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But that's exactly the point. They did experiment. The OP literally explained that they did. That's how they solved this. They experimented and found a valid solution (summon a big heavy thing) before getting to ill-advised and risky ones. Sounds smart to me, doesn't it to you...

Ok that does sound pretty hot except the last part which is a fundamental misunderstanding by the modders of how BG3 works - you should never be guessing on behalf of the player like that.

Yeah, I definitely don't like it, personally. I've seen DMs do that - like, one of my players who sometimes DMs has done that more than once in a campaign, as attempt to shut down discussion of something. I.e. say OOC that they can trust the NPC organisation or that this object is not, in fact...

But that's not what happened, is it? At least not as explained. They just deprioritized it, and found a solution before they had to resort to trying something outright dangerous and risky - eating the food. So you cannot possibly fairly accuse the players in the example of "not being...

Like the movie Battle Royale, or for less niche audiences, The Hunger Games, or for people under 25, Fortnite. I.e. a bunch of people start in an area with no much, but there are weapons/supplies either in that area or dropped, and the number of people is rapidly whittled down by them dying...

I love Michelle Gomez as an actor in other things but I felt like Missy as a character was just way too consistently arch for even Doctor Who - which is saying something I admit! Maybe things improved when she was a companion but they'd lost me by then. Also, Capaldi for me was a mixed bag - he...

Sadly it is indeed not, it's well boring. The reason for the lack of sci-fi Diablo-likes though is mostly that looter-shooters exist and occupy fundamentally the same niche whilst being perceived as selling better and reaching a larger audience (seemingly accurately), i.e. kill things to level...

I think the only new-to-me pre-1990s thing I've enjoyed in the last decade was the original Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta (1981). I couldn't get through Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ despite the animation being hugely better - the characters are just too grating (and given I was...

Thinking about rules-modding next time I play BG3, was considering that one - what are the changes that you feel improve BG3 a lot here? On a more general note, it feels like there's a weird lack of like, urban fantasy in games, especially big-budget ones. Perhaps because it's a bit harder to...

Right? It's interesting re: Capaldi for me, because I was super-hyped for him, and I thought his whole deal would translate perfectly to the Doctor, but I actually enjoyed his Doctor least of all of these (though I've seen very little Doctor 1 or 2). But I wonder if that was the writing and...

Yeah I mean, not only did this, for me, establish that Coogler was just flat out a really good writer/director, regardless of genre, but it definitely made me want to see more from this whole setting, and honestly I think even as a producer and just managing the setting he and others could...

I can't remember the exact dialogue but some combination of the narrator and Remmick himself seem to explicitly outline that he (and seemingly all vampires) are Fey beings (in at least a D&D sense, albeit they might be more Shadowfell than Feywild!), and that's why they're drawn to the music...

I would broadly agree with this, but I would say that in a competitive media environment like this, where frankly "good" shows are coming out pretty much every month (or at least new seasons of existing good shows are), then "mid not bad" isn't remotely good enough. Personally: Quantumania...

Thank you, this is actually really helpful! I think what it's actually echoing is probably the writer/director's attitudes towards mostly-19th and 20th-century Christian conversion in Africa and the developing world, which whilst mostly technically "non-violent" and "not by force" has been...

Given we know for sure some proportion of the population is going to do that, yeah I think it absolutely is. No Western nation has the level of strong mental health and learning difficulty and just plain idiot support such that we can avoid such people, who are like, 10% of the population or...