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you should do a video on Riven/Myst!

I loved that book series and recently sailed the digital seas to obtain them all for my niece and nephew. They'll love opening that box filled with every book on their ninth birthday in a few month's.

Before you discovered one piece

glad more people are bringing this up again. Thank you JonTron

I disliked the Arny version because it's proof that you need someone that does not just look like the character but can definitely portray the character. Momoa's version could have been good if only the writing and direction was done properly. I wish there's a remake and they cast him again.

Anybody else still lie awake at night, thinking about that one mission where the animorphs committed one of the most heinous war crimes ever put to paper? I almost stopped reading when the order was given... I felt like I couldn't bear the weight of it on my own soul, and I wasn't even there. Spec Ops: The Line has nothing on Animorphs.

Always great when people talk about Animorphs. Also can't forget, I think it helped that in ways the series put the darker, heavier topics sometimes in weird or fun ways which probably helped kids kind of take them in without totally scarring them. Like the fact that the Animorphs tried, but also mentally battled, over the idea of driving massive numbers of Yeerks(AND their human hosts) insane as a chance to strike against the Yeerks. And how? With instant oatmeal. It's the right kind of amusingly weird idea that bellies the dark moral conundrum that the series loved to throw at the readers. Animorphs will always and forever be my fav book series. I loved it from the beginning, was always in the book store every month itching for the next volume. And I've reread it several times since and always enjoy it no matter how old I am. On the note of the TV show...while technically not great compared to the books I always maintain that they had just STELLAR casting. I mean you might argue that Brooke Nevin physically doesn't evoke Rachel's gymnast Amazon look. But really, all the actors I felt nailed the roles to the "T". Plus it introduced me to ones like Shawn Ashmore and Brooke Nevin so there's that. I agree though, I think an animated series would be the best way to allow the books to shine. I've thought plenty(like many fans no doubt), on how a movie adaptation could go. I don't think it's impossible to maybe do a trilogy of movies that cover the early plot points, but in the end it wouldn't be entirely satisfying cause they couldn't obviously do everything. You could feasible get one pretty great movie out of it by just sticking with the first book, but yeah an animated series would be able to have the morphing, battles, and crazy aliens that also are important to making Animorphs great.

I always felt a strange nostalgia looking at the covers.

Dragon lance was first a novel series, then it was a game module. TSR licensed the world of Krynn from Weiss and Hickman

I still have the board game and I played all the internet games as well. I loved the music box mixer lol

I do at times wonder what happened to this series thanks

I ran a pirate campaign set in a magical alternate universe where Christopher Columbus took a Spelljammer to the asteroid belt. Fast forward to the French Revolution, with the American Revolution (United American States of Saturn) having been won by Ben Franklin's Warforged army. Also Dracula was a mad scientist, the first human to discover a "practical" immortality, holed up on an ice moon (Encaeledus I think) to keep the Metroids in the basement frozen. Also also Venus was an superactive hellhole. Weeping willows would spear players, slurp out their organs, and convert them to plant zombie walking seed pods, like Flood carrier forms. Elves, firbolg, most "hybrid" races, and others races with a strong natural connection came from Venus. Sea based races came from Mercury and martial races came from, well, Mars. I kinda just threw everything I liked into a blender. I swear to God it made sense to my players, not just me.

Went from these DIRECTLY to 'Desperation'. Kings BEEN my favorite. STILL❤. Love that corner animal change page flip thing

5:24 That's the most beta thing I've ever heard

Quick heads up about the warrior cats game!! A lot of avid and serious roleplayers tend to stay away from the public version of the game (like myself) and end up joining servers / roleplay groups which have a lot more stricter rules and guidelines for roleplay, like having their own custom clans, auditions for high ranks, needing to fill out a plot request for major plots for your character, etc. and take place on private servers so we can avoid a lot of the iffiness of the public version of the game, like with non-cats which are fairly commonplace now but used to be an entire issue when wcue was in development and sparked a LOT of debate in the games discord and even in the game itself.

