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I want to know the background lore and stuff, but I'm pretty sure I'm in a minority. But I think it's good to have it there, as a "base of the iceberg" kind of thing – it may be that only some bits actually matter in the campaign, but I think it makes for a better foundation if they have common...

I believe they are adjusting the number of PDFs available via the crowdfunder to keep the total at or below where JG would get any royalties beyond covering their Kickstarted "debt". And it's not like JG would be getting any money from someone acquiring a PDF on the high seas – that's the entire...

So why did they state in 2020 that they wouldn't work with Judges Guild once they were done with the release they were working on? Musk was a known horrible person long before he heiled. It became slightly more obvious then, but his horribleness has been known for years.

Lost Omens are the books that are intended to be setting-specific. That doesn't mean they can't be scavenged for material, but the stuff in them is intended to represent specific in-setting things. Some will be more mechanical than others, but the geography-focused ones are pretty lore-heavy...

Back on Babylon 5, many of the crew and actors commented on how good planning meant they almost never ran late on shoots. I'm just sayin'. (Though B5 had the advantage of being shot exclusively in a studio rather than having location shots where you're dependent on things like weather and...

GALACTUS HUNGERS!

So... what's up with both Millie Gibson and Ncuti Gatwa leaving ahead of schedule? I can see why Gatwa did (gotta strike while the iron is hot, and it won't do to sit on your hands for a year or two waiting for Disney and the BBC to make up their minds), but I'm assuming RTD wouldn't come up...

Back in 3.5e, there was a magic variant that worked in a similar fashion (True Naming or something like that, from Tome of Magic). As I recall, it was not particularly popular – the main thing I see people missing from that book is the Binder. The problem I see with systems like this is that it...

Is that "quarter of" or "quarter off"? To me, "quarter of two" makes no sense, but I could see how one could get from "quarter off two" to 1:45.

2e did a lot to simplify initiative, though it did so with three different tiers of individual initiative (not counting the entirely different rules from Combat & Tactics. Basic rule: Each side rolls d10 each round. Lowest goes first. The only modifiers that apply are those that cover that...

I didn't mean that there was a problem having spoilers right in the open in a spoiler thread. I was reacting to the Facebookian "I'll put in this post as a spoiler buffer", which felt a bit redundant compared to just using spoiler tags.

From what was written in the other thread, Gatwa apparently didn't renew his contract once his two seasons were up. The most likely reason is that he's a rising star, and it doesn't seem things are determined about the next season yet, and he didn't want to be locked into keeping an open...

You do know that this site has spoiler tags, right?

H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. You can probably draw your conclusions from there.

"I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'what if life were fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?' Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe." —Marcus Cole...

The Sistine Chapel is a bad comparison, I think. The Sistine Chapel is an amazing work of art, and is the peak of its genre, but it's not groundbreaking. There were plenty of similar fresco paintings before it, just not of that scale and quality. By comparison, I don't think I've ever heard...

To me, "ancestry" seems the better term, as it can cover a lot of non-biological bases as well. For example, in a human-only setting it could be used for different human cultures (e.g. like the Belgariad books). I wonder if Wizards chose not to use it because they didn't want to be seen as...

I don't think the system likes giving earlier access to a spell to specific classes, at least not as a prepared/known spell. Spell level is inherent to the spell in 5e, unlike 3e where different classes could have the same spell at different levels (e.g. bards getting suggestion as a 2nd level...

The problem with that is that background is more used for things like "jobs" rather than culture. I like the way Level Up does it, where you have Heritage (biological species, which includes some choices about abilities), Culture (upbringing), and Background (job/training). So things like...

It also has one of the most badass lines ever said by a Ferengi. As far as badass lines said on a Star Trek show, that is up there with "You may test that assumption at your convenience."