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The barbarian will wind up carrying low level spells the other casters know and don't need a scroll (or won't prep but the barbarian would like it cast on them) or that can't be cast on other people or that might be handy when the barbarian is by himself. E.g. Longstrider, Expeditious...

At this point not a whit. While I prefer other than a magazine-esque paper cover for durability, I have enough old gaming mags to know that I can keep them around for decades. These days I care about font size/legibility. You put some spidery, single-point, overly-serifed...

I'm fond of Midsommer Murders, a BBC series going on like 15 seasons. It's on Roku and probably some other free streamers. Very little blood, but be warned it has a surprising amount of incest and numerous grudges going back several centuries. Also some homophobia from the original sargeant.

So which supernatural abilities are cheats and which are win conditions? Illusions of the illusory cyclops blinking? Illusion of your eyes not blinking? Alter/polymorph self to a fishy creature that cannot blink? Ring the bell using telekinesis? Bull's Strength? Enlarge? Catching the...

I also use random encounters as a kind of live "world building" exercise. A large band of goblins could be a nomadic group, on their normal rotation inside their established range. Perhaps it is a raid/punitive attack on other goblins. Maybe refugees after being displace. A mastadon...

Given the social reaction to the class, Shaper seems inadequately vitriolic. Shaper may be what they call theselves but others will say Flesh-crafter, Meat-smith, Bone-bender.

Some combats are world building. A sizeable band of goblins will attack any small force they encounter because that's what they do to intruders. Once it becomes clear that the adventurers are going through them like a hot knife through butter, they should change tactics. Maybe scatter, set...

Sounds like it's time for delayed action poison. Use cavalry or maybe variant manticores to volley at the PCs then flee in different directions, splitting up repeatedly. They continue firing arrows as they go. After 2 rounds of being peppered with poison arrows and everyone running in...

Back to the topic at hand, I really expected people to fight over Star Wars, but I guess the Leeloo arguement still worked to make the point. To recap So people thought Leeloo was a "unique" human and therefore a Super Hero movie, while I consider her "just" a Mondochiwan, which means the...

She was part of the decoy mission to "deliver" the stones. It makes no sense to protect the stones at the expense of a different unique resource. It just ups the risk of any one part being lost. Ergo she must be a non-unique component. Another "supreme being"would have been sent over, or...

The first element was air. The second element was earth. The third element was water. The fourth element was fire. Those aren't unique. They only had one match and would have died as much without that as without Leeloo. Does that make that match The Fourth Element? My take away from the...

The Joker is like Batman, at the questionable bottom edge of "super". But he definitely lives in a world with Superman, so Super Hero Genre. He seems to be able to pose a challenge for "real" superheroes beyond Batman so he qualifies as a super villain on merit, if not an explicit super...

She was the pilot of the Mondochiwan vessel attacked by the Mangalors carrying the fake stone case. The "survivor" that was used to "print" Leeloo was the pilot's egg-armor gauntlet still clutching a control that looked like a throttle. We have no idea if she was unique or if all Mondochiwans...

All Action Movies give the protagonist a degree of plot armor. An Action Hero is a Jonah, irrationally surviving irrational dangers. To me the main difference between Super Hero and Action Movie hero is that everyone agrees the Action Movie hero got lucky and by all rights should be dead...

She's not human, she's a Mondochiwan soldier. We don't know how many Mondochiwans there were on the ship so we don't know if she is unique but we know Mondochiwans exist to communicate with the Earth Government, so she is not The Last of Her Kind. She only "survived" the attack by Mangalors...

IMO the "superhero genre" involves individuals who have unique, usually personal, special abilities beyond the norm for the setting and they use those powers to protect "normals" from evil people with special abilities beyond the norm. I.e. Fifth Element is an action movie not a superhero...

Perhaps that would help it. But probably not.

That's kind of Eclipse Phase. Short form of EP is that Earth got taken over by magic AI nanobots (Titans) who aren't far off from Earthdawn Horrors (the game is basically Earthdawn 2070). Humanity was on the edge of sci-fi "post scarcity" utopia. Nuclear fusion, nanotech "cornucopia" machines...

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Attunement does a good job on constraining the most potent magic items. And we have a number of "on loan" items acquired from patrons, deities, fey nobles and a dragon. (The dragon had the best excuse for just loaning us weapons. "You're fighting evil in caves. I won't fit and I can't...