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The comics version canonically has a genius-level intellect, but I read that as raw processing power/memory, not "brilliance". That's why he can read a book at super speed and understand what the book says. So if, say, Superman and Lex Luthor were to face off in a math contest or something like...

The way I see it is that the problems of the 3e engine hadn't changed appreciably in the 10 or so years between the release of 4e and the release of PF2. It's no great surprise that the solutions to those problems would look fairly similar as well, even if they aren't identical. That said, I...

Anyway, the Swedish game Eon used to use the equivalent of race ("ras"), and had that apply both to species and tribal/ethnic/clan affiliations (e.g. you had six different types of elves, with some pretty serious physical and cultural differences), but now uses "folkslag" instead which would...

With the larger customizability in 3e (total of 7 feats that don't compete with stat boosts; or 11 in Pathfinder 1e), there were several attempts at providing feats for those who wanted to build on or explore more racial traits. I thought these worked pretty well in general, and Eberron in...

Sense8 was pretty good, at least the first season. I never did get around to watching season 2 or the final tv movie though. It even has a Doctor Who connection, with Freema Agyeman in a supporting role.

There have definitely been box sets containing non-hardback books (e.g. the original 5e Starter Set), but I can't recall any physically published standalone non-hardbacks. The Elemental Player's Options (or whatever it was called) was a softback when I ordered it as a POD from Drivethru, but I...

That's not my understanding of metacurrencies. My understanding is that metacurrencies are things that do not exist as such in the actual game world, but only in the game – that's why they are metacurrencies. In D&D, Inspiration is a metacurrency, while things like spell slots, sorcery points...

I'd classify things like Wrath, Discipline, or Drama as resources, not metacurrencies. They are no different from something like Power Points in Savage Worlds, other than how they are gained and regained.

I would reckon that he probably has a fair bit of knowledge about Kryptonian science by way of the Fortress, but that doesn't necessarily translate to knowledge of Terran science/technology. He can build/repair the robots in the Fortress, but that doesn't mean he knows how to change a hard...

Sure, Steam provides a license agreement when you "buy" a game. But laws can override that kind of thing. For example (from a different sector), EU law specifies that all workers are entitled to a contiguous 11 hours of rest per 24-hour period as well as another 24 hours of contiguous rest per...

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I think there's a cooler version of that victory, where Superman outsmarts Lex instead. Lex is giving verbal commands to Ultraman, which Ultraman then carries out. But that has a delay – Lex gives verbal commands to his minions and the minions forward them to Ultraman. That's like a second or...

What? Who said that?

My impression is that Morrus learned a lot from that. Back in the day, as you note, ENWorld had a lot of custom code, much of which had been hacked together by the late Michael "Spoony" Morris who was volunteering as admin. He eventually left ENWorld amidst some animosity, which meant there was...

Shareholders and executives should be kept as far away as possible from running companies. Leave it to the employees who actually know how the business works.

Going the other direction, I am reminded of GURPS Technomancer, a setting that takes place in the modern world (well, modern-ish – it was made in the 90s), but where nuclear detonations have infused the world with magic – first the test detonation at Alamogordo, and later a much larger Soviet...

I would not classify them as metacurrencies. Metacurrencies, as I understand the term, are mostly Doylist in nature – they tend to represent things like luck, fate, and such, and with a few exceptions (e.g. TORG possibilities) they aren't things the characters are aware of. For example, in...

In 5.0, healing magic (at least cure wounds) didn't affect constructs (or undead for that matter). In 5.0 they were humanoids, however, so that was a moot point. I don't think 5.5 has any such limitation on healing magic though. Back in 3e, warforged were an exception to how cure X wounds...

Because warforged aren't made to specs. There's a lot about them that the designers have no idea why it's there. They have some control over what happens, but a lot of what's going on with warforged is throwing stuff at the creation forge and see what comes out.