Securing peer to peer communications, I mean securing them in any way that would make the effort worth it, is hard. How do you ensure that all the equipment will work together? How do you share keys? How do you keep the compromise of a key from compromising the entire network? The article said the radios were chinese, so how do you do all of that without running afoul of ITAR export regulations and EAR? How do you do this without ballooning the cost of a radio that was supposed to be $30? How do you do this in a way that can be deployed quickly, when the owner wants to go into the field? How do you do this in such a way that requires no coordination between all those that would communicate, but none of those that you don't want to be able to communicate?

The answer, more often than not, is that there is no viable solution. Apparently there often isn't, for things like RQ-4 missions, where imagery is unencrypted.

If you're something like a GMR radio, you can plan for encryption as part of mission planning. If you're just a guy with a gun and an ideology, you probably can't. Doesn't mean you're stupid.

They keep trying to make "Dungeons and Dragons" movies, when they should really be trying to make a "good" movie. They sacrifice good story in order to pack in more heavy handed references to certain character classes and rules. Right off the bat that makes the characters seem like ridiculous caricatures. Just make a good movie. Just make a good movie and let the references fall where they may. But for god's sake, please don't give me a party with a Paladin, a rouge, a pure caster, and a priest just because you feel you had to.

I think you miss the point. The d12 isn't really used for much anymore (Barbarian Hit dice?) and so I think the author is making a statement about the venture's probability of success.

Unless I see Monte Cook or someone similar with a lofty title like "Chief Script Consultant" or somesuch, I can't believe that they are making a sincere effort to make a good movie. It is no secret who the luminaries are in the genre, but they never seem to be involved. Why would they not get R.A. Salvatore (who, I hear, can write some stories) or somebody, throw some money at them, and say "You have one job: Make sure the story doesn't suck." I've never seen that, so I assume that the product will be more Hasbro bullshit.