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I've had TPKs but they are few and far between (years and years). If I have poorly designed an encounter then I'll do the things you mention but in general I just try and keep the encounters balanced. Most encounters, in my games, a should be challenging but not unfair to the characters and...

It really depends. In some games I talk more than the players and, in some games less. My group has some who like to role-play and are very talkative, some who are just there for the combat and one who is pretty new and learning the ropes. If it's a combat heavy game or session I talk more to...

For a show that I had low expectations for, I enjoyed it a lot. Iman Vellani was amazing. That said, I had issues. One of the things that turned me off from the initial trailer was that some of the cartoonish graphics popping up on screen really reminded me of a kids show but when I actually...

This has long been close to my opinion of Discovery; an entertaining enough sci-fi show, lousy Trek. They tried to turn things around in the second season but even by the end of the third season, when I stopped watching, it hadn't become good Star Trek. Season one gives us a needless redesign of...

I notice you use STN a lot for Strange New Worlds. Should I read that as ST for Star Trek and the N for New? I'm just curious how the abbreviation works. I usually use SNW. Just curious.

As I said in original post I didn't bother to verify the info and now that I have read the Memory Alpha article more closely I think I misinterpreted what the Reddit post was getting at. I don't think it was supporting how often Kirk violated the Prime Directive, I think it was how frequently it...

I fall on the side of Kirk not being a by-the-book kind of Captain. Not that he was a total maverick, but he was willing to do what he thought was right regardless of the rules. When the situation called for it I think he violated orders more frequently than other Captains. Based on this Memory...

This is one of my few gripes about SNW, more of a nitpick really. While I like the design of the ship, I think it's too big (I think I mentioned this already upthread), at least it's interior based on the size of the bridge and other rooms we have seen. From the exterior I really like the redesign.

Snarf's game so Snarf's rules, no animated series but I think that does an injustice to some great entries into the franchise. 1. TOS. I agree with Snarf here, the first season had very few stumbles with some great writers. Yeah, they were still figuring things out so there wasn't a lot of...

I didn't see that coming, at least not him being killed so easily. In the comics he was a clone of Homelander so I expected him to be tougher.

I recently started brewing and I'm enjoying it. I made an IPA which turned out ok, I'm currently drinking my second batch, an American Pale which turned out pretty good. My next, which I will probably start this weekend, will be a Red. I'm currently using kits since it seems like an easier way...

Simping? I think my age may be showing but the closest connection I have to that word is simp, which was short for simpleton when I was a kid. Basically a way of calling someone stupid. I did a Google search and got the definition "when someone obsesses over someone else who does not return...

I got the feeling that Maeve is just a better fighter than Homelander because of all of that training. Homelander really just relies on, I think, the sheer brute force his abilities give him without much in the way of finesse whereas Maeve actually knows how to fight.

While Ortegas did fill some of Styles role in the show I never felt she was intended to be the bigot Styles was, just that she was a war-hawk who saw the need to strike at the Romulans in retaliation for their actions. Honestly, of all of the characters in SNW Ortegas has had the least character...

I was disappointed by this. I really like Maeve as a character and am sorry to see her go. At least she went out as the hero we occasionally saw she could be.

I can understand the feeling but, on the other hand, it seems to be such an ingrained part of Trek that if we didn't have it occasionally it would be weird.

Technically yes it's Prime but honestly, I sometimes feel like all of the Paramount+ series, except Lower Decks, are an alternate timeline. I feel like we have three timelines: TOS through Enterprise is the Prime timeline and then the Abramsverse and the P+ timelines (with Lower Decks likely...

Balance of Terror!!!! My all-time favorite Star Trek episode. This was a really cool take on it, including some of the scenes and dialog being identical, or close to, to the original episode. My favorite bit was that it showed while there can be different command styles, all valid and...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 1 Finale - Enter the Scotsman! :p Pretty sure that was Scotty talking to Spock over comms

Yeah, and I still stand by my original statement that it's no different than what we see in tons of other comics and movies. If you dislike every other movie for the same reason then fair enough but otherwise, in my opinion, it's just piling on criticisms for a movie you didn't like anyways. And...