That’s fair, but to me IPs in general are becoming increasingly and obsessively self referential in lieu of good writing these days. I pretty much just expect “membah berries” for big projects now and D&D’s most zeitgeist forward elements are in Forgotten Realms - thanks to novels and videos games. That’s why I expect…

I’m excited, but the second one of these shows is set in Forgotten Realms (which seems likely) my eyes are going to glaze over. It’s just never a setting that resonated with me and has been featured extremely heavily for the past two editions and pretty much every video game for the last 2 decades. 

Right? If I can get one box set with like 5 or 6 cuts of JUST Blade Runner, I should be able to get a set that’s just a myriad of cuts of the first Star Wars movie.

I’m pretty sure this is all you need to explain it

Can’t wait until we see a headline like “Famous actor got cast as an absurdly popular character in a super hero movie, but they absolutely f***ing hate the character.”

If you enjoyed The Promised Neverland consider checking out Erased on Netflix. I’m not super into anime, but I found Erased to be a pretty gripping story with a soft sci-fi/fantasy twist that doesn’t overshadow the characters, most of which are children like the Neverland one. It’s use of nostalgia is pretty great.…

If you do watch X-Men the animated series I’d suggest looking up a viewing guide. Disney+ has the episodes all out of order past season 1. If you don’t want to go through every single episode I’d stick to season 1 and then maybe look up a “best of” list. Certain episodes, like the couple that have Nightcrawler in…

We started the D&D Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos adventure book this month. I don’t find many of the Wizard of the Coast adventure books to be very good, but this one is really subpar. I didn’t think I could like something less than Waterdeep Dragon Heist , but this might surpass that if only because it’s so…

Easy on the blow there, man. 

There’s been some great art in 5E, but not always a lot and not always consistent quality. Eberron: Rising from the Last War from 2019 has recycled art from 3E and 4E’s rendition of the setting. It’s kind of jarring since the art was very different in those edition compared to 5E. It’s a bit of let down that WotC is…

There’s no doubt that some sort of Spelljammer or Planescape setting book coming soon. All races listed the “Travelers of the Multiverse” Unearth Arcana playtest material in October of last year are missing from Monsters of the Multiverse. For one they released the UA article only a few months before this book,…

Interesting. I didn’t know that’s how the rights worked. Very insightful. As for the setting itself I’ve never had much love for it over the editions. It’s just not a setting that resonated with me over the decades, so I’m more apt to look at the flaws or see them as bigger I think.

Here’s my stance on this whole situation. As a lifelong Godzilla fan who has seen every movie dozens of times (save for the anime trilogy and GvK, which I could only slog through once),, I realize sometimes I have to make concession, because the character is twice as old as me almost exactly. That’s 60+ years of…

What you’re talking about is a larger element from the Heisei series and one they borrowed from heavily for the 2014 film. The Heisei series (1984 - 1995), composed of seven films, at least started out with the concept that Godzilla is more a force of nature than a alien punching luchador like in the prior Showa era…

RIP Joel Schumacher 

If Toho’s work just consisted of All Monsters Attack and Godzilla vs Megaguirus then yes.

The 2014 film is by far my favorite entry of the Monsterverse series and I thought that it actually understood the characters and the elements I love of the franchise and it was nice the brought in someone who could actually make a movie. It was finally a worthwhile step in a franchise after a decade when it ended…

It being set in Legendary’s Monsterverse has significantly reduced my interest in this series. The last couple movies made Godzilla vs Gigan look like high art sci-fi released by A24. Oddly enough it does seem like they set it before those later movies and got actual writers on it, so maybe they’ll do something smart…

On reddit they’ve more or less detailed every single change and I really like the direction the rules design is moving it. It was always a struggle to teach new players, “You know how to cast the darkness spell as tiefling, but somehow not as a warlock, so you have to learn the spell as a warlock too”. Which is a huge…

The Player’s Handbook update is coming in 2024 when WotC is revising 5th Edition. Unfortunately that’s still long ways off, but it’s a safe bet that the PHB races will reflect the new design style. I would personally allow players to use these blanket changes if they want (i.e. casting spells with spell slots, 30 feet…