[In The Bag:]

This time, a core ability. Being a plant is a requirement for class entry

     In The Bag: You are always considered to have both a Chemist's and a Pharmacist's kit, as well as a Doctor's bag, when making Crafting and Medicine checks. If you posses other character options that allow you to make these checks without possessing the appropriate kit, you are instead considered to have access to a workshop of that type. Further, when you gain a new level in this class, you may spend 2 Reputation to select one of these kits and apply the masterwork upgrade to it; this may be done only once per kit.
     (A character possessing the Bandage feat would makes checks with an increased threat range.)

Yeah, the inevitable conclusion via combat in Living campaigns is deeply problematic, because if you're going into one of those games with a build designed to avoid and short circuit that, you can absolutely bet that everyone else will hate you the moment you try to do it because you're denying them what their characters are good at / their end of the social contract that's put up with all that tedious social interaction and investigation crap because they know they get to hit things at the end of the day.

Sniper was the prestige class equivlent of that: your build essentially had to be 100% dedicated to entering that class

[ABC New Series First Looks:]

ABC New Series First Looks: Back in the Game, Betrayal, The Goldbergs, Killer Women, Lucky 7, Mind Games, Mixology, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, Resurrection, Super Fun Night, Trophy Wife

• The Betrayal preview is masterfully cut, and it's great to see Hannah Ware landing on her feet after Boss, but... jury's still out.
• Mind Games is an intriguing concept but the show will ultimately live or die by its character arcs. There's really no way that concept is repeatable in week-to-week without frequent diversions.

Betrayal (the anti-Good Wife) and Killer Women trailers both feel like they're movie concepts; neither of them really sell themselves as a series.

Mind Games does sell itself as an "... of the week" concept series with potential, though I would have liked to see more about the cast in the trailer other than the brothers. Would have made an interesting double paired with Lie to Me.

OUATIW and Resurrection sit somewhere between the two -- I can't see them as anything other than mini-series that are designed to last a single season

I'd tag them as one apiece as species empathy is essentially charming and has to balance against the possibility of neing in a single-species setting.

[Timid]

I indeed suspect it's a permission thing because it works fine in word.

Timid

• Attributes: +2 Awareness [1.5]
• Speed: 30
• Achilles' Heel (Stress): All stress damage you suffer is doubled and cannot be resisted. [-0.5]
• Always Ready: You may always act during surprise rounds. [2]
• Elusive: You gain the Elusive feat. [3]
• Enlightened Stealth: Your maxium ranks in this skill becomes your career level + 4. [1]
• Restricted Checks: Your Intimidate and Parley checks are always untrained. [-1]

That was ugly. Let's try something a tad more positive.

Challenge: Affectionate.

The google docs have the irritating drawback that you can't cut & paste the text

I have an image of Mastery combining with light sleeper

++Good 

[the Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is finally making it over to U.S. stores]

Hey hey hey, the Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is finally making it over to U.S. stores! Sweet!

I'm assuming from the utter lack of character dialogue in the trailer that the film is in english-subtitled French?

[NBC New Series First Looks:]

NBC New Series First Looks: Dracula, Ironside, The Michael J. Fox Show, Sean Saves the World, Welcome to the Family

• Dracula is full of win - so far my favorite footage from the new season. Could still go horribly wrong but that trailer's pretty encouraging.
• Ironside's interesting, and Underwood can carry a show, but this one doesn't really look like my bag.

I'd say they're aiming squarely at the female market with Dracula as with pretty much every other vampire show we've seen in the last couple of decades. Renfield looks like he could for once be an interesting part of the mythos, and I like that it seems they've gone back to the non-combusting but powerless during the day vampire of the original story.

Ironside is pleasingly bold in a number of its choices, though I did twitch a little at the number of overly familiar tropes in the trailer; it wouldn't surprise me if someone from Fringe's design department was heavily involved.

Fox New Series First Looks: Almost Human, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dads, Enlisted, Rake, Sleepy Hollow, Us & Them

• Of those only Almost Human and Sleepy Hollow pass muster with me, and then only just. Dads has some small potential - maybe, as occasional background noise.

Fox and their region locking continue to suck. Thankfully there's Youtube.

Almost Human feels like it shares a lot of DNA with Will Smith's I, Robot and they dropped in Karl Urban to try and minimise that sensation. There's an element of Mann & Machine in there as well. Despite appealing to me in a number of ways, I'm sort of afraid to like it because I can just see Fox shanking it in the back.

Ooh, Sleepy Hollow looks good. Has a distinct Elementary vibe to it, as well as echoes of the Kolchek remake from a few years ago. Nice shout-out to Marvel's The Avengers.

Ugh, Enlisted feels like a summer comedy film. And gods, they're making a US version of Rake? Did they learn nothing from Kath & Kim? Roxbutgh's considerable charisma was the only thing that made the original barely watchable.

"You show us yours," Trinity says. "Cause I got nothing, either."

I imagine that, assuming the cloning tech is straight replication instead of genetic randomisation, most fleets wouldn't have repeat instances of an individual just to ensure maximum genetic diversity and minimum existential crisis

It seems some folks in the US got their DW season 7 pt 2 box early and have seen the The Doctor's Name; the BBC are begging them not to spoil it.

[Into Darkness]

Which is immaterial, since this is basically just an excuse for you to hate the new movie.

And you would, yet again, be wrong. The fact that people involved in a film are massive douchewads -- like Tom Cruise, for instance -- doesn't usually stop me from going to see it. Now, if they're shit at their jobs, that's another thing entirely, but Into Darkness still looks like an entertaining film.