@Rubiksmoose Well, put it this way: in Jaime's first origin story, as soon as he possibly could he told his parents all about his superpowers and how he got them. They laid down ground rules like "If it's a natural disaster you can just go, but you have to ask us first if you're fighting a supervillain."
@BESW Thats...pretty boring and completely uninspired.
I know in YJ his parents must have known because the JL makes it a policy to ask parental permission before allowing kids on The Team. But it never really comes up as a conflict in the show.
Like, there's a confrontation where he challenges a witch into a duel-by-proxy for the life of a baby. The only ally he can tap is his best friend, an unpowered human teenager. For her proxy combatant, the witch summons the embodiment of his deepest teenage wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Jaime's superpowers come from being melded with a sapient alien superweapon, and one of the major plot arcs is Jaime teaching the superweapon about compassion and justice and friendship.
@BESW I do like the beetle dynamic Jaime has. He could take out most things in a single blast if he let it, but at the cost of collateral it is usually too much. The struggle is compelling and intersting.
@Rubiksmoose The superweapon has its own substitution cipher alphabet for what it says, giving Jaime a kind of Han/Chewie dialogue thing going on with it, but you can figure out the cipher and translate the beetle's dialogue if you want.
Straight up, the original run of Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle is probably the only DC series I've ever read where I didn't think it was just fun or clever, but I felt like I was better for having read them.
The opening issue or two is a little rough because his origin is actually part of an event crossover where he gets his powers and is immediately kidnapped by the superhero teamup for a save-the-world mission that winds up with him lost in space for a year and presumed dead: the Blue Beetle series starts with his unceremonious return to earth.
So there's a lot of "as you know, dear reader" implication but don't worry it's not important.
And partly because the writers didn't really seem to get how much of a [snip] Booster's really being. Abusive behavior played for laughs too much.
I think maybe they wanted it to be like Deadpool and Cable? But that teamup worked because they're both unkillable [snips] who totally deserve each other and teach each other the Meaning of Friendship.
But watching Booster mess with Jaime just made me want to punch Booster in the nose and give Jaime a hug.
Yeah, and I get that that's sort of the point of the character.
But Blue Beetle spent its whole run making us care a LOT about Jaime's emotional well-being, while Booster's usual targets are characters who just shrug him off.
It could've worked, but I never got the impression that the writers understood where Jaime was coming from, tonally. They were treating him more like a Peter Parker, whose emotional vulnerability is hinted at but never really explored too deeply.
("I deal with fear by making jokes" is not exploring a character's emotional well-being. It's retroactively justifying a popular gimmick.)
I also recommend Marvel's "Ms Marvel" series with Kamala Khan. Especially the first couple arcs before the execs started forcing her to have a never-ending series of gimmick teamups and event crossovers.
The premise of the Dark Crystal comic is that someone from an alternate dimension shows up and says "Hi, my world is going to be completely destroyed unless you do the thing that sent your entire world into a dark age and you spent that entire movie fixing."
And meanwhile the world of the Dark Crystal has turned into a bureaucratic dystopia run by priests in charge of supervising the worship of the film's two main characters.
Oh, and there's Goldie Vance, a completely mundane comic about a teenager whose dad manages a hotel in Florida, and she wants to be a private investigator.
The Middleman is "Fighting Evil So You Don't Have To," and works for O2STK, the Organization Too Secret To Know. His antagonists have included superintelligent mafioso gorillas, and a league of luchadore wrestlers with a blood vendetta against his sensei.
There's a TV show which is pretty good low-budget cheese.
...and the final comic issue is a crossover between the comic universe and the TV universe.
The main character is a cynical, embittered art school graduate who lives in an unreasonably spacious loft with her unreasonably photogenic roommate, and becomes the Middleman's apprentice after impressing him with her instincts during an attack by a tentacular horror at her temp job.
They are assisted by a cranky cyborg receptionist whose personality is stuck on "domineering schoolmarm."
@Rubiksmoose Somewhere on YouTube you can find the actors doing a table read-through the unproduced season 2 first episode script at a convention panel.
@BESW That's a kind way of summarizing it, and I think you are correct.
@BESW Sadly, I didn't have that pithy expression as I tried to make similar feedback on Meta regarding the new user experience. Thanks for how concisely you put that.
And I do mean both in conversational networking and IT networking.
I mean, I'm OK with networking that just happens during conversation "oh, hey I know a guy that is in that", as well as just plugging things in and setting IP settings...
But when I'm forced to do it... Going to meetings, or when the network doesn't want to work for no reason other than it simply doesn't want to.. Ugh.
So after an hour and a half mucking around with one PC that was refusing to connect to the internet (turns out the NIC is busted) I swapped it out for the original PC (reported to have been totally fried), and there were no issues.
Recently I've posted this question and as a result received two contradicting answers, but since game rules are a slightly ambigious on this particular topic, arguments for each of the answers are partialy true (at least to the degree where the answer could not be discarded right away as a wrong ...
Today's Finnish news spectacle: the polytech teetotaller society is trying to buy all the booze of a liquor store opened near their campus. National media is observing closely.
