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Some interesting design notes scattered throughout:

I'm not terribly surprised to see that Druids now Wildshape (at level 1!) into a more generic statblock that you can flavor however you want, similar to the Ranger pets in Tasha's.

I'll be honest, part of what I specifically love about the Forgotten Realms is the history, the lore, the famous people. That sort of thing is the reason I chose to run things there rather than coming up with some blank slate generic fantasy setting, it's the stuff that's most exhausting and...

If someone writes a serious post about bigotry they've faced, and someone laugh reacts to it, that's pretty direct mockery, and the mods have previously explicitly called that sort of use out as unacceptable behavior.

Oh thank goodness. I was ardently against it as designed in the playtest, so I think I'll take, like, 5% credit for this.

It's a smart call, as the term has been very twisted from the specific, original meaning to something that people toss out at any sort of contradiction they feel is present in a game's overall atmosphere. For example, people sling the term at Uncharted, because "They expect you to care about...

As you say, it's an thin needle. However, there absolutely are people (not everyone, obviously) who are very demanding of a response when they come across an idea they don't care for. Stating at the start of the conversation that, that sort of derailment is not welcome in this specific thread...

I see very little daylight between that and Now, I can see a difference between questioning an assertion, and asking for a debate, but the end result to the person it's being directed towards is largely the same.

Similar to the exploration question above, I think there's a big difference between "Let's Debate Intelligent Animal Alignment! +" and "I Don't Like Beasts With Alignment, Here's How I Fixed It +". The first one is explicitly asking for a debate, so the plus is not going to be excluding...

I maximize luck as a stat in every game I can, so I'm fully onboard. I love playing characters with that trait.

Look, I hate to enter into this sort of discussion, but it's called out in the novelization (released just three months after the film) that the Raddus had experimental deflector shields that specifically allowed for this to happen. Call it handwaving (which is pretty much what all Star Wars...

Number one with a bullet: Ultraviolet Grasslands. The book implores me to explore that world. 2: Wanderhome. It's so far afield from everything I've run before that I'm afraid I'll be terrible at it, but I want to get better at both running and playing games in that way it asks. 3. Scum and...

Mostly just adding rooms. Whenever I fall behind, and add a bunch of rooms in one go, they tend to be a bit more thematically tied together. Because I mis-interpreted the first weeks prompt from McCoy as the first month's prompt, and it was Ancient, my first level is primarily old...

Or they're happy to discard the rules when they get in the way of fun/story/comedy/whatever, like TAZ.

Heh, and in my group of friends the relative consensus is that TLJ is the only interesting one of those three, and that Johnson did his best with the relative hamstringing of TFA. Would love to have seen what a trilogy from him alone looked like.

Yeah, I have some issues with how The Last Jedi achieved some of its goals, and certain scenes don't sit perfectly, but as far as the actual storytelling, I liked almost every choice it made.

9 is incoherent, 2 is a slog, 1 is an exercise in excess, 3 is doing it's best to bridge the gap between two distant points, and 7 is almost nothing but a rehash. It's a country mile in quality between those and the rest.