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Additional text omitted. I'm thinking neither of these is accurate. Psionics isn't so much a narrative concept as it is a theme which has a preferred description and implementation within the game (pseudo-scientific, mind based, technology or alternative based). When I think of "narrative...

About that ... they are making it harder to connect this to the other shows. I think this first episode was great. But, I'm not sure what it is doing in MarvelVerse. TomB

So … a modern view of a sane person requires that they have a degree of empathy. People are communal creatures. To have a being within the community that does not have empathy is a danger to the community, and is at least discouraged, if not entirely disallowed. When perceiving a body, one...

Eh, so there is a difference between what the game presents as its current default settings, and either what the game had as a prior default setting, and what settings one might chose if there were no default settings. This is in relation to the act of creating undead. (Which is not the same...

I’d say it’s an object. But gross and a bit fragile. You’ll have bits of rotting meat scattering all over. Maybe clumsy, too — all those tendons would not be pulling in a natural way, and muscles would not have any tone. TomB

Definitely. The times that I’m thinking of are the less desperate ones. I guess, I’ve seen times when players ignore how they’ve written their characters for an in-game or meta advantage. A player who isn’t a novice and who writes LG on their character sheet ought to make an attempt to play...

I’m 95% in agreement. However, are there no limits? What if you had seriously vowed to never eat French fries, and had consistently role played that vow, but one day decided, heck, who cares, and started frying up some taters? In my games, there have been times when a player has “broken...

But it does. “Only evil casters use Animate Dead frequently“ is an axiom of the game state. “My character‘s alignment is good” a proposition, to be shown true or false by my character’s actions. If my character uses Animate Dead frequently we are left with a contradiction. Both “My good...

"Nothing" prevents a PC from casting animate dead. (Well, perhaps their party members eventually physically bind them and turn them over to the church.) However, while a PC "can" repeatedly cast animate dead, doing so shifts there alignment to evil. That is the direct consequence of "only...

That elven society didn’t catch on with everyone. The folks that I played with thought it was nonsense and ignored it. TomB

In prior additions, the steps to become a lich were exceptionally depraved. Continued consumption of souls is a new thing. Prior editions did have Acererak attempting to fuel his apotheosis using souls, but that is an added thing. TomB

And there are likely any number of evil kingdoms where this is done. There is probably a great temptation to do so, for defense, or for extra labor. A common trope is a crazed person animating a deceased loved one whom they cannot accept as being dead. This always turns out to be a bad idea...

I’m thinking that in many campaigns, having undead around, even chained in a cell, would have consequences. Nature spirits would avoid the area. Disease and decay would increase. Misfortune would increase. None of that is written in to the spell as a consequence. Nevertheless, such...

So, this has all gotten me thinking about Wisdom as the base stat for perception. Wouldn't Charisma be a better fit? Charisma is in part projection and in part perception. Having a character spot "opportunities" (Perception) faster than they can decide if availing themselves of that...

Merry and Pippin would seem to be burglars. They weren’t particularly brave or wise. Frodo had the advantage of Gandalf’s tutelage, as well as a rather more learned upbringing. Samwise is the only one who seems to have exuded wisdom. But, his class seems to have been “stalwart companion”...

There are Kitsune. Perhaps too niche, though. TomB

While none too common, hound archons are very cool - IMHO. TomB

I'm thinking Picard was needed because of what comes after. And possibly, "speaking to Picard" was just our limited comprehension of "borg multi-temporal non-linear communication". (I just made that up.) The queen implies in other borg stories that there are deeper ways of perceiving time...

I don't think most campaigns would allow either Firbolg or Gith. They would be hard to fit into most campaign worlds. And players would ultimately be disappointed if they were, as they would lose most of their strengths (which, I admit, would be unbalancing). Shifters suffered in 3.5E from a...

That theater space in the bottom rear looks great for a hover bay. Hovercraft don't need a flight deck, they need a ramp down to the water, like a marine assault ship, or a whaling ship. All those decks with cabins lining the exterior seem great as drone berths. They each would have a...