He married the Doctor (twice), he brought back Gallifrey, he shoved a whole new Doctor into the lineup, he retconned everything since 2005, he invented The Most Important Companion...
I know most of you aren't Pathfinder fans, but if you're interested in player power base type stuff, the Downtime rules in Ultimate Campaign are very interesting
@C.Ross I'm still interested in such things from a design/context sort of view rather than a practical/implementation standpoint, but I frequently find myself thinking "Gosh, this seems unnecessary."
In D&D 4e, characters have a couple of straightforward ways to become Hidden through their skills.
The first is to use the Stealth skill. This is a check usually made at the end of a move. Using Stealth and being Hidden comes with many conditions, described straightforwardly and wonderfully in t...
> Does "Create a Diversion to Hide" override any of the Rules of Hidden Club, or do I still have to follow all those rules as well? If it does, which rules is it letting me ignore?
@C.Ross - I'm going to warn you ahead of time: you will live to regret using 1st party Paizo content. They defile everything they touch and desecrate most of the things they won't.
You gotta hurry before they make the American one. Because otherwise you'll have to be like, "Well, crap, there's an American one now and I can't say I saw the British one before it was cool."
Tennant's in it. The bandwagon already rumbled past.
(It was full of squeeing fangirls waving sonic screwdrivers and shouting "Allons-y, Alonso!".)
I just have to resign myself to the fact that the vast majority of the popular and critical audiences find something in Tennant to enjoy that I can't.
I thought the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet was self-important pretension lit up by the occasional glimmer of potential, but it was popularly and critically acclaimed.
(It felt like they put too much effort into Being Clever, and just assumed that hiring big-name actors was all you had to do in order to get good performances.)
And frequently in both Hamlet and his own era of Doctor Who I'd sit forward and say "THAT is a version of the character which I'd like to see more of, please!"
I like Patrick Stewart but I think there is a terrible tendency to cast him in Shakespearean stuff that doesn't try very hard and hope he just carries the whole production.
They kiss, they fight, he gives her the TARDIS key, she dies more than once, she ages slowly, she can fly the TARDIS...
You know, the things that lots of Moffat women manage, or that are easily explained by things the fans are forgetting.
And they gleefully ignore that she'd never seen Eleven's body before.
The TARDIS was always pretty easy to fly if she liked you (the "six people to fly it" thing was so made up).
We know the Daleks can kill and revive you repeatedly.
The Doctor flirts with a lot of women, and Eleven kisses just about anything that moves if he's excited enough.
Lots of Moffat's women have River Song's personality (and need to be insulted before they can leap into action).
And the fact that they have a lot of history together... well, all of his history with Madame Vastra was off-screen too, but nobody's claiming she's secretly another character we've just given a tearful final farewell to.
I mean, think about it. R2-D2 has his own lightsaber (ROTJ). R2-D2 can fly (prequels). Every time some young untested kid blows the shit out of a mega battlestation with a lone fighter, R2-D2 is in it. R2-D2 can overload droids with his force powers, like an old-school Jedi (New Hope).
Because Tasha Lem is not River Song.
There is plenty of circumstantial evidence both for and against this fan theory, but you've asked about one of the major sticking points against Lem being River: she doesn't recognize Eleven's body.
Tasha Lem is another Strong Woman who the Doctor flirts wit...
I would hope Moffat learned his lesson from killing Clara twice in a row, and didn't think that giving River Song a tearful goodbye immediately before bringing her back was a good idea.
Rose, combined with the energies of the TARDIS, became the Bad Wolf.
The Bad Wolf, it is easy to postulate, is also The Moment.
Thus The Moment is part TARDIS.
The Bad Wolf, it is increasingly clear, orchestrated a great deal of the events in Nine and Ten's lives, perhaps also Eleven's, and (as The Moment) pulled strings as far back as the First Doctor in order to get them into the LGTW at the crucial hour.
@JonathanHobbs The Moment is a Time Lord weapon of universal destruction so powerful that it developed a conscience and judges anyone who tries to use it.
The fan theory (which I whole-heartedly support) is that The Moment didn't actually develop a conscience. It developed a Bad Wolf.
the Moment briefly became the Bad Wolf and this could maybe mean the Bad Wolf became the Moment. And, being who it was being, whichever way around it was, it got the Doctor to not use it for evil, which is what it's always been doing.
Now I'm wondering about the Charged Vacuum Emboitments that were draining entropy from our universe into E-space and keeping our universe from succumbing to heat-death.
He accidentally got sucked into E-space through one of them. When he got out the Master started mucking about with the guys who were maintaining the CVEs, and accidentally deleted a fraction of the universe.
@Hey BESW! Feeling much better, or at least bad of my own accord ... I was out partying last night. Nothing crazy, but my stomach is unaccustomed to the combination of insults (oysters, crabcakes, wine, chips, etc) that I hurled at it.
I'm just up to drink some water and get vertical now.
I'll nap later in the day once the water kicks in.
I did think it was silly that you literally had one weapon you could use, and that the ammo for it was also so scarce
but to be honest, they railroad you pretty hard,... I can't see how they could manage letting you move on without getting your second weapon in the whole game
The first episode of the story had about 10 solid minutes of walking around the streets of Paris. Apparently it was the first Doctor Who story to be filmed abroad, in Paris itself, so I think they were enjoying it.
A lot of things there are very dated. The pacing, the over-acting (though some of it works when you consider part of the plot, as well as the character of Duggan, were originally meant for a storyline set in 1930's Las Vegas)
But whenever it feels bad or silly, I remind myself that it's still better than Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Comic books can get away with characters and stories which are simply silly when transferred to live-action movies and TV. You can deal with it by toning it down and making it more realistic (like most superhero movies do, in way) or by embracing the camp of it all (like the old Batman TV show, the Dick Tracy movie, etc). S.H.I.E.L.D. does neither, and it shows.
I just saw an episode, I think #5 or #6, with a pyrokinetic character unabashedly embracing the name Scorch, and giving one of the tritest supervillain speeches possible, but all played completely straight.
As a friend put it, the opening scenes involve people being tended to by robots, talking about how certain robots are prone to malfunctioning and tearing people apart, and verbally abusing their robots. (Gee, I wonder what's going to happen now?)
Leela being in that one is a wonderful point for it. I haven't seen her in anything yet, other than the scene wherein the Doctor explains how the Tardis can be smaller on the inside. And that's in this one!
A friend of mine has told me about her: she's from a tribe at the end of time, and so whilst she is foreign to an awful lot, she isn't stupid. At the beginning of the Robots of Death, she's spinning a yoyo because the doctor told her to keep it spinning - and she finds out it's just a game, whilst she thought she had to keep it spinning or else the ship would stop working! But she's still intelligent, even if she misunderstands stuff.
Leela meets the Sontarans, a race whose only physical weakness is that any attack on a small spot in the back of their neck incapacitates them: "I've worked out how to stop them. Stab them in the neck!"
Yeah, when the Doctor picks up another companion, Leela starts translating his technobabble for them.
@BESW I hear that's deliberate, as part of their perfect-warrior engineering. It forces them to face their opponent: they cannot turn their back and run away, lest they expose their weak point.
Whether it was engineered to foster their never-surrender attitudes, or if their never-surrender attitudes are the result of this unintended weakness, is unclear.
Submitted a proposal for a lecture in the upcoming scifi convention. Now, commencing three months of procrastination followed by two weeks of panic followed by two days of writing the damn thing.
Most sources said it was based on a toy, but tracking down the original source of that statement revealed that the article mentioned the owlbear, but was talking about the rust monster being inspired by a toy.
Well... apparently the owlbear was a toy from the same set.