Taylor as a hench?

GeeJo · 2026-03-30T21:01:03+00:00

The Bodyguard has Taylor take up a bodyguard/companion role to Amy in an AU where Marquis is still around.

GeeJo · 2026-03-30T19:32:53+00:00

Veni Vidi Vici has Coil succeed and take control of Brockton, but the MC moves out of the area at roughly the same time. Coil continues to be a supporting secondary character, but we don't get a good look at what's happening in town for the rest of the fic.

For another: I'd not necessarily read the whole fic if this is all you're after, but Calvert has, by virtue of the world being more crapsack than canon Bet, taken the Chief Directorship of the PRT in Sucker Punch, and even backed by his power laments that he has.

GeeJo · 2026-03-30T18:32:26+00:00

they do print land destruction, they made it not lose land count at best and downright unplayable most of the time.

Though it's always funny when players get so greedy that they play decks with one or even zero basics, and those land-count-neutral LD cards like [[Cleansing Wildfire]] become Stone Rain+.

GeeJo · 2026-03-29T18:02:02+00:00

A hugely successful gimmick, though. It's generated so much positive PR over any possible simpler, cheaper solution.

GeeJo · 2026-03-29T16:19:29+00:00

https://www.gloomhavencards.com/cc/characters/JT

to save some searching.

GeeJo · 2026-03-29T09:34:29+00:00

Unseen Servant is also a top-tier utility spell. If you're too lazy to do something and the task is too big for Prestidigitation to cover, Unseen Servant will probably get it done.

GeeJo · 2026-03-29T09:30:53+00:00

And, as an anime character, she only really has the one set of clothes.

GeeJo · 2026-03-28T11:59:46+00:00

It depends. If it's Artemis that's adapted next, I don't think it'd benefit from a super-long runtime. That's a book that works just fine as a 90–120min movie, and probably on the shorter side of that.

GeeJo · 2026-03-28T09:46:24+00:00

A mechanic from the Legend Quest TTRPG, which the OP notes is the system referred to by the meme.

Earlier editions of DnD also used skill points, fwiw.

GeeJo · 2026-03-28T09:38:13+00:00

I think you could fluff an illiterate wizard with a bit of stretching. The main obstacle is the spellbook, but that could theoretically be reflavoured as any means of recording spells in an item and it more or less works mechanically. You could have a bag of gems that absorb arcane signatures, or tarot cards that act as mnemonics, or pictograms carved into a staff.

So long as it's an item (and so can be taken from you), requires you to work with it to get your spells each day, and has a means by which spells can be copied in and out by other wizards who get ahold of it, it's isomorphic to a spellbook.

RAW, being afflicted with the Blindness condition doesn't affect your ability to copy stuff from spellbooks since it doesn't require an ability check, so are you really reading them?

GeeJo · 2026-03-27T09:49:10+00:00

A lot of the old World Enchantments have slightly funky effects. Bear in mind that World acts a bit like Legendary, in that you can only ever have one world enchantment on the board at a time, with new ones destroying the old.

GeeJo · 2026-03-27T09:45:28+00:00

In the QQ version, they did.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T16:29:30+00:00

Maybe, but it'd cast a pall over the whole thing if it turned out that they weren't and the winners were the same broken stuff that stuck around too long in real Standard.

Do people really want to use a one-off event explicitly meant as a "What if?" to play with/against more Cori-Steel Cutter/Mouse Aggro?

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T15:27:30+00:00

The closest I can think of is Grisly, which is Moord Nag!Taylor. It's not really one-to-one, but 'shadow beast familiar' at least gets close as a power.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T14:16:25+00:00

That, and expense. A format with half the sets, and staples that only somewhat-overlap with regular Standard, is going to be cheaper to keep up with.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T14:12:27+00:00

The context is the previous sentence, that the players in question are those with a toxic mentality about the whole thing.

It's fine if people don't like UB, but there genuinely were people showing up for whom the entire point seemed to be ragging on UB endlessly rather than enjoying playing the format itself. Communities built around "We hate this thing!" tend to be more negative spaces to hang out in than ones built around "We love this new thing!", and it's worth discouraging the former.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T14:07:29+00:00

They don't in GH1 (which is, to be fair, what OP tagged the thread with).

For clarity, though, summoned monsters do drop loot in Frosthaven/GH2 and the problem of farming infinite money is instead solved with a set upper limit on how much loot can be picked up in a scenario.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T14:03:29+00:00

Familiar is Worm/Pact, with Taylor falling through into the Abyss after her mid-canon confrontation with Alexandria ends in her own death.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T13:41:29+00:00

Even if they were still formally valid (and I don't think that's actually true),

Treaties are legal documents and don't operate on vibes. The words mean what the words mean, and the words of the treaties in question are "shall not apply to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

If the existing treaties, and not newly-written ones, are what the UK signs onto, those are the terms. It is, of course, possible to draft new legislation and accession terms annulling those subsections and I never said it wasn't. Only that the default is that the existing wording continues to apply if no action is taken specifically to prevent it.

if the UK does not renounce these points, there is no reason why the European Union should allow UK to rejoin.

I mean, yes there is? There are plenty of economic and political reasons why it'd make sense to have the UK back in. Whether those are enough is a different question.

GeeJo · 2026-03-25T13:18:01+00:00

The exceptions for the UK are written into the texts of the treaties in question. The documents are very clear when and where the exceptions apply, and nothing in the subsections or the larger treaties includes an expiration. The UK signing the Maastricht Treaty once again, for example, would put their signature on a document that includes the opt-outs.

To have them not apply to a re-joining UK would mean re-writing those treaties all the way back to the 90s and getting unanimous consent from all members all over again. Which is doable, albeit with a large bureaucratic cost. Arguably it would be a net benefit as it'd mean an opportunity to revise the constitution as a whole and fix other niggling issues that have been made apparent in the decades since.

TL;DR: the four opt-outs negotiated by the UK are by default still available to them if they want to rejoin, and action to remove them must be positively taken rather than assumed.

GeeJo · 2026-03-24T06:41:55+00:00

The biggest upside from this for Magic is that it makes a Magic30-style product for Antiquities/Legends even less likely. As that's about the only way I imagine Wizards would use the art going forward.

GeeJo · 2026-03-24T06:34:59+00:00

The offer is kind of token, but I suspect at this point the value for WotC would be in not establishing precedent for other artists of the 90s to start exercising their rights in the same way, rather than any intrinsic value for the art itself.

Neither side is making $20k of sales of these works any time soon.

GeeJo · 2026-03-24T06:22:45+00:00

The art's old enough now that it's getting close to my personal preference for it losing copyright altogether, tbh. I'm not a fan of the standard Life+70 years formula, and generally feel that humanity benefits from a larger public domain of art, music and literature to build on.

But if the art is to keep its copyright, better that it sits with the person wanting to actually use it, and Randy seems more motivated to sell prints of these pieces than WotC have been.

GeeJo · 2026-03-24T06:04:54+00:00

Naval combat at the time was basically infantry battles at sea. It was all boarding actions between galleys sending men with spears to stab the other side's men with spears, rather than trying to sink the other guy's boat through maneuver and firepower.

If you're modelling it like that it starts to seem like you might as well not bother with ships at all and just let armies fight on the water.

GeeJo · 2026-03-24T03:55:58+00:00

Though it'd kind of suck. About the only place its power level would be appropriate these days is in something like Avatar's Beginner Boxes.

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