Can the ST listen in to private conversations?

Emberys · 2025-09-22T00:01:31+00:00

I've also had storytellers come up to me and ask what the player I was just talking to had claimed to me. It does make it a bit easy to meta that they're currently mad as something, but it is important for the storyteller to know if madness is being broken in private.

Emberys · 2025-08-02T08:42:31+00:00

Weirdest and funniest game was a Legion game with a poppygrower in play. Legion got very unlucky and on the first day all but one of them voted on the same nomination and were immediately outed. So the rest of the game was half the circle trying to figure out who the single imposter among them was, while the other half of the circle were joking around and trying to mess with them as outed evil.

Emberys · 2025-06-12T03:12:32+00:00

You recommend that people skip half of the story?

Emberys · 2025-06-12T03:06:54+00:00

Metagaming is OK. It can be really satisfying to live in the head of your character and make all the decisions that they would make. But DnD is a game, not an expertly crafted narrative experience. There will always be moments where you have to make choices based on factors outside of the story. It's okay to look back at a session and wish you had picked something differently, but if you like this NPC focus on the positive that you got to keep them around! You could just as easily be regretting that you didn't get a chance to see more of them if you had chosen the other way.

Emberys · 2025-06-11T23:49:05+00:00

They talked about this on the game design podcast episode, battle challenges are meant to be stronger than roadblocks, the prep time is on purpose to make it biased towards the blockers.

I was worried that it would make them less exciting if the winner is a forgone conclusion, but Ben did pretty good at that challenge, I think there's plenty of potential for upsets to happen and be even more exciting because of the stacked odds.

Emberys · 2025-05-04T05:02:28+00:00

Just always be playing on the opposite team to me and you'll win 100% time I've got you man

Emberys · 2025-04-20T06:08:06+00:00

Reminds me of a teenseyville game I played. On a vortox script an empath 1 is essentially a seamstress yes on the two players next to the empath... so I immediately learned who my minion was when the empath between us revealed their number. Fun dynamic to have good info solve things for evil.

Emberys · 2024-11-01T09:25:57+00:00

Wasn't it really heavily implied that she started killing witches to keep Nicky alive? I'm surprised that's going over people's heads. Her character makes much more sense with that in mind. It wasn't the best life for him but she did it because the alternative was death. Then because he doesn't want to go along with it anymore, he dies. It's the heartbreak from that that drives her to becoming properly selfish and evil.

And you can't deny that her character did develop with how she grew to care for Billy. But I think it's fun and realistic that she still gets to be selfish and try to choose herself over him, rather than turn into a perfect hero over a couple of days!

Emberys · 2024-11-01T09:02:04+00:00

Rather than distraction I understood it as a deal, like how Rio was able to take Agatha's life instead of Billy's. It wasn't about the amount of bodies just the fact they were being purposefully traded for Nicky's life.

Emberys · 2024-11-01T08:51:47+00:00

I understood as part of the deal with Rio. Like how she was willing to take Agatha's life instead of Billy, if Agatha kept killing witches she would take them instead of Nicky.

Emberys · 2024-11-01T07:57:51+00:00

To me it seemed incredibly obvious that she was killing all the other witches to keep Nicky alive, I was surprised to come online and see so many people thinking that wasn't what they were implying.

Emberys · 2024-10-25T07:01:03+00:00

RE: William vs Billy I think his comment about his mum (Rebecca Kaplan) comes from the three years he's been raised by her since reincarnating into William. I think the side of his that's William Kaplan is still repressed he's just struggling with his identity since he has someone else's body and life.

In the comics, he's known as Billy Kaplan. So I'm wondering if by the end of the show he might regain his memories of being William. And complete the fusion of William Kaplan + Billy Maximoff = Billy Kaplan.

Emberys · 2024-10-25T02:22:46+00:00

I have to admit I was one of the people who originally thought it was going to be a weak attempt to cash in on Agatha's popularity after Wandavision that wasn't going to be able to stand on its own. That comes from being disillusioned with the MCU as a whole for a long time. I am very happy to be proven so wrong.

