I’m still worried about this girl. I mean this is a movie franchise that put this on screen.

Inquisition was super fucked up with its animations at several points in the game. I had an empty pair of pants walking around during a cutscene once.

I have it, and it’s aces. Aces, I tell you.

So much this. This isn’t fair to lay at Marvel’s feet. We could say they should have given thier leading ladies some better stories to work with, thereby making them want to stay, but they didn’t fire the actors, nor did they casually dispose of them. The actors wanted out.

Thank you. I’d honestly be all for Natalie coming back at some point but it’s clear she doesn’t want to, so I don’t understand why Katharine is pretending that this is a matter of female character portrayal. I guess someone has to stir the pot for no reason now that Gawker is gone!

Dumping of two of its heroes’ major love interests in this way indicates that Marvel considers many of its female leads rather disposable, which isn’t great.

HELL TO THE YES!

Yeah I suppose that’s true. I would say that he shouldn’t have to say that it is satire but I guess you have to explicitly state things nowadays. We can’t assume what is obvious to one of us is obvious to all of us I guess

The follow-up bit at the end of the volume with the single survivor being burned by another tribe as sacrifice to a Vader effigy was bone chilling.

That’s cool. I think this fills a demand from a lot of people who DO want digital tools. I doubt we’ll see the physical books go away in our lifetime. The possibility of a term search across rulebooks and supplements makes a digital version very attractive to me.

I don’t see it as wierd at all. I’ve been running D&Dgames since 1988, and I’ve played in all sorts of ways, from all pen and paper to a mixture of computer/tablet to all tablet/phone records, and the most seamless and undistracted experience is when there is a limit to which rule books are allowed, the players all…

Good point. I try to do the same as well, but it is nice to have it digitally in case I forget to print or I become disorganized with the physical stuff.

I also find it weird when people have their character sheet on a device and I can’t see it in front of them. Like, not even as the DM, as another player. I’m not reading it, I just like to see it there. It feels wrong when it’s not.

I’m oddly comforted by your post. At 40, I just got back into D & D and DMing, and while I’ve got a laptop hooked up to a projector for a few questions/visuals, we are mainly paper, pens, words, and a giant white board with dry erase markers.

The pre-written adventures I’ve run are all PDFs, purely because they’re third party that don’t offer print. Still, I always convert them to a Word doc so that I can tweak things where I want, work in extra hooks and character-related bits, etc. Then I print them out and put them in my great big binder. I use editable…

Old-schooler here and I can see where you are coming from. However, as an adult I find that I don’t have the time to sit and write everything by hand. It’s so much more convenient for me to put all my notes on the computer. (OneNote is excellent for this) Also I do a lot of my campaign creation not-at-home. *Wink*

I’m a few years older, but books and paper are my preferable medium as well. Always always using books for CG and rule learning, planning. That said...PDF’s are stupidly valuable to me these days. Much much faster to search, and you can look at them anywhere.

I’ll be curious about how long this app will be supported. Not a big fan of most gaming apps (or games that require apps like fucking Golem Arcana) for the simple reason that eventually they will no longer be supported. I’m not shelling out cash for something that might simply not run on current tablets or phones…

Hey—just wanted to say (as a straight male with strong feminist beliefs) this was a great analysis. I hadn’t even considered the fact that the lens offered was strictly a function of male reactions (probably because I am a straight male, and despite my feminist beliefs, that still causes me to miss stuff).

This “it’s for the fans” garbage is what creates the kind of toxic backlash the nerd community has become known for.