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I make the challenge for the group as a whole, not for one character.

I don't pull punches. I feel, if a DM does that, then the players lose the feeling of a true challenge. At the same time, I didn't target that character and try to have her killed, either. I just played the game the same as if she had max hit points. I do adjust the challenge of the entire...

It is! Of course, I didn't know that until I looked it up after you answered the question. No wonder it's a good film when its based on Heinlein.

Every turn on a film, have low expectations, and the film exceeds what you thought? That just happened to me with a little low budget science fiction film that I've had on the the DVR for a couple of years. It's called Predestination, starring Ethan Hawke. Evidently, it's an Australian film...

Yeah, the movie is amazing. I've only seen the first episode so far of the TV series, and although it does seem to be an interesting reboot of the story, it's missing the paranoia and confusion that was prominent in the original film. Part of the appeal of the film was that, as a viewer, you...

I'm really enjoying it.

Ah. Makes sense. Thanks.

I've been recording 12 Monkeys, the TV show, for a couple of years now. I've got, I think, 30 episodes recorded, and I see that a new season is starting up in January. Anybody watch this show? I loved the movie that its based on. And, I just started the show. Looks good!

Question: Why did Wallace gut the new born Replicant in that scene?

Maybe the General believes in a different religion other than The Force, one where there is a deity.

Hollywood is having a hard time killng off our heroes. I always think an icon should go out, well, heroically. Captain Kirk, in Generations....Kirk should have died in the Captain's seat, commanding a ship, sacrificing himself for the greater good. Han Solo should have gone out...better...

The Fuel Thing I'm reading the third Marvel Poe Dameron Volume, and Fuel, and the Resistance's lack there of it, is central to the plot. It's interesting how they worked into the last story the way the First Order found to limit the Resistance's supply. For those that game in the Star Wars...

As much as I like TLJ, there is a big part of me who wanted to see the original Trilogy characters win. What Disney did was reboot the main conflict from the original trilogy. Instead of Rebels vs. Empire, we've got Resistance vs. First Order. Mainly the same, with a few chrome changes, like...

Let's not forget that Star Wars is Space Opera, not hard science fiction. It has the hard science respect of Flash Gordon. Boom, Boom! Bam, Bam! Zip-zip! Zoom-Zoom! We're talking giant space slugs that live on airless asteroids, inside asteroid belts that are impossibly crowded. We're...

Does anyone have TLJ Visual Dictionary? I've just heard that there's info in it about Snoke....that would lead you to believe that he will be in Episode IX. Hm....

Actually, it hit just one system, the Hosnian Prime system, but it hits multiple targets within that one system--Hosnian Prime and its moons, mostly.

Not me. I just turned 52 yesterday, and I still LOVE Star Wars. The new trilogy is going in an unexpected direction, but I've embraced it. Bring on the next film!

Admittedly not in a long time, but it was the first rpg I learned. And, I've been playing since 1982. Almost 36 years of gaming. A couple of decades of that with AD&D 1E and 2E. I'd say that I've played it. I'd agree to that. But what I said above still stands. Much of the challenge is...

That's where you are wrong. Failing means dying, and much of that control is in the hands of the GM. A good GM doesn't put 1st level characters up against beasties appropriate for a 10th level adventure, does he? They'd get slaughtered, right? A good GM makes a challenge for his group's...