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Mostly I'd say "small experimental games" for these, but there is a sort of subset where the win condition thing is quite a major part, when it's generally absent from other indie and mainstream RPGs, and that honestly strikes me as something different and worthy of a name. There's a guy on...

I've enjoyed the Boys and Gen V, and they're infinitely better written than the comic, but yeah, it'd be nice if they could pull that up a bit.

I am surprised they didn't have him looking cheerier, because it's very clear Gunn wants to go in that direction. That said, the contrast in images is pretty stark - the Cavill version is busting out of bank-vault looking clean and glamorous to erm... how to put this politely - "eye-shag" us...

Yeah but given your post upthread I don't feel like you're particularly sanguine about the issues, if you'll forgive my saying so.

I'm just living in fear personally, because the Bard changes they'd made were pretty good and added up to a more functional class, but them never having shown us it after ripping out the spell lists really worries me, because they've suggested a lot of terrible, terrible ideas of classes, with...

I don't think that's what it does mean, given that two of the conditions would definitely mean "no removal", and you literally couldn't both protect privacy and remove a piece of art - that's definitionally impossible - unless the artist had a style so bland as to be unrecognisable and didn't...

Yeah I'm strongly opposed to AI art (in most circumstances) but this FAQ seems largely reasonable. The only thing I find questionable is this bit: Obviously the first one is fine, but it kind of looks like they're saying they might just leave a piece of AI art in a product if they decided not...

The food thing alone would have been a huge issue - losing half the world's population, best case, halves food production (realistically it would probably destroy the entire supply chain, but let's pretend not), and when 100% more people appear again, you might possibly, with massive...

What stuck me particularly was how extremely obviously stupid it was, that was what made it so disappointing as a villain motivation. It broke the sort of immersion of the story because it immediately made me start thinking about how ill-educated and/or irrational Thanos would have to be to...

The difficulty is balancing corporate greed on the part of WotC with wanting D&D to succeed as a brand. I don't mean that in some cynical axe grinder way either, I mean, it's a genuine issue. WotC had a genuine question ahead of them, raised by BG3. BG3, we know has sold upwards of 15m...

Yeah, I think I'd have a bit more faith if they were starting with companies which looked more promising. Archetype is the only one that really does. Exodus is interesting. It's clearly ambitious - perhaps excessively so - for a first game in a series by a new company they seem to be betting...

This is true but no-one even says "tune in" any more as a result. There are some phrases that stay because an activity is still occurring, just changed in format like "ringing" someone or "giving them a bell", but others which go away because the activity isn't changed, it's gone. I dunno about...

Indeed, it's really best to just avoid genocide in general, doesn't ever seem to end well. And the issue with the mutants isn't that they'll "wipe out" humanity, just that humanity will continue into evolve into them, so this whole characterisation of humanity being "wiped out" in a few...

Really? What confused you? I'm used to a lot of "Why did X do that?!" being an issue in shows, but I didn't find that the case here.

D&D is designed for a specific mode of play, and that design actually has some depth to it. That mode is attrition-based and combat-centric. Just as a Ferrari is designed for racing through winding (and hopefully traffic-free) roads at high speeds. Now you can of course use a Ferrari to take...