#Valkana

[mapas-fantasticos]

Map of Valkana from TitansGrave: The Ashes of Valkana (Map by Andy Law).

[wilwheaton]

Hey Wil! I know you can't talk about the specifics, but I rewatched Titansgrave (3rd time in all these years) this last month, and it once again inspired me to get back into TTRPGS!

Is it at all possible that we'll get an end to the story of Valkana? It's such a shame the second season never got made, especially since the cast felt so unique!

Regardless, thank you for regularly reminding me that RPGs are fun, from the comfort of a 2015 YouTube series 🥰

It's not going to happen. The moment when we could have made it passed a long, long time ago.

Maybe, someday, I'll write something based on my broad notes for the second season, but the whole point of Titansgrave was to build it all together, and if it all comes just from my imagination, it's not that.

I'm so happy it mattered to you, and that you enjoyed it. I just loved everything about it, and I'm so proud of it.

[cityandking]

playtest, level one, and background (for minah)

ty!!! // d&d player asks

Playtest: What class (or subclass) do you want to try out?

At this point I've played every class besides artificer (as a player; I have an artificer NPC). I think I'd like to try a couple of the fighter subclasses. maybe battle master? I'd like to try a bard/warlock too; I think that would be a fun combo.

Level One: What was your first experience with D&D? How did you hear about it? What was your first game like?

A friend recommended I watch Ashes of Valkana, which was a short actual play show hosted by Wil Wheaton. Laura Bailey was on that, which is how I ended up finding CR, and the rest is history. My very first game I played at my kitchen table. I was an archer in a Dragon Age flavored oneshot that same friend ran, and then I ended up DMing for that group for about a year and have been playing ever since.

Background: Does your PC get up to anything that you don't narrate often? Any background habits, activities, plots? Do you share these through other avenues (e.g. a group chat, table cross-talk, posting online)?

Answered!!

[ulkaralakbarova]

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Rhoda Williams: Brit Marling John Burroughs: William Mapother Alex: Matthew-Lee Erlbach Maya Burroughs: Meggan Lennon Amos Burroughs: AJ Diana Purdeep: Kumar Pallana Symposium Speaker: Bruce Colbert Symposium Speaker: Paul S. Mezey Symposium Speaker: Ana Valle Symposium Speaker: Jeffrey Goldenberg Symposium Speaker: Joseph A. Bove Kim Williams: Jordan Baker Robert Williams: Flint Beverage Himself (voice): DJ Flava Jeff Williams: Robin Lord Taylor Keith Harding (voice): Rupert Reid Career Counselor: Natalie Carter Himself: Richard Berendzen High School Girl: Shannon Maliff High School Girl: Stephanie Le Blanc High School Girl: Jasmine Andrade High School Girl: Kara Tweedie Claire: Ana Cruz Kayne Television Reporter (voice): Yuval Segal Dr. Joan Tallis: Diane Ciesla Radio Reporter #1 (voice): Robert Phillips Television Anchor (voice): Hollyce Phillips Federico: Luis Vega Radio Reporter #2 (voice): Rich Habersham Nurse: Jennifer Jaramillo Valkana Conspiracy Theorist: Ari Gold Television Interviewer (voice): Steve Giammaria Keith Harding’s Secretary (voice): Rebecca Price Film Crew: Writer: Mike Cahill Producer: Hunter Gray Writer: Brit Marling Producer: Nicholas Shumaker Executive Producer: Tyler Brodie Executive Producer: Paul S. Mezey Casting: James Calleri Casting: Paul Davis Makeup Effects: Aileen Alvarez-Diana Dialogue Editor: Sasha Awn Dolby Consultant: James P. Nichols Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ryan Price Visual Effects Supervisor: Adam Fanton Visual Effects Supervisor: Darren Fanton Assistant Director: Liang Cai Gaffer: Sonny Plescia Script Supervisor: Marketa Tomanova Sound Effects Editor: Sebastian Henshaw Musician: Phil Mossman Post Production Supervisor: Phaedon A. Papadopoulos Production Design: Darsi Monaco Production Coordinator: Morgan Marling Assistant Production Coordinator: Tomás Diaz Production Sound Mixer: Michael Gassert Art Direction: Brian Rzepka Production Coordinator: James Brettell Assistant Editor: Alice Borrelli Supervising Dialogue Editor: Steve Giammaria Musician: Will Bates Makeup Effects: Marni Giannotti Assistant Director: Marcello Montesanti Digital Intermediate Colorist: Joe Gawler Digital Intermediate Colorist: Zak Tucker Digital Intermediate Editor: Jonathan Sanden Digital Intermediate Producer: Molle DeBartolo Digital Intermediate Producer: Darrell R. Smith Movie Reviews: Andres Gomez: More ambitious than interesting. A story that wants to joint an epic sci-fi moment with a drama. Not really working although seeing the Earth in the sky is quite interesting. Peter McGinn: When I first saw Another Earth several years ago I thought that, like some science fiction out there, it was light on the science and heavy on fiction. Fantasy, maybe. I was okay with that as long as the story and characters were strong. Besides, nowadays it seems like many mainstream physicists are seriously promoting the ideas around multiple universes or perhaps even an infinite number of alternate universes, perhaps science is catching up with the fiction. (Though I still think a planet popping into our galaxy so close to us would cause cataclysmic tides and whatnot.) . In any case, I recently bought and downloaded a digital version of it to watch it again. But Another Earth isn’t about physics or science or what would become of humanity if a twin earth and moon suddenly showed up in our sky. It is about a heart-stopping event that cause a planet full of people to stop what they are doing and look up and wonder. Is that earth different than ours? Am I up there, and if so, is that version exactly like me or have they made different decisions that affect who they have become? Could I have made different decisions, or was this version of me locked into what I decided and thought? And in the case of our lead character, Rhoda, it leads her to a path to seek forgiveness and try to make up for a tragic mistake she m...

