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I mean unrepentant in that she doesn't feel sorry for what she did in her fight against the Cardassian occupation. She's basically what Cassian Andor would be if he'd survived and gotten a job with the New Republic. Just a few episodes back, she was convincing Tom Riker to give himself up...

Moving along, I watched "Life Support" last night. Aside from the goofy-looking surgical get-up that Bashir and his assistants had to wear, this episode was pretty meh. Kai Winn was up to her usual tricks, this time taking a Machiavellian approach to getting a treaty between Bajor and Cardassia...

Well, firstly, I was responding to what turned out to be a typo. There has been no lore change. Not sure if that's what you're asking about. In terms of shield dwarves vs gold dwarves, the most recent authoritative source would be the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, which states this: Shield...

I just checked my FB events records, and it actually took us 6 sessions to complete "When a Star Falls"! (I was right that it only took us two sessions to get through "Beyond the Crystal Cave".) We play fortnightly for about 2 hours with the occasional longer session thrown in, so adventures...

I mean, I've lived here long enough, but I haven't applied for citizenship yet ... While there are lots of Māori who can pass for white, I think there are plenty of actual white All Blacks. Having them perform the haka before a rugby match isn't cultural appropriation, though, because it's...

Guys, the lack of pages numbers is nothing new. Outside of TOCs and indices, WotC has long been allergic to page numbers … they always use chapter references (or nothing). My guess would be that they don’t want to include them in case they change or something, which is silly really. I don’t...

Thanks. Oh. That’s a lore change. In FR, the shield dwarves are the stereotypical Scottish-looking dwarves, while the gold dwarves are the bling-wearing African-looking dwarves.

Who's the woman with the magic staff in back? I'm not familiar with this group, not having read the novels. How so? He just looks like a typical Faerûnian gold dwarf to me. I guess so. I mistook that character for a dwarf at first and had to look more closely ...

Mānawatia a Matariki! Since we are talking about Māori culture, today (Friday) is a public holiday here in NZ to celebrate Matariki, the Māori new year. "Matariki" is the Māori term for the Pleiades star cluster. Māori have traditionally spent the time when the stars are visible to give...

I ran the Infinite Staircase version of both these adventures (“When a Star Falls” and “Beyond the Crystal Cave”) for my episodic Eberron campaign recently. We enjoyed both adventures. As I recall, the group was pretty thorough with Star Falls, but they skipped much of the Eternal Garden...

Look, I’m not looking to start a fight or claim the moral high ground here. I get that this scene was meant to be a throwaway line reflecting a 90s trend. I was a teen in the 90s, and while I don't remember any specific tribal tattoo fads, I can think of plenty of other fads that we would...

On a different note, the double-episode’s depiction of 2024 (as imagined by the writers 30 years before) is interesting. It centers on homeless / jobless / mentally unwell Americans forced to live in ghetto-like “sanctuary districts” through no fault of their own. Apparently an LA mayor from...

I was editing my post to provide more context when you replied, but I’ll reiterate the main point for you here: it’s an (albeit fictional) example of cultural appropriation, especially since he admits to getting it to fit in / be cool (“got it in high school … like everybody else”), not because...

These days it would be classed as cultural appropriation. The issue here isn’t so much that the white guy got a Māori tattoo because he was enthusiastic about the culture. It’s that he did it to be cool (“got it in high school … like everybody else”). If he had been gifted the tattoo in a...

OK I think I just watched what for me is the worst DS9 episode so far: S3 E10 “Fascination”. That’s the one where Lwaxana Troi has a fever that causes her to project her lust for Odo onto others, causing various characters to engage in various embarrassing forms of infatuation, some bordering on...

He didn't quit. He was laid off. Said so himself. No.

Oh, I missed that! Sorry. Thanks for pointing it out.

Yeah, it's super weird. They've hidden the subclasses and backgrounds and such too! It makes no sense, since there's no real space limitations there.

WotC has always been somewhat allergic to page numbers. LOL.