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Agreed. I think it's one of the finest hours of television drama. Do you mean the new movie (again, haven't watched it yet) or Section 31 in general? I like the idea of Section 31. Even utopias can use a morally suspect intelligence outfit. For example, Iain Banks's Culture, which is the...

I want to know how they bridge the gap between their xenomorph Gorn and TOS’s lovable Disco Sleestak Gorn who Kirk extends mercy towards. It’ll be a neat trick. I think they can pull it off. But I admit after Captain Batel was revealed to be infected, I’d be fine with the Metrons giving the...

I loved it when it was Ben Sisko erasing his personal log. I haven’t seen the new movie yet. But let me say I think the cynicism of new Trek has been vastly overstated and the idealism of old Trek has been somewhat overstated. My introduction to Trek was TOS. A show about a crew of killers...

“Hold Party”

Stop correcting my nightmares! 😃

Thanks for the nightmare image of an ant farm Shire!

True, I was going by this text from the PHB, "Elves have the ability to see into the infro-red spectrum, so they are able to see up to 60' in darkness, noting varying degrees of heat radiation." Of course the DMG takes the perfectly clear "... see up to 60ft in darkness... " and complicates it...

The 5e campaign where I play a short, rich wizard. Bridgerton in the Hollow Earth.

Several demi-human races in the 1978 AD&D Player's Handbook had infravision, ie, the ability to see up to 60ft in darkness. OK, so 47 years. Did elves not see in the dark in OD&D? Now I'm curious if that changed from the very 1st version.

"Common feature that has been in the game for 50 years ruins game that's endured for 50 years" is always going to be a hard argument to make.

Adam's Roberts's Lake of Darkness and Iain M. Banks's Look to Windward (finally).

I voted ‘take it or leave it’ because it’s valuable to some folks and, admittedly, it might be interesting. But my gut reaction these days is to despise any use of the word ‘lore’ that is not referring to Data’s evil twin brother.

Fought robots on big robot.

Traded crystal ball for lives.

This whole fake debate seems really weird to someone who thought D&D races were species and that it would be more interesting to treat monsters as people circa 1987.

This is the 5e game I play in. Flew UFO into Hollow Earth.

The article is a good example of the NYT's semi-recent approach to 'balanced' journalism. It rises to the level of egregious when the topic is more serious. It's also why we finally cancelled our subscription after decades of being loyal readers.

I really enjoyed the finale, but the previous episode delivered the best and clearest statement of Star Trek’s way of doing science fiction in a few lines of dialogue.

As a young boy I would have said Jet Jaguar but seeing as I’m almost 56 something more fundamentally busted like Jet Alone is probably more appropriate. Yes, I know they’re both robots. But kaiju-adjacent robots.

Everyone has their completely arbitrary limits. Personally, I’m super-happy Gunn went for it with the dog.