Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Minsc and Boo are a bit of a weak link in BG3, but they show up too late for it matter. The thing was, larger than life caricatures worked well in BG1, when they were limited to only a couple of lines. But he lacks the depth of BG3 characters. Jalhera, on the other hand works much better in BG3...

Really, no, this is a strawman. The problem with Drizzt has nothing to do with his species or skin colour (there are lots of drow in BG3). The problem with Drizzt is he is a grown man who behaves like a moody 80s teenager. Oh, and the age-inappropriate sexual relationship. That is the real big...

The reason HAT is considered a failure was it cost too much too make. (Which should serve as a warning with regards to any attempt at live action fantasy).

"A ton" is a slang term for a hundred of something, usually pounds.

I think it was Metalheads who picked up on D&D, not D&D's original creators being Metalheads. The only direct Metal influence on early D&D was Moorcock.

Plenty of stuff (such as Invasion on Apple+) caters to the conventional. The whole point of Pluribus is to tell a different type of story. If it has to resort to conventional tropes to extend its run it will have failed in its reason for existing.

The main reason for not focusing on nonhuman protagonists is the time in makeup (and possibility of adverse skin reactions) and the difficulty many actors have emoting through heavy prosthetics (there were a few, such as Andreas Katsulas, who were awesome at it). However, Predator: Badlands may...

Indeed, it stands as proof that success is based on good writing and good acting, not dredging the past. Xenk was also a good character. Lest the message is misunderstood, the moral is “create good original characters” not “use characters from BG3 or HAT”.

T Rexes are a good example of something that are total pushovers for a high, or even mid level party. Expect them to be Hypnotic Patterned then killed one at a time.

Astarion is not a dhampir, he is a vampire spawn, so there is no reason he should be mechanically the same. He has sunlight vulnerability, only temporary suppressed by the tadpole, and he was vulnerable to running water in the play test. A dhampir is what you would get if Astarion and a living...

Really, no. That's boringly conventional. If that's the the best that could be done for a four year run, it should end after one.

Wark Fun? Or maybe Winter Fantasy?

a more interesting direction than yet another War of the Worlds rehash would be if a cure for the virus was found, and then they had to deal with the psychological effect of being suddenly isolated.

A ton? You mean 100? Sounds about right. Whatever, there aren’t enough of them to make a significant contribution to the viewing figures. For the show to be successful, they need a good story, and Drizzt ain’t that.

Indeed, it was a show about moral philosophy.