Holy crap, no. ; ) 

Yeah, my groups are totally flip flopped on that. I learned on the TSR red box, and frankly I’d prefer an occasional campaign with stat-roll, though for terms of newfangled modern “game balance,” I can see why designers would prefer players assign or use a predetermined array.

Right, but if I remember correctly, point buy (or preset values... I can’t remember because I haven’t cracked a 5E book in about 6 months) was elevated to the “standard” method, with rolling considered an optional method.

IIRC, D&D 5E’s default ability score generation is done with point buy, allowing everyone at the table equal footing. This other stuff might be handy, but I haven’t played in a group using roll-for-stats in about 20 years.

Thanks for the explanation!

While not dishonorably discharged, he was demoted to the rank of private and dismissed from the military.

Was mildly interested until I noticed that it’s going to feature both series minis.

If you just want a version of D&D that’s less complicated, you have tons of options.

Does Disney have any sort of track record for selling off non lucrative properties? In terms of something like the Muppets (err... also Tron...), is there any precedent for them giving a collective shrug and handing it to someone else who thinks they can do better?

You might want to try picking up the season 1 and 2 boxed sets of the Electric Company (the old one). Your son is a little young, but education-per-minute, that show is unbeatable.

I don’t have any comparative “research” to cite, but having watched Sesame Street in the 70s/80s and watching the new HBOized version of it this past Sunday with my kid, I can say that not only has the educational merit of the show decreased substantially, but I don’t find it any slower paced that other “less…

I see your Mick, and I raise you a Dylan.

Ok... as long as we’re drawing a distinction between a song being played on the radio 20 times in 24 hours vs. hearing the thing in passing as part of a Lexus commercial.

It is the same reason radio stations play new songs 3 times an hour, because hearing the song multiple times builds familiarity which instinctively is tied to enjoyment.

Am I the only old-school-fan-boy completely ok with the “legacy changes” Johnson made to Star Wars (Luke, increased diversity, new force powers, etc.) and instead just annoyed with how generally crappy the movie was as a middle chapter to an allegedly three-part trilogy?

I got your point, even if the other guys posting in here missed it and are more interested in focusing on sound bytes.

You’re preaching to the choir. ; )

You mean this?

1. The Muppet Movie (1979)

There clearly was and is effort. That it’s effort someone doesn’t appreciate or even potentially finds offensive doesn’t change the work they did.