Bad Batch is really that. Rebels is its own thing, unless you wrap it with Ahsoka. Rebels had a mediocre first season but after that it’s definitely top tier material.
I opened two buried chests with fish in them in Kuo-toa land. I don’t care how freshly buried it was, that fish is rancid long before the mound of dirt gets flattened.
That is stated, but I’m not sure I’d consider the Netherbrain a reliable narrator. I feel like it was an attempt to intimidate the party. The sheer amount of secret knowledge and unlikely events that come together to begin freeing the brain at the end of A1 seems beyond the ability of an elder brain, which is all it would’ve been when it formed the plan.
The whole idea that it would use use an artifact that had only been seen once, very briefly, with no measurement or understanding of its true capabilities, to evolve itself into a being powerful enough to overcome the control it was submitting to as part of its plan… I know elder brains are scary smart, but this seems a ludicrous proposition.
Consider: what part of its plan could it not have achieved simply by tadpoling Gortash and anyone else to begin with?
Now it could be that what the brain says is canonically true and this is just weaker writing, but until I see confirmation I think the brain was trying to demoralize the party into thinking they’d always been dancing to the brain’s tune the whole time and everything they had done had been in service to its plot the whole time, when the truth is it has been (very capably) trying to regain the upper hand since Ketheric’s death.
Which sucks because he has all my lockpicking ability and a big chunk of my DPS and now he’s the only one who can’t fly. Maybe Minthara can respec as Gloomstalker and take his place. She was all about that worm. Didn’t even have to roll.
You make everyone take the astral worm? You are a monster lol. Lae’zel is one of my core characters and an absolute favorite and I can’t imagine bullying her into taking it. Besides at 22str I think she can jump about 60’ anyway.
I might try it because it sounds fun but oh man. Lae’zel and Karlach have been through enough! I could totally see Gale and Wyll and Halsin, though. It’s just that those three are never in my group except when needed for story reasons.
My first honor run ended when I forgot the hammer was on a different character, so I made bad dialog choices and got dominated by the Absolute for refusing to side with the emperor and kill Lae’zel.
Which was kinda dumb because I was all set to try sending Gale to his doom (gotta just finish once at all costs). I’ve never done that before but I had to be five minutes from the end if it works, and the lack of big O or the form change wouldn’t matter in the slightest. Hell I could - head canon - go back to camp and pop the guy free afterwards. Oh well. I’m back to the point of starting A3 now. These acts are so long… I have a ridiculous number of hours played and only finished the game once.
Those outer ring powers are pretty good, it’s worth saying. There’s a good likelihood I’ll make the same choice because honor run. I want to get the golden die and then I’ll go back to roleplay runs.
Plus it’s good to have things push me out of my comfort zone. I just finished act 2 and Thorm killed Jahira. It’s a bummer to miss out on her storyline stuff, but that’s something I’d never let stand if I could just reload so I’m in uncharted waters. I don’t know what things will be different. I assume I’ll never meet the big guy at a minimum. Maybe some sad dialog I’d never have experienced in A3. Maybe interactions with the Harpers will go differently.
I like the chaos that comes from consequences for impulsive decisions and randomness outside the players control. I’ve never let Isobel be taken - I’m way too good at that fight after like a dozen times - and if the dice went wildly against me I would be in uncharted territory which would be kinda exciting even though I would hate to let all of those individual storylines end on such an unhappy note. But that should just make me hate the Absolute even more, right?
I have yet to play an origin character other than durge. But it seems like it would make it easier to have everyone around for their bit of story. "Oops going into the magic shop need Gale. Here’s Jahira’s family, better grab her. Dammit, it’s Mizora, have to grab both Karlach and Wyll. Ugh, have to show this cave art to Shart.
Not even counting swapping in Gale when I need Feather Fall or buffing the party with Longstrider or Shart for Feast and Aid. I hate how cumbersome it is to swap characters. I know there are mods, but not on PS5.
At the Gondian factory. Pick up the plans and two parts, find the table, done. But I made two trips instead of finishing it in one and lost the plans between. Then I also managed to leave the orphic hammer behind and thus ended my honor run because I selected the wrong dialog option.
Thought I had it, but it was on a character I’d swapped out.