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It's called the 100 because it takes 100 episodes before you're sure you have caught at least one bookending of a story arc. xd

Welcome o/

yenzer-the-heartless accepted and so far they are actually interacting. Say hi over in the new members meet and greet thread unless they drop in here first. I want to make everyone feel really welcomed especially as we are regrowing from a small seed.

Any of y'all watching the Crown? Season 4 just came out on Netflix!

I just started Mandalorian S2E3 and I am already somewhat raging.

They completely mutilated the Quarren. Wrong hands, wrong structure to the heads, missing siphons, missing gas bladders... They even screwed up the eyes and mouths. They have the original costume from ROTJ! They did it right in Rogue One! What the?!

*Makes a pained whinging noise.*

(This is when I mention I have been playing Quarren and Verpine in Star Wars RPGs since 1987 and am fanatical about consistency on them... sweatdrop )

Okay, at least their mrorngkki are moving somewhat in relation to their emotional state... That's not a fifth tentacle! That's the lower lip!

It definitely has its ups and downs. I would say it is best watched as a season. Going on the first season, it seems to be four episodes that they put the effort in, three that are just low effort but pass, and one that they shoehorn all the bad into. If you watch it all at once, it is overall seven good to great episodes that balance with each other with this singular, skippable low spot (the prison ship episode, which is a hair below a 1998 handicam fanfilm like they needed to suffocate an episode to spread the funding to the other seven).

I am glad my asperger's fueled nerd rant was well-received.

But yeah, when it comes to Quarren and Verpine, I am ridiculously overboard. When you play them in RPGs for over 30 years, you get really invested, you take every bit of biology and worldbuilding seriously because it makes the RPG story that much richer. Where someone not serious might glaze over everything, I get into details like how they are sensitive to cold, have organs to avoid getting the bends, or would have certain sounds in their languages due to physiology and play those up.

Then being a gamemaster in any setting, I always have to try to be beyond the knowledge base of my players. They ask something, do something, I have to know the in-world elements to make it work. Sometimes it is just rote memorization, other times it is a lot of inference. I think it is why when I made the major race for my Sovath setting, I gave them four arms... I need more arms. xd

When the better two thirds started his Curse of Strahd campaign, I ended up reading all of the ravenloft books from the 2nd edition through 5th edition, just so I could give him support. And I dug up so many odd tidbits to infodump on him, he has rolled it over into a new campaign post-Strahd where Illithids are invading Waterdeep as space aliens — there is a Ravenloft adventure about Illithids basically gaining control of areas due to the power vacuum of Strahd's death, which in turn leads to a weird spelljammer crossover where they invade from beyond the stars having gained such a massive foothold.