Recent content by Dire Bare

Dude. Just relax and admit your initial post was unclear and too strong. And you're gonna nerdsplain to me that the Doctor isn't really a Doctor, and his name isn't "Doctor Who" but just the "Doctor"? Any more semantic battles or nitpicks you want to drop? Don't let your anger and irritation...

Go on out on that limb. Didn't bother.

Okay. There's a difference between . . . "I don't think this is good Dr. Who." and "Go woke, go broke." I'll certainly agree it would be nice of the go-woke-go-broke crowd would fade away . . . but they won't, so just do your best to ignore them. They haven't learned yet that entertainment...

Whoah. So, it's either agree with me or shut up? What a great way to discuss the show.

Honest question . . . I'm not a die hard Whovian . . . Did Disney take over ownership and/or production of Doctor Who? Or is Disney+ just where you can watch Doctor Who now in the US?

There are a lot of Doctor Who episodes that are hard to take seriously . . . but I think that is the point. I mean . . . "space babies"? The day is saved by ? A fun episode that had heart, scares, and the job of introducing the new Doctor and his companion, but . . . not a very serious episode.

It's not about "should", it's about "what is". The original ranger was created to emulate Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. This is documented fact. Now, how well the original class did that is certainly up for debate. And the class has evolved considerably over 50 years. And of course you can...

I haven't read all 9 pages so far, so forgive me if I cover ground already trod. Is the ranger "necessary"? Well, no. Few of the classes are, really. The ranger exists because early D&D classes were designed to emulate literary archetypes. The barbarian is Conan, the paladin comes from a Poul...

Five Torches Deep? That might hit for ya, its been a while since I've checked it out, but it was an OSR style hack of 5E.

Maybe WotC should start including the art orders in the public playtests! Perhaps catch something like this before the final art goes into the book!

Becoming mortal was PART of the "prize", it also included ultimate knowledge. However, the immortals didn't really know what the prize was, and many assumed ultimate power. There's also talk amongst fan circles that the prize might have been tailored to the last immortal. MacLeod won the prize...

Meh. I grew up on the Mystara campaign, back before it was Mystara! Long live the Known World! However, you're reaching here. Sure, the action-figure characters were incorporated into the BECMI line in a handful of products, but it was done poorly and, IMO, didn't really fit. These characters...

Interesting. Re-imagining Mystara's shadow elves as shadar-kai, a different kind of shadow elf. It's worth mulling over as something to adapt if I ever convince my players to take a run through Mystara.

Maybe . . . In the 2014 core rule books, the Realms was not the "default" or even "example" setting, the multiverse was. Of course, most of the big adventure books were set in the Realms. Greyhawk isn't the new "default" setting for the 2024 core rule books, it is just the "example" setting in...

Grognip?