#kollok edit

[jackaycola]

⚠️ CW /// quick movement? ⚠️

Happy 5th birthday to KOllOK 1991!

art cred: @elidove & Monica M Morgana !

[utilitycaster]

I'm keeping this somewhat on a back burner because I think I need more data, but I feel like a current boundary being tested in actual play, for TTRPGs that are, for lack of a better way to put it, party-based and ostensibly heroic, is exploring in-game whether the PCs might be the bad guys or even just neutral guys who are not up to the task. (For this reason, "evil" campaigns do not count here, since those aren't about exploring it as a possibility but instead are simply stating that's the situation - I'm looking for the doubt and realization).

I feel like fans (and some GMs and players) get really skittish about this as a possibility, which is unfortunate because it's one of the most interesting things you can do.

[strawberrynova]

i forgot how much i love watching table top rp games this is so fucking fun

[aceofspaces16]

So I had the toxic thoughts of thinking that I can bring a dead fandom back to life and now I am really motivated, so enjoy some more Kollok edits and eventually I’ll send a whole essay on the driver’s character arc, because I can

[wedontdeservethestars]

⭐️The God of Night🌙

Please credit or tag me if you use!

[cardiaccadillac]

stop flirting Guilt & Charm || Josephine McAdam and Troy Baker in KOllOK | Council of the Gods

[payton-bagel]

Genocide does not have an effect on your blorbo score

[ko11ok]

DUMP AND THEORY TIME - POST EPI ONE

I have a feeling I’m going to be taking notes during each episode because we learn so MUCHHH

I have very little in terms of theories when it comes to the ascended, I just think we know so little about them and the general world right now that theorizing about it will make more sense later. I remember very little about alice, but she’s here so there’s that!

HOWEVER. I have BIG thoughts about the legacy cast.

namely: 

Tibby is most likely the driver, the there was a section in the narration that sounded TOO MUCH like tibby

a lot is fucked right now. i want to see tibby’s card GIVE IT TO ME. we know so little

I think mallory and tibby might have switched places, and tibby erased the radar’s minds. he clearly knows more than he should.

I solidly do think that tibby is the driver. I don’t think he’s ALWAYS been the driver, but I think he became the driver at some point. 

We know so little about what happened after the events of season two, it’ll be interesting to see what exactly happened

I’m a little less sure that mallory’s alive? But I think he ABSOLUTELY has something to do with the black rock

The black rock seems like it might be a central figure this season, esp with it rotating in front of the players

I’m SO happy marcus is a central figure this season! I always wanted to know what happened to his! I hope he’s still drinking yoohoos and isn’t too insane

I think that skye might be dead. If you look at Ven’s card “death” there is a woman in a suit she stands on top of with redish hair and a ponytail. i could be very wrong tho.

did tibby become a broker? did mickey bring him back? WHY WAS HE KILLING HER? HEH?????

finally: ZAC IF YOU CAN BRING ONE OF YOUR SELF INSERTS BACK YOU CAN BRING BOTH BACK GIVE ME PERRY BUCKET BACK YOU COWARD. thanks <3 :)

[jackaycola]

#Kolloktober2023 : 3. best duo!

(there are so many more to pick from but they… they are my faves).

[utilitycaster]

What do you mean (from your latest post) that you think that many actual play failures are failures of ambition?

Usually, when an actual play show doesn't click for me, it's because the GM or players aimed very high or tried to push the boundaries (of the medium or system) and it didn't quite land right. It's a pretty new medium, and while I've been very openly disparaging of how much many writers in the AP space focus overmuch on novelty over consistent quality, I do think these failures are important! I think it's good to play with what the medium can be! I just think that sometimes, it does indeed fail.

Examples off the top of my head:

Too much plot for allotted length: EXU Prime was fun to watch but I think this plot really needed to be a 16-20 episode season, not an 8 episode one, which meant that we never really learned Myr'atta's motivation or the deal with Ted until years later in the real world despite that being the core plot. Similar issues have come up with various D20 seasons; I think running a one- or two- session story isn't too hard to do, or running a longform campaign isn't too hard to do, but 8 or 10 or 20 episodes can be really difficult to plan for properly, and a lot of people overfill.

Trying to bend the system too far: I wrote a long-ass post I cannot find about this for a few D20 seasons as well (notably Neverafter) and I've fallen off of WBN for a few reasons but in part because it really increasingly feels like D&D is the wrong system - the classes of D&D support the worldbuilding, but the pace and style and magic system of D&D increasingly feel like they and the narrative are in conflict.

Trying to fit in An Important Message: the infamous Rusty Quill Gaming Everything Changes [now make a monumental decision we have not once explored in 7 real world years of telling this story, in the last half of the last episode] is a big one here. This is not unique to AP (this is why Battlestar Galactica's ending is widely panned) but I think the nature of actual play makes it more likely because to some extent you as the GM must relinquish a good degree of control.

Not realizing what you need to plan for: ultimately, in my opinion, the failure of Campaign 3. I don't think the problem is that Matt wanted to bring everything together across multiple campaigns; I don't think this is a cheap setup with a pre-determined outcome (though I could be proven wrong); I think the problem is that there needed to be a much more stringent character creation process and on-rails early plot to actually get from point A to point B in a way that felt natural within the story.

Trying to break production value records while neglecting story: With the caveat that I hated nearly every second of the hour of Kollok I watched, I have yet to see a review that talks about anything it does other than how good the production values are (*whisper* they're not even that good). Burrow's End had some really good aesthetic/filming choices and some really not good ones on top of having a story I found weak; the season of Candela Obscura I thought had the strongest story had no split-screen film edits. This could just be that my AP introduction was TAZ Balance followed by simultaneous C1 and early C2, but like...I've heard incredible actual play with no music and no fancy lighting and no sound effects and no official character art, and I've watched some heavily produced stuff that had the plot of a fucking Ed Wood movie and was utterly joyless to boot. Story first; accessibility production values (clean and clear sound, transcripts, making all speakers visible if you're a filmed production) second; anything else should ONLY come after that.

[channelrat]

Day 2 of trying to remember how to use Sony effects: Mickey A appreciation because she deserves it

[perksofbeingahalfie]

kinda thinkin about making kollok crack videos for each episode and posting them on youtube :/

[zizzyiscrying]

This was kinda an excuse to use Kollok 1991 for an edit :P

[fischyplier]

They need couples therapy ASAP!

[fischyplier]

This part was so unexpected! Thank you for giffing it! Great job! 👍

           “Day realizes her husband has sold her out.”

[goblinqat]

Some AJ doodle bc it’s kollok night!

Edit a week later; @hyperrpg bc apparently y’all are back on tumblr wooo