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So it seems part of the idea is that because they were having the cynical, black ops nostalgic easter egg facility of Daystrom station they wanted to balance it out by having the idealistic nostalgic easter egg facility of the Fleet Museum in the same episode (I mean a more morally ambiguous...

Maybe. Personally I think it's more likely that their media obnoxiously obsessed over "our lost crew in the Delta quadrant" for a couple years, that Voyager was an obligatory thing for every Trivial Pursuit edition for the next half century or so to have a question about, and that referencing...

Well, a genetically engineered attack tribble anyway.

I mean parts of the city could have actual landmass under them. A small island city eventually expanding into a sprawling Venice makes a lot of sense, and the original city becoming all government fortress, with associated dungeon, or all a temple enclave, with associated catacombs, is...

I'm sorry Den of "Geek" (yeah I can use dismissive scare quotes too), but what are these movies where the stakes are higher than I feel playing a ttrpg? Sure ttrpg plots are often dumb, throw-away things, but (outside, perhaps, of certain revived nostalgic touchstones which usually disappoint) a...

Presumably Paramount is responsible for the promotion rather than Hasbro. When it comes to things that can be achieved just by handing more money to an ad agency they're pulling out all the stops. When it comes to anything that would actually require time from WotC or Hasbro design staff, they...

I slightly regret reading the description of episode 5, as it made me guess who was going to show up. As irritating as the remarketing of nostalgia based properties can be these days, it's also nice to live in a world where a relatively minor unresolved plot thread from 30 years ago might...

Yep. That's the page I'm on. The Coruscant stuff was perfectly fine as Star Wars content (at least as a change of pace) but if you leave me waiting to go to the fireworks factory so that we can go do something unrelated and tonally wildly different with characters I'm just meeting for the first...

I suspect what happened in this case was that had they tried to develop that deliberately-paced character introduction over multiple episodes is would have been a recurring tedious section of episodes with no payoff in sight, so instead we got way too much of it at once, at least from our...

I think the cardinal sin of OneD&D is confusing simplicity with accessibility. The two are usually related, but you have to actually approach it with care. Having three spell lists is "simpler" than having spell lists for each class, but it's not making the materials more approachable for the...

If it's that flexible why not just charge people to beam it to their brains in the comfort of their own homes? But yes I will argue their are limits, because even the most high level magic still works within the basic limitation that there are also non-magical things around it. Otherwise it's...

I mostly agree, but I guess if we are okay with a given ability being once per encounter and (effectively) at-will out of combat then I prefer the narrative of it being tied to short rests to the gamier "per encounter" concept. But you highlight the basic problem with a 5 minute short rest...

While they do cheat it to make that look like the case at about the 1:49 mark when it goes out to the crowd, by making the walls only about twice as high as the passages (and walls) are wide, and only giving us the displacer beast for scale (a creature we have only a loose sense of the scale...

Well this looks like a very cool sequence for moviegoers... but I suspect the arena audience is pretty bored by watching people disappear into a maze for several minutes.

And thus the truth is revealed. Everything not in the trailer is a shot for shot remake of the prior film.

I suspect it will survive because changing pact magic would be the biggest change to any of the classes. While I, and many others, may rant and rave about the changes they are making, overall the changes are probably too conservative to rethink a class that thoroughly. And if they were...

It's a galaxy built on plot convenience and moral clarity. Making specific plans seems illogical when whole planets or regions of planets come into existence to suit the plot need of the week, and I feel like any good and virtuous leader will just kind of succeed, until they meet a tragic end to...

Heavy Armor Master will be way better at low levels. At the point where you take it you will be better off on hit points if you manage to take damage twice than if you had a higher con mod. I would go that route because a) ambitious campaign plans often fizzle, you've got to enjoy the low...

Yes, to an extent. But I would say there is room with the creatures in the 5e monster manual (a rushed product, at least given its scale, designed for a game they didn't really understand the balance of yet and that had to be worked on while the rules were in serious flux) to add more lore to...