Can someone explain to me why they rolled the producer rolls for the play twice?
As I recall from the episode: They get ready for the day. Brennan calls for the producer rolls from Hal, and explains that any unrolled D20s can be reclaimed as D12 inspiration. Liam rolls two D4s and gets a four. He then gets two rerolls, they’re all the same number, and his final total is a 23.
It’s good, but not great. The actors are competent, but also worried about the Creed and their defiance. Then Murray gets the fairies to distract the Creed members, Hal goes to the production booth and starts augmenting the illusion magics, he casts enhance ability on Lash, and then he levels up.
And then Brennan calls for producer rolls from Hal. And Liam rolls 2d4 and gets a four. His base score is higher now because his scores went up because he leveled up. Brennan explains that he gets to use his unused rerolls as d12 inspiration dice, but he does it more hurriedly and at a different point in the explanation, but very much like this is the first time he’s said it. Liam rolls better, I think it was like a 36? Everyone cheers, and the ritual is successful.
What. Happened. What was that. Why did he roll the producer rolls twice? They literally used the first set as a major narrative point. And then he got to do them again, and Brennan REEXPLAINED as if he hadn’t done it the first time.
I wouldn’t accuse them of scripting, but mostly because I would assume their production is too good to have scripted something and then left in BOTH takes where they use a mechanic (or someone would have caught that they wrote someone using a one-time mechanic twice in the same scene). So then why did they roll the production rolls twice?
It can’t even be a second roll for the second act — one, because the scene where the ritual takes place is the end of act one, and two because since Hal is based on Shakespeare I assume his plays are period-typical 5 acts, and I don’t think they’re going to ask for three more rolls. (And I also caught that for the first half of the Lash ability enhancement with the “sing!” command, Brennan started narrating a musical or opera, but he switched to a speech by the end — which he called a soliloquy even though he said it was between two characters on stage, so… no? I guess it could be one person soliloquizing to the audience between dialogue beats, but that wasn’t what it sounded like he was trying to depict.) So it couldn’t have been a “one roll per act” when the second roll also applied to act 1.
But like. Did I miss something important? Did Brennan say that Liam got to do a reroll because of the level up? If so, why did he explain the rules as if it were the first time they’d been said? If Brennan forgot and accidentally asked for the producer rolls twice, why did no one call him out on it? Did I fuck up and it was always supposed to be two rolls? Because it definitely seemed like it was set up to be THE important, consequential roll of that arc.
I am. Confusion.
