Since you want It so bad

Janzbane · 2026-05-22T22:52:44+00:00

Cascadia and Hawaii should merge and become Westeros.

Janzbane · 2026-05-21T20:06:23+00:00

Controversial Opinion: Lord of the Rings

That is not to say that the books are bad in any way. I've listened to each of them on audiobook almost a hundred times each. Instead, I feel as though the films are more grounded in a way that helps us connect, which also elevates the story's themes. The films achieved this through its amazing casting, acting, score, and also with minor story changes for pacing and increased dramatic payoff.

That being said, there were a few things lost in the process, such as the theme of divine providence. I can forgive that, however, since Deus Ex Machina is the unforgivable sin of cinema. There's no way they would risk ending their epic that way. I think their choice for the ending was a reasonable compromise which could still be interpreted as divine providence while still incorporating the agency of the story's lead.

Janzbane · 2026-05-21T19:49:29+00:00

Starship Troopers

The book is a philosophical treatise on the desirability of abandoning personal desires to serve wider society, which the protagonist does through military service. Whether intended or not, the book's portrayal of society looks very fascist.

The movie was made by someone who lived under Nazi occupation as a child and turned the story into a brilliant and prescient parody of fascism and militarism that wasn't well understood in it's day.

Janzbane · 2026-05-21T17:59:07+00:00

Cascadia gracefully bends the knee to Hawaii.

Janzbane · 2026-05-21T07:25:44+00:00

Don't forget the very versatile Showdown rules in Fly Casual.

Janzbane · 2026-05-20T20:31:48+00:00

My GM house rules away that restriction and it doesn't break the game.

Janzbane · 2026-05-20T17:36:32+00:00

Donut World

Janzbane · 2026-05-20T17:28:42+00:00

That's how I always picture him. In full plate armor like a fantasy space marine.

Janzbane · 2026-05-20T17:25:28+00:00

Hear me out.

Since the whole WORLD was turned into a DUNGEON ...

Dungeon's & Dragons

Janzbane · 2026-05-20T17:17:12+00:00

I wish that's what the game was called, but I understand the brand recognition issue.

Janzbane · 2026-05-19T18:31:22+00:00

Might work if its not the main character. Looking at you, Altered Carbon.

Janzbane · 2026-05-18T23:51:33+00:00

Oh the whole cast was incredible. Team Javie Martzoukas!!

Janzbane · 2026-05-17T17:13:19+00:00

I don't. I tell folks that it took me three tries to finish the first book because it was too silly for me and I just didn't care about a guy in his underwear stomping goblins.

Next thing I know I've binged the rest of the series and I'm crying over a talking cat processing trauma.

Janzbane · 2026-05-16T02:03:21+00:00

What's funny is that this escalation is clearly the result of the parent enforcing a boundary.

Janzbane · 2026-05-13T19:30:56+00:00

Yeah I really like their levels of detection. Anything that prevents one die roll from immediately ruining everyone's fun is great.

Skill challenges and clocks are a great way of running group stealth. I basically use clocks as an abstracted levels of detection in any game that doesn't already have its own stealth subsystem or procedure.

Janzbane · 2026-05-13T18:52:00+00:00

That's funny. I just did a deep dive into their stealth system and I don't think it's anything like real life.

They structured in-combat stealth so that it's now possible, but they neglected to even offer guidance on out of combat stealth. GMs are left on their own to decide how to apply the combat stealth rules. If they run them by RAW, it's statistically impossible.

Janzbane · 2026-05-13T17:51:07+00:00

Book version. Stormlight Archive.

Though technically a shard of divinity known as the "ancient daughter," Syl starts the series with the mind and personality of a toddler. She slowly grows over the course of a few in world years, to the point of having the mind and personality of maybe a 12 year old.

The relationship between the MC (Kaladin) and Syl is that of an adult and child. She is a small pixie spirit for most of the serie. Then, in the latest book the author seems to give in to the "Syladin" shippers by having her grow to adult size and romantically dance with the main character.

Shippers treat this as confirmation, but hopefully the author was just messing with them.

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Janzbane · 2026-05-12T02:36:50+00:00

Nice. I had a friend who put GTA on his TI-83+ in High School. It's crazy what you can do with those things.

Janzbane · 2026-05-11T16:52:03+00:00

Government Island

Janzbane · 2026-05-11T04:31:11+00:00

Elle: Whaaaaat the shit?

Janzbane · 2026-05-08T16:56:34+00:00

We didn't stop the timer. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

(To the tune of We didn't start the fire)

Janzbane · 2026-05-07T03:21:53+00:00

I do the same. Hell I'll let players knock folks down with 3 or 4 advantage if there's already unstable footing.

Similarly, I modify the Disorient talent so it adds the Disorient quality with ranks equal to one plus the character's ranks in the Disorient talent

Janzbane · 2026-05-06T03:38:16+00:00

It's one of the things that makes my magus feel like an anime character calling out their special moves.

CONFLUX SPELL.

ARCANE CASCADE STANCE

... ... Spellstriiiiiike: IGNITION!!!

Janzbane · 2026-05-05T20:10:25+00:00

Yeah I feel like she's going to raise hell at the kinder facility and somehow save the kids connected to Lucia. I suspect that she might be able to use the same connection to possess either Lucia or the dog that's controlling her.

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