Yeah that was kinda where I was going with that.

How could you disprove that though?

It's not my homework, it's yours.

That's not my problem.

The flaws of cynicism in a nutshell.

You made the claim, you provide the citations that the support it.

Not on me to fact check your assertions for you.

And you make this sweeping claim based on what data?

Not with that attitude it won't.

The bard is a rogue, he even uses sneak attack.

But Luke saw who Kylo was in that moment. How evil must he have been already for Luke of all people to flinch?
Kylo had a plan and was ready and willing to follow it through. His immediately tries to kill Luke and then goes on a murder spree.

Don't worry you were clear. I was refering to the same scene.

We as the audience saw who Kylo is and what he has done, Luke got a read on what was under the surface and instinctively reacted.

Kylo's response to Luke here was to try and kill Luke then kill every student who didn't join him.

I'd argue that the reason Mass Effect doesn't do this is because it ascribes to the ideal of Captain Kirk, it doesn't believe in the no win scenario.
That's not to say it does it perfectly but it's choices are built on the foundation that there is always a way.

See I don't get that critique, we know exactly what drove Luke to want to murder Kylo. Kylo already planned on killing Luke, Han, Leia, and anyone else in his way.
TLJ is pretty direct that Kylo is 100% commited to his plan and isn't some misled pawn of anyone else.

Worse, when TLJ tried to make something of them, RoS did everything it could to undo it or ignore it.

Because at the time the contrived and unimaginative plot were offset by the promise of the new cast and potential of future sequels.

Retrospectively it has barely more substance than RoS and is nearly as contrived. The flaws it had made retroactively worse.

A lost cavern shrine, fallen to ruin, bathed in strange blue-green light.

An ancient mountain temple, burried in snow.

Four ships from the age of sail: a carrack, a brig, a caravel, and a xebec.

A tropical beach, flanked by thick forest on one side and an azure sea to the other. Coral outcrops can be seen beneath the waves.

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I love these.

Agreed Phoenix Point models do also look quite plasticky, which is odd for post PBR games. Iaculus had just mentioned they found Enemy Unknown enemies came across more plasticky and I was following up on that.

From my understanding it's because the elders don't consider them subjects; they consider them tools/weapons.

I definitely understand the plasticky description (pre physics based rendering) but I felt that the mismatched aliens of XCOM is deliberate, narritively they're tools being used by the Elders; not unified members of a faction but unrelated aliens conquered and repurposed.

I am partial to using manifest destiny types as inspiration for evil invading army (tm).
They are here to take your land and drive you out (at best); they have been conditioned from birth to belive they are entitled to it because they've been taught that they are just better.

Because orcs were based on the kinda of person who abuses any power they have over other people no matter how much.
Something he ran into a lot in the army.
The orcs are an army made entirely of those kind of peoples.

The Summoner in my game plays it really simple as a melee brawler and their dragon is infamous for being brutally effective and incredibly simple to get their.
So what are people doing if they can't even get that out of it?

That's pretty neat, I'll have to get learning.

This is sick!

What tool/program are you using for these?

Well I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

It would depend on the actions of the anti-undeath zealot, what lengths they go to, what lines they are willing to cross in the pursuit of their goals

Moderates are also more effective tests because they aren't as swingy. Severes are significantly more effected by dice variance than Moderates, so unless you ran identical Severes 3,5,7 times to control for that you're data would be inconclusive.

Does it? When I ran alignment I never found it necessitating absolutes, admittedly, that could be me not noticing.
I'd argue that to be a zealot involves actions of extreme aligment (lawful, chaotic, evil, or good). How would someone be zealously true neutral? I'll have to think about that.

Actually yes.
You are refering to exactly what I am refering to when I say you have to lower the DCs to 0.7. In this case that would reduce the AC of said Vampires to 28.
And you'd still want to apply the laundry list of buffs spells as that's literally what the game is balanced around.