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I think you make an important point here. The trend these days is to create settings that are system-neutral and rules are setting-neutral. So a “5e” setting would be completely system-neutral, making no reference to any rules.

??? It has flying ships as standard.

And your opinion is? I believe forum rules expect you to start a conversation on any web links, not just share them, if you are starting a new topic. Could have been posted in the existing thread if you have nothing in particular to say. Anyway, I like the LotR dialled up to 11 look of the art...

Aside from the elements that haven't aged well, Pern isn't actually as romance focused as the modern genre. People called McCaffery "The Barbara Cartland of Sci Fi" as an insult. Sometimes she did romance, but it's rarely the main focus, and I can't think of any time she sets up the...

This is what I would go for, Captain Seven of Nine and a crew of mostly new characters. Or use the cast of SNW post-Pike.

That’s not really modern Romantacy, which is generally more sexually explicit, and would be Laurana having to choose between a moody half elf supporting character or some smoothly charming NPC (there isn’t really anyone in the original chronicles that fits the bill).

Yeah, Gygax often ignored his own rules.

It was the rules. Gary would have disallowed it because he didn’t like non-human PCs. He wasn’t much interested in world building and settings. Greyhawk was just the generic fantasy setting where his game happened. It wasn’t until Gary stepped back from the day to day that settings that differed...

It’s been part of the game since 1st edition. Gygax actually discusses what fraction of the population have class levels. I think the figure he came up with was one in ten thousand. Third edition went so far as to add simpler and weaker classes for NPCs.

I don’t mind metal and horns, but the ability to punt me across the room with a little finger when I get annoying is a bit off-putting.

Wherever the setting says they come from. The rules deliberately avoid ruling on that stuff.

What has been realised is you don’t need any mechanics to do that stuff. You can just write it and roleplay it. So 5e has dialled back on the mechanics. Leaving nothing that can “define” a setting.

Wyll is just too nice, even the devilish pact and big horns can’t make him sexy. Gale is an unlikable creep, and Jalhera is everyone’s mother.

I’m not familiar with the original context, but my cat would ignore the note. I just wish she would clean up the feathers after.

It’s boring and humourless, but it’s not embarrassing.

I think it manages to get comedy, character beats, action and horror together in one movie, and still remain coherent. But for me, not having Shatner in it is a major plus. Also, the only one with Broccoli.

These two (and 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10) lack the element of allegory that are characteristic of a TV show episode. Insurrection leans heavily into the allegory. I guess 5 is trying to be allegorical, but it’s messaging is very confused. “Cults are bad” I guess.

First Contact edges it out as my personal favourite, but that’s just because I prefer TNG cast. But Insurrection is the most like a movie length episode of the TV show.

It’s not just bad, it’s embarrassing. It discredits the entire franchise.

Frankly, they are still a little slow on the uptake. Despite progress, D&D players are still majority male. That’s a bunch of potential D&D players to market too.