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Lack of familiarity with the rules is going to slow down any game, but 5e is pretty simple (especially compared to 3e) and I know most of the rules. Not often I have to look something up. That’s the main drawback of moving to another system - having to learn new rules. And as I get older it only...

It may be faster for your group, but that doesn't tell us anything about the general situation. Maybe that means they take a long time selecting what is optimal, rather than just hitting everything with an axe, which is typically how my players approach the game. Whereas the lack of familiarity...

And a Ravenloft book, and a Psion book, along with the Eberron book and the FR book that are announced?! It looks increasingly like WotC are doing some gaslighting to me! Probably just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks for a generic player options book next year.

And a 2CV.

Amazon is so full of rubbish that it’s hard to find the good stuff. Meanwhile Apple is so lacking in filler that there is no reason to keep a subscription going for more than a couple of months.

Exactly. They has several absolutely brilliant shows. And not much else to keep you occupied whilst waiting for the next season to drop. Oh, they do have a couple of cheesy-but-watchable movies too.

To be honest, what would make me happy is if the new Bond Movie imitated Slow Horses. Otherwise I'll probably stay home.

Moonraker references Star Wars, but only by being the exact same Bond climactic battle as Thunderball, You only Live Twice OHMSS and The Spy Who Loved Me, only in space, with laser beams. It still a very generic Bond film, but with the last bit wearing a sci fi skin. It's narratively nothing...

I haven't watched much of their 5e stuff, but it's certainly slower than 5e combat in my own games (which is itself a lot slower than 1e combat). So the pacing is down to the performance, not the rules.

I’m not seeing that myself. DH combat looks slow in this, and the drama is down to the players being performers, it has little to do with the rules, so far as I can see.

In the early days, it was the other movies that imitated Bond (and then mostly as parodies and spoofs), not the other way round. And we had gritty cynical Len Deighton and Le Carre adaptations along side Bond in the 60s and 70s. It's only really since Borne that Bond has seemed to be imitating...

Skabatha Nightshade (Wild Beyond the Witchlight) is a CR8 hag.

They are called paladin and ranger.

Obviously, the most important thing for a successful horror game is it should make the players miserable. If they are having fun you are doing it wrong.

Yeah, the show is fine, but it's completely failing to make the case for "why not D&D?" And yeah, largely Mercer's fault.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse there.

And that is to put a political interpretation on fashion. WotC are going to avoid doing anything that is unfashionable. Because their job is to sell things in the here and now.

The Craig films felt more like generic spy movies than Bond movies.

I usually advise hitting it with a hammer next. Don’t knock it, I fixed my gate with percussive maintenance.

Deleting the cache is were I would start.