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If he is a true berserker, then he attacks whoever is closest. If he isn't berserking at the time, then he is most likely to take his brother's actions in trying to stop him personally, and he may target him first. That probably will drive him berserk pretty quickly. In general, a god focused...

Bad Gods™ | Monster Manual Comix: Beholder This Bad Gods comic has a beholder with positive eye rays, including: 1. Makes you remember everytime you've been hugged. 2. Makes you smell like fresh rain. 3. Enables you to detect the nearest homemade pie. A character suggests one that makes...

It takes time to put together a team of evil opposites. It will be interesting to see what they come up with... V's opp was a silent drow and then a half-elf with a clearly established gender identity. Durkon's was a female cleric of Loki, followed by a gnomish druid. Belkar's was a...

Just thought it was worth explaining why I thought these were top candidates: Star Trek: Animated Series, ST Phase II, Enterprise, non-canon novels, JJ Abrams reboot, "apocryphal" ST V, Star Fleet Battles Star Wars: Disappointing prequels, Extended Universe, Star Wars Xmas Special...

Which of these universes have the WORST continuity problems? Discuss. Star Trek Star Wars Highlander Terminator Transformers Fallout Traveller Doctor Who Marvel Universe DC Universe

TV Tropes has a lot to say on the subject of canon. Canon - Television Tropes & Idioms The even mention Dragonlance specifically. It never even occurred to me to think that there might be canon debates for the Peanuts comic strip!

One thing I don't think I've ever seen in any Traveller product is an adventure or setting set on a non-human majority world from one of the other major races. I don't know that I've seen a detailed description of a Hiver world, or a Centaur world, or an Aslan world. The Alien Modules were...

Based on Book 8: Robots, there doesn't seem to be any consistent position. Some worlds have prejudices, and there have been agreements about things like weaponry and such, but everything from pseudo-biological copies of humans to warbots exist in different places and at different tech levels...

From this, I take it to mean that you feel that there is a distinct, objective shared reality in the actual universe. I don't know that it is true. If it is true, I don't know that it matters. Each of us interprets reality based on our sensory input. We see different aspects of the world...

OK, so I'm starting to get the distinctions here. I think I am talking more about continuity. Continuity for, say Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms, is typically set by published works from WotC that can be considered "canon." What makes a work set in a specific universe canonical? Is it...

To play devil's advocate, I'll point out the following. 1) The replayed tape is often taken out of context. 2) Different listeners perceive what is said in different ways -- the phrase "borderline offensive" is used for a statement that is plausibly but not absolutely offensive. 3) We don't...

My point was to demonstrate that issues of history are often in dispute, and that if you apply this same vagueness to fictional history, this provides a good deal of flexibility in discussions of canon with relation to gaming and fandom. I think this is a valid distinction. In writing...

But St. Louis WASN'T destroyed, you see...I mean, have you actually stood in the crater yourself? It's just a coverup. The government released a virus that was meant to sterilize ethnic groups, and it killed everybody by mistake. The meteor story is just to keep folks from finding out the...

I was reading dmccoy1693's apology to WotC, and while it is very classy to publicly admit error, it made me think about this whole concept of "canon." People argue about it for all sorts of fictional universes, whether they be RPG settings (Forgotten Realms), video games (Fallout), movies (Star...

No, no, I got it. The post was just an opportune place to hit reply. :)

Fine, swamps are happy places where hoards of people go to vacation every summer, unlike those cesspits called beaches that are filled with trash and sharks and irate mutant sea bass, and the sharks have fricken' lasers on their heads. Hoards of children will now say things like, "but I want to...

How could you complain about something seeming to "not fit" on a manticore? The thing looks like a kit bash based on what was left over in the bottom of the mini box. (Yes, I know it is based on mythology -- that doesn't make it not silly.) It would be like saying that the placement of the...

ROTFL Sorry, but that article includes the quote, "The most famous swamps in the United States are the Everglades, Okeefenokee Swamp, and the GREAT DISMAL SWAMP (emphasis added)." So I'm not the only person to connect "dismal" with "swamp." :)

Wetlands in general strike me as humid, insect-filled, and hazardous to city-folk such as myself. I am aware that to some folks, swamps are beautiful parts of nature, but I am not one of those folks. I'm much happier with Internet cafes and bookstores. Your opinion isn't wrong -- I just don't...

Here are the things that stand out as I read MM2, mostly musing. Feel free to post what you thought was interesting/weird/good. 1) I think the images of smooth-faced angels are rather bland compared to earlier edition celestials. 2) Ankhegs have a "taste for bipedal prey." As opposed to...