u/VoidFireDragon

In the Cybram ending of the first game they destroy the settings access to FTL travel and communication, essentially destroying the UEF, the Aeon Illuminate, and their own nation. With the hope that once everything is running again after a few years the Cybram would lose the least in the ensuing chaos.

Its a fairly renegade maneuver all things considered.

No, that is a different alien.

Er well, technically not fae. But Satan (straight up) shows up in Star Trek: the animated series, and claims responsibility for most human beliefs in magic when he tried to teach it to humanity. Jist plot, he is the last of his species that still likes humans because the last time they tried to visit ended with the Salem witch trials.

"Sokath, his eyes uncovered"

Sorry, watching order was from a joke prior to the Disney trilogy.

But technically there are 13, with Solo, Rogue One, and the Ewok movies. Oh, and the Mando movie, so I guess 14.

Best watching order is IV, V, I, III, VI.

But since you have done one and two, three to Six in chronological order should be fine.

Not nessasarily, Combat could be entirely optional, and so it doesn't matter how difficult it actually is.

An alternative is agency in what battles the party chooses. If say you have the options between fighting waking dead in the Vale of Shadows, or exploring for treasure in the Valley of Drakes, then the party opted to deal with skeletons or a dragon.

Without the choice the question is meaningless.

So the real question, do you support the choice?

I think we should be able to choose between living and dying, and it doesn't need to be less simple than that.

I mean, how many of us watch the same shows from 20+ years ago all over again because modern TV sucks?

Would it really be so bad to just do that more?

I just bring this up because, it gets boring doesn't really work like that in practice. We are ultimately creatures of pattern and habbit.

Hm, Is Naboo vs the Trade Federation an example of this, where Naboo's pilots and security forces are mostly dudes in uniforms, battle droids as much as I love them look inpractical as hell.

I always read the UEF as more American interventionalism. President pushing hard for Black Sun cause its an election year, and being on the surface being about ending war, by blowing stuff up which is the dubious bit.

That being said I always read it as all three factions kinda suck, with the Cybran nation being the least bad, since they just want to destroy civilization, and not making it weird.

Samus Aran, I am using Red as a placeholder, but it seems to fit decently. Blue, and Yellow would be my other leanings

Johnson, my initial thought is Blue, guardian and whatnot. That being said green would be army colors.

Marcus, Silver would match his fighting pike.

Cat, my honest answer would be whatever matches his outfit, which would change every planet. Red, Blue, and Purple all have good arguments.

On Vi getting back to the commune to tell Jinx, I have 2 ideas. 1. Vi figured Caitlyn was there, and was out to talk to her, in that case Vi planted the idea of the plan. And Jinx has already has enough of an idea to work with or kill Caitlyn without Vi needing to go back for it. 2. Vi does have to 'tell' Vander. Caitlyn introducing herself alone wouldn't necessarily work. So Vi going back to figure out Vander not attacking her would be a functional excuse.

Retcons of Arcane at this point would be a compounded error. So I would be fully against that. -Myself last time this came up

I can only speak for my D&D tastes,
But I tend to prefer evil gods as they map better to the Greek-Roman-Norse mythology stuff that I find amusing. There are plenty of religious concepts that try to justify god's cruelty, and recall that older religions had a focus on rituals to appease natural forces.

In that vein, Talos the Stormlord, Umberlee the Bitch Queen of the Sea, The god of war Kratos, all feel very on brand.

Personally what I do, since this is usually for character writing, why do you see yourself a good or reasonable while being a member of the Cult of Rakdos? Gods of natural forces could be appeasable, or part of a larger system, and gods can always be capable of kindness to their worshipers and cruel to those that disrespect them.

Oh, then there is the last thing, Evil gods work better as final hazard for heroes.

This whole thing is weird because Batman does kill, he just is doesn't believe its an end goal.

Sidious would have executed him for betraying the Empire, probably by drowning him in molten copper.

If you want the most direct comparison, Take a look at Five Torches Deep.

It uses the same core mechanics of 5e, d20 tests, bounded accuracy species and classes, etc. But it's only about 100 pages long for the equivalent of a PHB, DMG and Monster Manual.

D&D still has alot of complexity and more importantly bloat.

It's really weird that this is creature combat related.

Really it should be a pacificm that gives the creature's controller life gain and card draw.

Possitively Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles. It taught me that getting to mission 6 of 10 but too difficult to finish could be an enjoyable experience as a kid. And Plo Koon with an orange lightsaber was badass.

Negatively, Star Wars episode 1 the video game. I have the phrase 'time puzzles' seared into my mind.

Ekko has the problem as he is written to act like he believes. This makes him come off as jarring when the whole point of Arcane is people's believes don't survive contact with the enemy.

Where a thing people miss is Caitlyn and Ekko have the same arc, but because Ekko actually believes stuff he doesn't need much other than a chance to introspect.

"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever" - Koth, of the hammer

What kinda battlefront timeline is this nonsense?

I mean, Windu beat the shit out of a droid army with his bare hands. The lightsaber is mostly for style.

Interest requires contrast.

The biggest writting problem with factions that aren't Noxus is failing to provide an alternative.

Where this everyone is actually evil and no one has any principles has gotten old.

Other regions need to have compleling narratives, or there isn't any tension when they come to conflict.