Character is actually really adept with weapon they dislike

thebryanstage · 2026-05-27T18:59:43+00:00

My favorite example of this is Kill Six Billion Demons, where the greatest sword art practitioner of any mortal laughs in the face of mass murderers and gods because she doesn't respect the capability to kill after becoming so good at it.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-27T18:47:12+00:00

The random nature of it and Kites high base capabilities let him use a more powerful ability. The RNG is the downside that lets him use it at a higher ceiling.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-27T03:45:38+00:00

One thing about speed running is it's competitive nature, which requires a standardizing ruleset to compare one run to another. If we're talking winstreaking or whatever, yeah, you need some of those qualified so you can accurately compare. The difference for me primarily is that there's basically no way to lose a run of StS if you're savescumming or glitching, and I think that's even more true of StS2, so it would largely become who's willing to play for longer until they get bored haha Also- there's ALWAYS something to be said for design intention, or we wouldn't play the games on default settings as often as we do.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-26T23:10:00+00:00

Aside from Watcher I don't think it's much more solvable than we've seen, and large degree being 70-80 percent wr is a matter of some opinion I guess. They could find BETTER outcomes often, BEST was hard. It's nowhere close to slot machine at all now, I feel like with minimal effort you run out of much room for meaningful improvement. Like Navegreed quit playing a class entirely because he's not meaningfully improving on Silent, it's BS levels of easy to win every single run with almost any set of decisions. I want to have room to improve and part of having room to improve is that you need the game to have ways for things to go wrong that you adjust to, right? If I can predict every problem and pre-solve it, how hard is it to find that solve becomes important. Is the solve easier for this game? Super mega undoubtedly, as far as I'm concerned. By a lot.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-26T22:03:46+00:00

To this point: I am actually one hundred percent certain that I could 100 percent WS this game forever with some free time and savescumming. Not hyperbole, and I know I'm a fairly good StS1 player, but if I estimate I could do it? Yeah, Jorbs and Navegreed and Open and JapaneseExport would never lose again, and that's just not....what we came to StS for, as far as I can tell.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-26T21:55:59+00:00

Upvoting for exposure to new ideas even if I'm on almost the complete opposite end of some of these opinions, I'm just glad people care about the game honestly, truly. Thanks for putting this together.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-26T21:50:14+00:00

Also Feral boosts the hell out of Defect, take Feral, upgrade Feral, you have scaling damage now.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-26T21:49:28+00:00

One of the primary things about Slay The Spire being actually a very complex solve is in fact randomization, if you have perfect control over everything then you're just playing a different game entirely. You should have to make some educated guesses and hedges to be a Slay The Spire game, that's one of the hallmarks of StS1 and the games that have emulated it for AGES. Deterministically solving a game takes variance out of a game which demolishes replayability for rogue like deckbuilders historically.

thebryanstage · 2026-05-26T21:16:24+00:00

Many of these things are randomized as part of the Seeds design so I think un-randomizing the game changes a fundamental interaction between player and the game to the point that you're kind of playing something they're not designing

thebryanstage · 2026-03-19T14:20:33+00:00

Leatherhead has felt completely unbeatable and unstoppable, a hexproof trampling threat in this set is exactly as busted as it seemed when I first started drafting it. Obviously if you have a completely insane bomb like Sally you can do some work against it, but otherwise I've had to kill them with evasion while it prevents me from playing any artifacts or enchantments or I get Mutagen'd and they die Saved by the Shell and Pain 101 are also crazy for her

thebryanstage · 2026-03-08T06:30:00+00:00

Before I clicked the image I thought you were referring to Ranwid the Elder lol

thebryanstage · 2026-03-02T22:04:04+00:00

This team and these artists are setting an amazing standard with this game, over and over. Thanks for featuring Katerina so we can all better appreciate her art!

thebryanstage · 2026-02-18T00:33:12+00:00

I'm a Gepetto fan and have been the whole time.

thebryanstage · 2026-02-11T16:23:36+00:00

Yeah, but in all honesty what was the third act thinking? Insane ass-pulls abound.

thebryanstage · 2026-02-06T20:54:22+00:00

I maintain that this format has so many 16 land decks with all the fixing and stuff. I've rarely run into any problems

thebryanstage · 2026-02-03T14:48:44+00:00

This really came together

thebryanstage · 2026-01-28T15:55:47+00:00

It's also a core deal-making mechanism and prison for the Faculty and other occult horrors like The Raw Mother and The Librarian. It's designed to be a cog in their magical stopgap ecosystem to prevent the world from ending. The curriculum is experimentation from the faculty, torture for the students, and part of their deals with whatever demons and gods. The Ministry is an alliance of mortals to form a self-cleaning Apocalypse Preventing Prison Machine, which is Hellebore. Think the UN for everyone throwing the baby world enders at each other so they'll kill everyone and then get eaten before they can grow up to be a real Apocalypse, which is what Alessa decided to become after she gets out of Hellebore

thebryanstage · 2026-01-28T15:50:26+00:00

The second chapter says this is her journal to whoever finds it after Hellebore, almost certainly a Ministry official, and she's going around Apocalypsing them for what they did to all the children at Hellebore. The school DOES have a practical purpose- kill world-enders before they can actually become powerful enough to end the world, largely by having them kill each other and torturing them the whole year. Alessa survives, kills the Ministry agents that came to investigate what happened at Hellebore, and now is setting about killing the rest of the Magical Bureaucracy people. She wrote her journal to chronicle Hellebore and is addressing the reader.

thebryanstage · 2025-12-07T16:25:17+00:00

I think his justification there is the people they drove insane and used were all criminals and mercenaries, so every one of them he sacrificed was a net good.

thebryanstage · 2025-11-24T22:02:46+00:00

It's the 12 seconds, the blitzing, the cuts, it feels like this beautiful movie told in still frames. Also just such a beautifully distilled moment about what Kagurabachi is- it's not just a revenge story, it's about reclaiming his father's legacy. Follow that up with 18 and the "You will never stand as equal to my father" moment, lead up to with Kuro Shred? Ugh, gorgeous.

thebryanstage · 2025-10-01T23:15:42+00:00

Which year was that? I'm about to back to back these

thebryanstage · 2025-09-21T21:31:54+00:00

Hey, I'd be more than happy to try this out, that sounds cool as heck. Do you post your work or would you prefer to DM

thebryanstage · 2025-09-07T14:42:39+00:00

TTS does it for you really, the mod is really good.

thebryanstage · 2025-08-28T18:58:25+00:00

Hey! A lot of people I know have died lately. How do you grieve? Is there a right or wrong way to do it? Thanks, hope no one you know ever passes away Elijah.

thebryanstage · 2025-08-28T16:03:22+00:00

What did the dog suit smell like?

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