“Guess what? Deleting emails after being subpoenaed is a felony. No debate about it.”

+1.

I think this is a bit overstated. There are lots of fairly new characters that have really landed, though to be fair, 90% of all characters get consigned to the dustbin of history. The one I’m thinking of is Spawn, probably in part b/c he’s African-American. This hinges on your definition of “new,” since Spawn has…

I’m Nicholas A. on there. My pic is Mogo.

I’ve actually never found bloat to be a problem. At least not as a DM. I can get overwhelmed as a player. Now, there are probably 2 big reasons for that. Reason 1 is that I tell players (and do the same as a player) to build to a given level of firepower. We can all break the game if we try, so the idea is for us…

I talked about this above, although Kinja’s comment threads are kind of hard to follow (at least for me).

We should get together on roll20 or something sometime. Time and time zones permitting. I’m actually an AD&D kid (or ... Expert Rules? The naming system is slightly beyond me). Rifts was my heady years where I had the time to nerd out on skads of (largely identical) power armor.

Thanks for the reply. I’ve actually read the 5E PHB. I just haven’t played the game itself outside of a playtest.

Yeah, like Murry said. It’s been that way for a while. But, it was not ever thus. These will always be kobolds for me:

This is literally the ONLY argument I’ve seen for 5E. And, if it’s got that going for it, then cool. I can respect the desire for a streamlined game. But, I feel compelled to point out that Savage Worlds is right there, doing that better than D&D has for ... like ever.

Primaries? Local politics? The Senate and House Members? These would all be places to push for an agenda along those lines. I believe it’s been the right-leaning playbook for the past 20 years, and with great success.

None of this is really true. Or, at least it’s not true as a matter of having 2 parties. So, to the extent it matches the facts it’s not driven by that issue alone. Two parties, itself largely a product of the voting rules, generates relatively moderate parties. Now, you might be saying “look at the Ds and the Rs,…

This, alas, has been the standard for D&D adventures for many years. Although I was grooving on Savage Tides back in the day.

I ran a whole campaign where I started each session with “roll initiative” and then went back to explain in media res what was going on. It worked for a novelty thing.

+1. My initial thought was that I can’t imagine how this movie will deliver on something like the Masters of the Universe or Flash Gordon flicks — the most Jack Kirby films ever filmed.

But, to test it out you’d need such a bizarre set of circumstances that it’s just not going to happen. The current third party candidates lack virtually everything it takes to get elected, like money, a ground game, voter recognition, and so on.

I guess I don’t get this comment at all. Like, obviously the tl;dr is true. But, it’s the “shut up” part that doesn’t make any sense. Sure, go read something else. But, the sentiment reads like this:

@D3. No. It’s not. The character’s motivations make little to no sense. It casts Tyrael, one of the most important characters in the series at this point, as a careless idiot. One who eventually becomes the representative of Wisdom. The Lord of Lies both hates deception and is terrible at it. And, so on.

There’s a very clear story, it’s just told non-verbally. Road Warrior has about 4 plot beats. Fury Road has ... 3. The story critique of Fury Road is easy, but lazy.

I appreciate what you have to say. I just never really *liked* Batman ‘66. It never captured what made the character of Batman compelling. And, I’d argue that there’s something of a fundamental mismatch: character is driven by an intense deep tragedy of the death of his parents, which apparently he hasn’t really moved…