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CR24 red dragon only does 146 avg damage, and dragons tend to be high damage. Your doing 252 avg damage. Monster damage baselines at high levels haven't actually changed all that much. The Blog of Holdings monster on a business card is only 6 + 6xCR for average damage (which is 150 at CR 24...

If Zard thinks their party can take on a CR24 monster than more power to them, but since the request was a CR13-17, I wanted to highlight this guy is WAY outside of that. If a CR17 is a tough challenge for the group, this guy will wipe the floor with them. (especially looking at that alpha...

CR Sanity Check Damage: So we are going to assume the vulnerability to piercing is in effect the whole time, though in a ranged fight it might not come up as often. So (18 piercing + 24 poison) x4 = 168 damage. The tricky part is the unstoppable, so we are reducing damage 1/rnd for all...

ok lets do a CR sanity check. Damage: Flame strike is 49 average damage x2 = 98. Then the unholy word is 28 x2 = 56. So based on the 1/day and the 5-6 recharge we will assume one use of each of these in a 3 round standard combat. For now I will ignore the other spells since they don't do...

agreed, I think people are balking at the flavor of the touch, and you can easily remove that with 0 mechanical change required.

I think you actually point out why that scene is even worse. They could have had most of their cake and eat it too here. They find the dead body, there is some symbol on the guy that freaks the alien out, he still does his "its EVILLL!!!!" and runs out the door, and gets blasted....starting the...

Completely agree. Regenerating healthy eyes conceptually is straight forward with Star Trek tech, it’s just directed cellular copying. But altering a failed organ to work normally requires an entirely different Solution, and likely in an area of genetic engineering that strays towards the...

Or with his ex :) The way I took the scene (which I agree could have been better) was this was an expedition fraught with delays. Between working just to get into the site than realizing they needed a starship, finding a starship, working with the local government to approve it which has all...

just like people are pieceing out the first season of Picard (which is truly horrible), I think if we pull out the first season of TNG it’s the best trek. But with it included I have to give it to DS9. Its still funny to me that we often associate TNG as the "pure trek" where its really focused...

Yeah that has traditionally been the explanation. You can't hold things in the transporter buffer for very long because it "degrades". That was actually one of the big first season plots, M'Benga had to bring his daughter out periodically from the medical transporter because otherwise she would...

Yeah I like to think of it as....the "Progenitor" races evolved relatively quickly on galactic scales because they were designed to. Whereas truly naturally occuring sentient races like the gorn took many more million or maybe even a billion years to get to where they were. And perhaps why the...

I enjoyed the "dnd dungeon" episode. hehe the only thing that was ridiculously out of left field was the whole "effect than cause thing". Not that there couldn't be some crazy dimension where that was possible. But rather Spock after one little possible application of that, and considering all...

Daggerheart hasn't actually been officially released until pretty recently. Sure the early access version has been out for a while but its not the same thing. So of course I would expect most of their ongoing shows to be still running dnd, they aren't going to switch systems in the middle of a...

There is a major difference between 1e and 5e in this regard. As noted, in 1e level differences were expected because of xp differences between classes. A level X thief and a level X magic users weren't "equal level" in the way we think of it now. In 5e terms, I would never want to DM mixed...

That is my problem though, Kal never does try to get Zod away from the city. If there was a genuine attempt and Zod sees right through, fair play to the villain alright give me my epic throwdown. But Kal makes basically no effort, they just start throwing hands....killing hundreds if not...

Yeah but we are already moving into the stage where AI is programming AI (and I don't mean tentatively I mean full steam ahead). All you need is one AI agent that thinks the AI agent they will build would be better off with some self-preservation programming and its off to the races. The simple...

To me its got to be Daggerheart. It just doesn't make sense business wise to do anything else. This way they get some Dimension 20 fans looking at DH as well as they come in for BLM.

I mean if we think about it. Spock is a man stronger than any human man, brilliant, well spoken, extremely accomplished, with incredible discipline, but has emotional issues and trouble expressing himself. Its the definition of a chick magnet! :)

oh yeah there is a scene where she hugs him, it was probably then that something "felt off"

Honestly its probably the most realistic holodeck episode, in terms of "we are literally alpha testing this software, so of course its going to malfunction and do crazy stuff". The only part I didn't like was the "spock reveal". I know La'an is saying he seemed extra cold and stuff...I just...