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<note: rearranging two quotes by same person to put like concepts together.> Both Cavill and Snyder have attracted bizarre followings of alt-right /'anti-woke' nerdom fans that seem to think they will be their saviors, represent them, or somehow prove something in their favor. Snyder enjoyed...

I think the issue is that, if those mainstreamers like the things, they may, in fact, be nerds. That's the problem with interest-derived demographics -- you are one by deciding you are one/doing what one does. We previous iterations of the demographic can say we were there first and pat...

There is a strong component of this. I've said it repeatedly -- those who were worst to nerds have typically been other nerds staking territory. At some point I will do a full on thread on the subject. It's a nuanced one to write, and the central focus is hard to do without stepping on toes...

I find 7E's rules on vision and stealth to be almost as bad as all the other attempts that have been made. Clearly I can see the moon at night regardless of the distance between myself and it. I mean, in real life I can see the finer details of New Musklandia at night, when they are not eclipsed...

I would really frame that more as ridiculously good luck on the part of RDJ and Chris Evans. That's really not the norm in Hollywood. Everyone is a contactor and you are hired for a project or specified-duration contract -- so a movie or set number of seasons of a show (if the show persists)...

Bedrockgames, nothing you say is incorrect (and I certainly remember a number of Cracked articles that were less than fair to their subject), however I don't think that was Deset Gled's point. He's referencing a TV Trope term that used to be called 'Seinfeld is Unfunny.' Even then, the trope...

Very nice that this actually got off the ground. Waiting to see how it goes. "Set in the far future, it mixes fantasy tropes with sci-fi in a grim, dark universe." No mention of satire?

Bruce Heard (of later Known World/Mystara fame) created his own similarly-flavored game world (The World of Calidar) that took it a step further. Gods are so defined by their worshippers that if the majority of the laity has a misconception about their deity, that misconception can...

I think it depends on what you want out of your gods. Are they more for their own personal involvement in the story, or as a driving force for the clergy and faithful. Seems to work that way IRL as well. There are plenty of stories about (ex.) the Greek gods fighting and fornicating and...

Honestly, "Also deconstruction of _______ genre is nothing new today" might be a universal statement at this point. There's so much content now, that by the time a genre has the chance to be fully formed, there's already satirizations of it and deconstructions of it already in the mix.

Although the stereotypes of high-level 3e play* are generally the logical extreme and didn't see much actual play, it is still very much glass cannon territory, kinda returning to the high-lethality play of 1st-level. You can do amazing things, but so can whomever you are up against, and a lot...

To clarify my point: There isn't technically anything called 0D&D, (or oD&D/OD&D). Those are fan-made terms. However, the generally agreed to convention is that they cover the original Dungeons and Dragons ruleset released in 1974 (including subsequent print runs through 1978), and the...

Okay. I was interpreting "Basically, unless surprised, the specialist bow armed fighter likely will alpha strike any mage off the field" as dropping the mage, not disrupting their first-round spell. If that's not how you meant it, than I was answering a different question.

I think you might confuse people with your distinct nomenclature. By convention, OD&D is used to refer to the original 1974 game, plus the supplements and products produced for them. As such, the only boxed set is the original 'Little Brown Books' (LBBs), which does not have thieves (that class...

If you read the Norse myths, a lot of them sound like D&D adventurers. Oden and Loki or Thor wandering around and getting into mortal peril like running into giants that could potentially defeat (and kill?) them, but then always persevering in the end (well, minus the very end). I seem to recall...

Starting with the class that grants heavy armor also works.

Good thought. If we're actually looking to assign blame, I think the pertinent bits would be: Director seems to be the role with overall responsibility over a movie. If a scene was bad and should have had a second take or re-shoot, the cinematographer or director-on-set would be the one...

Found it. I wasn't clear, I had the pdf open and wasn't finding it. But I've got it now -- It's actually in 2E Players Options: High Level Campaigns. Starting p. 101 there's about 20 pages of mage dueling rules. Still no spell called counterspell, and it certainly doesn't beat Chainmail for...

The first page of the thread covers it nicely. To sum up and fill in some gaps: The ability to counter a spells goes back to Chainmail, with it an innate quality of wizard figures. oD&D refers to 'countering' of spells in terms of negated the effect -- light and darkness spells negating each...

There has been some slowdown while people re-establish their muscle memory with the new rules, but overall it looks on track to play very similarly to 2014. Power/balance-wise, there are new winners and losers, but the max minus the min does not outscale the max minus min of the previous version...