[onpiracyanddice]

On dungeon Planning

It is absolutely okay to call the creatures in a dungeon filled with mutated rats rodents of an unusual size.

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S’Lemley

Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana fic, major spoilers up to episode/chapter 5. S’Lemley fluff.

As the campfire burned low, with everyone else asleep, S’Lethkk still couldn’t put the thoughts out of his mind. What if he blamed me… What if they had gotten hurt… Why couldn’t he just have stayed out of trouble? Why… Why wasn’t I there… I should have been there. He tried one more time to fall asleep, hoping things would be better in the morning. His mind would be rested, refreshed, and seeing more clearly. Things would be brighter in the morning, right? But that was just wishful thinking, and he knew it. It never worked out that way; at least, it hadn’t the last few nights. Ever since he heard the cursed word “Kinagytus”.

He heard a quiet, shrill gasp on the other side of the fire pit.

“Lemley?” he whispered.

“Oh, S’Lethkk…” she replied, equally as quiet. “I was just… you know, stretching. My arms.” She quickly raised her arms and pretended to stretch, letting out a yawn.

“More like stretching your lungs,” he chuckled. She laughed in reply, slightly embarrassed. “Bad dream?”

“Oh, you know… The usual. Magical stick, glowey hands. Chasing me. Weird, right? Like that could have come from anything real… at all...” she implied, sarcastically.

S’Lethkk sighed. “The staff… I’m sorry. I didn’t know… I didn’t know it…”

“Scared me? Yeah, well, let’s be honest,” she chuckled, “what doesn’t? It’s just me, little ol’ Lemley. Can’t even do sleep well.”

“You do a lot more than you think,” he stated compassionately.“Yeah, coming from Mr. Bucket over there,” she teased.

“Hey, one time!” he retorted good-naturedly, but a bit too loudly, causing Aankia to stir lightly in her sleep.

“Shhh, quiet! They’re sleeping,” she whispered intently.

“Oh, right…” he whispered back, humoring her as she walked over and sat down next to him so they could talk more easily.

“… Thanks,” she said, after a pause.

“For what?”

“The… you know, the compliment and everything.”

“Oh… Yeah,” he smiled, looking her in the eyes as much as he could in the dim light.

