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finale was pretty good, not my favorite episode of the season. I think the villains fall flat in this episode in order to wrap things up. Sinister comes across as a puppy. Bastion betrays him and he just stands there all butt-hurt. I expected him to have a few contingencies in the wings for...

I do think the second season of Wheel of time is much much MUCH better than season 1, so I'll be optimistic for this one as well.

I've tried the "crowd them out with minions" idea but they have kinetic jaunt and so can just move out of that when they need to. The two immediate ones were using cloud of daggers and heat metal. Both of those are easy to deploy, and I don't have to worry about paladin saves. Seems very easy...

I think part of the issue to is that this player is very good at optimizing compared to many of the others. And so its not just that they are the tankiest (that alone wouldn't be the end of the world). They also do high damage, and their grapples give them a ton of control. (they also have +10...

Yeah ultimately I feel like the best way to use the multiverse concept for the modern audience would be to allow for one superhero "club" per multiverse. Xmen in one universe, FF in another, avengers in a third. That narratively solves so many problems, lets you cross the streams when you want...

Let me double check my math here to make sure I'm not doing multiclassing wrong. Its a Paladin 8 / Sorc 2 (10th level). That's 4 1st level slots for the paladin, 3 (+1 when expending the sorc points) for the sorc, so 8 1st level slots a day. I generally run 2-3 combats a day (I never run the...

For an upcoming villain in a 10th level dnd game I am going to have a divination wizard. I've warned the party that I will be using some PC shenanigans on some of the villains, and so I'm planning to use the old PC trick of combining portent with a nice disabling spell to auto get one spell...

I'm running a 10th level campaign, and one of my players finally did it, they went a Sorcadin. So I have a character with a 27 AC with shield, +3 add to all saving throws (but often its a +5 to saves to due to 2 other paladins in the party, which also includes resistance to spells). They also...

Its true that mutant = analogy for other downtrodden groups is a long standing comic tradition. For me the problem with that has always been, that mutants aren't just different, they represent an entirely different power dynamic. Which is why Prof X's position is just a faulty one to me. Its...

I actually didn't know that lightning was "that weak". I had often thought about the idea of lightning capture for power use, and thought the main problem was the actual capture and storage. Not that "lightning is actually so weak that its not worth doing".

Minions and bloodied is completely core in my game. In my game, monsters and PCs are either fine, hurt, bloodied, or unsconscious/dead. So PCs aren’t allowed to tell each other “I’ve lost 20 hp” it’s “I’m hurt” or “help I’m bloodied”

Some more notes: 1) while bastion might have hammed up the whole alien overlord angle…the truth is the X-men DID LIE about Xavier’s death. 2) with a snap of his fingers magneto just turned off civilization like a light switch. He’s not a man…he’s a god. Yeah how can normals possibly be...

The new episode is another banger! The new sentinels (if bastion is to be believed) represent more than just a threat, they are a symbol. This isn’t just some crazy villain doing some evil scheme…this is regular people. Fathers and mothers (as we saw in one scene), reporters and just regular...

another great mini to add to the table!!!

My original critique with the Netflix show (which may be a replication error from the books I don’t know) isn’t that the 3 body problem as outlined isn’t realistic. I can buy it as much as any sci fi concept. It’s that the show seems to weirdly make a big deal about it without narrative payoff...