BarretWallace

'Scuse me while I whip this out.

"I'll do the short-short version! Do you? Do you? Good -- yer married. Kiss 'er!"

"Come to Australia; you might accidentally get killed.  Blood is sure to be spilled.  Your pants will soon be filled."

“This is my hammer, Bork Bork Bork.”

Well, maybe they could do Deadpool vs Green Lanturn...save some on the actors...?

A while back(about 2 or 3 years ago) I used to be in several games and a GM in two of them.  Those games took up most of my time and thoughts.  
 
And because of that I had a major case of burnout.  So, much in fact, that I put every thing away.  I closed all my games and did other things.  I didn't want anything to do with role playing at all.  
 
Then, back in May, I tried my best to get back into a game.  But something just wasn't right.  Plus real life reared its ugly head.  
 
Now, that real life is back on track, I'm considering playing again.  But I worry about burnout again.  My life is a little busier than before, and I can't post every day like I used to.  
 
Have you ever had a case of burnout, and if so, how did you deal with it?
 
 
 

When Thor defeated Surtur at the beginning of the film, Surtur did not have the benefit of being imbued with the Eternal Fire. Once he was reborn from that Flame, Ragnarok was then in full swing and I don't think any Asgardian, not even Odin, would have had the power to stop the destruction of Asgard. The way I see it, Asgard was the target--as decreed by prophecy--and Hela was the collateral damage.

Thor was drawing power from The Immigrant Song.  Thor wins.
 
 

Surtur said he needed the Eternal Flame to regain his full stature and power. What Thor defeated was a pale shadow of that.
 
Hela is the Goddess of Death, but not necessarily the Goddess of coming back from Death. She needed the Eternal Flame to revive her own dead minions.

The Eternal Flame is awesomely powerful, just look what it did for the career of The Bangles
 
 

I thought Hogun got about as much of a heroic send-off as the character merited (no way was he going to survive a battle to the death with Hela, but he faced her bravely and fought well). Fandral and Volstagg on the other hand... well, I never thought I'd say the words "thank God for Blindspot," but at least it spared Sif getting similar treatment.

I did not like it compared to 2nd edition by Chaosium
and neither did those I played 2nd ed with and got rid of it shortly there after
 
how many adventures and supplements where done for it is usually a good indicator
IIRC Avalon Hill went into near hibernation   in the early 90's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_Hill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneQuest
 

WARNER BROTHERS: Everything you know about the Flash and the DC Universe is WRONG!
COMIC BOOK FANS: So Flash isn't a socially-retarded motormouth anymore? And the DCEU isn't depressing destructo-porn with lame CGI villains set against videogame backgrounds?
WARNER BROTHERS: Er...
GENERAL AUDIENCES: Wakanda forever!

Liberally quoting from the above article as response to some of the recent posts to this thread over the last few pages on WHY Black Panther is making history, or have the vibe that it is making history. And putting it into historical context. Quoting from the article as letting the people involved, and those invested in it speak for themselves rather than me speak. 

Note: some of the paragraphs are out of order from the article, I'm chopping and changing to keep the theme. 
 
 
 
 
 

Allow me to refer you to the following from this very thread:
 
There are actually quite a lot of people who try to marginalize the importance of any entertainment (or educational material, or legislation) that's aimed at a demographic or subculture that they themselves don't belong to, apparently taking personal umbrage at praise being given to something that wasn't created with them in mind as the principal beneficiary. And in the majority of my experience, the people having that reaction and acting as if disagreement with their assessment is oppression are straight WASP men. Look at posts in this thread, so invested in arguing people out of their "wrong" high opinions of the quality and impact of cultural phenomena centered on women or people of color and characterizing people who are enthusiastic about such things as ignorant and deluded rather than simply stating that the media in question didn't have that profound impact or effect on them.

Regardless, where's Crow and Tom Servo when you need them?
 
 
In any case, like I already alluded to.  I will consider the Thrawn trilogy Eps 7-9

With the Force ghost pile-up, we'll need Ep IX to include a cameo from Bill Murray

It's "Star Wars", so I don't think political intrigue or a murder mystery would fit.  You need a war of some kind.
 
I'd say Force Awakens should have had a fat and happy New Republic get blindsided by the pissed off remnants of the Empire.  It would make sense that Luke had gone off to his island if he thought everything was taken care of.  Yeah, his apprentice turned to the Dark Side and ran off, but that's not a threat to galactic peace.
 
So you have a big Pearl Harbor ambush where the First Order just comes out of nowhere and smashes the good guys' fleet.  The rest of the movie is people scrambling and trying to form some kind of resistance.
 
Last Jedi could be Rey being trained by Luke, Leia's portion of the Resistance fleet (so there's still more out there) fleeing First Order pursuers, and Finn and Poe finding out about a secret super-weapon the First Order intends to build -- the Starkiller Base.  You add in a Leia death scene in post production when Carrie Fisher dies.  Go ahead and have Rey and Kylo Ren (who had good chemistry together) kill Snoke (who needs a different name) and take over the First Order.  Rey falls for the "we can make it all better" line.
 
Third movie is Luke sensing Leia's death and coming out of retirement to unite the remnants of the New Republic military.  The fleet leads a pre-emptive attack on Starkiller Base to try and wipe it out, while Luke decides he's not going to lose yet another apprentice, and goes to confront Kylo Ren and try to save Rey.  Luke sacrifices himself Obi-Wan style to show Rey that Kylo is too far gone, then she turns back good and defeats him.

This thread needs a punch montage.
 
 

Nor if it is a sundial. 
 
It wouldn't work at all in the DCEU, too grim-dark.  

Nor if its a stardate.

I heard Odin's speech about the hammer being a focus (rather than a source) for Thor's power, and immediately I thought, "So, Thor just got the experience points to buy off the OIF Limitation on his powers."  Is that wrong?