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  1. Vael

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook Reveal #1: "Everything You Need To Know!"

    My guess/intuition is that these are pre-built backgrounds, so they're more prescriptive, but freeform custom backgrounds are still an option.
  2. Vael

    Civilizations, RANKED!

    For me Baba Yetu is iconic Civilization
  3. Vael

    D&D 5E (2024) Video previews for 2024 Players Handbook begin 6/18~

    Also from WotC, they're previewing the Magic The Gathering / Assassin's Creed crossover products tomorrow as well. Busy day.
  4. Vael

    Spoilers Doctor Who 2024 (spoilers)

    So I tried watching Pyramids of Mars after this episode. It didn't really take. I didn't grow up with the classic Doctor Who and I find that serial glacial and goofy. I just wasn't engaged by this one. I couldn't understand the connection between Ruby and Susan Twist, so I couldn't get why The...
  5. Vael

    D&D 5E (2014) Druids seen in the Wild (Shape?)

    Most Druids I've seen have been Moon Druids. I've played one twice. We had a Shepard in Curse of Strahd before the player dropped out, my last 5e campaign had a Wildfire Druid specifically because the player "hates hunting through the MM to Wildshape". There may have been a few more non-Moon...
  6. Vael

    Civilizations, RANKED!

    Is Civilization: After Earth different from Civilization: Beyond Earth? I didn't mind Beyond Earth, because it used the no-stacking rule of Civ V, but made more sense to me, as I found the idea of ancient Archers and Artillery having the same range a little immersion breaking. Civ 2 and Civ IV...
  7. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    I keep hearing you can play a non-sarcastic/charming Hawke, but I haven't experienced it.
  8. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    ... I don't hate this, looks like more dodging and parrying in this incarnation of DA. It'll be interesting to see how the different classes play.
  9. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    Mine was Cullen. He got so adorably flustered when my Inquisitor hit on him, I started a female mage run just to romance him, and run into the fact that the game is just so long, lol.
  10. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    Geez, who cut that trailer? I'm more optimistic after that tweet
  11. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    It's there, but I do think they've trimmed him a bit
  12. Vael

    Our Physical Fitness

    My biggest challenge with fitness (and DnD ... life in general, lol), is I'm not good with keeping notes and tracking my workouts. That and diet. That said, I have been keeping active. I went out to a free salsa dance in the park, bike at least 20km twice a week, and hit the gym for weights...
  13. Vael

    Spoilers Doctor Who 2024 (spoilers)

    I assumed there was a ticking clock. The device had been overloaded to 6 times its designed capacity and could only function once, certainly Rogue and The Doctor acted like they couldn't just leave the Chuldur there. Turn it off and engage 5 aliens with electro-death touch in melee sounds like a...
  14. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    Hey! There are dozens of us! Dozens! It's not fair to DA:O though, I started with DA2, and found Inquisition to be fun, but too long and grindy.
  15. Vael

    D&D 5E (2024) Check Out The 2025 Monster Manual Alternate Cover!

    Put next to each other, I'm impressed with how they work as a set ... either the standard or alt covers. I actually see myself going either way (can't justify getting both).
  16. Vael

    Dragon Age 4 - now The Veilguard

    Bioware got their lunch so thoroughly eaten by Larian and BG3 that there's no way DA4 can measure up. I'll watch the gameplay but it sounds like it'll be more on the action-y side of the equation. But then, my fav has always been DA2, or as I know it, the one where Hawke and a bunch of...
  17. Vael

    D&D General lightning-themed environment?

    I like the idea of a giant circuit board. Capacitors and Resistors as large as a person and energy arcing around changing it as gates alter the current around the map.
  18. Vael

    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    Well there's the matter of why Mae thinks she and the Jedi have "unfinished business", we might get a flashback to that. There's clearly something more to that childhood incident.
  19. Vael

    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    TBH, I sort of assumed that was what was going to happen, when all the promotional material had that character in only one setting.
  20. Vael

    Star Wars: The Acolyte starts June 4

    The fight choreography is really good
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