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I'm reminded of an old DM of the Rings comic, and the discussion that followed.

Yeah, I don't want my post to be taken as an argument that there's some kind of obscure magic in being a great DM. The core skill is paying attention and listening to your players so you understand what they enjoy, and then giving them chances to do stuff they enjoy.

Nah, there are plenty of easier systems to run with if you're worried about mechanics, and most systems don't really require that much math anyway. And you don't have to be a performer! All you really have to do is set up the framework for a story and give your players some guidance on how they...

Wildly true. Like, two friends in my regular board game group also DM. Friend A is an incredibly creative person who's good enough at voice acting to make a regular side hustle out of it. Friend B is a total wizard at game rules and an dedicated min-maxer. If I told you that only one of these...

I have to wonder how many people who have bought into this thing have bought into an RPG KS before. Because one of the first things that stands out to me is that there's no link to a short demo module or even a gameplay example, like the kind of thing you'd get in any crowdfunding project for a...

If nothing else, this has reinforced my desire to play through Final Fantasy X-2 again, because Wear Cute Outfits That Change Your Powers is basically how I approach my life anyway. So the Horsemen might be onto something here but they've made it in the wrong format for people of entirely the...

Yeah, the thing is: I like MTG and D&D and tons of other games and I'm the exact market for gaming-based figures, but most gamers are spending too much money on their games to buy figures! And yeah, to an extent, gamers have been taught to buy figures, but they're not going to give up those...

Yeah, the RPG is just an Open Game License book, right? And there's nothing inherently wrong with that, plenty of great games like Pathfinder are built on that, or there's great Old School Renaissance systems built on earlier D&D editions. But all of this feels like a vanity cash grab. Almost no...

I'm with you, I love it. Great silhouette, conveys motion well. Super underrated look.

IT'S SUPERMAN. Of course it's a wave anchor. There are more Superman fans out there who'll say, "Oh, that's a cool version, I should pick this up" about pretty much any Superman variant than there are fans of pretty much any B-list or below character. You know what was a wave anchor? Superman...

Does it have the word "Superman" on the package? It's not an outlier. Huh, interesting. The only Justice appearances I've ever read were from the Busiek Avengers and I thought that's what the figure was from. Owl looked pretty much like I expected him to look, but I really only know him well...

Yeah, the Ostrander/Yale Squad run had a bit of a love triangle with Nightshade, Nemesis, and Rick Flag Jr., although much less soapy than most triangles like that. It's more like intersecting character arcs that eventually end with the two characters that allowed themselves emotional growth...

I love the lineup, but yeah, I'd also want a fun character in there to be more of the team wild card. Harley in that role is probably too obvious, but that and her popularity are the reasons so many team books want her on the roster. Just like with Deadpool. Also, Nightshade & Nemesis is one of...

Spider-Man ML waves absolutely have Daredevil characters in them, and no one would argue with Punisher there either. A Batman wave could easily justify Katana or Black Lightning.

Yeah, 30-50 new characters a year that deep into a toyline sounds amazing. We're at the point where the biggest consensus choices for female characters that ML needs to make are at the Diamondback level, you know? That they're even still finding 30-50 new characters a year that are saleable is...

He wouldn't need to bring the wrath so often if so many people didn't insist on deserving it. (And also, the Alan Moore Interview Blueprint is unrivaled. Step 1: Alan talks about his new projects. Step 2: Interviewer is only here in bad faith and diverts to ask him about how DC's currently...

I'm pretty much always on the side of doing texture where an outfit suggests a texture. DCUC bucks were already way too featureless for me; one of the great things about something like that Wave 1 Etrigan was that it had all the skin striations sculpted into his legs. I guess one of the funny...

So just to confirm the Mera stuff, I found this blog post commenting on a ToyGuru post from the old Matty Collector Facebook page. This looks to be what he said verbatim, although I can't find the original FB post. Oh, looks like Fwoosh actually discussed it too, available here. You know...

Hmm, so maybe them knocking the waves down to 6 figures plus a variant was the reason? If the wave had been originally plotted out with 7 figures and 2 chases in mind, both Hals were probably always there, and RL Mera plus the regular would have been too. They really should've cut WW for her...

Was it? I didn't realize that. That makes a ton of sense, I think that would've helped the response to the wave a lot.

My take is still that I absolutely understand why they tried the Rainbow Lantern wave at the time they did, it was just a total miscalculation of what their specific audience expected. If it had looked more like a GL Classics wave, I think people would have taken it better while still satisfying...

I mean, I think it's going to look much more like a Spider-Man ML wave than this. At least 2 Batmen in a wave, for starters. Like, if you think a wave with Cavalier and Kathy Kane is stepping on the main line's toes, I don't know what to tell you. The absolute only place they're getting made is...

Because Batman fans are still going to buy the Batman figures in the main line, and a lot of the figures released in a dedicated Batman sub-line are going to be less viable in the main line. Marvel Legends has been deploying this strategy successfully for years with Spider-Man, X-Men, and even...

It doesn't feel to me like much of a distinction when there's a similar number of recurring wave anchors in the WWE line, and the number of wave anchors doesn't matter so much when most have dozens of looks available to be made. A greater proportion of WWE's past and present rosters could be...

Yeah, probably not. Like, if they miss a few sales of Main Event women because they're so short-packed, well, they get to sell the First Time in the Line women for like $35-40 now. I'm sure it makes up for the overpacked Cenas and Jeys they unload for cheap during the sales.