A thread I've been playing at for a while now is the notion of what happens to Corbin Dallas if he doesn't meet Leeloo. Scott assumed that since we didn't meet him, he would just be out of the movie, but the fact is that he's always going to be important to the story since he's the guy the milita...
2024-04-24 01:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a really interesting challenge in these types of episodes in adding interesting side-content without feeling like I'm guiding the players down a garden path. It's a lot easier in episodes with less clear external objectives, then you can put all manner of shiny objects in the world and th...
2024-04-01 03:34:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe don't actually get all that crunchy with Captain Crunch, Jon Miller!
(Also, just so we don't get anyone confused, I'm gonna spill the beans a little early—the campaign Jon was talking about running is later in our lineup. Next up, whenever we finish Fifth Element, is one of my favo...
Having hyper powerful characters on your team can make balancing encounters wildly difficult. But don't be afraid to, as long as there are multiple story-telling elements to play with. That's what makes traditional dungeon crawls so much more contingent on the care put into balance; all you've go...
2024-03-03 19:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
You may have noticed the lack of eps and B-Roll last month! We’re sorry for the delay and are at work editing to drop the next Fifth Element soon! There were a few sudden life hiccups (which is why we structured our Patreon around drops instead of monthly subscriptions), but ...
2024-03-03 15:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostMy prep is very much world-building based. I try to completely understand intuitively the circumstances and geography so that I can improvise in the world of the movie. I don't plot events or scenes because I don't know what will be happening when we arrive at a specific moment. Even if I strongl...
2024-02-01 07:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostKeep the change...
And as we said, Film Reroll does not condone homemade fire-works, fire-swords, stealing, prank-calling, smoke-bombs, bear-trapping strangers, or answering work emails during B-Rolls.
2024-01-29 02:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostI've long thought that this was a perfect movie for this show, with its tight adventure plot and its imaginative world, not to mention its iconic visuals that help ground the listener in a very specific landscape. In truth The Fifth Element has some unique challenges. For one, it's pretty on-rail...
2024-01-23 19:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostJoz took over doing the writeup for this one:
I wanted to tell some gentle stories, because, believe it or not, I’m not a maniacal maverick in real life, and we need some gentle stories right now.
This year has brought me a lot of challenge and change—on a less life-threatening sc...
2024-01-01 02:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostI can't believe I forgot to say HAPPY KRAMPUSNACHT, and hide ya damn brooms!
Also, for my Michiganderanians, if you find the pickle, you can totally gloat about your big win here, I'll cheer for you. And for my Euchre lovers, take dose tricks early!
In fact, let's play a game—what's...
2023-12-24 21:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostJumping back into the world of Charlie Brown. No eldritch horrors last time, but I'm not letting my guard down on that account.
I think there's a lot to be learned in playing an RPG of a story that not much really happens in. As a story-telling exercise it's interesting to see how narrative...
2023-12-23 18:44:54 +0000 UTC View PostWe did it. We completed this one. No one's a winner here, but no one is really a loser. The ending of this one really left me feeling like I took the juicy steak rather than humanity's future, but sometimes you have to play the character. Isn't it funny how much character growth is sort of assume...
2023-12-01 06:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostBe excellent to each other!
2023-11-30 18:52:27 +0000 UTC View PostI love how strange and meta this whole movie has become. There's a lot of ways of connecting disparate threads in a story, and doing it purely thematically is a valid approach. I never would have had the boldness to stick with the Gwen and Alex storyline. Sure, I'd revisit them occasionally, but ...
2023-11-21 21:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostONCE MORE WITH FEELING!
There's a warm light of a warm quality that suffuses everything with warmth in the cairochamber.
I adore Andy, don't you?
(Will y'all let me know if it's better to post the video through this pathway?)
2023-11-01 07:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a warm light of a warm quality that suffuses everything with warmth in the cairochamber.
I adore Andy, don’t you?
UPDATE: Sorry everybody! I tried uploading directly to Patreon since I know some people have been struggling with the previous set-up, but something got goofed...
2023-11-01 06:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Joz here! Sorry this isn’t Hocus Pocus, but we had a last-minute hiccup that meant changing gears FAST to still get you a Halloween-themed Reroll. I’m actually really proud of what I churned out in two days, at a time when I am and have been working 60-70 hours a week. But that’s a...
2023-11-01 06:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostI feel like we're all having a lot of fun with this one. An aspect of the movie which I hadn't considered, is that a lot of the main characters are kind of terrible people to start with. Particularly my character (Jason) who is a raging narcissist, who hides his lack of empathy with a sort of che...
2023-10-20 21:16:34 +0000 UTC View PostWe stole Lisa from DnD, tee hee! Come hang with us as we chat about it!
2023-10-01 03:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Galaxy Quest. Having a ton of fun with this one. I love playing characters who have none of the skills they need for the situation they're presented with. And in my case for Galaxy Quest, due to a crit-fail, I don't even understand the situation correctly. There's something freeing about ...
2023-09-30 19:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostI really should get the DM to do these write-ups, but I never think to until I’m writing them up.
Galaxy Quest has felt really good. Really back to basics after a series of mostly really complex eps with a lot of moving pieces. In a sense it‘s a really natural Reroll, but in anothe...
2023-09-18 18:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostLongest movie we've done so far. There's part of me that wants to get back to shorter movies like in the early days, but part of me enjoys the storytelling possibilities of a longer format. The right answer is probably somewhere in between. Mix of shorter stuff and longer campaigns.
Rogue T...
2023-09-01 06:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostThelma takes another bite of the candy bar.
2023-08-20 00:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostHow hard should things be, really? I find this question comes back to me often in making this show. I'll be honest, I'm not someone who carefully balances the difficulty of a game to maximize the fun, make it challenging but not impossible. And I'm also not someone who crafts challenges around th...
2023-08-19 08:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy lord, I thought I was smart when I divided up the movie into groups. It made narrative sense, it would reduce clutter, and make scheduling a little easier. But here at the end with everyone intersecting and dividing, nearby but not necessarily directly interacting, but not necessarily not dire...
2023-08-01 06:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostOne word: BARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
2023-07-31 22:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostWell, we finally managed to get the "O, Brother" crew together for the B-Roll this month, but that was it, sadly. We will return next month with the next "Rogue 2" installment, back on our usual schedule of two eps a month! Thanks for your patience as we work around many people booking things (ya...
2023-07-01 05:37:37 +0000 UTC View PostWe have the Connecticon schedule and here’s a link for a 10% ticket discount:
https://purchase.growtix.com/e/ConnectiCon_XX?promo=FilmReroll23XX10
2023-06-15 03:43:40 +0000 UTC
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My favorite moments in Film Reroll are moments that we find that are there, in the movie, hidden, but that I had never noticed. Spoilers for this episode:
The confrontation in the council chamber, with Luke finding out who his father was in front of everyone...
2023-06-01 06:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe're off our schedule again but that means we get to do a special with everyone's favorite jokester, Kara! We attempted to discuss comedy, but of course there were tangents galore, so instead you get a crash course on Twitch streaming, the sad truth of being funny, how to be a good ally, and a c...
2023-05-29 03:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post