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LOL I had no idea people called him that, that's amazing. I have serious reservations about this 13-person 3-group plan he has but hey, I guess we'll see.

Janeway says "Absolutely you can". Pretty sure Kirk has some and Sisko has a few too.

The only documentarians who do that IRL tend to be real amateur-hour types who can't get a work as a real documentarian because the moment they pitch to anyone, even potential cameramen etc, they immediately get pegged as some sort of weird little axe-grinder who lacks the basic personality...

I get that you don't and that's okay, but the line between that kind of humourless, ill-tempered ultra-grimdark (the Prince of Nothing kind) and what people are calling "hopepunk" (i.e. Mad Max: Fury Road) is a pretty slim one to try and balance on! I think, if I understand correctly, you're...

Absolutely this. VOY was completely fixable, and I think a lot of why people stuck with it was they were expecting characters to grow and stop being incredibly boring or annoying, but... several of them just didn't... because fundamentally the showrunners weren't very good, and some extremely...

What on earth are you talking about? You're "memeifying" hopepunk, it's not "memeified" itself. You can't accuse other people of doing what you're doing. Good lord. Also how can you complain about "memes" when you seem to singing the praises of grimdark, the most "memeified" genre in human...

No. Radiant Citadel isn't hopepunk. I put the definitions in earlier in this thread. People can call it that, but's not. It just vaguely utopian. It doesn't meet any definitions of hopepunk, which is essentially "dark or even grimdark fantasy where the good guys can win (often by working...

I can name you two - Prince of Nothing and A Land Fit For Heroes. They're both awful (and both weirdly obsessed with sexual assault far beyond other grimdark), but they aren't parodic.

See lol! 3E established the Necrons, T'au and Drukhari, so that does matter, but it also de-established a bunch of stuff, much of which has since been re-established. The biggest lore changes which weren't just introducing those three races were actually much later, with the whole Primaris...

But that's exactly the issue - if you can redo anything and turn back time continually, everything is trivial. There's essentially no difficulty in most situations, especially because you effectively see the future by reloading a game and knowing what AI likely or even certain to do (based on...

Nah. 3/4/5 were humourless rubbish. Absolute rubbish. And no, they didn't "codify" the modern setting. 2E did. I've had this argument at great length with assorted 40K people, and it always ends the same way, the person claiming 2E didn't do that ends up admitting they weren't very familiar...

I mean, I guarantee a bunch of "grimdark" stuff you like is technically equally classifiable as hopepunk. Not all of, it but like, probably a significant double-digit fraction, so I'm not sure I entirely buy "anathema".

I get it. It happened to me already with 40K, all the way back in 1998! I started playing GW games in about 1988, Adeptus Titanicus, Rogue Trader (1E 40K), etc. Went on to Epic Scale and Space Marine (2E 40K). That was all great and most of the really good baseline lore for 40K was created...

This would be pretty weaksauce. But equally I'm with Defiling/Preserving being a subclass thing, not a per-spell thing (just not something unique to one class each). I played a lot of Dark Sun in 2E. No Preserver ever, ever defiled. So it doesn't need to be per-spell. @overgeeked The real...

Mad Max: Fury Road is "hopepunk" so that's not the chilling threat you seem to think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk#Examples "We can make a better world" is literally at the core of Dark Sun. It's part of the 2E starting adventure lol. Kalak dies and he doesn't come back. The...

Even with point buy and 2 ASIs the only way to have 20 CHA is to have 16 STR or DEX when a normal Fighter has 20 STR or DEX so you're hugely worse than them at actually fighting. Why are you ignoring that? You can eventually catch up at the cost of 2 Feats, a pretty huge cost when things like...

EN World is the only place I've seen this idea taken seriously. DH is amazing but they have a core audience which isn't ready for that yet.

Oh come off it. Who even expected DH to the game for campaign 4? The idea that they're "abandoning" it is just ludicrous nonsense.

One lives in hope but this is my major concern. Ravenloft and Planescape weren't "disastrous" without significant hyperbole but they also weren't particularly impressive, C+ at best. Not great for A and S tier settings respectively. Dragonlance was... astonishingly bad. Not because of mustaches...

So it's a cynical guess? Ok. Nothing wrong with that, but it's nothing more than that. I think it's unlikely it's only that myself, because we're looking at 4 subclasses here + potentially all the psychic subclasses from the other UA (I don't think even WotC will try and make us by Dark Sun and...