WulfBane

Loving the suggestions. Yeah, I'll have to come up with/modify a catch phrase. And yeah, calling it a belt will be easier because the water tribe costume I picked has a waist wrap that pretty clearly IS holding up his pants.

I'll say that the Avatar Legends RPG is built on the Powered by the Apocalypse framework. It's a framework Austin used on a few of the New Years Beastcast RPGs. My first time with the system but it seems it's going to be less about amassing gear. Especially since there are bender PCs. So character advancement (to my understanding from what the GM said) has two tracks. The "boring" type from accomplishing story goals but also more interesting improvements where you earn another type of xp when you fail and learn from your mistakes.

So while I don't think I'll get too many chances to rave about "payouts", the playbook I'm using (sort of like a character class) has a list of 20 goals to achieve under the notion of proving himself. I pick 4 at a time and I'll gain advancement as they're achieved. Typical things like thwarting big bads, saving allies, etc. One of them is litterally is "buy yourself a new fancy outfit" so that will certainly be a fun highlight and let him peacock around with.

And I don't think I'll be doing the heel "leave a fight I don't like". But he does have an ability that if he's about to faint/be incapacitated/etc, he can get one last action in before he falls. So in addition to the idea of pinning an unconscious foe, I'm hoping for a chance where another player drags his unconscious body on someone for a pin.

We only had our session zero for character creation and a brief kick off moment in a tavern that involved someone trying to hide from town guards. When the guards entered and asked "where is he?" I did make an attempt to distract by standing and boldly proclaiming "Ah yes. Here. The Bane is always ready to greet his fans." (I promptly crit failed that roll but someone else had simultaneously enacted their own distraction that worked)

A group of friends are starting up an Avatar Legends pen & paper RPG campaign. I went in set on giving my character a wrestler persona similar to “The Boulder”. His shoot name is Takanni, but in public he refers to himself in the third person by his gimmick name “The Bane”.

Anyways, Dan Ryckert doubling down on the wrestling lingo has broken me and I want to lean in extra hard for the character’s table talk. Obviously gonna do the whole shoot/work/gimmick routine. I’m even going to stick to insisting that he’s got a championship Title around his waist (belts are what hold up pants). But I want suggestions for some more to add in.

And not just individual phrases. I want to sprinkle in references to other wrestling gimmicks and slogans. For example, I’m hoping we get some sort of scenario where I have to convince someone to put something on and can go They Live shouting “Put on the glasses!” or whatever it may be.

So, suggestions? Ideas?

@chrispaul92: As I recall, he ate a piece of rice paper with a picture of a hat printed on it intended to be put on the top of icecream cakes. And even then he was still worried if it would be bad for him. I think it was a UPF two years ago.

I just gotta say I saw an article with the headline that he "hung up the mustache".

My plan is to try a very specific type of character. To be honest, it's not wholly original. Infact, some might call it "Absurd"

-12 classes

-12 levels

Just saying.

So I look at it as two sides. Yes, the way they try to prompt you to explore and navigate the landmass is via the open world barf of icons.

The other side though is what you're doing in the world. As I was getting more abilities, the character action combat skills were fun and there were some good navigation puzzle challenges that are at least approaching the BotW/TotK shrine puzzles.

I admit I only picked it up because it was on Game Pass AND there was a "Gamepass Quest" related to it because I had a sickness of trying to always do those and maximize reward points. But then I kept on it and my completionest sickness took over and I had a pleasant time.

@sourtang11: she’s come in for some coop games (recently Fortnight and Evil Dead) and Dark Picture play throughs. Abby’s also among the rotating guests on their Patron “Never Been A Better Podcast” among other former Beastcasters (Dan, Jerf, & Austin).

Yeah, "new game+" is kinda a misnomer in the case of Nier. As many above have said, the subsequent playthroughs take a Rashomon quality to them of showing events from different viewpoints. And there are some change ups to the available combat abilities.

I will say that my first time playing I either missed something to tell me where to find it or what not, but Cave Sulfur to make a repair tool was eluding me until I looked it up. You can find it in the little pods the "explody" crashfish come out of. If you haven't made it already, using the repair tool to fix the radio in your pod will let you start getting various messages that can help guide you to places of interest to explore.

Batteries SHOULD be something you have the recipe at the start under Resources>Electronics. If not, you probably have to pick up some components to make them acid mushrooms & copper ore.

And yeah, scanning for vehicle parts also helps expand your ability to explore and get to the next tiers of resources.

Unfortunately for you, the Director’s Cut version is only available on PS5 and PC.