…it’s an okay movie: perfectly servicable Standard Hollywood Treatment^TM; competently written, directed, performed, and edited; genre trope in-jokes liberally sprinkled throughout…

…i believe most positive reactions stem from defying expectations that it be a bad movie, rather than actually being good…

…so what you’re saying is that we should start calling drow shiela and bruce?..

“You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range.”

…its only component is verbal, and while it’s not subtle casting it’s fair to characterise as subtle casting; i’d argue for first-round surprise in the context of open dialog and in fact that’s how we’ve played it at my tables…

…i’m not big on contrived replacements; i may rejoin organically at some point in the indeterminate future but if i’m out i’m out…

…duke nukem forever was in development for about fourteen years…

…squadron 42 is tracking to match that if it releases next year; star citizen stands poised to inherit the protracted-development crown in short order…

…not in fifth-edition dungeons + dragons: knowledge checks are intelligence, judgement is wisdom…

…disappointed to see alarums + excursions end so close to the gold mark but by that same measure its run is nothing short of a triumph by modern standards; lee gold’s shadow looms large and well-earned…

East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

TIL!

…i also had no idea aluminised tetrapacks were recyclable; always figured composite materials were dead-end landfill fodder…

(the changeover wasn’t entirely in the sixties, though: as a kid, we used to peel cartons open and scrape off the wax for craft projects clear into the early eighties, never realised the packaging had changed prior to the advent of plastic screw-tops)

…typically they’re coated with food-grade wax…

…advanced marvel superheroes, the full FASERIP system…

…problem is there are enough imperial f*ckheads ready to dogpile on any virtue signal du jour…

…i’ve been disappointed with the print quality of most of their POD books since last year: it’s like someone isn’t monitoring the ink levels and one of the CMYK colors almost always looks washed out…

…1981 moldvay red box was my first product, but the first i played i think was 1977 holmes, although i don’t know for certain because i never saw my cousin’s books; in fact, i’ve been unable to identify which module he ran us through to this day…

…i adore this depiction of moria from the one ring, plan and section both set against surrounding terrain to give a sense of scale…

…isn’t that essentially critical role?..

…there’s a comic i read somewhere illustrating how sombre, dramatic campaign settings ultimately devolve into slapstick hijinks and silly, slapstick campaign settings ultimately evolve into dramatic epics…

…the village building inspector is a recurring NPC in our ongoing campaign of the last four years…

…invisible sun, so i guess sort-of-cypher?..

“It makes me feel GREAT! Smarter. More aggressive.”