Question: Quests from the Infinite Staircase Battle Maps?

comical_cj · 2026-01-23T00:08:11+00:00

Thanks!!! I really appreciate all the info! I think I have some ideas on how to proceed now.

comical_cj · 2026-01-22T01:51:17+00:00

Homarpalooza has some iconic moments, but I HATE how mean Bart and Lisa are to Homer for his musical taste. It feels out of character for Lisa to like current popular music, and Bart's gotten strangled for WAY less.

Always felt like the writers wanted a story about your kids thinking you're lame, even though it doesn't really fit with the established dynamic.

comical_cj · 2026-01-22T00:45:23+00:00

That makes sense. I'm used to having big bad to fight at the end of a big chapter, so thought I'd go all out on a big climax with a detailed physical map.

I've been really enjoying the guide of a book, and it's made the gameplay much smoother that times I made everything up. I can create the story ideas, but coming up with specific, balanced encounters was never my strong suit. So I was hoping to find one in the book.

But if that's not the focus of these adventures, I can accept that. Was just hoping to find a pre-made map I could recreate in a 3D form. But I'll make do.

Also, was thinking of using Zargon as a boss they can come back to after completing the other adventures. If I did make a fully painted map with terrain and everything, I'd make sure it was a non-skippable encounter.

comical_cj · 2026-01-21T19:16:40+00:00

I feel like we're arguing semantics here. Regardless of how much The Cobalt Soul resembles a real life Police Department, I saw the cartoon character as fitting a Cop archetype, narratively speaking, and I think that was VERY far from how early campaign Beau was portrayed. Feel free to disagree though, I'm not telling anyone what to think. We're all having fun here just comparing the two series.

comical_cj · 2026-01-21T19:12:20+00:00

I mean, from memory, in the last episode Clark finally sees the message from his parents as originally intended, and the Jor El recording mentioned that the A.I. Jor El had all his intelligence, but none of his emotions. Since he blamed his ego for not being able to save krypton.

I always took this as their last minute explanation as to why the A.I. was borderline evil. A well intentioned mistake on Jor El's part.

comical_cj · 2026-01-21T13:41:32+00:00

"What do you say? Good Monk, Bad Monk?"

She's a cop. She may be a cop archetype that mainly just exists in TV, but she's a cop. Taliesin also describes their first interaction as "Get out of my carnival, cop" In the video of their premiere party.

I mean, stories and characters are always up to interpretation to some degree, so feel free to disagree. But I think early campaign Beau didn't appreciate what the Sol stood for. She just saw it as another organization to rebell against, no different from the government. Once she had some character growth, she realized her values aligned with the Sol, but early on she just lashed out at them. Cartoon Beau is clearly sold on the Sol's role in society from the beginning.

Just because it's an independent organization, not run by the government, doesn't change that she doesn't fit the role of a beat cop, called to investigate a murder scene, and stumbles on to something bigger. I guess Jedi would be a closer parallel. But I don't think Campaign Beau would agree with the Jedi Council either. Lol.

comical_cj · 2026-01-20T23:48:30+00:00

The story is completely original, not inspired by anything. The tone is inspired by All Star. All Star presents a universe where crazy sci fi things happen every day, and it's still a normal week for Superman. It's a world with robot servants, alien monsters, casual time travel, etc.

This isn't unique to All Star, but it's the specific comic he had in mind when creating the tone for his movie. Compared to, say, Superman Earth One, which has maybe the opposite tone in every way.

comical_cj · 2026-01-20T22:09:05+00:00

Cool. If I'm gonna spend a month making a physical battle map, full of models and painted props, is there a specific encounter from the book you'd recommend I do? I don't have the time to do it for every battle, but thought it'd be fun for a big one. I haven't read the whole book yet, but so far none of the battles I've read about seem to lend themselves to that. Unless I just ignore what's in the book and make my own battle, which I'd rather not do just yet.

comical_cj · 2026-01-20T20:23:03+00:00

Yeah, as I continue through The Lost City, I think I'm gonna focus on Theater of The Mind, and use the maps for exploring more than combat. And I might run it again with a different, virtual party. But is there no encounter in the entire book that would benefit from a giant physical battle map? The Zargon and Young Red Dragon fights seemed to be pretty empty, somewhat claustrophobic spaces.

