He did. The player was _that_ clueless. The DM tends to ask at least three times if you're about to do something really, really stupid. This guy, he's precious.

So far, nobody's intentionally killed themselves to re-roll in our group, but there have been plenty of accidental deaths due to players being vague with their actions. One bloke fell to his death because he tried to follow the thief, who was rappelling down the castle wall.

It's a neater, faster game, for sure. But it also removes some agency from the player's hands. Whether he misses or hits, it's better if the player thinks he caused it.

Technically the only new player was Hickey — who quickly got the hang of the rules — and the Dean, who really leaned full-tilt into his character. Everyone else had at least one campaign under their belt, whether or not they were as committed to the roleplaying as the Dean was.

My current DM was a bit of a hard-ass with previous campaigns, and his players — even the new ones — faced death often. That said, he allowed dead players to roll up a new character immediately after death, so that nobody gets left out.

In most games, players would roll for their actions, not the DM. This gives players the feeling of agency in their actions. What you didn't see registering is Shirley's hitpoints counting down to negative values, which is what would've killed her. As Abed said, she took damage from the fall, and two arrow hits.…

Abed is exactly the kind of DM I want: ridiculously prepared, stickler for the rules, and has contingencies for everything, including players attempting to break his game.

Jeff's use of Cleave tells me that they're using 3.0 rules or higher this time around. Which begs the question, why didn't the hobgoblins get attacks of opportunity when Tiny Nuggets tried to punch them in the heart?

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The problem is, the audience are expecting that AoS act as a soft launch for some of the more obscure characters, with the eventual hope that said characters will end up with their own films.

Correction: Tara only started voicing Harley on Arkham City, the sequel. The first game, Arkham Asylum, featured Arleen Sorkin.

Except the quiet nerd is, in this case, the highly popular class clown/valedictorian. Which kinda breaks typical school romance tropes.

Well she has made half of the men in Hollywood feel something.

What makes Chang better? Moderation. You see less of him, and what you do see is less "Crazy Chang" or "Evil Chang", and more "Senor Chang" from the old days.

It might be effective, but is it cost-efficient? How much energy does it expend to break down biomass for printing? How much energy does it expend to print the desired organic matter?

Yeah, it says I hate Abrams' pseudoscience bullshit. Always have.

Er, you're missing my point: this is not a replicator. It's not that the printer can't produce viable living things — although the lengths the episode went to explain why it can't print organs to scale has to be stated — it's that to print said living things, you'd need both a template and sufficient _resources_ for…

I assumed the bio printer would still have needed some form of raw biomass to serve as "ink", so I doubt it'd solve world hunger.

I dunno, I hate every episode of Fringe that I've seen, and I kinda like this show.

Yep, we're addicted to white people. We brainwash our own women into bathing in whitening soaps and creams and whatnot.