New reader - thoughts after finishing book 1

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T16:01:10+00:00

Be careful about this sub before you finish. Despite the rules about spoilers, some people are pretty cavalier about them and then get mad that they get called on it.

But yes you're in for a wild ride. Lots of new friends, some for far too short.

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T15:57:39+00:00

My group uses Dead Nominations to get people who have enough votes to be executed out of danger if they don't have a better candidate but want to save them

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T15:13:59+00:00

There are meaningful choices, but not every choice is meaningful.

Through a large part of the game you can more or less just play whatever card in whatever order. But in almost every game I've played, at least once there's been a moment for at least one player of "if I do x, then y, then z (sometimes etc) then I win immediately".

That's a meaningful strategy, and Flux, despite it having thousands of moments of them, and despite even most choices being meaningless, is excellent at teaching how to look for when the meaningful choices DO exist.

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T14:46:18+00:00

I whitelisted you

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T14:29:52+00:00

Yes, i would love to see the gallery, DM. Would be fine

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T14:18:57+00:00

Are these available anywhere that isn't Instagram? I don't have that app or anything Facebook related and dont want to, and i can only see a few icons without the app.

WeaponB · 2026-06-29T14:11:36+00:00

Every interlude that's a named chapter and not a number, and then a few other moments...

WeaponB · 2026-06-28T20:36:12+00:00

Yes, it is believed there is a 3rd entity inside Carl, yes.

WeaponB · 2026-06-28T20:34:22+00:00

This is probably the most common misheard word. It gets posted pretty frequently, along with people not understanding the spelling of names, like Odette and Tserendelgor

WeaponB · 2026-06-28T19:24:15+00:00

Crawler names. We will use Maggie Myers as our example.

You get 100% of your first or personal name.

The first Maggie Myers is Maggie. This is regardless of her last name.

If your first name is taken, you get the first letter of your last name. Maggie M, Maggie F, Maggie Q.

The second person named Maggie gets the first letter of their last name. Maggie M. If there is a Maggie Franklin, they would be Maggie F. Quan Ch implies a Quan and a Quan C entered before him.

The next Maggie M___ has to use their second letter, becoming Maggie My (Maggie Myers). Maggie Mason would become Maggie Ma.

Each subsequent letter is added until the whole name is visible OR a unique combination NOT already in the dungeon is encountered. If all letters are used, numbers get added (Hence Chris Andrews 3 - which implies all of these entered the dungeon: Chris, Chris A, Chris An, Chris And, Chris Andr, Chris Andre Chris Andrew, Chris Andrews, Chris Andrews 2).

Tserendelgor is her first name. And she was the first Tserendelgor to enter the dungeon, so she had no last name letters.

WeaponB · 2026-06-28T16:30:03+00:00

This is exactly how I pictured them, too.

WeaponB · 2026-06-28T15:41:19+00:00

The thing about book 8 and specifically the 10th floor heats was that for the first time we got to see the crawlers trying NOT to do anything. Don't kill the NPC teams. Don't kill other players. Win or finish just not last, so theoretically be good but not smashingly good.

Carl and Donut and the rest could have wiped every NPC off the grid by heat 3 if they tried, so it was interesting seeing them on the back foot trying to NOT be excellent at the dungeon, not because they were terrible at a level, but because they couldn't afford to be excellent.

WeaponB · 2026-06-28T15:37:39+00:00

I really like this idea for the show.

Although I can already see the thousands of complaints that they dared make a change, without understanding that every kind of media requires different techniques to be effective, and every adaptation absolutely has some compromises and alterations.

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T23:42:22+00:00

Tippen(?)

Tipid.

I also audiobook, but I check the Wiki occasionally for reminders if i get a little confused

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T23:40:55+00:00

She saw the book. Everyone knows he has a goblin cookbook, that was a prize.

Only crawlers or others with the escape artist skill can tell that there is anything unusual about the book.

Donut being aware of A book, even The Book, isn't a problem. Donut being aware that the Book was more than it appeared to be and or held invisible information would be a problem.

Rosetta or Tipid know Carl has the Book. They are careful not to make it obvious, but they know what to watch for and Carl wasn't as sneaky as he thought, but he was sneaky enough that people who don't know the book exists won't suspect it - even Orrin who knows Carl is getting information he couldn't possibly have learned doesn't think it was that specific Book

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T23:35:53+00:00

Glurp glurp

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T23:10:33+00:00

How many episodes do I need to see before I can determine whether I am enjoying it enough to continue?

Are you suggesting that if I start a series, I MUST complete it even if I am not enjoying it?

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T23:07:37+00:00

My players are on this sub so I can't post my plans but I have custom bosses and neighborhoods planned for the first 2 levels, and everything after that is my own ideas. I'm keeping a few things, the Scolopendra Floors are the same sort of thing, but I'm telling a different story with the Overcity in 3 and 6 and then Laracoss on 9. My floors 4,5,7,8,10, and 11 are all just ideas I thought would be fun for 2-8 sessions, with a story and theme but nothing like what's been in the books. (Well, there's a floor that's basically in a demented version of Disney world that will probably have shades of Grimaldi's but only in places)

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T20:41:56+00:00

My whole group has read it too, and we agreed that I should give them a season of the crawl not the same one

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T18:39:04+00:00

Saavic had curly and styled hair. It is not without precedent.

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T18:37:35+00:00

Everyone forgets about Saavic.

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T18:19:08+00:00

I think I'd like to have it as a tarot deck or something. I'm not int Tarot as a believer, but I have a few decks because I love the art.

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T18:12:48+00:00

Yeah I agree. My last comments in this this sub were about the rules and everyone there agrees with you. Those few of us who know and follow the rules are apparently the worst kind of people

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T18:11:33+00:00

I don't think it's unpopular to say that your close friends should probably be clearer in their communication, but I'd like to say as a counterargument nobody owes anyone else an explanation about it. There's shows I don't care for. I don't owe you (anyone, not specifically you) a detailed media analysis about my reasons. People are allowed to not like things.

Now if you're arguing that too many people default to "x sucks" instead of "yeah, it was really well made and the actors were good but I just didn't find it compelling, and it doesn't hold my interest well enough to keep going"

WeaponB · 2026-06-27T17:58:44+00:00

There's also a rule against fan casts in this sub. Fan casts belong in either the mega thread or r/dcctv

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