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That's a ... problematic ... usage. Using skin color as a way of distinguishing people suggests a categorical difference based on skin color. This is (in my opinion) not a useful way of thinking. I don't think that such a way of distinguishing people is useful except in the very specific...

Can someone say for what purpose the word was used? Why was Delaney's skin color relevant? After reflection, I'm finding that I care more about the answer to this question than to which particular word was used. Do we know the full circumstances of what happened? Is it possible that other...

(Additional text omitted.) I think Avengers Endgame works stand-alone, actually, pretty well. A part of that is due to the lengthy build-up, where the effects of the snap are both described and shown quite clearly. I think this works better for AE than it does for MoM because the primary...

Additional text omitted. Folks who saw Agents of Shield season 4 would understand what a terrible peril is reading the Darkhold. It helps people do what they want while insidiously amplifying their negative aspects. But, Agents of Shield is not canon, and I would expect the folks who saw...

Not every statement, sure. But key plot points should be shown. (I think this is good point to be made for designing adventures.) There is a scene at the beginning of “The Rock” with Nicholas Cage where a deadly biotoxin is being stolen. There is an accident and some of the toxin is...

It’s only in the Agents of Shield that the Darkhold is really shown. WandaVision has it, but we are only told that it is evil. We aren’t shown. And, while Agnes is evil, she seemed that way before getting the book, and didn’t seem to be worse for having it. If folks knew that Wanda had the...

Except, at the end of WandaVision, she lets her recreated Vision and children dissolve, effectively killing them, as a necessary loss to remedy her taking control over the town. She has a redemptive moment. There is a hint that she might see Vision again at some time in the future. Also, she...

Yeah, I thought that was odd. The presentation at the end of WandaVision seems to be that she realized that what she did was wrong and was on a redemptive path. But, the DarkHold has been shown to be extremely corrupting. Most but not all succumb to its influence: Aide is wholly corrupted...

I’ve always found these sorts of charts to be very interesting. Spot checking the energy column, and at least several are off. As an easy rule of thumb: 2^10 (1024) is very close to 10^3 (1000). That is, multiplying by 1000 makes for a 10 row shift downward. Some values span too many rows …...

Is there room here for heat frustration? As an alternative to limiting mobility? As I understand it, heat dissipation, or rather, the lack thereof, is a major limiting factor in using many types of armor. Tom Bitonti

it seems to be a great system for a supers type game. What’s with the placement of the international space station (in the lift column)? Tom B

You need to ask: Fun for whom? And: Why is having a fuser necessary? Having control over their character's characteristics ("identity") is core to most games. Consequently, losing that control is anathema to most. You might find fusers to be interesting. Your players might not. Maybe, can...

To answer my own question. My understanding of the rules is that unless hidden or obscured, a declaration of hostile intent is known by both sides. Then, players and orcs who are acting earlier in initiative are aware that a hostile action is about to be initiated, and may act with that...

A bit late to the party ... Would the question be easier if the procedure were further detailed? This is how my group generally started encounters: (1) The GM describes a scene: "The players are walking down a road. They approach a bridge." Secretly, several orcs have hidden beneath the...

Additional text omitted. I'm thinking neither of these is accurate. Psionics isn't so much a narrative concept as it is a theme which has a preferred description and implementation within the game (pseudo-scientific, mind based, technology or alternative based). When I think of "narrative...

About that ... they are making it harder to connect this to the other shows. I think this first episode was great. But, I'm not sure what it is doing in MarvelVerse. TomB

So … a modern view of a sane person requires that they have a degree of empathy. People are communal creatures. To have a being within the community that does not have empathy is a danger to the community, and is at least discouraged, if not entirely disallowed. When perceiving a body, one...

Eh, so there is a difference between what the game presents as its current default settings, and either what the game had as a prior default setting, and what settings one might chose if there were no default settings. This is in relation to the act of creating undead. (Which is not the same...

I’d say it’s an object. But gross and a bit fragile. You’ll have bits of rotting meat scattering all over. Maybe clumsy, too — all those tendons would not be pulling in a natural way, and muscles would not have any tone. TomB

Definitely. The times that I’m thinking of are the less desperate ones. I guess, I’ve seen times when players ignore how they’ve written their characters for an in-game or meta advantage. A player who isn’t a novice and who writes LG on their character sheet ought to make an attempt to play...