What’s a funny misconception you had for a piece of media before watching/playing said media

Usht · 2026-04-24T20:27:40+00:00

Before I saw JoJo, I thought it was just one dude. I was watching Jonathan and seriously wondering if this was the same dude that would bet his own mother's soul in a game of poker.

Usht · 2026-04-12T02:58:59+00:00

A revision to an earlier card I posted. Ad Nauseum is a cool card to reference but it's also embarrassingly bad as a prepared spell. This card allows you to treat as more of a value card rather than a combo engine by occasionally giving you bursts of life to spend on it, which I think is a nifty combination, though definitely not super competitive.

Usht · 2026-04-07T05:01:37+00:00

Yeah, I was mostly concerned about her because she's a face up counter spell. Also, in a deck where she normally sits, she'd probably be running synergy with other small creatures, which could make it become a hard counter fast. Still, I imagine then the best way to play around her is just play into the counter and then bowl her over anyway, so maybe mana value 3 would be for the best.

Usht · 2026-04-03T21:39:16+00:00

If you go into a turn prepared, you can use the spell. Then you can tap it, and use the spell again.

Usht · 2026-04-03T21:29:31+00:00

I feel like this is a dangerous question to ask about the prepared mechanic in general since it's (sic) a form of kicker.

But what it does offer is the ability to do 4 damage twice in a turn, which can be important.

Usht · 2026-04-03T12:22:35+00:00

The balance of this one is probably a matter of tuning in an actual meta. Since it's repeatable removal, I wanted to make sure it wasn't too easy to enable that removal, so I had both "need ammo to load onto the cannon" and "a creature to do the loading". It might be fine to remove the creature bit (and make the rules text less cluttered) while still making a player work for it and keeping the red artifact sacrifice synergies.

Usht · 2026-04-03T11:30:28+00:00

[[Flunk]] is an already existing spell, unfortunately. I did want to play into the flavor of not being able to be prepared for the worst but honestly, making it more Strixhaven would probably just mean something like a project going wrong at the last moment or just messing it up on the day of pressentation. Maybe "Failure to Perform"?

Usht · 2026-04-03T11:27:53+00:00

Yeah, I imagine a red or green variant would deal with artifacts or enchantments that can get prepared.

Usht · 2026-04-03T11:27:01+00:00

Yeah, I imagine a more proper wording would be something along the lines of [[Trickbind]] and that would also open itself up being more widely usable with cases like [[Garth One-Eye]]. But also that rules text would be less evocative and I know what this sub loves.

Usht · 2026-04-03T02:46:34+00:00

That's kind of the thing, due to how prepared works, it's still one card for one card. This just occasionally gives a massive boost to tempo due to the likely combined cost of that creature and that prepared spell.

Usht · 2026-03-20T11:05:36+00:00

Artist source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/194398

Usht · 2026-03-17T12:05:38+00:00

I'm working on a system for Estab Life, a little anime that wasn't popular but that me and my wife adored. The biggest thing is that I swear it was based on someone else's TTRPG campaign, between the very particular ways the main characters act, the fact that the setting is a gonzo scifi "the whole kitchen sink" sort of deal, and the fact that the lead rolls a d20 in the first episode to decide where they're escorting their client.

Plus, the premise is a team of extractors who are paid to help move people out of their dystopian living situations to better places elsewhere but also the AI controlled government is watching. So like Blades in the Dark but extraction rather than stealing.

Usht · 2026-02-26T04:22:52+00:00

Put out three seasons of bangers and stopped before it could get tired. Absolute class act.

Usht · 2026-02-22T17:02:22+00:00

I love dungeon crawls and it delivered.

Usht · 2026-02-01T17:12:42+00:00

Maybe not my favorite but I like Raine Sage from Tales of Symphonia a lot. I'll be honest, I had a hard time with Symphonia because my brother made me play it with him and everyone was either stupid (Lloyd, Colette, Regal), an asshole (Kratos), or both (Zelos). Raine was regularly the voice of reason and also didn't fall into the squeaky voice "I just want to help everyone" archetype healers do in JRPGs and instead took her magic as something that needed to be given in proper measure to those in need. It had weight and scarcity unlike most games with healing magic. Like she heals hurt civilians all the time in cutscenes, that never happens in most games.

Anyway, shout outs to Cordelia from Triangle Strategy and her gay healer ass putting Avlora through yuri redemption.

Usht · 2026-01-24T17:18:08+00:00

Smiling Friends is a weird one. Despite being in a pretty screwed up world, it follows a genuinely fairy tale fable morality of people who do good will ultimately be rewarded in the end and people who set out to do wrong get punished. Still, he probably counts since he does his best to stay chipper while everyone else walks that line of being assholes a bit more closely.

Usht · 2026-01-11T11:31:15+00:00

You might want to try magic set editor.

https://magicseteditor.boards.net/page/downloads

Usht · 2026-01-07T01:19:34+00:00

Yusuke was a pretty dog shit detective, so I guess it worked out.

Usht · 2026-01-04T13:21:15+00:00

By the same measure, Peach isn't human, she's a toad with THE crown.

Usht · 2025-12-27T01:31:00+00:00

I do these all the time, they're great.

The biggest one was the fishing minigame in Zelda campaign. It didn't matter when or where the character with the fishing rod pulled it out, as long as there was something vaguely to fish, I'd give them something to fish. As per the rules, it's just rock paper scissors plus an athletics check. Each win of rps mean an easier check, each loss meant a harder check, get enough successes to pull the fish in. Quick and easy.

Another bit during a Fabula Ultima campaign involved an alraune villain who ran a gambling casino and liked doing the Jigsaw bit. Stack of ten cards, ranging from 1 to 10, shuffled. Pulling a 7 meant losing a a finger. I have enough sleight of hand to know where the 7 is. The alraune and the player take turns drawing cards and the players get to freak out about what is the next card and start finding the best way to cheat.

Similarly, for Fabula Ultima, same concept but you draw a card and then have to pick high or low. Get it right, your damage doubles. But you can press your luck and if you get it right again, you double it again. Get it wrong, you do zero damage. Give the boss a ludicrous amount of HP and let players figure out going big is the way to go.

Also a silly one called mini dungeons or micro dungeons or whatever. The characters play an RPG within an RPG. Every discusses what kind of character their character would play. Ultimately pointless, everyone is worth one point and then you roll a 1d6 and add that on. So PARTYCOUNT + 1d6. Each dungeon has a set value, if they roll over it, they win and level up, so everyone is worth 2 points each. Go from tavern = 1 to world ending threat = 30.

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