Christopher R Taylor

There's no denying that Perlmutter and Loeb are both sub-par hacks as producers go, but the tweet from MCU Direct makes it all about how they put up roadblocks to Black Panther and Capt. Marvel, painting Iger as the woke hero of Marvel's diversity push. The fact that it was a tweet could be partly responsible for that (not much room to elaborate), but I think they put the focus exactly where they wanted regardless.

One of the bits in the Dearthwood is minidungeons, small single-level underground areas and ruins to explore with a theme.  Like the bee hive or lairs for bandits and cultists.  I've done up a bunch of them, including some for the GM to just drop in wherever they want one for the PCs to discover.

Somehow I doubt anyone is going to be in a rush to pat Iger on the back for being more "woke" than Perlmutter, except maybe Iger himself (and whatever team of suckups he's surrounded himself with over at Disney).

One of the bits in the Dearthwood is minidungeons, small single-level underground areas and ruins to explore with a theme.  Like the bee hive or lairs for bandits and cultists.  I've done up a bunch of them, including some for the GM to just drop in wherever they want one for the PCs to discover.

A quality, solid remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth that treats it as science rather than a goof would be good.  Updating some of the science and making it more plausible to modern viewers would be solid.
Flash Gordon should be re done, it could be a pretty fun rockets and rayguns retro sci fi adventure
Sum of All Fears was such a dreadful disaster, redoing that closer to the book would be nice
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen done as a serious, mature, thoughtful movie rather than an adventure romp would be good.
 
If I had the Bond franchise, I'd reboot the entire series, setting it as retro stuff in the 60s.

I think the "2 levels to add damage" thing probably should be grandfathered out entirely, to be honest.  It makes things a bit more cluttered and complicates builds (especially with DCV) if you're trying to simulate combat skill levels.
 
I think Multipower is absolutely the wrong way to go about it for a lot of reasons but not the least of which is COST
 
Points  Power
    10     Multipower (Combat Skill Level) 10  pts
    1f     OCV +2
    1f     DCV +2
    1f     Blast 1d6
    1f     HTA 1d6
    1f     HKA 1 Damage Class
    1f     RKA 1 Damage Class
 
There's your base multipower, its 17 points for 2 overall combat skill levels.  What a bargain

OK but then we're in the same territory as deleting Transfer and saying "build it yourself."  It would be easier for players and builds if you had pre-built skill levels that people could just buy and indicate with a single, simple line rather than yet another block o' text don't you think?

Looker, by Michael Crichton.  Its about a company scanning real models and actresses to use in computer simulations, then killing them so they don't have to be paid.  In the ages of deepfakes and CGI, its just begging for an update.

If you take Starship Troopers for what it is, rather than what it should have been, its a dumb campy and entertaining movie that does nothing whatsoever that Verhoven was trying to do.

Looker, by Michael Crichton.  Its about a company scanning real models and actresses to use in computer simulations, then killing them so they don't have to be paid.  In the ages of deepfakes and CGI, its just begging for an update.

Honestly, it wouldn't feel like HERO system without combat skill levels.  I mostly do heroic campaigns now, so that is probably a factor.
 
But I do like guys who are good at certain things and not others and the idea of shifting the focus of your skill towards offense, defense or damage feels right.
 
Static OCV and DCV numbers don't feel right by themselves.  I like them as a baseline, but there has to be some room for offensive and defensive shifting.
 
Plus I find skill levels to be pretty intuitive for the players.  You have fixed offense and defense values and you have a number of floaters that you can shift to one side or the other when your turn starts.
 
That was one of my biggest gripes with D&D 5th edition.  A level 20 fighter is just as easy to hit as he was at level 1.  His offense soars over the levels, but aside from gear upgrades, he's as easy to hit as the day he started.
 
Meanwhile in Fantasy HERO the equivalent fighter has OCV/DCV values in the 7-8 range, plus martial maneuvers with his weapons of choice and 4-6 combat skill levels to float around.  If he doesn't want the novice to hit him - then he doesn't get hit.
 
Based on a decent amount of martial arts training over the decades - this feels more accurate to me.  It's part of why I've stayed with Fantasy HERO.

There are.  If you want to read Starship Troopers yiu need a copy from the 70's.  After that each version seems to drift until the last few versions seem to support the political views of the movie.
I did a side by side of a few key chapters back in 02 or 03ish and was fairly shocked at the blatant editorializing when they "modernized" the book for understanding.  But heck, in the last ten years fascism magically migrated from left to right, so what do I know....

If you take Starship Troopers for what it is, rather than what it should have been, its a dumb campy and entertaining movie that does nothing whatsoever that Verhoven was trying to do.

OK but then we're in the same territory as deleting Transfer and saying "build it yourself."  It would be easier for players and builds if you had pre-built skill levels that people could just buy and indicate with a single, simple line rather than yet another block o' text don't you think?

I think it would be trivial to make an adaptation of Starship Troopers that had no pro-fascist agenda lurking in the background, particularly since that's not in the book to begin with. And I think the Iron Man movies showed how to put your star actors in powered armor without losing the ability to see their faces and their emotions.

The Starship Troopers I read was a thick pro-fascist political lecture bookended by two chapters that vaguely depicted powered armor. But someone should make a movie that’s true to the source material so people will finally realize this. 

I would like to see a remake of Starship Troopers that wasn't a complete middle finger to the original book.
 
As far as The Princess Bride is concerned, I think anyone who suggests a remake should be put into the Zoo of Death.
 
(It's possible that I'm a little opinionated where these movies are concerned.)

ITs the wrist-mangler, designed to slash and gouge into your arm and fingers with every maneuver.  It twists in your grip to stab you as you try to wield it because you have no leverage and its so front-heavy

Looker, by Michael Crichton.  Its about a company scanning real models and actresses to use in computer simulations, then killing them so they don't have to be paid.  In the ages of deepfakes and CGI, its just begging for an update.

Looker, by Michael Crichton.  Its about a company scanning real models and actresses to use in computer simulations, then killing them so they don't have to be paid.  In the ages of deepfakes and CGI, its just begging for an update.

Looker, by Michael Crichton.  Its about a company scanning real models and actresses to use in computer simulations, then killing them so they don't have to be paid.  In the ages of deepfakes and CGI, its just begging for an update.

Looker, by Michael Crichton.  Its about a company scanning real models and actresses to use in computer simulations, then killing them so they don't have to be paid.  In the ages of deepfakes and CGI, its just begging for an update.

Elastigirl!
 

 
No telling if she has the gargantuan booty or not

I don't see why we need to cede the "lower end" to GURPS.  I'm telling you, with the right set of options -- all of which already exist in the 4e, 5e, and 6e core rulebooks  -- we can handle gritty, non-cinematic stuff just fine.  I've played in many a campaign that did.  

Oh, there are thousands of other ways the ending of GOT could have sucked.  In truth the ways to write something well are the tiny minority of options.