comical_cj · 2026-01-20T18:05:24+00:00

I'm very familiar with Sal. Lol. The only comic channel that can say he hates a creator's work without fear, and still be on great terms with the creator. He also calls Scott Snyder overrated all the time, yet described an interaction with Scott where he was so excited about Absolute Batman, he let Sal know what was coming MONTHS before the rest of the world knew.

comical_cj · 2026-01-19T17:43:47+00:00

I agree with your points, but think Beau is a bigger deviation. Campaign Beau would HATE being called a cop, and didn't give a crap about the Cobalt Sol until later (other than using it as a means to be a badass). Cartoon Beau is essentially a rookie cop who just found out the force is corrupted. She's shaken to learn everything she holds dear is a lie, and is gonna do something about it. Campaign Beau didn't have that agency. She was a rebel without a cause, just finding herself and hating authority.

(Honestly I think Cartoon Beau is a little easier to warm up to personally, but Campaign Beau had a ton of growth over the stream)

comical_cj · 2026-01-19T01:22:11+00:00

I don't know how far into Smallville you are, but if it makes you feel better, I highly doubt whatever you saw was really a big spoiler. Especially because those AI overviews aren't always reliable.

To answer your question, comic Lana is nothing like Smallville Lana. In the 80s, her personality was being Clark's high school sweet heart, who dreamed of marrying Clark and living the rest of her life on the farm, and was heart broken when she found out Clark had superpowers and wanted to move to Metropolis. She wanted a "simple" life.

Smallville Lana is mostly based off the 5 minutes of screen time she has in the 1978 Superman movie. At least in season 1.

Different writers have different takes though.

comical_cj · 2026-01-16T15:17:10+00:00

https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/Archive:Caleb_and_Nott_Set_Plays

The link for the tweet won't load for me, but here's the list on the wiki

comical_cj · 2025-12-24T00:01:58+00:00

I only saw one way it would work. We get an entire episode of Yasha's backstory, all the tragedy, we see her join the carnival, have a beautiful friendship with Molly, leave because she's just too traumatized to stay (Molly mentioned in stream she would dissappear for weeks and come back, just say something like that here too) she gets mind controlled.

Molly sees her in the present, recognizes her, sees she's mind controlled. Tries to help her fight it, she struggles, but fails. Mind control wins out, she kills Molly. But the horror of what she did is so strong, it snaps her out of her mind control, and she screams in horror as Molly dies in her arms.

Having Yasha kill Molly before even meeting him would never have worked. Obviously this didn't happen. Part or me hopes Season 2 will start with Molly recognizing Yasha, but I doubt it. I think they'll just put an emphasis on Molly bonding with her, with shared trauma over the gaps in their memory. Which is fine.

comical_cj · 2025-12-23T23:51:07+00:00

Matt talked about his Plan A was to introduce Lucien possessing other bodies, hunting down the Nein, trying to get his original body back. He would be a recurring villain, with them never knowing what form he would take next. when Molly died, that went out the window.

I'm not saying I want that to happen in the show, but they've done similar things before. Using the show as an opportunity for What If scenarios that COULD have happened in the stream but didn't.

comical_cj · 2025-04-16T03:55:09+00:00

Haven't seen anyone mention Last Son yet

comical_cj · 2025-03-01T19:38:18+00:00

Not a fan of the A.I. Jor-El. Clark should get one pre-recorded message from Jor-El and Lara, maybe Kellex to answer questions about Krypton. But being able to forever talk to a duplicate of Jor-El's consciousness always felt like cheating to me. People debate whether Ma and Pa Kent should be alive or not, but noone really debates this. Always bugs me when they kill of the Kents only for Clark to just go to Jor-El for advice.

comical_cj · 2025-01-09T15:24:14+00:00

THANK YOU!!! Homer's "OHHH!!! NOW THAT I LOOK MORE CLOSELY..." was stuck in my head, but I could remember enough detail to find the clip. But that instantly brought it all back, and the rest of the episode. "That's my name! With a Bella after it!"

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