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burning-bubble-tea · 4 months

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I had someone rant to me about their dnd game and it was fine n all and I had fun overall but I was biting my tongue because they were recounting how their group got mad at them out of character for almost causing a tpk due to their bad decision making which they purposely did because it was “in character” to do so.

Like I’m conflicted because yes this can cause some cool angst and what not and having them go off and tell me their characters entire backstory non stop for fifteen minutes put it in context of the story but the very fact that the group got upset means there has been miscommunication and this person may be unintentionally prioritizing their own character over the groups fun.

I believe the entire group’s fun is the first priority and thus if your edgy character’s lashing out doesn’t involve the rest of the group in an interesting manner, then something may have gone awry.

I’ve had a similar experience (my DM follows this blog if you read this hi dm ily you handled the situation perfectly in my opinion) where an individual had a cool edgy character with trauma and angst which led them to do follow poor tactical decisions and it over all just was not the best at prioritizing the entire group’s fun.

Both situations are like when characters trying to be played as the cool lone wolf just doesn’t work. Like the lone wolf can work but you can’t have a character that hates the entire party. I had that issue with a character before. I made a character that was a firm city dweller and then all of a sudden the group decided to leave the city and head into the middle of the wilderness after just meeting and I had a hard time finding reasons as to why my character would stay with them because realistically in character they would not have stayed. But that comes second to the group’s fun. So I figured it and out found a reason. (Though I do sorta regret putting all my character’s plot hooks in the city cause the moment we left the city it was just like whoops my character has immediately faded into the background).

Edgy characters can be fun for the entire group, but if your character is going to have a violent lashing out due to angst or trauma, there should be open communication with the group before hand in my opinion. Currently we’re playing with a character who has a cursed sword that is causing the character to become violent. But it’s so fun for the entire group! It’s like a bunch of dummies trying to figure out ways to fix the curse and failing miserably as the curse gets worse and a sense of dread sets in.

My character has been able to find out more about the curse, another has been snooping around and is curious about the curse to the point of causing in game annoyance between characters. All the characters are invested and involved in the curse one way or another, it’s not a storyline that is for a single player, we are all effected my the curse because we don’t want our friend to kill is in our sleep but we also all make fun of the character for being cursed.

Tl;dr I think that being in character in a way that’s both fun/not detrimental to fun (cause like sometimes you gotta deal with a little boring just cause it makes sense sometimes) is more important than your cool edgy character having an angst moment. Cause at a certain point, just write fanfiction babes. And you can still have your cool edgy moments, just make sure either the table knows about it and better yet involve them in it. Don’t get them killed unless it would be fun for both people to do so.

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lampmanliveblogs · 1 year

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A few things to unpack here, and unlike what I spent the majority of the previous post talking about, these things are actually important to the plot and characters!

So first and foremost, neither Luz, nor Hunter seem to be doing all that well. Which is to be expected after what they’ve been through recently. Luz listed a few of them. She feels guilty for having helped Philip find The Collector’s disc.

As I mentioned previously, Hunter really does not want the others to find out about him being a grimwalker.

Of note is that he seems to have figured out that he is indeed a clone of someone Philip knew, another human who was also a witch hunter. So he’s got double the reason for him not wanting the witch kids to find out.

Now, he’s missing some important context. Like, you know, the fact that Caleb wasn’t a witch hunter, but a much kinder soul than his brother Philip. Also, I feel like the kids would be savvy enough to realize that a clone of a witch hunter does not a witch hunter make.

(speaking of Caleb & Philip: we’re obviously going to learn more about them and their backstory. At the very least I’d like to know the name of Caleb’s awesome girlfriend. I am also still holding out hope that the prediction I made all the way back in Yesterday’s Lie will come true and that Jacob Hopkins or the Gravesfield Historical Society will play a role in that. Jacob obviously wouldn’t know what went on in the Demon Realm, but he might know enough to make Gus put the puzzle pieces togehter with the memories he saw when he used his trauma spell on Philip)

And don’t think I missed that we have Luz & Hunter worrying about what the others will think of them, and we cut to this shot of Amity and Willow, their respective love interests.

Pictured: One of the guys in your DnD group brought his girlfriend who knows nothing about DnD with him for a session and now she has no idea what’s going on.

I like this screenshot, because it looks like ”Philip” is about to jump into the garbage where he belongs. It’s subtle imagery like that that makes me appreciate this show all the more.

I wanna take a brief moment to mention another one of my theories/predictions.

It’s obvious that this exile to the Human Realm will not be permanent, our group of Exiles will find themselves back in the world of demons and magic. Camila even said as much right now. But the big question is ”how?”

Exactly how the portal door works was never really explained, but there is one component that we know for a fact is needed that it cannot function without, and that is Titan’s Blood. Now, we do have a Titan, and one who would be willing to donate a bit of his blood if it meant bringing Luz & the gang back, but I have a feeling he might be a bit busy dealing with his new best friend.

There is still the possibility that King will somehow manage to open a new portal, maybe with a bit of help from Eda & Lilith. But again, King might be busy playing Owl House with his new friend, the celestial toymaker.

Is there any way for the Exiles to get to the Demon Realm? Not without Titan’s Blood, and there is no Titan’s Blood in the Human Realm… that we know of. Hear me out here: at some point in the past, after Philip created the portal, but before he lost it, he could have made a short trip back into the Human Realm and hid some Titan’s Blood there.

And while I’m making wild, unsupported guesses… Jacob had a history book showing a building similar to where the Gravesfield Historical Society now resides from somewhere around the early 1600s, meaning that building has been around for a long time.

Is it a bit of a stretch? It’s a lot of a stretch, but it’s the only realistic way I can think of how the kids would get back to the Demon Realm. I’m probably hilariously wrong, but whatever. If I keep making predictions, eventually one of them will be at least sorta right.

Of course Gus is losing his mind over all these cool human artifacts. Good to see him being happy again, we love to see it.

Continuing on with the trend of me noticing tiny background details and missing things in the foreground: I immediately noticed what looks like a wedding photograph on the shelf there, but didn’t notice the box that says ”Manny” until I rewound the scene to get a better screenshot. I’m gonna go ahead and wager that is the name of Camila’s late husband and Luz’ father.

Manny is, of course, a shortened form of Emmanuel, a hebrew name that means ”God is with us.” It’s also slang for a male nanny. I knew these things beforehand and did not need to look them up.

Speaking of things I already knew and did not need to look up, the little flag in the box is the flag of Puerto Rico and the big flag on the wall is the flag of the Dominican Republic.

Hm… is this a joke, or a trauma response?

Although to be fair, I feel like a lot of people react like that whenever they hear an alarm clock. Still, it’s too bad none of these kids know any construction magic, because, ah… I feel like that hole in the floor is just the first of a long series of damages to Camila’s house.

#the owl house #liveblog #the owl house liveblog #toh s3e1 #thanks to them

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