“EEEeeXTeRMi- NeVErMiND. NoTHinG ThE DaALeKS cOuLD dO WoULd bE WoRSE tHaN wHaT THeY dO To THeMSeLvEs.”

Yeah. He’s magically constructed, but he’s not constructed out of magic.

My favourite character I didn’t get to play enough was The Sorcerer. (“Who?”)

Agreement on the non-issue issue! Also: This particular salty DM runs a stable of local available NPC talent. As in, characters the PCs have gotten to know. If I absolutely feel compelled to build a Dungeon of Nasty Traps, I don’t even have to shove Plot-Mandated Backup at the party. They’ll go recruit on their own.

Yep. 5e Bards are the Amazing Rock Stars With - Primary Caster! - Magic Powers. They’re the Battle of the Bands scene in the Scott Pilgrim movie. They’re not your useless jackasses of trades plural, but goddamn master Phonomancers. With Rogue-rivalling skill expertise, to boot.

Polaris herself called the interaction-effect between hers and Eclipse’s power “Aurora Borealis”. Romance and poetry clearly demand the result of their, ahem, basic-human interaction be named Aurora as well.

I’m saying this as a translator with only the slimmest of experience in interpretation:

The Moral Panic thing is history. In the sense that it repeats itself.

I, too, returned to DMing thanks to the (frankly overwhelming) inspiration provided by Critical Role.

Will blizzard be angry about this?

Heh. Well, sprint-cloak sounds like Decker with a Chameleon Movement aug? Hang on. From the vid for the mod on Steam... Looks like she’s got Nelly’s remote power grab and Xu’s EMP. Except this EMP insta-hacks devices instead of just disabling them. For no power cost? Maybe. Also, a translocator like Derek’s, but on a…

XCOM2's Concealment Phase: The Game.

1) XCOM isn’t already... ? I mean, I seem to recall the Dull-As-Crap-But-”Optimal” strategy in Firaxis-entry #1* was exactly that. Overwatch. All of the OVERWATCH.

(Right, Ana is a weird sniper / healer / cool mama bear hybrid? My Overwatch ignorance on display!)

Ya, the context worked just fine. That was just me going semi-off-topic with pet peeve stuff. :P

So, those without high skill who play Hanzo (which is about 95% of them) would much better serve the team by playing a different character.

Your comment is extremely useful and you deserve all the stellar clicks!

Well, yeah! Like I implied nearby, one can’t skip the homework and expect success. (And let’s be clear, Our Game of Internet Spaceships requires a truly stupid amount of homework.)

I did small gang and solo piracy in low-sec, with forays into null. Funded my sub with wormhole expeditions for quite a while. I never played politics, because, like you said: Who needs an unpaid job? And I never set foot in any ship hull bigger than a battlecruiser.

I think “If it doesn’t make you quit, you’ll learn, but you won’t win the first time” is a great and useful point!