These character sheets are all for level 1, so if you wanted to represent anything else you’ve done with the characters, you’d still need to go into the game and manually copy stuff out.

I believe in the original lore, ages ago the Forgotten Realms was connected to our Earth via portals, but over time those closed and all Earthly memories of that land of magic were forgotten: hence Forgotten Realms. This has been deemphasized for quite some time, though, so the name is a bit outdated.

Calling Funko a “soulless” “loser” where the “excitement was just gone,” despite having “the most sought-after exclusives” and “huge crowds” which “made browsing the booths near impossible” makes it sound less like Funko had a problem, and more like you, the author, had a problem with Funko.

What was interesting about that scene was that Scarlet Witch killed each hero with their own signature power. And before you ask if Captain Marvel’s power is “being hit with a statue,” her actual powers include energy absorption, and Scarlet Witch absorbed enough of Captain Marvel’s energy/power that a statue could…

Having seen an advanced screening, I didn’t mind this during the opening babies scene, because as noted it helped to heighten the comedy, but during the Chrono Bowl scenes I thought “well, this is an advanced screening, maybe they didn’t finish the CGI.” Apparently my hopes were too high...

Indiana Jones may have punched Nazis, but Captain America punched Hitler. I’d like to see Indy try pushing Cap out of the way to get the first punch there.

I guess in theory, but the movie didn’t feel “incomplete” without that. If anything, actually seeing it would seem a little anticlimactic.

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I saw an advanced screening of the film last week, and it didn’t have any weirdness with missing or blurred bits towards the end. There was a warning card talking about “this isn’t the final cut of the movie,” but I thought that might relate more to some of the CGI not being entirely finished than anything else.

The most telling quote from that interview:

There are almost certainly time-travel shenanigans involved in the crossover episode.

I’ll give them this much, having the MacGuffin be some sort of time machine allows the villains to be Nazis without trying to explain how older Indy is still fighting them: they’re Neo-Nazis who want to use the device to travel back in time and allow Hitler to win.

Car Wars isn’t a tabletop roleplaying game, it’s a wargame. Linda Codega exclusively writes about tabletop roleplaying games. When you see the “Games” tag on an io9 article, it’s either a video game or a Linda Codega article about tabletop roleplaying games. I don’t even have a problem with tabletop roleplaying games,…

That’s the thing, unless there’s something very weird going on, this graphic novel isn’t new at all, it’s been available for nearly three years. It’s possible this is actually about Volume 2 getting released, or something else in the same setting (there’s already an audio drama in the same universe as Volume 1 of the…

Is this the same or different from the edition published in limited release on August 17, 2020 and wide release on May 18, 2021?

And “the one I am supposed to kill I will instead protect with my life” (which is what the trailer suggests happens here) feels very familiar to me, though to be fair I cannot place another example off the top of my head.

I would bet that both Blue Origin and SpaceX have winches in their designs, but winches have downsides too: if you’re not offset from the vehicle you can bang into it, and it can be awkward to clip yourself in and then unclip yourself at the end. Plus the winch motor is potentially another thing which could fail…

Because then you don’t need Orion and could just have crew go up and down in Crew Dragon.

Actually, Blue Origin’s plan very explicitly did not include an elevator, and expects astronauts to climb a 32-foot ladder in spacesuits. I think there may be a winch system (can’t recall if it’s automated or manual), but it’s a far cry from SpaceX’s actual literal elevator (which presumably has a winch system for…

I agree that 8-12 is realistic, but if one fails to launch they don’t need to start over, they just need to have an extra launch which they otherwise didn’t think they’d need. Sure, this imposes a slight increase in program cost, since they need to have an extra Tanker lying around ready to launch which isn’t needed…