Next Gen, Roddenberry had...

I'd make the Dragon have recently taken over a major city. Firstly it provides stakes, secondly it provides a reason and capacity for the Dragon to have recruited lots of humanoid minions, thirdly it means there are probably several interesting spaces for a Dragon fight in close proximity...

A system where one entity wants to deprive a given individual (or party) of liberty (or demand extraordinary actions, payments, etc. of them) is inherently adversarial for the defendant's part, absent a future of utterly selfless beings. The degree to which we officially tolerate adversarial...

What I find surprising is that anyone would think regressing to a legal system that operated under the inherently untruthful pretense of not being adversarial was utopic. Which is all to say, that what an "advanced" legal system is is very much in the eye of the beholder, and that given that...

Well I've now actually finished the first season (hopefully not the whole series), and I'll say that, while I enjoyed it once it got past some of the early X-character-needs-to-learn-Y-lesson episodes, I have a bold theory as to why the show has had underwhelming results: it's not quite there as...

Um... my reading was simply that, as is typical for military courts, both counsels report to the Judge Advocates division (or whatever) of Starfleet. And while that is intrinsically problematic, they didn't want to make an episode about how her appointed attorney did their ethical duty to be a...

Right, that's the part that I am suspicious of. I just think they get enough value of having the first season of even a cancelled show some people really like (and children's programming and Star Trek both run comparatively evergreen) to justify whatever the residuals could be, especially when...

Not only cancelling, but cancelling with a substantially complete but un-aired second season, and removing it from the service seems unlikely to really make strict financial sense. Much like Disney's disappearing of the Willow series, or HBOs of Westworld, it feels like they wanted to make sure...

Indeed, and while I might rule-of-cool Message to work like this with the right overall circumstances, Dream is the communication spell that actually has a "interrupt their sleep" option, and Message should not be allowed to generally be more effective at exhausting people than the 5th level...

That's 100% what happened to me. I also just found Dal deeply obnoxious. TV teens/preteens are often deeply obnoxious. I think the tropes of them are overly influenced by Hollywood writers who have or had terrible relationships with their children. Also I have the version of Paramount+ with...

Just as Sun Tzu wrote.

All of D&D's communications spells become top-tier spells in the right hands and in the right campaign.

I mean, fair enough. Really all I'm getting at is that I believe various waffle making devices very frequently fall in the "seems nice to have, but rarely actually gets used" category of things that frequently gum up people's kitchen cabinets, and of such things seem like they add very little...

I mean, I completely agree, but I guess I've just come to accept that any extended courtroom scenes on movie and tv will always be preposterous. As far as Star Trek trials go this won points with me simply by having actual legal professionals on both sides. Overall it was fine. Not a favorite...