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  1. MarkB

    Chocolate and _____?

    Which is good, as it gives me "video unavailable".
  2. MarkB

    D&D General Exhaustion levels *before* death saves

    As I haven't read the previous thread you mentioned, can you clarify what "before death saves" actually means in this context? I was picturing the character still going unconscious, but accumulating exhaustion levels instead of death save fails each round. Is it instead that they remain...
  3. MarkB

    D&D General Exhaustion levels *before* death saves

    For this scenario I don't see how having players come to grips with custom death and dying rules and then cope with applying penalties to their rolls is significantly less of a learning curve than just starting them at level 2.
  4. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I'm kinda tempted to play as Gale, and immediately respec him to Barbarian just for giggles.
  5. MarkB

    Chocolate and _____?

    Is that an Americanism, I wonder? In the UK, regular fudge doesn't contain chocolate, though it can be flavoured with it - or any of a number of other flavours.
  6. MarkB

    Chocolate and _____?

    A few more options: Fudge, honeycomb (not the real honey one, the kind you get in Crunchie bars), various types of biscuit or wafer (i.e. kit-kat, chocolate digestives).
  7. MarkB

    D&D 5E (2024) Getting ready to use the Portable Hole + Bag of holding trick

    Indeed, but my point was more that if a DM in a contemporary game gives out both those items and then just relies upon "well, the players know better" for his game to not spontaneously transform into a planar adventure at some random point, it's a bit hypocritical to then turn around and say...
  8. MarkB

    D&D 5E (2024) Getting ready to use the Portable Hole + Bag of holding trick

    More to the point, if you rule that the characters don't know this info and give them both items, how do they go for weeks afterwards without ever just happening to put one inside the other? The portable hole is effectively a small room that you can step into, and would need to step into to...
  9. MarkB

    Trailer Godzilla Minus Zero Teaser Trailer

    Gotta wonder where they can go with the numbering scheme after this. Godzilla +1 sounds like he's turned up with a date to the party.
  10. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    To be fair, Karlach talking to herself feels more natural to her character than it would for a lot of the other origin characters. Hard to imagine either Shadowheart or Lae'zel engaging in much self-reflection, and if Wyll tried it he'd probably wind up berating himself for making a deal with a...
  11. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I haven't played through a lot of them, but I'd rate Lae'zel a little higher than that. I had a good time playing as her, and her story feels more closely intertwined with the main plot than most others'.
  12. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    My first playthrough was with a custom character, tried Dark Urge for my second and didn't get along with it. Aside from that I've played origin characters - my most complete playthrough was as Lae'zel, I've played as Karlach and my current one is as Shadowheart. For me, being able to explore...
  13. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    I don't particularly want to 'break' anything (I've never seriously employed barrels en masse to tip the result in fights, for instance) but I do appreciate a game that rewards outside-the-box thinking and nonstandard solutions. The issue there is that in any given playthrough you may choose to...
  14. MarkB

    Buffy Reboot Cancelled

    Fair enough.
  15. MarkB

    D&D 5E (2024) Find Familiar - Telepathic Communication

    That seems like it would be a pointless restriction to place upon the ability, and would create headaches for no good reason.
  16. MarkB

    What videogames are you playing in 2026?

    What they mostly need is fewer plotlines that wait until the final act to be resolved. An issue with BG3's large roster of party members and the fact that you can drag them all along with you is that almost all of them have questlines that can be progressed during a single playthrough and...
  17. MarkB

    Buffy Reboot Cancelled

    I didn't even get the impression that the apologist bits were in Abrams's hands, more like they were mandated in the manner of a corporate retraction. But yeah, the rest is such a mess, and neither the parts nor the whole made much sense.
  18. MarkB

    Buffy Reboot Cancelled

    RoS is just mostly backpedaling and trying to tell the audience "No, we didn't mean it!" about everything in TLJ that got a bad reaction, padded out with the old and familiar. It's hard to like a movie that reads more like an apology than an actual story. Plus things got kinda weird with trying...
  19. MarkB

    EN World What you thought a thread title said.

    70s Sci-Fi Sleeper As quirky Woody Allen satires go that one wasn't the worst, but as I recall it was extremely 70s.
  20. MarkB

    Video Games You Wish Existed

    What does the gameplay look like in that? Those RTSs have constant build progression and end-goals of destroying an opponent or their base, so how do you make that persistent, and in particular how do you handle it when someone isn't online to defend their territory?
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