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No clear, ultra-reductionist message. Would never make it past the script stage. Is my cynicism showing?

You realize, RC, that notion of Na'avi origins can only lead to a big reveal where it turns out the Na'avi we know are the descendants of Techno-Na'avi who rejected their science, but as a last act of scientific power restructured themselves genetically to interface with Pandora before...

A "level" is a pure abstraction. Therefore, there is no objective answer to this question. It's somewhere on a spectrum between rhetorical and nonsensical. It's like asking "How many bars does the jail cell need?" Answer: "Enough to keep the thinnest prisoner from getting out." That's...

True. Hobgoblins, though, like the one they killed, are the "Jackbooted army of death" type. There's rules support for Elf-goblin enmity, and the Oots world is nothing if not a product of D&D rules. See "product of the D&D rules" above. The characters are (largely) aware of the rules...

Why? One rampaging horde that worships an evil god isn't much different from another from the perspective of someone inside the game world.

The best method is still to join a guild, IMO. Running with consistent people (or some percentage of consistent people) is still the best thing going. But if you can't or don't want to, there are pick up groups going to all the level 80 content constantly, even on my backwater server. The...

Depends on your view. If all you care about is access to more powerful items, then yes, the new model is more "Munchkin". But I put it to you that items are a red herring. The opportunity to see new content is the actual draw, or should be. The original model for WoW was a very aggressive...

I think you over-estimate the difficulty of most 5-man instances, especially now. Some of the endgame 5-mans in vanilla were slightly difficult. But since then non-heroic 5-mans are mostly trivial if your tank knows what he's doing. Heck, a lot of the heroics are barely more than that unless...

I think the OP misunderstood the point of how they're changing talents. They're removing talents that do something boring but are mathematically necessary to good performance like "Increases all damage by 2% per point" or "Increases chance to crit by 1% per point" and building that into the...

No offense was intended. But I feel like when the subject of female gamers comes up, it turns into dueling anecdotes. Half the people willing to post on the subject line up on one side and say, "Build it social and they will come!" and the other half line up on the other side and say, "My...

Novem5er, I would humbly suggest that you are proceeding from a more basic false assumption. The fact that lots of women choose social computer games does not mean that women will choose to play a more social PnP game, or a PnP game at all. The vast majority of the women playing The Sims and...

It would take a week to unpack all the nested irony in this thread. /popcorn

It becomes really interesting when psychic waves, cosmic rays, the placebo effect, and chaos theory conspire to cause the player to start rolling badly when mechanically identical "Arthur" loses his sword. ;)

My thought was that mechanically he's identical even when he picks up a different sword. The character of Arthur would still treat the specific sword as totemic. The player might just know different. That can either be a hand wave to simplify math or it can be a deep truth about the campaign...

In game, there is no meaningful mechanical difference between Arthur's power coming from Excalibur or Arthur's power actually being inherent while he believes it comes from Excalibur. The character is fully capable of chalking up his good performance while wielding a different blade to divine...

In the first film, I was really, really glad they didn't do that. But they really sold this version well visually. I like that it looks slimmer and less armored than the "real" suit, though.

Aye, Bullgrit. It looks cool, but it's the wrong kind of cool for Tron, IMO. The first teaser bugged me in that the light cycles moved in graceful curves rather than the sharp corners I remember. I think they forgot it's not supposed to be "real."

I stand corrected. Interesting. That puts a lot of the complaints I get from textbook publishers about their supply costs in a very different light. I learn something new every day, and it's frequently helpful. So... if paper, shipping, and warehousing aren't the costs that are killing them...

Geez, can't believe I missed those. Those are so fundamental that we don't actually think about them, but they govern a lot of our behaviors. By comparison, you have Dwarves, who are at least indifferent to the sun. Assuming that is their default evolutionary state, an entire set of basic...

That makes a commitment to a very specific style of game, which is fine if that's your cup of tea, but you have to admit that it's very narratively limiting.