Their strategy of promoting absolutism is drinking everything themselves so no one else has to.
The idea that news broadcasting stations are just filming college students getting drunk so other people can't get drunk seems really funny to me for some reason.
one of my colleagues has a finnish grandmother who apparently took the temperance pledge a few decades ago but worded it "I will never step through tehe doors of an Alko" to leave open the loophole of drinking from other places
teetotaller representative here, those kids are bs. I would believe it if they bought it and stored it or threw it away or something... But for drinking? Can't pull my leg with that clumsy maneouvre!
@Helwar they get to simultaneously deny alcohol to others and also be a cautionary tale about the dangers of excess for whatever happens to them afterwards
from a certain perspective, it's a very efficient approach
@Carcer If I drink half a cup I start to fild numb. A whole glass and I was on the verge of puking. And that's when I was 22, now I'm 32 and I don't think I would handle it that "well"
@Carcer I'm a teetotaller because I simply don't like the beverages, nor their effects, not by any moral compulsion or anything. WHen friends insisted on me trying it I sometimes obliged
never found the taste agreeable, nor the consecuences so... meh
@Carcer what does that mean? The metaphor is lost in me
my understanding is in Finland there's a quite strong link between the concept of teetotalism and the finnish version of the temperance society, more than in other places
@NautArch I know - but they're also more about encouraging other people to abstain from things as well
I hope so, I wasted so much effort in learning it! :P
I mean, I had to play all those un-translated games!
Blame my english to Final Fantasy Tactics and Breath of Fire IV
And to Stargate SG1. They played that on tv at random hours and I couldn't follow it, so a friend of mine lent me the whole series, in english. By the end of it I felt like I was a native english speaker
I was wondering if we should have a small dialog box which is opened when you wish to downvote a question or answer, I feel that if people put in the reasoning for the downvote the community will have a better idea on what is considered a 'Good' Answer.
For example I provided this an answer to t...
Is the bit that's missing that you've forgotten that a grapple attempt can be made in place of any individual attack made as part of an Attack action, and that if you have Extra Attack you can both make normal attacks and grapple attempts in a single Attack action?
I think we must have some more fundamental communication disconnect. The order of actions as described seems very clear to me - I'm honestly not sure how to explain it differently. Maybe someone else will be able to join the pieces.
I'm seeing a lot of disagreement about whether a dagger has to be drawn which seems to be true, I think its possible you might already need the dagger drawn
@ColinGross Yeah
I think if you're holding both weapons on attack one, you get the two weapon fighting bonus attack, regardless of whether youve dropped it by the time you take the bonus action
you definitely need to be holding two weapons to qualify for TWF. Is the question, "does the bonus action go away if you're no longer holding two weapons?"
@Helwar You can get one draw/stow per round as your free interaction.
and the wording of twf is "When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand. "
@ColinGross maybe technically that makes sense, but in universe, twf lets you attack with your offhand weapon, if you still have an offhand weapon, and had one in your main hand at some point... I don't see the impossibility of using it to attack
@Helwar specifically you can TWF even if the first attack was throwing the weapon, so by definition by the time you make your bonus attack you would no longer be holding the first weapon
@Carcer You're holding two daggers. Main hand throw it... which is an attack.... that qualifies you for the offhand attack, but you're not holding two weapons when you make the offhand.
Seems reasonable.
But you do have to be holding two daggers to start, yes?
a fighter has 4 attacks per turn at high level, isn't it? you add the twf, and then make the thingy that letts you attack again (don't remember the name)
I'm going to run a one shot to test the dagger guy. I'll get one of my min/maxy players to play one guy and my most theatrical player to play another. One will be daggers the other hatchets.
My min/maxer really likes psionics and wanted to use the mystic UA. Tested that with a more sane player... we had some hella broken builds at 3rd level.
"While in your defensive stance, you can make opportunity attacks without using your reaction, and you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against a creature that moves more than 5 feet while within your reach."
> While in your defensive stance, you can make opportunity attacks without using your reaction, and you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against a creature that moves more than 5 feet while within your reach.
This probably means you can use your reaction to hit enemies that try to Disengage.
My party had to go up against an opponent with a relatively high flight speed in last night's session. The only one of us that has a decent Dexterity Score is our Druid, who had no ranged weapons, and he also had no cantrips with a range greater than 30 feet.
@ColinGross I think this was mentioned earlier, but you seem to have misunderstood that TWF question. I think that answer might end up attracting a bit of downvotes unless you fix/remove it...
@Rubiksmoose Meh. More or fewer internet points. I've discovered the deadline for an abstract I'm writing is tomorrow. I'll delete the answer later. Thanks for the heads up
When I ask questions, I always look through the "Questions that may already have your answer" box to be sure that I'm not about to post a duplicate. I've started to work with different platforms and I would like to have filtering on the duplicate questions box so I can find questions that I may b...
@Carcer You either incorporate them into the text of the question, which can be hard work, or stick them in a list at the end, which looks bad, or tack them on in a comment, which could be removed at any time for any reason.
