When you’re telling a story about heroes rising to save the day, you know what really lets the air out of the tires? When there’s an infrastructure of helpful, powerful allies to call upon.
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This video contains minor spoilers for some of the “Die Hard” and “Mission Impossible” movies (but not the most recent ones) and “The Dark Knight Rises,” and significant spoilers for Phases 1-3 of the MCU and the fourth and fifth "Harry Potter" books.
CW: Some cursing.
Chapters:
00:00 - Players Don’t Want NPCs to Solve Their Problems
05:02 - How Mission Impossible Gets This Right
08:56 - How the MCU Has Struggled to Get This Right
13:33 - How This is Central to the Purge’s Premise
15:18 - The One Time Harry Potter Gets Politics Right
18:07 - A Word From Our Sponsor
19:10 - Final Thoughts: “Why Won’t They Help Us? We’re the Heroes!”
21:16 - Outro
Game Masters of Exandria Roundtable - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmZSWKPXhZ4
Gymnopedie No 1 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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