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I think that's actually season 4 in the first episode of that season, Way of the Warrior. The 3rd season begins with meeting the Dominion and its Founders.

Which isn't really something that's wrong for any other franchise or non-franchise piece of entertainment. That we care about what is being fought about is usually the key to making a memorable and widely succesful action movie. It doesn't always require much (he's a widower and they killed his...

You mention a lot of good points. I kinda mostly look at the first when I think about it: The way media is presented to us is now chosen by engagement, as you mention. And that might be good for the platform, but not good for us. I have some hope that this is something governments in the world...

It kinda feels like a cheat code to the human brain. It doesn't matter how smart you are (or think you are). You see such headlines, and they do something to you. Even if you get cynical and ridicule the emotionally manipulative headlines, they are already doing something to you. Since they...

I can't even remember right now if we actually played it or were just discussing it, but someone in my gaming group at the time mentioned that this unfortunately felt to them more like the game playing them then them playing the game. The "if you roll an odd/even number thing" sounded like an...

I kinda feel it is, because 4E has a lot of "slide/push/pull" enemies x squares powers, including powers where the x was variable depending on your attribute and certain class/role/weapon stats. 3.x and 5E I think usually only had something like "makes person run away as fast as possible" or...

I dunno, maybe not, maybe I would. But I kinda liked it when in 4E, the different monsters of one species had shared abilities that made them unique and play different against than other species. But I guess sometimes you just need quick stats for a brute or mage or whatever.

I kinda want to see two 4E versions on some aspect: I would like a grid-based and battlemat-less ruleset. But I am not sure the latter really works. In play, I think using the grid and all the position stuff is really fun, but needing some form of grid to adjucate can make things more difficult...

On that vein, I think 4E prime feature is that it does really nice set piece combats. So a change I would make is to make this explicit in the DMG and account for it in any published adventures. Instead of having a dungeon with 10 rooms full of party level enemies, boil it down to something...

I think it might be interesting and possible to do a non-Starfleet Star Trek, but this movie had too little of what seems core to the identity of Star Trek. The characters seem mostly outsiders of the Federation or Starfleet - except Garret, and they deal with mostly people outside Starfleet and...

Numerical Bonuses I would probably ditch the 1/2 level bonus. I did this for my Star Wars and Arcana Evolved hacks. I am considering cutting the hit point bonuses at higher levels, for similar reasons- extending the usability of monsters, and also to make the power level differences between 1st...

It almost seems it would have been easier to call them "hit dice", even though they are class+ability based and not level-based. Maybe it would still be more revolutationary than turning THAC0 in to Base Attack Bonus, but it would be a familiar expression; I guess? That said, I don't mind the...

I kinda feel that is a design space 4E overlooked for classes, adding some passive benefits or talents. That said, there are someutility powers that almost fill that role - some at-wills work pretty similar, and some of these things are feats, but being feats and pwoers, they remain optionals...

It was just not that interesting. Tying it back to Mirror Georgiou doesn't really help, either, it just makes the world feel slammer again. I - against all realistic expectations - hoped for something that actually discusses either Section 31 or Mirror-Georgiou's moral and ethical "challenges"...

I started playing D&D (and roleplaying in general basically) with D&D 3E, and was slowly introduced to the cosmology of the Great Wheel. I think for any setting I made myself, I wouldn't use it. It just contained too much stuff that I didn't need or find interesting, especially with alignment...

I really like the 4E cosmology and when I make a setting, I often use concepts of it. I particularly like the Shadowfell and Feywild as mirror planes and prefer that over Ethreal Plane and the Plane of Shadows. I also prefer the Elemental Chaos over dedicated Elemental Planes (and...

Order-66 was basically a wide-band broadcast so it would reach everyone (especially every clone trooper anywhere, even behind enemy lines). Quite possible it was even send on all transmission channels that were otherwise forgotten - like the At-Attin channel. The timeline is unclear, but it...

The rules only give us very limited ways to gain class levels, so if it still requires going on adventures and either killing monsters or achieving quests, it might not be possible for an entire village to get that many high level PCs, because there just aren't that many "quests" around. (And...

I dunno, maybe when it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it really is just a selfish fallen Jedi Pirate? Not sure how many more episodes there will be - is it 8 total or more? But here are my predictions The supervisor isn't the former Pirate Captain. It's a computer...

But still a much worse chance then they do in the real world where you'd just be murdering some innocent frail old woman. And it's likely to cost them a few people.