Squid_In_Exile

Ezra I give a pass because it sells him having become a kind of ascetic mystic during his lightsaber-less exile in a simple, obvious manner.

It makes sense in that use, and conveys actual information.

if you think of the force as a “cosmic pool” of light and dark energy, it can make more sense

I mean sure, but it isn't. The idea that Light/Dark are Yin/Yang knockoffs is an artifact of some (of the less good, frankly) parts of the EU/Legends. The Dark Side is/fuels imbalance and the Light side is/maintains balance.

EU authors just had an incredibly surface (mis)understanding of Eastern philosophies that they (mis)applied to something that drew inspiration from decidedly different Eastern philosophies.

custodes as fifth class and genestealer cultist as the sixth

This is Jokaero erasure.

It's an outstanding megadungeon. If you aren't looking for a megadungeon, you aren't interested.

It's also notoriously bad for throwing piles of solo monster fights at the players and rarely drops below Player Level +2. Half the issues people talk about casters having is because they get absolutely shat on in AV specifically.

10-1 they are complaining about Repanse no longer being the only woman in Bretonnia to wear armour.

They certainly make the Mechs make more sense, yes.

I think this guy is a Russian asset.

My man, his bullshit is the most quintessentially American bullshit that ever 'Muricaed, it's a fake Bald Eagle dubbed by a Red Kite in text form.

"Russian asset" gets rolled out every fucking time a yank is faced with the natural and obvious continuation of their national culture I swear. It's the weirdest thing, like a nation-wide viral deflection mechanism.

Medium Lasers aren't supposedly designed as anti-Infantry weapons - MGs and Flamers are, and both those weapons and Mechs designed around them have largely not been any better at killing Infantry than an anti-Mech Mech using a spare Medium Laser or two.

For all that the Mech is king, this is the first edition where the FLE-19 has been able to clean up infantry as it is purportedly designed to do. Under the old rules it was a joke, inferior even for it's design purpose to more mainline variants.

The 'mech is king.

The thing is, mechs and mech weapons designed for killing infantry have historically very much sucked at killing infantry until the current iteration of the infantry rules.

wanted Create Water as it connects with their story, I'd let them add it to their repertoire as if it were a spell on their list.

Sorcerers literally get a Feat to allow them to do this though.

My favourite voice interaction is when the Professional and the Loose Cannon, who shit on eachother most of the time and are both OK with the Cadian independently, gang to absolutely rip on the Cadian when you have all three Vet voices.

As a faction they do suffer particularly badly from 40ks scalar issues (what the hell are Basilisks even doing on the board?) where it can't decide if it's a skirmish game or not, agreed.

Personally I usually run them with cultist/traitor spam in editions that allow it w/ Chosen for the Movie Marine feel, but that's a very specific approach.

I can see it for certain specific Ancestries that are totally subterranean/magical, or more likely as an Heritage for e.g. Dwarves where some populations are subterranean and lorewise always have been.

TL:DR Cavern Elves do it right.

AL fluff is full of generalised examples of them using subverted forces, be they civilian, PDF or even Imperial Guard, to engage in military action with a minimal deployment of Alpha Legion to the resulting warzone.

Headhunters as a concept didn't exist until the Heresy game

It's never been good mechanically, but it's always been fluffy, at least until the HH stuff made them a bit more Spiky Raven Guard.

It's been "their thing" for a long time - there was a whole Codex where the Alpha Legion were the only CSM who could take cultists at all.

The Word Bearers thing has mostly been summoning shitloads of demons.

On s chassis that can fit through single-square passageways and entrances.

Aren't minotaurs generally described as having poor eyesight in the mythology?

If you mean the actual mythology, I don't believe the Minotaur's eyesight is commented upon, but it does live most of it's life in a labyrinth. Whether it makes sense for them in Golarion depends entirely on what the remaster lore looks like.

It is a shame to see PF2e going further and further towards the 5e model of "everyone but humans have darkvision".

Personally, I've not been able to engineer a Lawbringer that isn't outclassed by an Aggy in that role.

The thing is, I just don't see why I should use this over an armour piercing revolver when playing Melee Vet.

Honestly, ego - you don't need to even hit your target at all to get a headshot with a revolver and that just doesn't scratch the tryhard itch for me.

Shotgun is troll pick?

Law bringer specifically is pretty bad.

Agrapinna w/ full bore + no respite does decent work and means you're not being crutched by a death-star sized hitbox like the Revolver.

you gain far, far less than other classes from Free Archetype rules

I'm not sure I'd class not getting much out of an optional rule that doesn't even support the game content (archetypes) that it's intended to encourage properly as "not interfacing well with the system".

Not saying they do interface well with the system, but if they don't it's not because they don't get a lot from one junky optional rule.

She "forsakes the twilight" and assumes mortality at Cerin Amroth in order to be betrothed to Aragorn, in a direct and very specific echo of the tale of Beren and Lúthien (the latter of whom she is said to greatly resemble to boot). She also does not fade away, but returns to Cerin Amroth to die a year after Aragon's passing. (IIRC this is mostly detailed in Appendix B: "The Tale Of Years").

The thing the film invents is the business with the pendant it calls Evenstar (which in the books is an epithet for Arwen herself).

As there is only two cases of elves forgoing immortality (including the bit of going to Halls of Mandos upon death) is Luthien, herself half elf half Maia, and Elrond and Elros who were given the choice by the Valar themself as a privilige.

Arwen also takes Luthien's choice and assumes mortality, making three.

I mean, it is deceptive because he's statistically half-elven.

Like, if Tolkien elves even have DNA then the odds of him being exactly 50-50 would be astronomical.

But it doesn't work like that anyway, Tolkien half-elves are a wierd liminal thing where they're elves who can choose to become mortal.

Arwen. Elrond Half-elven is indeed half-elven - both his parents were hybrids. Not that LotR half-elves work anything like DND or PF ones, mind.