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Well, Episode 10. Once again I'll do the spoiler thing just because it only premiered a little over 2 hours ago, but I will say there is a post credit sequence unlike the other episodes, so make sure you stick around for that. [/SPOILER]

Well it's really a shame this movie hasn't been more successful, because while we can perhaps monday morning quarterback the release timing, or nitpick around the details of marketing or the actual content, this seemed like the most likely version of a D&D movie to be a hit in 2023. While it's...

Right, but think about what this is. The premise is that she is the refugee empress of an alternate timeline working for the black ops unit of Star Fleet in a time period that only viewers of certain streaming service exclusive series are familiar with. That's way too complicated a premise to...

With a brand like Arby's the logo should clearly take the place of the nat 1.

Right, but she is, in some weird part of weapons research, doing work beyond the comprehension of normal people in the field. I very much doubt that your students are up to that, and in the very unlikely situation that they are I would anticipate that they spend a lot of time on it rather than...

Right, which is why I said it wouldn't bother me if she was older. But no, being skilled enough in something technical, as a teenager, to surpass the best trained professional adults a galactic empire can muster requires a high degree of focus for even a highly intelligent person with prodigious...

An engineering genius, a demolitions expert, an acclaimed artist, and sufficiently skilled in the Mandalorian combat arts to routinely defeat people who just do that full time, all by her mid to late teens, having also spent meaningful time in the imperial academy. One of the weaker points of...

Absolutely agree. Another alternative I like, if the system really can't handle that much damage variation, is to have crits just do max damage. Really all I care about is having the simplest, dumbest rule that gives a nat 20 some excitement without causing confusion. The current crit system...

While I wish it wasn't the Borg again, as an abrupt episode 9 reveal I think anything else would have just been more disappointing. To me the sin lies with the fixation of serialized television with big mystery box reveals, not in putting the most suitable thing in the mystery box. Mutated...

Well, episode 9 is a mixed bag. I'll spoiler my comments beyond that because I'm writing a few hours after it premiered and it's the most spoliery episode of the season.

Every RPG should have a feature to empower your weapon by giving it a rousing speech about its history.

Crucially both of those pieces of art are credited to an artist by the name of J. R. R. Tolkien. While that does not make them definitive expressions of his complete vision in as much as the expression was limited by his amateur skill in visual arts and he may have made slightly different...

Cool. I still think that if it was compelling viewing it would have been released by now. And a D&D session can certainly be a ton of fun without being a good viewing experience. Heck, it might just have technical issues like poor sound quality on their remote DM or something.

Maybe. Or maybe we just saw the salvageable seconds of a terribly unentertaining session. My guess is that is was probably mostly just a little on the awkward side, as games with a new group with new players often are. Probably enjoyable enough for super fans who buy the blu-ray, but probably...

I mean clearly I didn't, because my stance is that it supports slavery, and this needs to be ignored because there is no satisfying resolution trying to tackle that issue and we should just enjoy our space opera.

Because one only involves ceasing to exist in an arbitrary rhetorical construct of what sleep is, whereas the other involves disintegration and artificial duplication. If one accepts every piece of Star Trek official techno-babble I'm sure it comes out as equivalent, but it's pretty obvious...

Which is not consistent with what the can do on any level, and makes no sense, which is why I am so confident that they are disintegrating cloning machines. And even if after disintegrating a person they did create a duplicate of the same person out of the same atoms that happened to be in them...

I mean I do not find it a freshman philosophy question, because that is how one charactarizes a question of seemingly great but really little consequence with no clear answer. I have a clear answer. My answer is resoundingly that the only way I can interpret them is as disintegrating a person...

Star Wars is never going to be ready for that conversation. At least some droids absolutely are slaves. While you can perhaps reasonably interpret the intelligence of an R2 or a BB-8 as somewhere between a high-functioning dog and a personal computer, the only way any of the major protocol...