Recent content by Willie the Duck

You're correct that there's no telling what longevity will do to motivations. Excepting, at least, that anything that (successfully) lives for hundreds of years cannot be too impulsive or risk-seeking. But yes, they could endlessly spin their wheels, do things we can't conceptualize as progress...

Come now, they're clearly talking about Keebler elves. :D

I know what this is. However, I got a visceral mental image of everyone throwing their (potentially oversized) Halloween decorations down a hill and seeing whose made it to the bottom first, and that is much more entertaining of a definition so that's what I'm sticking with from now on.

re: obvious drive-by trolling/pot stirring -- we don't have to take the bait.

I'm genuinely still not clear why you think this, nor why you think it is an particularly notable or important point. 'A story isn't a story until it is done' vs. 'a story isn't complete until it is done' -- why do you think one vs. the other, and why is it important?

Please please please do not. Do not give that credibility. We do this every time we discuss TSR-style (lower=better) AC. We do this every time we discuss ThAC0. We do this every time someone mentions tracking GURPS characters with a spreadsheet. We do this every time someone mentions Hero...

Yes, I thought I covered that:

I think this would depend significantly on what polymorph actually does in your game (also how magic works, etc.). So, what can you polymorph into? If, say, when you turn into a horse -- are you turning into a specific horse (one you've seen? one you can imagine?)? The Platonic ideal of...

I feel like I've seen that done by other companies as parody, but not by MGM itself. It might be a great big no-no -- either from corporate on-high (once we start letting people do that, every film we make will feel compelled to do the same), or maybe for legal reasons (diluting one's own IP...

I generally assume it is cost of people and/or space when such things happen. Schools and sporting events and parades are a problem, in that you want a whole bunch of extras just doing/being in the background. If you can have individual classes and only see a brief hallway scene of massively...

This is definitely a concern. On the other hand, I've picked up The Colour of Magic at least 3-4 times and just bounced hard. If you had to do it in order, I would never have gotten into Discworld. Is there a cost to doing otherwise? Of course, but sometimes an earlier book (or film) is just not...

The stat blocks of various creatures (like 'dwarf') do not necessarily match what a dwarf player character might have. The same was true in most versions of the game, excluding 3e (IIRC). Whether the current iteration is too far in this or not is a YMMV situation.

The film is called Masters of the Universe, not He-Man, or He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Most things do. Other than early paychecks for Lundgren and Courtney Cox and giving Frank Langella a chance to show how much he can chew the scenery when he just doesn't care, that one was not...

There have been several revivals. It's also a at least as easy a story to jump into as a bunch of other GenX properties that have gotten cinematic reintroductions (Transformers, most notably). Intriguingly, if you're mostly bringing in new viewers, it is a interesting that there already is a...

This is definitely possible. I'm talking about the reason for choices and changes (or really just what our evidentiary support regarding such is), not whether they were the right choices to be made. Regardless, this is unsurprising. Loud voices bemoaning/advocating for X, Y, or Z and...