As I understand it, a big thing in 3.5E D&D that was spread around a handful of splatbooks, official and third-party both, was something like customizable metamagic. Which was something that allowed for horrendously broken magic workings, and which has had even the smallest hints of similar flexibility nerfed into the ground in all later D&D systems, and offerings.
I... think I would have heard of that. Metamagic grants some flexibility, but it's hardly customizable. Most of the time it's not even worth the cost of the spell slot. Let alone the feats you have to burn just to use metamagic at all.
Wow, and here I thought I couldn't hate the newer editions of D&D any more.
See, now, this is where you get the right to complain.
I only have secondhand knowledge of the subject, honestly, but this is a webpage that is at the least an interesting starting point of all the things that 3E and 3.5E could do.
One thing of note is that the worst game-breaking stuff is often, though not nearly always, available at later character levels. Something that 4E and later D&D has focused on is more minimizing many of the old paths to such overpowered abilities even later on, but they instead focus on giving a lot of possible options that ideally aren't broken as early as possible.
Being a celebrity tends to give a person a huge ego. Huge ego + evil intentions/crime = supervillain.
They also often don't know when to quit while they are ahead, or leave well enough alone.
Warner Brothers insisting on making Joker 2?
I was talking about the sequel movie and TV/Streaming series to Megamind, but that works, too.
Excuse me, what?! Did the murder case finally get solved?
What's cartoonish about murdering someone? What was it over? Were they partners in some enterprise and he wanted all of it?
Celebrity crime ring. Lots of celebrities get pressured, tricked, or forced into doing cartoonishly horrible things so that this can be used to blackmail them for the rest of their lives. Then, when they won't play ball anymore, it's allowed to come out, which is why this shit is usually revealed years after it actually occurred.
"Hell is real! We have proof!"
NSFW general, I think, but I dunno how many commenters you'll get.