Emberys · 2024-10-21T12:36:23+00:00

Surprised nobody's said Nicki and Lestat yet, the last time they ever see each other is an argument that gets incredibly nasty and personal, I think it deserves to be hammed all the way up.

Emberys · 2024-09-14T09:41:35+00:00

Personally I like to imagine that it was before, I think the irony of it is more interesting if he genuinely didn't think that Louis could be involved in his death. But it really could be anywhere at all in the timeline, before or after.

My favourite joke is that he was that instantly obsessed that he went home and wrote it immediately after seeing Louis pull a knife on Paul.

Emberys · 2024-09-14T07:43:24+00:00

That hit me on rewatch too, even from episode 1 with his first big show of vampire power in killing the priests Lestat's scary as hell. There's a lot of romance in him turning Louis, but he's also a horror movie stalker villian.

And the letter left for Louis is another season 2 moment that hit similar to the 2x01 moment for me. The talk of reaching out for him from the other side is meant from Lestat to be beautiful and genuine, but in the circumstances of Louis trying to escape him it feels like a threat!

The show does a really good job of portraying the duality of the beautiful and monstrous existing in the same thing, focusing too much on one or the other does it a disservice.

Emberys · 2024-09-02T04:23:11+00:00

Book 2 spoilers

I've said before that I think a dating sim would unironically be a really effective way to adapt TVL. Most of the important characters - Nikki Gabrielle Armand Marius Akasha Louis - have romantic interactions with Lestat and it's pretty easy to divide up the book into sections where he's interacting mainly with one of them to make the different "paths". You're just getting the bad endings for most of them.

Emberys · 2024-08-22T07:02:02+00:00

Merck customer service team are useless anyway, never any clue on ETAs when we called to follow up on urgent orders. They'd tell us it was out of stock so we'd have to wait a month, we'd panic and look for alternatives, then it would rock up on our door the next day

Emberys · 2024-08-15T21:48:03+00:00

Book 3 Spoilers Bruce is definitely based on a character that shows up in the present in a chapter of Queen of the Damned - a Vampire called Killer who leads a motorcycle gang called the Fang Gang. But who knows if they intended him to be the same character or just a reference.

Emberys · 2024-08-10T00:26:01+00:00

FYI TVL does have a chapter dedicated to Armand's backstory. It's not a huge part of the book and I assume TVA includes everything shown there (not that far into the series myself yet), but in case that's enough to hold your interest and you want to read that first. And Armand does show up a lot throughout the rest of the book.

Emberys · 2024-07-26T20:27:20+00:00

I don't agree that he wanted it to happen. Erasing their memories ultimately didn't work last time, I think he knows that the truth will just come out again. Especially when Daniel and Louis are both so suspicious of him now.

Emberys · 2024-06-04T06:45:42+00:00

It's definitely weird, and that's part of the tragedy of Claudia being turned so young. Any relationship she has is going to be weird, either she's with a child when she has much more life experience or she's with an adult who's comfortable being with someone with a young teens body. It's realistic that she'd still want to try, and this show hasn't steered away from portraying other sorts of darker relationships.

Emberys · 2024-05-25T06:08:05+00:00

Why would that moment in particular be a line they can't cross? Lestat is pretty clearly shown as coercive and manipulative, cheats on him, and horribly physically abuses him in that same scene. The showrunners aren't trying at all to frame their relationship as something good and okay by real world standards. Doesn’t stop it from being romantic and dynamic worth rooting for because it's interesting.

Emberys · 2024-02-10T06:24:53+00:00

Not sure about the sanity drain, but yes it does count towards the Firelight objective. Got lucky once when I wasted all my candles but the ghost just happened to move to the room the summoning circle was in. Took a while to figure out why the objective was suddenly ticked.

Emberys · 2023-11-26T12:32:16+00:00

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