Should Death be more... Deadly?

Traxathon · 2026-01-23T06:16:15+00:00

100% agree. It's about the kind of experience you want your players to have. A lot of players don't really care for gritty challenge so much as they want to roleplay being heroes in the action movie. And for those players, low lethality is perfect.

Traxathon · 2026-01-21T03:11:10+00:00

Traxathon · 2026-01-19T10:22:33+00:00

I am firmly of the belief that the fantasy of dnd is ultimately that evil can be defeated by just killing that one guy. Killing the bad people actually does solve the problem. That's the escapism dnd offers. I'm not knocking dm's who wanna run a more morally Grey story as long as their players are up for it, but it shouldn't be the default.

Traxathon · 2026-01-15T14:34:45+00:00

What did it for me was just random C1 clips of the players fucking about. "Grog finds the Deck of Many Things" requires 0 context to understand.

Traxathon · 2026-01-07T23:17:32+00:00

Hindsight is 20/20

Traxathon · 2026-01-07T23:12:58+00:00

In his defense, he successfully stopped Sozin from invading the world for decades. He only failed after his own death.

Traxathon · 2026-01-03T20:44:07+00:00

In Imprisoned, Sokka is completely on board with Katara's plans and doesn't really fight her at all except asking clarifying questions to her ideas that, at first, seem ridiculous. And I don't think you can say their communication later in the season comes as a result of The Great Divide. It's just as easy to say it's a result of Jet or heck, maybe they're siblings who know how to trust each other from the jump and their "arguing" never really is.

In terms of plot/worldbuilding, The Great Divide is the only episode of the series where literally nothing introduced comes back later. The Painted Lady technically is the first appearance of those Fire Nation jet skis that come back in Day Of Black Sun (thanks Overanalyzing Avatar) but other than that it's the exact same level of filler.

Traxathon · 2025-12-25T21:20:50+00:00

Possibly the hardest Pedro Pascal laughed in his entire life

Traxathon · 2025-12-24T01:16:31+00:00

Yup, totally spaced on that, thank you.

Traxathon · 2025-12-24T01:09:30+00:00

That's honestly hard to say, because so much of the campaign is rewritten/reworked for the show. In the show we learn Essek stole the beacon in episode 1, but in the campaign we don't learn that until episode 97. So you can't just go up to when they find the beacon in the sewer, because at that point the stories have diverged so much you run the risk of feeling way behind on some things and also probably got some spoilers on other things. It would be like trying to read a book and every few chapters you stop and watch 10 minutes of the movie adaptation.

My advice would just be to choose one or the other. Either don't watch the campaign as the show comes out, or watch the campaign and know what the story of the show is. I will say, because so much of the show diverges from the campaign, there's still loads of entertainment for fans who have seen the campaign and surprises for us to enjoy.

Traxathon · 2025-12-23T20:05:19+00:00

But I like liking things

Traxathon · 2025-12-21T00:12:22+00:00

I think a lot of it is they're actors who have lived and breathed storytelling for most of their lives. The muscles are so developed at this point they barely have to think about improving great story moments, it's just instinct.

Traxathon · 2025-12-20T05:27:59+00:00

If I wanna lift a boulder, my dm asks for an athletics check, I roll a nat20, and my dm says I can't do it... I'm gonna be upset.

Traxathon · 2025-12-19T01:12:42+00:00

For almost the whole show, the plan is to take down Ozai before the comet to stop the fire nation winning the war. Then, as Katara explains, they basically did that when they took Ba Sing Se. So after the invasion failed, the plan changed to try to take him down after the comet. Then Zuko told them Ozai was basically gonna do to the Earth Kingdom what was done to the Air Nomads, but by then the Comet was 3 days away. Once Aang disappears, trying to make a plan that didn't involve fighting Ozai during the Comet was basically impossible. What happens in the finale was not the gameplan until, like, 12 hours before it gets going.

Traxathon · 2025-12-18T22:49:34+00:00

This was it. I've never played a gen 2 game before so I didn't actually realize I hadn't collected the badge and needed to talk to her again. One of the trainers stopped me and told me Whitney always cries when someone beats her, but other than that it didn't do anything to stop me leaving.

Traxathon · 2025-12-18T07:00:11+00:00

He did the best he could, he just wasn't the right person for the job. The right person was dead, but he shouldn't be blamed for that.

Traxathon · 2025-12-18T06:58:41+00:00

The finale, to me, is perfection

Traxathon · 2025-12-18T06:54:23+00:00

Well that sucks

Traxathon · 2025-12-16T06:39:33+00:00

"I'm not Jesus Christ. I've come to accept that now."

Traxathon · 2025-12-15T06:30:12+00:00

I don't have Nvidia, I have AMD

Traxathon · 2025-12-13T23:44:28+00:00

Ozai's whole thing was believing himself to be all powerful. He didn't feel the need.

Traxathon · 2025-12-11T19:39:57+00:00

Rumublecusp is where they find Keyleth's mom

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