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Note: all of my points above can and hopefully will be addressed by a clever twist in the story. It seems to me likely that, given how many holes there are in the Hive Mind's story, the other shoe will drop and explain a lot of stuff that increasingly makes no sense. For instance, maybe the Hive...

Immersion in a work of art is a personal thing, so I can’t really offer meaningful insight into what works for other people. I can try to respect what likely doesn’t work though, such as talking during a movie or telling other people how to play their characters. I do find actual plays...

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't seem to track, at least with what we know so far. For example, I don't understand how "can't take a life" translates to "can't pick an apple." The tree wants you to eat the apples. That's the whole point of the apple - they're part of the tree's...

I think you see so few halflings because your sample size is small. You also see few tielfings, yet that is one of the most common species that I see being taken. Tons of goblins, too. This is just anecdotal evidence, though. Neither of us has anything like a representative sample size, and...

There's a halfling in my current school campaign. They're not a super common character species, but not rare, either. There's also a lizardfolk, dragonborn, tiefling, human, gnome, and elf. I point out that ECMO3's groups are typically very focused on optimization and not, I think, that...

I feel like latkes need to be added to the list. A lot of us are citing variations on the theme.

Disney owns the Muppets. You don't wanna mess with the House of Mouse.

Here are some painted examples of Steamforged and D&L sets:

Trying to get Americans to believe weird things about Canada is a hallowed sub-genre of comedy up here. Rick Mercer basically built his career on it. See also half of SCTV’s content. I have lived in Ontario and been across the country several times and never seen or heard of ketchup on iced...

The only way I don't like a potato is raw or boiled. Everything else is just various degrees of yum. I guess latkes would be my ultimate, but they’re not on the list.

It really depends on the DM. I think a high level adventurer could be mean just about anything - pop culture is full of heroes who choose to live anonymous, quiet lives. Just because someone is Level 20 on their character class sheet doesn't mean they are a big deal in that world. Season 3...

I can't disagree. I love the sound of it, and those opening lines, but by the second verse it's, yeah, pretty preachy in a very unoriginal way.

Strongly agree on the former, but hard disagree on the latter - it's one of the few Christmas songs I somewhat like. Edit: the lyrics are kind of basic and on the nose, but I've always loved the wistfulness of the opening verse, "So this is Christmas / And what have you done?"

Streaming might be a factor these days, but the UK Christmas song phenomenon has been around for decades! It seems like one of those peculiarly British traditions. Not that you don't get holiday songs in every language and culture, but the specifically British Christmas song thing, where even...

Christmas songs in context are fine: being sung by carolers, little kids at parties, or at church, for the religious ones. Wonderful, have fun. They're basically novelty songs. "(Last) Christmas" is certainly a Christmas song not just in title and setting but also in motif (gift-giving). Its...

I just think they're mostly uninspired and uninteresting, if not downright annoying. "Jolly" is not a very compelling emotion for a song, IMO, and the religious ones aren't really for me. Most are just not good songs, and get played because they're part of the whole X-mas marketing racket...