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Draketooth. Right. Oh, by the way - does anyone STILL think V's Familicide was a non-Evil act?

I think you missed SnowLeopard's (and Berlew's) point. She's visibly embarrassed, and obviously (or at least it struck me as obvious) speaking... "sarcastically" isn't quite the right word, but it's closer than any other I can think of, and certainly closer than "lying" which would imply that...

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS A LINK TO TVTROPES. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. So what does ENWorld figure happened here? Is Yukyuk's Search really terrible, did V not issue the command he* implied he would, or were the DCs just insanely high? Or is this just another case of Rule of Funny being a...

I don't think it reigns supreme over some minimal effort at consistent characterization. I'll accept some pretty thin rationales for apparent breaking of character, but surely not everything goes. Just because there's more than one "right" way to play a given character, doesn't mean some aren't...

Yes, they are from WotC. Different game, but very much WotC; indeed, Magic is the reason they're famous, much more than D&D is. And in Magic, "Artifact" means roughly what "Magic item" means in D&D. Not that any of this is actually relevant to the point I was making, or that I take Ryan to...

I was going to mention the exact same Magic card as Ryan did. Flavour it however you like - alternating bands of the two types, rapid oscilation between them, energy spreading from the wounds the weapon delivers, or as on the Magic card, two blades, one of each sort (or one that simply keeps the...

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Well, from personal experience: Two can work well or suck Three, four, five and six all seem to work fairly well Unwieldiness starts to be noticeable at seven, and is appreciably worse at eight. It's also hard to make combats challenging at that size - merely adding opponents doesn't do the...

Not that I disagree with either sentence of this in isolation, but the second sentence is not an example of the first.

As has often been said (usually on the Magic side of the fence, granted, rather than the D&D side), if WotC put out boxes of free money, people would complain about how it was folded.

It pretty much has to be a dragon, doesn't it? There's nothing else anywhere near as iconic.

Cautiously optimistic. If there were a choice between "positive" and "neutral" I'd pick it, but I defaulted to "positive". The concerns folks like Kzach have raised (don't know if they're in this thread, but he's mentioned them elsewhere) are valid, but you know what? Despite that...

Mary Whitehouse, you mean. Google usually works best if you get the name of the person you're searching for right.

I don't recall that from the series - the books, yes, where it was reasonably clear that the Doctor was a reincarnation of this mysterious "Other", a third figure alongside Rassilon and Omega. Didn't care for those elements either, though I still think they were somewhat less ham-fisted than...

Which would have the saving grace that it would still make more sense than most of Davies' later scripts. (Most of my issues are really more with Davies than Tennant when you think about it.)

At the beginning, he was... well, the Doctor. By the end, he was this utterly ridiculous godlike being who couldn't be realistically challenged by anything, and was all too aware of it. God could he be a git when his ego got going, which by then, was most of the time. The only thing left to do...

Lucky. He was absolutely insufferable by the end of his run.

I like very much. I might be running a Star Wars adventure path at some point and haven't been entirely satisfied with any rule set I've come across for it. This shows considerable promise and when that day finally arrives I imagine I'll either use Myths of the Far Future for it or something...

They are never the same thing. I'm not saying they need conflict, but acting out dialogue and such is neither necessary nor sufficient for playing in a way that's true to your character. That's true, but has nothing to do with anything I said. Surely your character shouldn't deviate wildly from...

A new Order of the Stick is up. An exposition-heavy one-and-a-half pager, featuring an uncharacteristically clever Elan. This one will be important later.