Recent content by Vael

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.

My general take is that it depends on how the system uses them. They're a tool, and I'm more interested in how that tool is used in the context of a game system than just it in the abstract. That said ... I'm really enjoying Hope and Fear in Daggerheart. It is satisfying to generate it, fun to...

That's fair, but tbh, that makes the map feel weirder to me, like Federation space should look more fragmented. Like, Bajor used to be on the periphery of the Federation, so I'd almost expect it to be a bit of an island away from the rest.

That's me too. It's not what I want, but I'm willing to be proven wrong, and ... I like Kyle Chandler, despite not really watching Friday Night Lights or most of his stuff, lol. And the trailer sold me on this Hal and John vibe, so I'm intrigued

This looks ... interesting and yet not quite what I want from the Green Lanterns. I want more cosmic, spacey stuff, grounded Lanterns seems like a round peg and a square hole.

Got in a workout after a few weeks away. February was a rough month, fighting illnesses and ... life drama, so while I felt annoyed that I hadn't been, it felt good to just get in even a light workout, didn't want to overdo it.

Has anyone tried running Colossi from the Colossus of the Drylands Campaign Frame? I'm gearing up for a short 3-shot campaign, and the plan is to run one as the final boss battle, curious what people have found out about designing or running them. I was toying with how to ... phase or limit...