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Speaking of malapropisms...

Yeah. You could easily switch casting times to costing X actions where X is the spell level. Fireball costs three actions, etc. It would help to drop things like bonus actions and switch to 2-3 actions per round.

Still true. 2001 is the single most overrated movie of all time. It’s the most boring film I’ve ever watched.

Malapropisms can be hilarious though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism Such a great quote. Another, similar one from Doctor Who. “There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes.”

Exactly. Mirth & Mayhem. You can have both whimsy and darkness. They're not mutually exclusive. I've always thought it more silly and childish to insist on the purest black grimdark without a hint of irony or glee than to have goofy elements like ducks and wolfkin and halflings.

Just have to add them all back in. Besides the awesome that is the system itself, a big draw is the races. Especially the ducks.

The much discussed scene starts around the 51:30 mark. If we‘re talking about escalation, Primus insults her teeth as the 2-3 thing he says to her and her response is a literal F you. It goes hot from there rather fast.

See also the JRPG inspired games like Fabula Ultima that did well over $1 million recently. Exactly. They‘ll sand off the rough edges and make it appeal to a modern audience, but they‘re also 100% trying for the nostalgia bait.

To the complaint that D&D is marketed to kids, yes and no. Clearly they're marketing it to younger people in some respects, but those same younger people have zero nostalgia for Spelljammer, Planescape, Dark Sun, etc. They have zero nostalgia for Warduke and Venger. They have zero nostalgia...

That was my first thought as well.

When the Mage LARP rules were released we had a guy go around town spray painting utility poles with glyphs. He‘d use them to teleport around.

My favorite sci-fi author is Philip K. Dick, so I'm a big fan of mindscrew sci-fi stories. Despite having a few adaptations made of his work, most of them are not that great as movies and the best, Bladerunner, has already been listed a dozen times so no need to repeat that here. City of Lost...

I’m not sure I buy that as a criticism. The core box has a fleshed-out sandbox setting with the Misty Vale and the Secret of the Dragon Emperor. The Vale map covers about 150 km W-E and about 100 km N-S. That’s bigger than some “complete” settings.

100% this. It’s a stellar movie in every way. The soundtrack kicks ass, too.

Sigh. You can take the player out of the D&D, but you can't take the D&D out of the player.

I think it's safe to say that 5E is most long-time gamer's second or third favorite version of D&D. It's not even in my top five favorite editions of D&D. B/X, BECMI, 4E, AD&D, and AD&D 2E. 2E is only there because of the mountain of amazing settings and splat books. I've never actually played...

Yes, it was an awesome scene. The only way it could have been improved is if he did pull the trigger. We're reading that scene differently. To me every word from his was a warning. His manner from the start was "Go away, kid, you bother me." He warned her off and so did the Dean several times...

Not, really. No. There was plenty of back-and-forth during the scene. Several exchanges occurred between them. Marisha had plenty of warnings. She chose to keep going. It wasn’t rocks fall, you die. It was two NPCs telling her to stop, including her friend. She didn’t listen. Exactly.

Yep. And with one scene, even without Brennan slaughtering a PC, he made it crystal clear that this is, in fact, not one of those basic escapist power fantasy games. Simple, brilliant, and effective.

Well, at least you're proving my point. What one party of a conversations wants or hopes to communicate is irrelevant when the other has agency and autonomy. You get to decide how you react to any given situation and my thoughts on the matter are irrelevant despite being the other part of the...