BreezeCauthon

Did it for ya.

Shoot, is that first guy not actually a guy? (I don't watch Avatar, obviously)

I'm always up for more rep.

Kaladin, Lift, Szeth, and ... uh... I'm going to pretend that animal is not a cast member.

That shows a lot of promise, though I will have to basically create a world to play in... which I guess I don't have anything against, it'll just take a bit of time. Thanks! Thanks for the rec!

Kelsier, Sadeas, Wayne, The Lord Ruler, Steris, Kiin Do I go next?

On a mac, if you press "option" and then "2" it does it.

It looks better trademarked: Sanderswears™

Since we are all, of course, fantasy nerds, I figured this might be a good place to ask my question: So at the height of quarantine, I had an irresistible urge to take up roleplaying. Quite unwisely, I bought King Arthur Pendragon, because it seemed like a really neat game. And it is. But I have zero experience (unless you count the two hours I played Pathfinder with my cousins four years ago), and neither do my younger siblings (one of whom, it must be noted, is 9). So after the actually extremely fun process of creating our characters, and struggling through the introductory scenario, it sorta fizzled out. I just got bitten real bad by the RPG bug again, so I'm planning to tinker around with Pendragon a bit more (assuming we still have it- there's a chance I got rid of it), but I don't really foresee it working out unless we mod it heavily. So: I've started putting out feelers as to possible alternatives. I'm looking for a fantasy RPG, that is not too difficult for newbies, and is fairly easy to mod. Also, I don't want it to be too combat-focused - I mean, combat is fine and necessary, but I don't want dungeon crawl after dungeon crawl. Next to no dungeon crawls, actually. Also if I could work political intrigue in, that would be spectacular. It would also be a positive if it had a fairly but not overly rigorous attribute/trait/other-stuff-that-requires-dice-rolls component. I think that's all. Any recommendations? (No need to check every single box, I pretty much just described my dream RPG and I'm sure it doesn't actually exist).

"I don't go looking for goats. A goat usually finds me." - Harry Potter

Fair enough.

That is enormously ironic.

Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey

Okay. I'm guess growing more comfortable with Pratt. But just for the sake of throwing more names out there: Domhnall Gleeson? Matt Damon? Leonardo DiCaprio? Cillian Murphy? Eddie Redmayne?

Chris Pratt? I dunno. I don't think he has the gravitas to pull it off. I'm fine with Bale as Marsh. I think Tom Hardy would make a really good Breeze.

I'd like to see Hiddleston as Kelsier, but if a larger Cosmere cinematic universe were to exist, I'd prefer him as Hoid. But if not, I think he'd be great as Kell.

Okay, I'm curious: who upvoted this without submitting nominations? Somebody did

I mean, it's not that I don't want to see Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Black Panther 2, Spiderman 3, Blade and Loki (to name a few)... but I feel like such things as WandaVision, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and Thor: Love and Thunder (to name a few) have the potential to lower the average quality of Marvel films. I think maybe it makes more sense to just drop a movie or two per year and occasionally a TV series from this point onward, with an eye toward solos, instead of frenetic releases and crossovers. Perhaps ten, fifteen years from now there can be another epic crossover event.

I feel like we're close to reaching the point where stuff is about to get real weird. Almost too similar to the comic books if y'all get what I mean. I mean nobody has read every single Marvel comic book, and for good reason. On the other hand, just about every Marvel movie that has come out thus far has been good and worth watching, both as part of a huge arc and on its own merits. My prediction, however, is that in this next huge batch of movies, there will be The First Bad Marvel Movie, and possibly more than one. And things are going to get WAAYY too complicated. We could very well see a DC-level reboot. Or, heck, a Marvel comics-level reboot (which has happened numerous times). Someday, our children will watch these movies, but it's doubtful that they will watch all of them. I wouldn't be surprised if the line of 'required watching' so to speak is drawn at Endgame (or perhaps even the first Avengers. Any one drawing such a line at Age of Ultron is weird). TL;DR - I love love love Marvel but there comes a point when something gets too big.

My sister has started WoT and just this morning remarked on how Artur Pendraeg was clearly Arthur Pendragon, and I was telling her about how Jordan references all sorts of cultures and mythologies and so on, so I find this post a happy irony.

Oh. Definitely not Twain then.

Thanks!

Sounds like something Twain would say, but that's a complete guess.

It's sorta like a government (say, for example... the UN) simulation, where we are presented with 1-3 or so topics and then have to debate and discuss them from assigned viewpoints (say, for example, UN member states) and eventually come up with a solution (ideally, though I've been in a committee that failed to do so).