Recent content by Vael

May I ask what you dislike about Draw Steel? I haven't tried it. I really like the 13th Age Monk, I've thought that system would be how I'd make a new iteration on Tome of Battle, but admittedly I've not played 13th Age since the Monk came out, so I've not seen one in play.

Admittedly, my view of WoTC itself is fairly neutral, but its parent Hasbro? That's where I view a lot of the pressure to maximize profits as coming from. It's impacted my view of both DnD and MTG

Another thought... I'd like to see charge up mechanics in DnD. DnD is built on the assumption that you have full access to all your abilities after a long rest, but what if mages had to gather power to cast their powerful spells? Warriors had "finishing moves" that they couldn't use immediately...

I've yet to see any AL content outside of conventions, tbh. But Encounters was a major driver of why I loved 4e, I played or DMed it regularly and still have most of that material. I even adapted the Neverwinter module to 5e. I'll watch the video later, but I'm into running/playing Encounters if...

Some variant of a Skill Challenge and/or a clock/countdown system.

I keep thinking half-caster is overly restrictive on the Artificer, so an Artificer that unifies spellcasting with Replicate Magic Item into a general Infusion progression like in 3.5 would be interesting. But probably breakable. But in general, I'd like to see non-spell slot based magic...

When JMS was talking about a CW reboot, I asked if he was planning to have a writer's room, and he said no ... and that kinda annoyed me? Like ... admittedly what makes Babylon 5 pretty unique and cool is how singular a vision it is (within the constraints of being a TV series), but I'd actually...

So ... I'll agree on the first part of that sentence, but disagree with the second. Sure, Firefly ... back in 2002, deserved to have a longer run than what it got. I wish it had gotten more than 13 episodes and a movie. But I don't find "The Verse" all that compelling. The Serenity and her...

Look, I enjoyed Firefly back in the day, but Serenity was a perfectly fine finale. I dunno, I'd rather have had the Buffy show and it didn't make it.

Sorry, I was saying my argument wasn't about quality of TNG S1, merely that reactionary fandom is not new

Sure, but that was hardly the argument being made: Here, it's the same old song ... change is scary. Back then it was "It ain't Trek if it ain't got Kirk, Spock and Bones", now it's "too YA, or too "woke"".

I ran a short Rebels-esque campaign setting using FATE rules. It was fine, but ran out of steam

To quote a different sci-fi series, All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. Johnathan Frakes mentioned how TNG was trolled and hated on when it came out. The only difference I see is that the culture warrior grift mill has gotten involved.