Recent content by Willie the Duck

Right, and for storytelling purposes, it works well enough. The show did a good job of making it right next to Clark's objectives without someone necessarily knowing that it was his weakness. So that's still a toggle we can explore. A central conceit of that show is that the "meteor rocks"...

I'm inordinately fond of the anti-joke. The troll joke. The 'we could have made a joke here, but instead were not and pointing it out' joke. As bad as it was, I love that the Rob Zombie The Munsters film paid for Cassandra Peterson to show up as a realtor, tease that she was going to be...

Isn't that true for a lot of classes with one save or another? Rangers and Monks attribute needs sit perfectly on top of the 3 common saves (hamstrung only in that they get proficiency in Dex, arguably the least important of the 3). Paladins get to add their Charisma to everything (halfway...

I would absolutely love it if he is just RDJ, has the mask off frequently, and they just never explain or acknowledge it. Mayyybe have one of the returning characters say, "he looks familiar, but I can't quite place it..."

This is another great big question mark. How common is our Kryptonite (for the remnants of an exploded planet from -- checks modern canon-- 27.1 light years distant, the stuff sure seems to be everywhere on Earth)? Is it a known super-rare object likely put in a lab whenever discovered? Does...

Agree or disagree, I thought I spelled that out fairly clearly. The advantage is that the wizard is more likely to want to take Resilient:Con than the sorcerer is to take Resilient:Wis. Presumably this would be happening after taking War Caster (gives advantage on the concentration save, and a...

Comments on individual topics-- Charisma and intelligence skills are both campaign-gate skills, but there are likely difference in how they play out in campaigns. If you miss a Persuasion skill check, perhaps you do not make a friend or convince someone to help you. If you miss a History check...

Hmm. I knew that (that's also how the half-swording works), but I guess I thought you'd want to grip the blade not-near-the-hilt (to get the most leverage possible). I, uh... while swinging it by the sharp edge, attempting the collide it with someone else at high velocity. I mean, anything in a...

The OP was asking why people liked certain playstyles. I don't see that it was exclusively in the context of any specific game style. My understanding of the OP premise was to dissect the reason why people like/dislike the playstyle. Re: wargaming--haakon1 also mentioned D&D's wargaming roots...

Same. As a boy growing up in the 1970s USA, I just kinda got into dinosaurs, cool rocks/gemstones, spaceships, firefighters, industrial equipment, race cars, wild animals, and folklore/mythology (if I was a few years older, that list would probably have included trains and cowboys as well), all...

And lots of the surviving manuals are for this kind of stuff (jousting and dueling during the unarmored eras, mostly, but still some of this). Interesting to see how much this ends up looking like that. At the narrow point in time when knights were (effectively, nearly) completely covered in...

My takeaway from the Barrow statement and the related references is that the notion is correct -- in the real world. In an elfgame, game systems focused on logistics are just another option of mechanical dials and levers one can focus on (and be skilled or unskilled at doing). They (preferring...

I thought the discussion was whether the two films were sufficiently distinct from each other/the new one had any originality, not whether it was any good/you liked it/which was superior. Touché.

I think people are arguing multiple things in the same thread. Whether such behavior happened. Here the burden is find an example, and personal experience works. So that should be pretty easy and not have much to equivocate over. Whether it was widespread (seen in many places). There, I think...

I'd guess yes. In either case, I would argue that there are differences. Both films do better than the Universal movies (at least the 1931 one) in showing Doctor Frankenstein as evil, but the del Toro version switches it up by making the monster nigh blameless. He is only mistaken for having...