More just being consistent with what he had already established, but yeah let's move on.
Some magical items, such as the Mirror of Life Trapping, can be broken more easily through mundane means or specific damage types. RAW most magical items other than artifacts or with the Unbreakable trait are just resistant versions of the regular item, but most DMs including seemingly Matt just have them only be vulnerable to extreme circumstances. Lava is usually the go-to risk/method.
Also to add on to what ArkkAngel007 said some magic items actually have a break mechanic built in like a Staff of Power, where it can be broken for massive amounts of damage depending on how many charges it has left. Matt was probably weighing up if he wanted to make that staff similar I guess. Though with 4 charges it'd do 32 damage to probably everyone and 64 to FCG and Othohan if he went 1 to 1 with that. I think generally it's something that a player needs to activate instead of just "the big boom set it off too so fuck you all I guess" (a fully charged Staff of Power can hit you and everyone around you for up to 320 damage if destroyed), but up to the DM ultimately.
I loved how instantly Travis shut down Marisha when she talked about finding a way to undo it.
I agree personally. But CR doesn't tend to stick by deaths.
Yeah if this is a multi-week EXU side-quest, that is... almost as much of a momentum killer as the big party split earlier. Like this campaign has been notorious for building up to very high highs and then just tanking the pacing for meandering filler. But we'll see what happens. Maybe we're jumping to conclusions here.
Yeah, I wished it was Dorian hooking up with the Prism, FRIDA, Deana, Deni$e group, but I think Matt wanted to play instead of DM'ing.
I think most tune out immediately after the session is stopped, so it's no surprise it wasn't noticed.
It was probably something that was already booked awhile ago, instead of them being reactive to FCG dying, so more just unfortunate (or fortunate in Sam's case if he wants to jump right back in with a new character. I get the feeling he wont be back for awhile regardless though) timing than anything. I think they probably should have just had Dorrian show up (I assume that is where this will end) and then they could announce the one shot that had already been recorded by the time Robbie and BHs have their meet up.
Nothing would change on their end. They'd have played the game and they would just use the footage of the reunion (assuming it ends there of course) at the end of the episode, could even do the whole post credits thing Aabria did in EXU Prime that was pretty cool and unique to it. Just jumping out of BH's mid some good shit just makes it harder to care about CK stuff (which I liked for the most part, hell seeing how a Betrayer is dealing with the whole Ludinus stopping the moon is great stuff on it's own).
Don't get me wrong I'm also fine with it, just wish it was a little later more than anything really, at least until BH go to sleep. I will say them doing it like this does leave the possibility that Dorian could die, unlike my scenario and there will be no reunion, just Orym getting hit with that realisation when he is pretty much at his lowest and Dorian doesn't respond. While also giving us a small look at how the Betrayers are dealing with it.
I don't think it's really a problem that they plan these in advance. They just don't seem to actually plan when it would be best to release it, like they don't need to cut to the CK stuff now, it's not a live show anymore, they have already recorded it and probably the next BH episode. So they could have BHs hit a natural rest point and then released the EXU One shot either as 1 episode or 2 and then we pick back up with BH after they've had a quick rest and recovery ready for whatever they go off to next. Instead we have a EXU major boss fight, that started in the middle of a really great point in C3 that will be split over 3 weeks because of Candela being next week. It just kinda harms both, people who wanted the BH raw reactions to the loss of FCG won't get that now and people who want to see what CK have been up to and what could possibly be the end of them too is now just kinda jammed into the middle of something bigger and is basically just the foot notes + big boss fight given BH are back next episode apparently.
I've been banging this drum for a while now and I'll continue to do so.
I think it's a bit of both though. They talked in the past about hiw during previous campaigns they've had guests lined up that they never got on the show because whenever they were avaliable it didn't work with where the story was at. So this is actually something that was BETTER when the game was live.
Not sure how having guests lined up and then just because plans changed they aren't needed now is better (which isn't even really the case here, more them just slamming an EXU one shot into the middle of BH, which is just not necessary). Just seems like a big waste of time for everyone involved.
Because the main cast and story should be more important than forcing the guest storyline. Like if the guest makes sense then I'm all for it but if it doesn't then hold off.
