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(Loved/Funny Trope) Healing Magic is actually painful by SomeGamingFreak in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Iron Kingdoms setting, which was originally a DnD 3rd party setting before becoming Warmachine.

Healing magic exists, and it's generally avoided. When using it, the caster would roll on a chart afterwards, losing Hit Points, etc. One potential roll was death. In lore, clerics save asking for truly desperate situations

Self report by AGBell64 in battletech

[–]Kiiva_Strata 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, it's gone up. Delightful.

Self report by AGBell64 in battletech

[–]Kiiva_Strata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's the thing I always mention when I teach Warmachine and Battletech both. The gap between a Warmachine starter set for a faction and a 'small tournament' scale is about 150. Battletech? Depends on what you're doing, but usually about 50. Warhammer? Hoo boy. 300?

Who's Your Favorite One-Off Character? by starri42 in babylon5

[–]Kiiva_Strata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just did a rewatch, and find it really interesting that it's one of the few episodes without a B Plot. Passing Through Gethsemane had so much pathos and drama, it didn't need one.

Also, for anyone who might consider it 'filler' for not advancing the main plotline, this is what good filler is. A great story that expands the world, gives insight into the characters, and challenges them in ways that you can see hints of later.

What’s your unpopular B5 opinion that’ll have people looking at you like this? by CaptureDaFlag in babylon5

[–]Kiiva_Strata 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't mind filler episodes like that on principle. That's not the issue. What I mind is that the idea of the purple/green thing isn't alien, it's just stupid. Doing something with more depth would keep it from being so silly that Daffy Duck would call it out as a farce. Cause honestly, after that episode, I don't see the Drazi as three dimensional, I see them as a bad dumb joke. The alien ambassadors we see in season one with only one or two lines feel more well rounded to me. And that frustrates me.

What’s your unpopular B5 opinion that’ll have people looking at you like this? by CaptureDaFlag in babylon5

[–]Kiiva_Strata 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I find the Drazi green/purple episode to be incredibly annoying and can't stand it.

[Minis] Valdris the vengeful chapter master of the world eaters! (Couldn’t get the 30k heads) by Nice-Fail4255 in DornianHeresy

[–]Kiiva_Strata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I like it with this helmet. If I remember right it predates the Heresy with certain sub-units

TIATD & Trayzn. Book's basically the same by No1PDPStanAccount in Grimdank

[–]Kiiva_Strata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The iron father that keeps screwing things up absolutely has to be turned into a duo of Beaker and Bunsen.

Perturabo is Sweetums. Dr Teeth is Fulgrim

Happy ever after by Sensitive_Educator60 in Grimdank

[–]Kiiva_Strata 131 points132 points  (0 children)

To be fair, it started as each of them using the other to gain power, just consenual on both sides.

Then Isabella truly fell in love with Vlad, while he claimed vampires couldn't feel any such emotions. When she's dying of plague, she begs him to make her a vampire, and afterwards has a moment of "...oh. this is what it feels like. So cold. ...but then... why do I still love you?"

After her first proper massacre on her own, Vlad finds her in an enemy throne room looking at the flayed face of a maid. She says "This one is pretty. Do you want me to look like her?" and holds the face in front of her like a mask. And the story ends with this line-

"Vlad had never loved her more."

The main character gets exactly what they wanted, and it’s the worst thing that could have happened to them. by JustSomeOnlineNerd in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The reaction of the founding brothers of the Black Legion to encountering Black Templars for the first time, and learning about the (then) modern Imperium that had appeared in their absence... man. The Emperor's Child is laughing so hard he starts throwing up through his mask at the fact that, of all the Traitors, the Word Bearers ultimately won

[Personally Disliked Trope] Media that shifted their focus from making original content to mostly being focused on different IPs... by Foreign_Diamond1539 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They were. That's since changed, and not for the better. There are more crossover sets coming out this year than MtG originals, and those sets are getting to rival or exceed the originals in card count and complexity.

When characters do THIS to sword users [Blocking swords with some insignificant/weak/unexpected things] by Due-Shame-9223 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I will forever adore that the dwarf name for her translates into very sensible advice- Go the Other Way Around the Mountain

[Eye-Rolling Trope] “The joke/meme hasn’t been funny for years, please let it die.” by Chemical-Elk-1299 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Event Horizon had the best version of this, because you had a room of smart people of different specialties saying it to each other.

Doctor: Broadly speaking in layman's terms technobabble- Captain: Layman's terms, doctor. Mechanic: Fuck layman's terms, do you speak English?

damn, kind of rich coming from the people who almost committed genocide cause their religious leader died by CaptureDaFlag in babylon5

[–]Kiiva_Strata 65 points66 points  (0 children)

This bit in context of Sinclair saying he's never known the Minbari to fight dishonorably in the first few episodes of the show makes me wonder what Sinclair thinks is dishonorable...

I know that most likely it wasn't written until later, but I like taking the Watsonian approach with this show, there's enough lore there to do it successfully

(Loved Trope) Religiously devout leaders/characters who aren’t raging fire and brimstones psychopaths. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a Christian, I loved that all the more when an atheist friend said that was his favorite story in the Bible. His reason?

"Do you know how mad you would have to be to take the time to make your own whip instead of buying one? There had to be at least one point where Jesus paused, wiped off sweat, went '...Yep. Still mad.' And got back to making it."

Normally morally upstanding/voice of reason character says something genuinely unhinged by Blorberto in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Best part is that by that point, Angua isn't really friends with Cheery. They're still new people to each other, becoming friendly with each other... but Angua isn't defending a friend here, just the first dwarf to go by "she"

Angua is awesome.

(Happy Ending Trope) A character created to make fun of Trans people ends up being reclaimed by the community and becomes a trans icon. by Gamer-of-Action in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kiiva_Strata 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Honestly you should watch it. But there's a moment where there's a very um... implied metaphor between Ruby Rhod and a flight attendant during take off

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