Another pause. “I… I’m sorry. About K’Lath.”

He smiled again, this time more sadly. “Thanks.”

“I wish,” she spoke slowly, “I could have gotten to know him…”

“Yeah… So do I… I think he would have liked you.”

“Really? Do you think so? Well, I mean, who doesn’t, really?” She gently whipped her short, pink locks behind her shoulder, but apologized after a pause. “I’m not really that great, I know,” she smiled relentingly.

“I think you are. My brother would have thought so as well. I… I’ve been around, you know. I know a good thing when I see it.” As if it were an afterthought, he added, “When you first found me, that… That wasn’t the first bit of trouble I’d gotten myself into.”

“Really? Tell me about it!” she asked, excitedly. “Or, oh… You probably don’t want to talk about it, do you?” she realized awkwardly. “I’m sorry. I should go back to sleep.” Lemley started to get up, but felt a gentle hand pulling her back down.

“No, it’s just… There’s not that much to tell. I was looking for my brother, you see. I just… wasn’t welcome many places where I might have found him. At least, my Saurian half wasn’t.”

“Oh… I understand… Sort of.”

S’Lethkk chuckled lightly. “Got in a lot of fights,” he added, still with a smile on his face.

“Did you win?” she inquired brightly.

“Most,” he answered, his eyes full of happy memories. “But not all.”

“Oh… I see…” she trailed off. “Hey, how come you’re still up? I mean, I had my dream that woke me up, you know, forlorn hope and all… Did it give you nightmares, too?”

“No, not really… I just… can’t sleep.”

“Too much light? We can probably poor some water on the fire to make it--”

“It’s not the fire… but thank you.”

“Yeah, ���course… It’s your brother, isn’t it?”

He let out a sigh. “Yeah.”

“See, I know things,” she smiled, simply but compassionately. “I’ll bet he loved you.”

“What?”

“Your brother! He was probably on his way to find you when he… You know…”

“Yeah… Yeah, maybe he was.” S'Lethkk paused. “Doesn’t much matter now, though, does it?”

“Of course it does! I’d hate to think my parents… Well… I’m sure he loved you, your brother. How could he not? I mean, c’mon, you are pretty great. He probably forgave you a long time ago. You know, for whatever it was that you did. Or that he did. Or…” she trailed off.

He paused reflectively. “Thanks, Lem. I… I think I needed to hear that.”

“Yeah, you know…” she slapped his arm gently, “friends, all that…” She stood up.

“I… I just wish I fit in here more.”

“What do you mean? You fit in with us great!”

“Well, there’s you and Aankia, yeah… You’re good friends. And then Kiliel, she… She understands all of us. She helps, she fights, and she’s too short to get in the way of anything,” he joked. “But me, I’m… In addition to being the only man here – other than Jeremy, that is – I’m just… Mr. Bucket.”

“Hey, now…” Lemley sat back down. “I was just joking, you know me…”

“Yeah, but you’re right. I don’t do much. I don’t fit in. I’m the one who put us all in danger with the Kinagytus, and all for my dead brother.”

“That was our choice, S’Lethkk. We wanted to help.”

“And you did. But if something had happened… It would have been my fault. I don’t belong here, I do more harm than I do good. Like I said, I know something good when I see it, and I also know when I’m… kind of… ruining it.”

“Keep thinking like that and you’ll end up alone for the rest of your life,” she stated bluntly, deciding that for once it was okay to be serious. “You lost your brother, I understand that… Really. I do. I lost my parents… Twice. And it was my fault, at least the second time… But then I found Aankia. And then… And then we found you. This…” She paused for a while, then inhaled and continued. “I loved my Saurian parents, I really did. They raised me. They were all I ever knew. But we were never really… a family, you know what I mean? This… The four of you… You’re the only family I’ve ever known. Aankia, Kiliel, you, even Jeremy. You’re a part of this family now. There’s no getting out of this one, we won’t let you,” she chuckled slightly. “This is your home. Here. With us, wherever we are. I’m not letting you go anywhere.” She placed her hand on his. “Unless it’s to sleep, of course. That, you can do. And probably should, actually. Did you know that you go crazy if you don’t sleep? It’s because of dreams. I learned that once. If you don’t dream, then you lose your mind. Though, you can lose your mind from a dream, depending on the dream…”

S’Lethkk chuckled. “I’ll try my best not to go crazy, then.”

