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Today, 10:36 AMThat was the reason for his moment of inattention to Vader and lack of expectation of attack from him, but it's also not some kind of silver bullet...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Today, 09:43 AMI don't think that's really supposed to be the case, it's just a consequence of the dramatic form where the baddie has to be a big enough baddie to...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Today, 08:16 AMWell he wouldn't be much of a phantom menace if he was around being an actual menace, would he?598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Today, 07:53 AMOh it's worse than that. A Pooka has to pass a willpower test to tell the whole truth for five minutes, and if you botch the roll the storyteller...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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Yesterday, 12:57 PMI didn't say it didn't work as a description of the films. I mean that it also necessitates the flaws in the Jedi Order of the time (and most...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 12:15 PMA tragedy isn't just when the hero loses. A tragedy is when the hero inadvertently brings about his own downfall, usually by the very effort he makes...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 10:52 AMThat's no moon, it's an idiot ball!598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 09:28 AMWhich is simply an assertion that George Lucas is incompetent. Why is any scene in the movie? Surely because silly old George just forgot not to...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 09:07 AMYou've missed the second part of the quote, I see. When you're assessing movies you need to proceed from the position that everything is there for a...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 08:03 AMRight, but I'm not saying the characters are "being completely stupid". I'm saying that their training causes them to be unable to think certain...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 07:50 AMThat doesn't mean he knows why the hole is there and is collaborating in a bit. He's going to ask Yoda because he can't think of a reason for it to...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 07:43 AMNo, that doesn't track, not exactly. Obi-Wan has no other reason to be in that room because he goes specifically to ask Yoda about the case of the...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 06:24 AMAnd also to at least Obi-Wan himself. He thinks something is afoot, but the obvious-to-a-child explanation "someone altered the archive" doesn't even...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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Yesterday, 06:06 AMWe see that in the movies, with the fact that Kamino was erased from the Jedi Archives and it was an inaccessible thought to the trained Jedi that...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 02:57 PMIt doesn't. It's actually the only response to the build that preserves it. There are three paths here. 1. Use normally difficult traps...141 replies | 8843 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 11:01 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)It's in the in-game book "The Monomyth". Anu/Anu-el/Ahnurr is order and permanence, Sithis/Padomay/Fadomai is chaos and change. Most Tamrielic...619 replies | 16168 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 06:26 AMWe return to the simple truth that the Emperor, as presented in the OT, was not an insanely powerful evil space wizard. Sure he was a powerful evil...598 replies | 20744 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 04:40 AMProbably because they've been trained to think like that by DMs who did screw them like that, even if they weren't trying to. It's already a natural...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-23, 03:18 AMYeah, I mean that's the thing isn't it. We're back to trust. If the players don't trust the DM they won't engage in a Guy Richie Planning Montage...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 05:30 PMA low casualty engagement for the Imperial Guard, you mean.164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 10:38 AMGloatingSwine replied to a thread Zodi Streams: Princess Peach Showtime! (Shin Super Princess Peach) in Gaming (Other)Only the first game actually happened. Every one since is a ceremonial reenactment.19 replies | 690 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 09:20 AMThat's why they've found someone else they think is willing and able to do it. Well it sounds like that's what they're going to do, but with...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 09:06 AMWhich is where we're back to trust, but also literally every story about the Fae ever making it exceptionally clear that you should never get...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 08:59 AMThey're also unable to reward the help in any way. They're children. They have no direct way to act on this problem, so they can't even meaningfully...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 08:47 AMWhich implies, of course, that there were no answers to the question that would have been useful to the players, and they are in fact in a no-win...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 08:35 AM"The situation" they're asking for help with though is that there's a nest of Fomorians in their actual home. They're not just trying to protect Muir...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 08:04 AMThey don't know about the freehold though, they don't know there is a shared location. That's why I say the only way they could produce the password...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 07:35 AMThe thing is Talakeal is expecting the players to give information that the Court will use to understand that it is their fight, but the players...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-22, 03:34 AMSounds like they have nothing to offer. They're poor kids from the projects with no material or spiritual resources and no pertinent information,...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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2024-04-21, 05:39 PMThis is where the Changelings should be naming their price though. If the Changelings had specific knowledge of what was being asked of them, but no...164 replies | 6130 view(s)
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