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I have a coworker who is also a big Star Wars fan and he was flabbergasted when I told him I thought the sequels were hot garbage. He's just north of 40 and I'm just south of 50. The special effects were fine, the actors did a great job with what they were given, but the story was just so bad...

Reading Snarf's posts made me the man I am today.

The reason people hate the second film so much isn't because it's a bad movie, though it most certainly is, but because it's plot is predicated on destroying everything they established in the first movie. In the first movie they establish a new and interesting mythology only to tell the...

Hell. In most S&S settings magic tends to exact a toll on its users and having to enter into a pact with a demon or some other creature is quite a toll.

I once got into some hot water with a friend for referring to the Dresden Files series as "light" reading. It was a series I enjoyed reading at the time and honesty didn't think referring to it as light reading was insulting or dismissive. I've restricted species in exactly one campaign in the...

I remember those rules creeping around various BBSes before the days of AOL. Someone spent a lot of time coming up with those rules.

Did the Warforged make it into the PHB without me noticing? I've run a few 5E campaigns, and I've never had anyone try to play a Warforged.

There was an episode of Sandman on Netflix that addresses this. In the 14th of 15th century, Dream makes a bet with Death that if given immortality a mortal will just get tired of living. Death says, "It's on like Donkey Kong," (citation needed) and she gives some random Englishman in a pub...

So on the tragedy of living forever: In the novel Peter Pan, at the end of the novel our fun loving flyboy returns to the real world only to find that Wendy is a grown woman with children of her own. He doesn't quite understand what he's seeing and Peter is a little scared of her. We come to...

It's been almost thirty years since I last saw an episode. While I cannot vouch for the overall quality of the series, the fact that it was actually watchable puts it heads and shoulders above any of the original movie's sequels. It would have improved the sequels that's for sure.

For my Greyhawk, Tieflings aren't going to be a large group. They're an extremely uncommon sight, most people having never seen one, and because of their demonic appearance they often face some prejudice until people get to know them. And even they some people just don't want to get to know them.

I'm only going to go by the first movie because all the movies that followed it were crap. Every. Single. One. In the first movie, in addition to becoming mortal, being able to sire children, and not having to worry about cutting your head cut off, winning the Prize allows MacCleod to read...

I imagine they'll adapt it, what little of "it" there is, to modern sensibilities. It might make some people upset, but who cares? No matter what they do people are going to be upset.

This isn't a full blown setting we're talking about here. It's an example setting in the DMG to help people learn about how to build a setting. Otherwise, I'm kind of with you. Whenever someone brings up Dark Sun or Birthright I can't help but think, "Those settings had a chance. Why not do...

I've been assured that it's all compatible. How different could it really be?

It's my own personal beliefe that D&D can't be all things to all players. I'm not necessarily opposed to the addition of new classes or species, but I don't really see the need to add them willy nilly. Never mind whether we should use the word Shaman to describe a new class, do we really need...

A solar could descend from the heavens with the perfect D&D setting and people would still complain.

I haven't played yet. I've got to ease my players into it I think.

No, they really don't need to know it. With my example, I just made up the Mystic Order of the Golden Fists. I expect the players to simply use their imaginations and we'll either make something up or adapt their idea to something already existing in the setting.

Because we actually like the Marvel movies? I will say this, we should all remember the artists who pour their creative energies into writing or producing art are human beings. Criticism is certainly acceptable, but try to make it constructive rather than mean spirited. In the grand scheme...