Search results

  1. WayneLigon

    Star Wars Episode VII cast announced...

    I'm pretty sure the main guy will be John Boyega, who is cast as a Jedi apprentice. I think he'll be our viewpoint character. Check him out in Attack the Block.
  2. WayneLigon

    Favorite Setting That Has Novels

    Another hands-up for Eberron. Most of the novels produced for that setting were quite a bit better than any other game fiction I've ever read, with the exception of Nigel Findley's ShadowRun books.
  3. WayneLigon

    Hexmap of the British Isles, 400 AD, 6 miles scale

    Download button doesn't work for me, but it might be work-blocked somehow.
  4. WayneLigon

    Future of watching movies at home?

    it kinda of depends on how greedy and fearful companies want to be. So many right now are scared of 'teh piratz' that they want to create their own separate playgrounds instead of putting their stuff on Netflix/hulu/etc. The best system might eventually be a combo of pay-per-view like Amazon's...
  5. WayneLigon

    Recommend a Fantasy Book to Me

    Here's the most recent fantasy I've read, that I'd recommend The Sorcerer's Widow (Legends of Ethshar) The Unwelcome Warlock: A Legend of Ethshar -- Lawrence Watt Evans Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant Point of Knives: A Novella of Astreiant -- Melissa Scott A Dance of Cloaks (Shadowdance 1)...
  6. WayneLigon

    Agents of Shield: Odd vibe from series

    Well, we got that last night: OK, that was a good episode. We have, I think, our first identifiably-Marvel superpower: a Darkforce manipulator.
  7. WayneLigon

    What is a Spell List?

    With the fragmented, non-systemic approach D&D/Pathfinder takes to magic, I don't think that spell lists represent much of anything, fluff-wise. At best they might represent the most common spells that wizards can learn.
  8. WayneLigon

    So, Imagine your SO just told you they want to get pregnant

    At that age, I would have some serious second, third and fourth thoughts about doing it. I am adopted, and my mom was 37 years old when they did this. My dad was, I think, 43. They had finally attained a position in life where they could both afford to have a child, and where Mom did not have to...
  9. WayneLigon

    Why Do Batman Fans Hate Christopher Nolan?

    All of them have been tough - you pretty much have to be to run around with Batman. All of them are master martial artists, with most of Batman's other skillsets - Dick is better acrobat, Jason is arguably better with weaponry, and Tim was a computer genius. Tim was also a master detective -...
  10. WayneLigon

    Swedes pay for lunch with veins

    Nice; I hope it spreads. My car and my house should just 'know me' by this point, to get in and out of them, to use services, etc. There will be privacy concerns but I'd bet that the convenience of , say, walking into a store, grabbing a loaf of bread, and walking through a scanner on the way...
  11. WayneLigon

    Agents of Shield: Odd vibe from series

    Only after last episode. Before, they were just generic no-name stand-ins with no connection to the Marvel Universe. Ratings have dropped almost every episode and there was no bump from Thor or Cap 2, meaning most likely the people that went to those movies either are not and never have been...
  12. WayneLigon

    Movies with Marvel superheroes are scheduled til 2028!

    Daredevil certainly is. He will be getting a Netflix Original Series, along with Power Man, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones.
  13. WayneLigon

    BBC analyzes the 1980s D&D Panic

    It's even more fascinating to realize this was just an offshoot of a general level of 'Satanic Panic' that swept the US at the time, where people believed there was an actual palpable Satanist conspiracy reaching into all levels of society, mostly concerned with child molestation/sacrifice...
  14. WayneLigon

    Movies with Marvel superheroes are scheduled til 2028!

    They should be easily able to do this. The four Netflix series will create a Defenders/street level hero track. You can easily see movies for Doctor Strange, Cloak and Dagger, some of the Young Avengers, Nova, The Inhumans, Sub-Mariner (though that might bound up with Fantastic Four), Werewolf...
  15. WayneLigon

    Agents of Shield: Odd vibe from series

    I really think that the main thing wrong with the show is that, with the exception of Greg Clark, most of the actors are simply bad fits for their characters. Only Fitz and Simmons (and Mai to a lesser extent) have any real charisma or appeal to them at all. Making Sky the focus for things was a...
  16. WayneLigon

    Why Do Batman Fans Hate Christopher Nolan?

    Several reasons: They don't feel like Batman films, they feel like mundane crime drama films with a character that sorta resembles Batman who appears in less than half the film. The first half of the first movie was very good, since we've never gotten a film with Bruce's training. Also, kudos...
  17. WayneLigon

    Alec Guinness' letter about this "Star Wars" movie he was filming

    Yeah, afterwards I think he was also kind of bitter that Star Wars made more money for him than all the other acting jobs he'd done in his life, combined.
  18. WayneLigon

    Noah

    They make the statement in the film about man as a 'steward of the land', which contradicts the view of some that Man was placed in dominion of all the beasts, etc, etc, ie, Man is on the top and everything else in Creation serves him. You also have the people that conflate any whiff of...
  19. WayneLigon

    which rpg's are you just now discovering?

    Just played my first game of Burning Wheel a couple weeks ago, where we did world building bare bones, and character creation. I'd love to see a version of the basic book where the author didn't have such a Tolkien boner, though.
  20. WayneLigon

    We won

    I had a friend with that exact problem. His mom would let him play any RPG under the sun except D&D, which was just.. bizarre. Of course we easily solved the 'problem' of anyone's parents not liking D&D by simply lying to them about what we were doing. It was a bizarre time, and I'm glad...
Top