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He can definitely override them but his explanation in a previous episode and seeing how much they move without his input suggests most of the time he isn't.

That is true, I did say: So if he did do that, well SMDH as they say, because that + the robot being the cameraman and doing the hard work means he was essentially just a dumbass who hung around the Enterprise for a few weeks asking really stupid questions and then decided to put his name on a...

I mean, call me Mystic Meg, call me Postradamus (or even "More like Postra-dumbass!!!" when I get it very wrong), but I think we can guess pretty much how they screw it up if they screw it up, if we're really real about it. It's not easy though. The main barrier here is that there are so many...

It doesn't make sense that they'd be tadpoles though lol nor that Elder Brains would exist, nor a million other things. There's this extremely lame tendency in fantasy and some sci-fi to make it so literally every race "were human" at some point in the past/future, and this is always supposed...

IIRC just that they're natural half-dwarves and slavemasters target them because they're so strong and have such great endurance, which like, is superficially similar but fundamentally different to "created by slavers, for slavers". I expect any 5E version to cut the slavery angle, which...

I mean, it's just about the most implausible possible backstory given their lifecycle so I don't think that's worth considering lol.

I kind of liked it at the time on a certain level but I feel like Ryan Reynold's schtick is making it retroactively worse every day!

Oh sure but we got dozens of different angles and to actually get the footage he did would have meant watching an enormous amount and correctly editing it. I am being Watsonian here of course. Editing (especially editing down from huge amounts of footage) is damn hard work that takes real focus...

Even as a hardline tiefling bard player (you know it lol) I have to say, 4E's Bael Turath deal was interesting enough that it almost almost negated the "one appearance" thing. I do praise SCAG for saving us in 5E though I curse core 5E for continuing the one appearance thing without any reason...

Seems like kind of hair-splitting to call that evil of action, given the brain-eating and parasitization of sapient beings when they are themselves sapient beings like, how could they ever not be evil? Dexter-style? I guess a small number of could argue that they "only eat bad people"? But I'm...

< sigh > 4E changed their backstory over 15 years ago. So the only person you "gotcha'd" there was yourself. They're obviously not going to revert to the 2E backstory, they probably won't even use the 4E one and instead make them have mysterious origins and breed true or something.

I don't think they need any others. Muls need to be 4E-style, not "slave-breeding" style (ugh). Goliaths fit the half-giant role so they can do that. Give us a subrace for elves, dwarves and halflings, bish bash bosh, jobs a good 'un. Maybe some subraces for dragonborn, tieflings, etc. too. We...

Okay here's one: When Kaladin decides not to do a legit slave revolt because his vile, wretched bootlicker of a Spren emotionally blackmails and gaslights him into not doing it, because she's like if Jiminy Cricket was run by corporate HR (and working for Kaladin's slavemaster boss), that's one...

First off, I can kind of see that. Second off, you must not read much fantasy or science fiction generally, because good god, whilst I think there are legit criticisms of Jurassic Park (and not a few!), I'm not sure even if I hated it I could put in the bottom third of books I've read, let...

That doesn't really work as a defence or apologia if that's the idea, let alone a gotcha. This looks like a documentary. Just one done by someone who is totally untrained as a documentarian, has little-to-no idea how to make a documentary beyond "GET A LOT OF FOOTAGE!" (i.e. has read about...

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan an awful lot of people eatin' off the back of incredible work Obsidian did back in 2011 (esp. the work Gonzales and Sawyer did) who aren't Obsidian, which is particularly shocking given Obsidian basically didn't get paid for that (let's not go there). Jesus wept lol...

Right lol? Of all the things you can accuse Draw Steel! of being generic is not one! In fact, I think that's actually one of the factors that will limit its adoption, because it's built solely for one quite peculiar setting and has quite an unusual class selection with strong themes. Censor and...

WotC isn't a monolith, and WotC management (way above D&D as a game and the people who work on it) have historically, been extremely bad at three things: 1) Predicting the future re: D&D and what people will want. 2) Giving orders to the people who work on D&D that actually work out. 3)...

100% fact lol.

I think it was a bit too on-the-nose (not in a good Alien: Earth way either) as was the Ollie North stuff but I guess I can accept that as an explanation.