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OK, so that moon was mostly likely a 3D CGI set. And I guess it had a breathable atmosphere because the Metrons gave it one.

I liked SWSE's talent trees and feats approach. I had been hoping D&D 4e would go the same route. That's probably what I would do if I was writing 6e.

As someone who hasn't watched much of TOS, the derivativeness (derivations?) go over my head, so your #3 isn't an issue for me. However, as I've said before, I really am with you on the budget. I mean, you could really tell even just in the sparseness of the barren rock world set. I'm guessing...

Yes. IIRC GL's argument was that's how Anakin sees himself - as the young man he was before he got put in the suit. But I still think it was an unnecessary change. And I'm sure Anakin gets to have a Force ghost because he's the "Chosen One" and so didn't have to learn how to do it, but I still...

Cool. I've only read a handful of Star Wars novels over the years. The RotS novelization is the only one I own. (The rest I borrowed from the library.)

All this talk of HOAs puts me in mind of that X-Files episode where Mulder and Scully have to go undercover as a married couple to investigate a housing development that was built on top of a trash heap, and it turns out the HOA is using a trash monster to kill homeowners who go against their...

Is that in the RotJ novel?

Yeah. For the record, I tried to spell it "Chekov" but I see that my phone auto-corrected it to "Chekhov". 😣

I’m fine with it too. I like Paul Wesley’s take on young Kirk. I actually wouldn’t mind if they did a young Kirk spin-off after SNW ends. As someone who has tried and failed to watch TOS, I wouldn’t even mind if they “rebooted” it with the current crop of actors. At this point, we’re only...

It does indeed! It’s not a 1:1 translation of the film, thats for sure. But the author insists GL read the book and gave him his blessing. I like it a lot better than the Ep 1 and Ep 2 novels. Haven’t ever read the OG novels. The Ep 2 novel, written by none other than RA Salvatore, is absolute...

Nice. Thanks for sharing. One thing I find interesting is his omission of GL’s swapping out of middle-aged Anakin’s Force ghost for young Anakin’s Force ghost at the end of RotJ. That’s evidence that GL views Anakin and Vader as different people. (And yet Vader telling Luke that he is his...

Right, and unless there’s some in-breeding that we don’t know about, Goody was not part of Morticia’s family line but rather Gomez’s. I think it was potentially a mistake to make Goody an Addams rather than a member of Morticia’s ancestry. They could have given her any old random surname and...

That one makes sense because the whole thing was tailored to La’an’s preferences. She had a crush on Kirk after their time travel adventure, so it makes sense he’d feature in her holographic fantasy.

Watching ep 9 now. Tiny detail but I love that Ortegas has model WW2 planes in her room. Division 12? Is that a new thing? Are they Starfleet’s version of the X-Files? Hey! They’re exploring a new section of space! How is there any atmosphere on that barren rock let alone breathable air...

Yeah. I had been wondering if they’d try another dance routine this season. This one was epic, and they really upped the ante by making it a duet. I wonder if it will go viral on TikTok like Wednesday’s season 1 dance did. I guess in season 3 they’ll need to do a three-person dance routine. 😅

Again, from ChatGPT: If the theme is Bhaalist (murder, poison, assassins) rather than a “holy anti-vampire relic,” then the flavor should swing from radiant/sunlight → poison/death motif. We can reskin and rebalance it without losing the intelligent-item feel. Here’s a revised version: The...

I popped this into ChatGPT. Here's what it suggested: The Hollow Blade Weapon (shortsword), very rare (requires attunement by a non-undead creature) Intelligence. The Hollow Blade is a sentient neutral short sword with Int 14, Wis 14, Cha 14. It has hearing and normal vision out to 60 feet. It...

Yay! The power’s back on! Only took 6 hours to fix.

I really liked Discovery. I think it did a good job capturing the optimism of Star Trek. Quibble all you want about the implausibility of a mycellium network spore drive and all that. It still FELT like Star Trek to me. Voyager, on the other hand, FELT like a soap opera in space, and I bounced...

I got woken up by a bang from somewhere in the neighborhood early this morning. Then I noticed that the power was out. Won't be back on until early this afternoon. Apparently an "animal/bird" damaged the power lines nearby. So now I'm hotspotting off my work phone and hoping that my phone and...