“You do that.” She stood up with a smile.

“…Lem?”

“Yeah?”

“Thanks.”

“Don’t worry about it.” She leaned over and kissed his cheek, but instantly made a face. “Blah, scales… Never kissed scales before.”

He smiled. “At least you don’t have to live in them.”

“Aankia says they’re not so bad… They look good on you,” she complimented, slightly awkwardly, but neither one minded. “Goodnight, S’Lethkk.”

“Goodnight, Lem.”

They both fell instantly to sleep, uninterrupted.

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[contessajellyfish]

if you remember when i had the url slethkk or heaven forbid olympicloser or drcrush,,,,, you're stronger than any us marine

[cat-hesarose]

My friend showed me titansgrave: ashes of valkana and I immediately started thinking about the half-orc-half-elf that I would totally play if someone would JuSt rUn a pLaYtEst

[wilwheaton]

I’m afraid to ask but I really would like to get a Valkana world book. Any chance that the OGL debacle would move you and Green Ronin to continue that setting?

We only did the one printing of that book, as far as I know, and it's outrageously expensive on the secondary market, if you can find it at all.

The people to ask if you can get it are the Ronins, who will likely direct you to a PDF version that isn't as satisfying as a book, but contains all the info you want.

If you reach out to them, please give them my best.

[riku-izanami]

After reading @howlingday rwby milf hunter had to share an idea on a rwby x monster idea i have. Just my own thoughts so please share yours if you want

Ruby: maybe lunagaron, valtrax, or something.

Weiss: shrieking legiana

Blake: nargacuga

Yang: golden rathian

Jaune: tigrex or something.

Nora: bazelgeuse (for obvious reasons) or zinogre

Pyrrha: hmmm...i kinda think an elder dragon but a mizutsune would work too

Ren: tobi kodachi, great girros. Kinda basic ik

Sun: raijiang

Neptune: why not a lageacris

Coco: kulve taroth

Fox: odogaron

Velvet: not sure

Yatsu hashi: glavious

Cinder: alatreon

Emerald: maybe a green nargacuga

Mercury: maybe a kushala daora

Penny: maybe a paolumu

Glynda: why not rakni kadaki

Qrow: possibly a midogaron, nergigante, Whitley: maybe a barioth

Winter: shrieking legiana or kirin

Willow: valkana

Jacques: no body really cares

Summer: vaal hazak

Tai yang: dreadking rathalos

Raven: dreadqueen rathian

Ghira: teostra

Kali: lunastra

Maria: blackveil vaal hazak

Ozpin: maybe Shagaru Magala

Hazel: diablos

Watts: maybe alumdron

Tyrian: Akura Vashimu (once again) basic af

Salem: maybe gore magala

That's all i got so far. Share thoughts & comments if you want to

[sorabeebb]

It's time for my gardi 🥰 I'm still working on her story. Her name is Berya Valkana.

[rafawriter]

[dr-archeville]

Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory star Wil Wheaton says he's been shorted profits from a web series, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Wheaton and his loan-out company Media Dynamics on Monday sued Legendary Geek & Sundry for breach of contract.  The actor claims Legendary in 2015 hired him to create, write, executive produce and host a web series called Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana and he'd be paid $50,000 and 50 percent of the net profit from the series.

Legendary had the exclusive right to distribute and promote the web show, but it was supposed to "consult meaningfully" with Wheaton before doing so, according to the complaint.  The actor says Legendary defied that provision and negotiated license agreements with Sinclair Broadcasting, Hulu and Pluto TV without informing him.

Wheaton expects Legendary has collected significant fees in connection with those deals, and therefore he's due his share, but says the company won't let him audit its books.

Wheaton is seeking at least $100,000 in damages and is asking the court to order that a full accounting be conducted.

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