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Oh for sure! There's some pointless stuff (primarily the above). Just make the city-states incredibly oppressive and like serfdom and/or indentured servitude and like wildly unfair working conditions/horrible deals the norm instead of slavery (YA novels and anime are full of this stuff, I...

Templars definitely seem like a Paladin subclass to me in a 5E context. Probably the only Paladin subclass (though yeah maybe genie-based ones also work so long as the Templars are out to get them). I don't think Dark Sun works as Dark Sun unless you do lock out some options though. Hopefully...

Ahhhhh that's probably a pretty major factor! I guess it will be interesting to see what % next GenCon.

Yeah makes me wonder what % of D&D games at GenCon were 3.5E by the GenCon after that arrived?

Exactly. That is the late 1980s/early 1990s spirit it embodies. Yes, and you encounter them continuously when you actually play it, where the gods stuff is a backstory element 100% irrelevant to day-to-day life, because literally no-one but maybe one or two of the Sorcerer-Kings even knows what...

I just don't agree lol. I think that is a really wacky take on both points. Especially in 1991 no-one was thinking that. I think you're backprojecting like, 1998 thinking to 1991. The prevailing opinion where? Not the US where the book was written, not at either of those times. EDIT - What is...

Yeah that's a take and a half lol. "Sure every single person on the colony except Newt died. Sure every single marine except Hicks died. Sure they faced a totally uncertain future. But any time more than one person survives - preferably infected - that's going too damn far!" I mean as a...

That's a good point. I think that's a big part of why it's becoming increasingly common again (decades ago it was very common too), especially with self-publishing and fanfic and so on. Like, obviously, if you're writing a fanfic, you don't need to do research, but maybe if you're getting...

You say that like it's a bad thing! Those are both good things! Right? I'll rewatch Resurrection. I'll even rewatch Prometheus, which permanently robs me of a few points of IQ every time I see it (twice so far), but at least it has style and David and I can fast-forward through the ancient...

I mean, absolutely that is not the #1 theme in Dark Sun. It's a largely irrelevant part of the backstory. That's like saying the #1 theme in the Forgotten Realms is the Wall of Souls or something. I can't comment on this properly without commenting on current US politics (rather than neutral...

What a thing to call YOURSELF good lord!

Is "Bookcloaks" like a Whitecloaks comparison? If so I love it lol.

Thank you, that's pretty clear and indisputably positive, not negative! And yeah agree with him re: cancellation after best season!

SOUNDS LIKE EXALTED 2E ALRIGHT. PLEASE DONT PRINT IN THE PAPER THAT IM STILL MAD ABOUT EXALTED 2E. EDIT - On a happier note I still remember rolling like 18d10 for Aggravated Damage to a werewolf in VtM and watching as 10 after 10 after 10 appeared. I think I got 6 or 7 10s and most of the rest...

I just finally watched Alien: Romulus. What a mixed bag! I didn't think an Alien movie could make me re-appraise Resurrection and go "Huh, maybe I was too hard on Resurrection..." but Romulus sure did. The Good Cailee Spaeny - She may be tiny unlike our dear Sigourney, but like Sigourney...

Documentaries shouldn't be fiction (opinion, perspective, sure, but fiction? Ideally not!), I think you'd concur. The problem was that Netflix was paying someone to make ones that were!

I see.

I did but I'm only talking about as they impact my viewing (i.e. by cancelling shows prematurely etc.), unless they're really bad. Apple TV+, for example, doesn't really seem to "just cancel" shows. The nepotism one was really bad, because I nearly became an archaeologist, I have most of an...

More than 3-4 is what, 5? You're not really clarifying your position in a way that informs us here. With four players and a GM, let's be real, if you're playing WoD games, owning about 50 d10s is a pretty good idea. If you're playing Shadowrun, and you don't have at least 50 d6s, you're...