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Voted for option 5: all the cool from the sci-fi media, with the caveat that if « cool for this sci-fi media » means « semi-realistic », than semi realistic it must be. If laws of physics need to be ignored, than we ignore the laws of physics, etc. In other words, the setting or fiction world...

My feeling on the topic; WOTC is giving an opportunity for players to create settings where species and races live together in relative harmony. Giving this choice is good, but my opinion is that it shouldn’t invalidate settings where enmity and rivalry were previously established based on...

Base 12 is probably much better suited for small(ish)-scale commerce than base 10, by virtue of being easily dividable by 2, 3, and 4. And since much of the need for mathematics had commercial applications, it makes sense that moneys and quantities where exchanged in base 12 for a long time in...

Eh, I kinda liked Alien: Resurrection. When I first saw it I had just seen La Cité des Enfants Perdus with Ron Perlman and Dominique Pinon, and was delighted to see them again together in A:R (Dominique Pinon is the guy in the wheelchair). The smuggler crew looked cool, which spoke to us...

I can think of a few reasons in and out of character but you’re right, she is oddly chill and analytical for a child. She is by far the most mature of the group, and I think she’s trying to prove it (if only to herself). The others are wary and weirded out. She is eager and curious, and much...

… yeah, but are Newt and Corporal Hicks still killed offscreen during the prologue? Cause if they weren’t, that would be a better cut… grumble, grumble

‘92? It’s really been that long? I mean, I know it’s not last year’s movie but going on 35… damn.

I’m not rewatching Alien 3. I’m still mad at them…

Although even on a more tactical side, this is the perfect field test opportunity to see how they will react physically, emotionally, mentally, and socially. When he authorized the mission, they were going out for search-and-rescue. Turns out there was more to it (and that point it was way to...

Finally got to see it. Episode 3 is about to come up soon too I think (tomorrow, Tuesday?) I loved the grain and camera filters on the Maginot scenes; very 1979. Once again, people are shockingly lax about any kind of safety protocols or precautions of any sorts, from people who should know...

I was about to say that most modern fighter planes with more conventional wing designs like the F-35 cannot fly without heavy computer assistance either, but that’s besides the point now I think. I can imagine ways for the dragon to fly with reverse wings, as I wrote in the rest of my last...

I see. While their pitch leans forward, the wings of a x-29 aren’t backward. They are thicker in the front than in the back, like any regular wing. So keeping with the x-29 analogy, to make some sense of reverse wings, the dragon’s musculature should face the « right » direction, compensating...

Im sticking with my headcanon explanation that the Topaz dragon’s wings aren’t backward; they’re normal and they fly normally. Only, Topaz dragons have the ability to dislocate their « shoulders » to turn their wings backwards when landed. Why? I have no clue, but obviously because it’s of some...

I’ll give you « interesting », but I don’t find it surprising. Our suspension of disbelief is intimately linked to what we know and have experienced. There are many ways to fly in fantasy, but most exist in relations to things we know. Maybe dragons fly like birds. Maybe theyfly like bats...

I’d sooner accept a dragon that can fly without wings, or one with wings detached from its body like the spines of the topaz dragon than a dragon that does have wings but use them in a way that is counter-productive. It’s like having a car with wheels on the roof instead of where they usually...

I mean, despite my thoughts about backward wings, the artist is undeniably talented and it’s a beautifully executed piece! If I was to use Topaz dragons in my games, they’d be the equivalent of double-jointed dragons who found a way to use their wings to do something (some kind of...

I don’t see anything controversial. I just find it incredibly goofy. I’m not a fan of « because magic » or « because dragon » as a universal hand-wave pass for anything or everything….

Yeah, Ars Magica, Pendragon, and WFRP are all mid-eighties games. Whether that is « old school » is debatable.

Pendragon, Ars Magika, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay each represent a different aspect of fantasy European feudal/imperial era. Each are worth playing IMO, and you’ll get a very different vibe out of each game. Ars Magika is the most immersed in the medieval paradigm, despite all the magic...

I edited the three documents with the latest updates (mostly cosmetic but with a few corrections and additions such as a table of content, etc). I didn't remove all the images this time so here they are in all their glorious lavishness. Still not sure about the power level of the adversaries...