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Sure, but that all went out the window with Kunark, which was long before in game maps. I had the zone maps fairly well memorized just like everyone did who played EQ a lot pre maps, but I still used loc and direction sense all the time. A lot of time it has nothing to do with having the...

Don't disagree, actually. In his heart, Lynch is an abstract artist. He happens to use film as his medium, but he could just as easily be putting bizarre but evocative sculptures in art galleries. Lynch's movies are always a tug of war between producing a work of fine art and producing a good...

This is why I said it's underrated even though it has an 8 on IMDB (which honestly doesn't mean much, as others have pointed out). IMO it should be in every Top 10 or Top 20 movies of all time conversation. A surprising number of people I know have never even seen it, even friends of mine who...

Was literally just making this argument the other day. I missed it when it first came out and finally saw it a couple months ago. Daniel Day Lewis 100% carries that movie. He was amazing in it, to be sure, but if you take him out of that movie, it goes from "pretty good" to "pretty boring"...

It gets its due from critics, I don't disagree, but it's consistently underrated/misunderstood by audiences. Lost Highway has a higher audience score the MD, for example, even though MD is a significantly better movie. Also, it deserves more than an 8 imo. I admit it isn't exactly an...

Rewatched Lost Highway after 20 years. It blew my mind the first time, but I thought it lost something in the rewatch. Still, I agree it's an underrated/great movie. I'll up your ante with Mulholland Drive though. I definitely feel like David Lynch has been trying to make the same movie...

This is the most succinct critical analysis I've seen of TD S03:

No, I'm the guy who gave up on GoT as soon as they ran out of original source material because it started getting shitty and I suspected it would only get worse as things progressed. I feel pretty good about my decision.

Sure, that makes sense. But if you feel that way it just means that the show isn't doing its job providing you with the information you need. There is a distinction between revealing small unexplained plot points that hint at the deep/rich lore and history of the show's universe, vs. leaving...

Seems like most people here like the show, but I'll be a contrarion. I only watched the first episode but I wasn't very impressed, mainly for the reason you mention in your first spoiler. To me it started to feel like Westworld when Westworld started jumping the shark. Except this show did it...

I love colonialism / imperialism for a setting. A Dune setting sounds pretty awesome too. You can keep the steampunk stuff though. But, to each their own.

Who knows where Orcs= Blacks originated, but it definitely originated many years before modern SJW types took it upon themselves to defend against the idea by making changes to RPG systems. I can tell you the first time I saw the comparison was a few years after Hurricane Katrina when this meme...

For sure. I've played ttrpgs as a GM and a player for 30 years with a lot of different people without having to worry once about things like "racism against orcs." Since I've been designing my own game, I can see how you need to probably at least consider shit like how you are going to...

It's a complex issue with a lot of angles. There are three main "problems" that arise when talking about this issue: 1. It's actually several separate issues that people are trying to reduce into a single issue. 2. Just about everyone, including companies like Wizards, has gotten loose and...

I think their ultimate goal is to expunge the idea that some humanoid races are inferior to other races. Specifically, intellectually inferior.

Agree that the opening credits scene for this movie is perfect and easily one of the most haunting I've seen. Think your link is broken, here's a working version:

Definitely one of those rare instances where a film strays widely from the book it's adapted from, but both the film and the book are fantastic. I've been to the hotel the book was based on several times. Very cool experience.

I would buy that they are trying to eliminate in game racism- it sounds like par for the course for them- But I haven't seen anything from them directly saying so. Can you point to anything at all they have said directly? I'm curious.

Honest question: are they trying to eliminate "in game" racism, like you are describing? Or are they trying to prevent traditional real world tropes and assumptions that they believe are racist from influencing the game? Because everything I've read seems like the latter- but i fully admit I...

Actually, yes. Shifted from online mmo to tabletop rpg though. A bit more realistic for a small team with day jobs :). After several years of tossing around basic concepts and assembling a team, we started on the project in earnest in the summer of 2018. I'm in the final testing phase now...

Was wondering why I suddenly got a notification someone worfed a post of mine from almost 9 years ago...

I had some weird faction shit happen to one of my characters, an erud necro named Grafenburg. I liked camping the Miller siblings right outside SFG. As a necro I could kill them starting at level 20 and milk the spawn until the low 30s. I must have killed those fuckers hundreds and hundreds...

Ultimately, Mad Men is a character study of very complicated, very flawed, and very talented man. You get a snapshot of who you think Don is very early on in the show, but you quickly realize that all you really had was a fuzzy outline of a man with all the details missing. As the show...

Thanks for saving me the trouble of typing that shit out myself. JFC. Don's trips to California and the brunette waitress weren't "side plots."

yep, unless we are missing a lot of information on this case, it seems pretty clear it was a murder and I'm willing to bet it gets solved within a year.

The people that knew/worked with Brad that have posted in this thread have been saying the same thing (for years now) that Elidroth said in the interview. His biggest critics/detractors are those who had zero experience with him in real life. Those that knew him generally liked and appreciated...

At least a few people here are criticizing a system they've never even played, so I'd take that criticism with a pretty big grain of salt.

Roll20 is sufficient, but if there was a better system out there I'm not wedded to it. I'll check if they have a trial period for Foundry. I'll be able to tell very quickly if it will work for a custom system

I've been using roll20 to test a game that I've designed. I'm guessing you wouldn't be able to do that with Foundry?

Can you easily play games that aren't DnD in it? Also is it free and readily available?

First of all, to my knowledge, Tolkien certainly never "admitted" that orcs were a "racist" creation. I haven't read every word the guy ever wrote though, so if I'm wrong, I challenge anyone to provide proof. Otherwise, let's assume no such thing ever happened. My understanding is that...

I must have missed where Tolkien "admitted" orcs were a racist creation. Anyone care to point me in the direction of the admission, or is this Chris person just full of shit?

What was the comeliness issue?

The vengeance angle can work, but sometimes it gives the players the impression you are pissed because they are acting like murder hobos so you're going to "teach them a lesson." I personally prefer the super high level monk in rags approach. Sure, you can get away with bullying and murdering...

Sounds like you have a good GM. That's a great way to handle a fumble. Abject, humiliating failure can be fun too, but it's always good to have some touch in your quiver as a GM. Anyone who has ever GMed has dealt with players who make math mistakes that always seem to add up in their...

I guess I made him seem worse than he is lol. We are testing a new RPG system and I told the guys in the group to break and exploit everything they possibly could to find holes. So technically he was just doing what I asked him to do even though I didn't exactly mean break Roll20. Plus he...

I've had issues with it too. It may just be my lack of experience using it so far, but you have to draw doors and walls if you use the dynamic lighting function. The walls are supposed to prevent players from moving their tokens and lighting up unexplored portions of the dungeon until they open...

Ah cool, thanks. Searched through product reviews for "diamonds" and didn't see anything. Should have thought about searching for "rings". Edit: although... The most recent post from that thread is 6 years old and the lab grown diamond market has changed significantly in that time. So of...