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They patch that up by remarking that every time Pike saves himself Spock dies. Apparently the Klingon monks looked over such futures. Tom B

I've found that mechanics are missing or just not your friend: Hostility can break out without the party having any time to assess their foes. Spending time to assess yields, what? The game doesn't have good tools for PCs to evaluate relative power levels. Or, doesn't convey aggression...

Episode 6 seems to be a retelling of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, by Ursula K. Le Guin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas This is a big idea story, and the series is gutsy for presenting it. The story is one of my favorites. The story asks a deep...

Additional text omitted. I dunno. I'd change the focus onto those who are creating impediments. The problem is not Delaney’s skin color; the problem is the prejudice of other people. But, I don't know if this is worth pointing out. Any successful artist had many challenges to overcome...

As a plot point, the surprise attack works. But the details are a little off. The crew should have known they were vulnerable when the docking bridge was deployed, and should have been hustling to transship the refugees. That is in particular because of the attack on the colony. This seems a...

That seemed to be guiding Obi back to core value of empathy and providing assistance to those in need. That these moments were next to each seemed very deliberate. I thought this was both subtle — no force ghosts here! —and blatant. TomB

That's a ... problematic ... usage. Using skin color as a way of distinguishing people suggests a categorical difference based on skin color. This is (in my opinion) not a useful way of thinking. I don't think that such a way of distinguishing people is useful except in the very specific...

Can someone say for what purpose the word was used? Why was Delaney's skin color relevant? After reflection, I'm finding that I care more about the answer to this question than to which particular word was used. Do we know the full circumstances of what happened? Is it possible that other...

(Additional text omitted.) I think Avengers Endgame works stand-alone, actually, pretty well. A part of that is due to the lengthy build-up, where the effects of the snap are both described and shown quite clearly. I think this works better for AE than it does for MoM because the primary...

Additional text omitted. Folks who saw Agents of Shield season 4 would understand what a terrible peril is reading the Darkhold. It helps people do what they want while insidiously amplifying their negative aspects. But, Agents of Shield is not canon, and I would expect the folks who saw...

Not every statement, sure. But key plot points should be shown. (I think this is good point to be made for designing adventures.) There is a scene at the beginning of “The Rock” with Nicholas Cage where a deadly biotoxin is being stolen. There is an accident and some of the toxin is...

It’s only in the Agents of Shield that the Darkhold is really shown. WandaVision has it, but we are only told that it is evil. We aren’t shown. And, while Agnes is evil, she seemed that way before getting the book, and didn’t seem to be worse for having it. If folks knew that Wanda had the...

Except, at the end of WandaVision, she lets her recreated Vision and children dissolve, effectively killing them, as a necessary loss to remedy her taking control over the town. She has a redemptive moment. There is a hint that she might see Vision again at some time in the future. Also, she...

Yeah, I thought that was odd. The presentation at the end of WandaVision seems to be that she realized that what she did was wrong and was on a redemptive path. But, the DarkHold has been shown to be extremely corrupting. Most but not all succumb to its influence: Aide is wholly corrupted...

I’ve always found these sorts of charts to be very interesting. Spot checking the energy column, and at least several are off. As an easy rule of thumb: 2^10 (1024) is very close to 10^3 (1000). That is, multiplying by 1000 makes for a 10 row shift downward. Some values span too many rows …...

Is there room here for heat frustration? As an alternative to limiting mobility? As I understand it, heat dissipation, or rather, the lack thereof, is a major limiting factor in using many types of armor. Tom Bitonti

it seems to be a great system for a supers type game. What’s with the placement of the international space station (in the lift column)? Tom B

You need to ask: Fun for whom? And: Why is having a fuser necessary? Having control over their character's characteristics ("identity") is core to most games. Consequently, losing that control is anathema to most. You might find fusers to be interesting. Your players might not. Maybe, can...

To answer my own question. My understanding of the rules is that unless hidden or obscured, a declaration of hostile intent is known by both sides. Then, players and orcs who are acting earlier in initiative are aware that a hostile action is about to be initiated, and may act with that...

A bit late to the party ... Would the question be easier if the procedure were further detailed? This is how my group generally started encounters: (1) The GM describes a scene: "The players are walking down a road. They approach a bridge." Secretly, several orcs have hidden beneath the...