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I don't think anyone, least of all me, is saying Lovecraft wasn't an inspiration for elements of the Chaos gods, particularly the appearance of chaos mutations and so on. What I'm saying is that the apparent specific complaint re: CoC was that the Mythos entities were behind everything (which is...

But 40K doesn't have that lol. I mean, plenty of reasons to dislike 40K, but seriously the Ruinous Powers are not, in fact, behind everything, indeed, that's kind of the greatest lie they (and the Imperium of Man) ever told, which is to claim that they are.

The only 1980s boardgame or wargame I've played in the last few years was HeroQuest. It honestly didn't feel great to me despite minor updates (it was the recent re-release). Still it was more fun than Descent or Frosthaven (a very, very low bar for me lol). As others have said - would play is...

I think this is kind of funny, because you appear superficially to know so little about digital animation that you can't even describe how they'd be using beyond "Well maybe they use ChatGPT instead of Googling stuff!" and like, yeah, maybe. Last time I had an argument like this it was about...

I mean, if you're giving a Sorcerer-King a redemption arc, I think it's fair to say you've gone too far or missed the point lol. This is a guy who is described as literally someone who and I quote "kills anyone who annoys him". I don't think you can have a legit redemption arc if you do that...

I'm not sure how that's going to be that different from Nazgul Jr, unless we're making an awful lot of assumptions about Nazgul Jr. basically being some kind of mercenary or something, which wasn't what I was assuming (I was actually also assuming raised in a cult or some kind). As for "no-one...

I mean, that's nice but $300m/month is a fraction of their costs, as Altman himself was pointing out recently whilst begging for more investment and muttering darkly about "bubbles". It's also not really that much money given how widely used it is, let alone how much has been poured into it...

I think this is an interesting juxtaposition because I've seen the latter distortions cause people to have different views re: the former. A specific example would be I have a friend who doesn't like to watch horror movies, or play horror videogames, but seems to really enjoy running certain...

Small e or big E evil though? Judge Dredd is absolutely small-e evil in most presentations of him, but he's usually contrasted against even worse people, people who range from the merely very dangerously stupid or greedy to extreme big-E evil, like Judge Death ("All crime isss committed by the...

I think this is a straightforward case of projecting your experience on to others, especially with the rather bold "top professional" qualifier lol. IT (particularly support-type IT) is an ideal case where AI is uniquely useful because it's read all the easily-accessible manuals and discussions...

To add to the post re: identity: You could possibly argue that Andor suggests (thought never outright states) that not having any clear cultural identity makes it easier for you to get sucked into either being part of the fascist regime, but even ol' Syril Karn does have a cultural identity...

The difference between Sorcerers and Wizards, in terms of actual theme is basically nothing. People can talk about like "inner power" and so but really they're basically interchangeable. 5E only made them closer after weirdly dumping an actually-differentiated Sorcerer who was in the playtests...

I think that's probably the right track, but also I think unless those first six levels take people, like, a long-ass time, you're probably not going to be able to fit that in reliably. But there are other ways which could be diegetic, especially if you have significant downtime built into the...

I mean, it's pretty much definitely deliberate, yeah.

I don't think it does really. I think it shows you can use cultural identity politics intersectionally to encourage groups into a more... clarified... understanding of where they stand. That they can be situationally helpful in forming a unified front on issues, and getting people involved who...

I think this is a pretty spectacular and complete misreading of Andor lol, especially if you know anything about Tony Gilroy.

I love all this except prestige classes being tied to diegetic achievements, which I want to love, but it is really, really tingling my Spidey-Sense. That's because unless you also have instructions/fairly strong suggestions for the DM to try to cooperate*, that's just going to lead to weird and...

Oh wow. That's an interesting one. One thing that helps WotC is the UA of course (no accident Daggerheart is copying it with The Void, which is kind of like an upgraded version of the same concept), because a lot of times some kind of serious balance issue that was overlooked got immediately...

People react based on the relative history of companies and do so in a dynamic way. WotC has a recent-ish history of stepping on rakes and making weird choices with settings. It's not a terrible awful history but it is a patchy and concern-inducing one. That could change. Two good setting...