Book 16 is about to come in the spring of 2026

I am always amused (the tamest word I can find) when someone reads fiction of a society different from that of the US and is offended by "problematic" situations and occurrences. It's fiction, but then fact can be stranger (and more problematic) than fiction. It's like "correcting" or banning writings that "offend" modern sensibilities. Orwell and Huxley would be proud (as would Goebbels and Smirnov).

So Spelljammer is basically.... MCU Guardians of the Galaxy decades before the MCU did it? It really feels like that is the vibe lol

Shattered Lands was one of the first d&d games I played and I’ve always loved the setting, especially with how they didn’t just copypasta Tolkien’s works. Was sad that psionics barely got a mention though, since they were so key to the setting that everyone had some power in The Way.

Great video, but you're behind on one aspect; the movie trilogy Memorial Edition added quite a bit, including importantly "Bonfire of Dreams", "Scars", and Guts and Judeau's conversation before Guts left the Hawks. The extensions, plus the scenes that were already there and missing from the 97 series (and the non-canon scenes that were added to the 97 series) honestly makes Memorial Edition the superior Golden Age adaptation 🤙

We desperately need a hardcore reboot of this as a good show.

Did not realize how much worldbuilding style overlap there was between the Hyborian age and Adventure Time. Although, in retrospect, Finn is basically a rough copy of old fashioned celtic heroes, just like Conan was.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole did 2 things that Warriors could never. 1) Get a movie 2) END and as far as I'm concerned neither of those things are changing in the near future.

Just imaging what kinda horror the Doctor (Doctor Who) would feel knowing these kids are being turned into child soldiers.

what really threw me for a loop is that they never wrote about the parents of the kid who gets stuck as a hawk trying to find him. Like maybe his parents would be asking his friends about him. but no, basically nothing.

I started reading the series. And chronicles and Legends were the BEST. Summer Flame starts out well, but ends wrong...... Sort of.... I've read several of the Tales, and the Origins and the legends (Huma being a STAND OUT!),. I have the original art book, and the second art book and I've collected several prints from Larry Elmore and the others. I also was totally disappointed in the movie. What a bummer! The Mina series is good(dark disciple that is. (War of souls was meh),. And the last three were old and stale. (They need to let Tas rest in peace!),. My children are reading the series now, and I do love Krynn. I highly recommend the series to any and all.

Loved these books. I had the first few, then some random others from way later. Read them all repeatedly.

I remember reading them as the books came out in the mid 80s. Got the wife hooked on them which got her ready for when EQ came out in the 90s.

An Animorphs-themed TTRPG would be hilarious fun

I think ASOUE worked so well because it was basically Macgyver for kids. Their clever solutions to problems, the espionage, the vast conspiracies, etc. all sent kids imaginations going wild

This dude is Guts's grandad. that's how badass Conan is

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Oh this is cool, 17:18 that Paladin in the middle was part of a portrait collection from "sorcerors place" I think the site was called, I used for my first ever playthrough of BG2. Oh he was so cool, he was bro with Anomen and Keldorn, three paladins of Torm and Helm fighting for justice against Irenicus, and I don't remember much of the expansion set except there was a monk bhaalspawn that was also a dragon or something, was pretty cool.

You might re-examine your love of this setting given that the comments on this video are full of fashie weirdos. There's probably a reason it appeals so much to them.

I had the board game! My parents and I regularly played it. I remember it being fun and not dragging on too long like Monopoly. And yeah it's kinda weird how the characters are pitted against each other, now that you mention it. I also had the terrible GBA game. Unplayable trash. Great video!

I now want to read animorphs

Forgeworld in Warhammer.

Btw: A "Prince" is a rank in the Andalite's military.

Every single time you said “morphing” my brain heard “morphine” wish resulted in some very fun sentences

A case can be made for trauma via fiction. It’s a form of training, toughening you so that when messed up stuff happens in your real life you already have experience thinking through the hard questions in life and are less blindsided

Cassie and her allergy to certain DNA. If you know, you know. The imagery was haunting.

Ah yes, 'Animorphs'... Tobias was always my guy (him and those MF'n "thermals", man 😊😅), and 'The Hork-Bajir Chronicles' was by far my favorite installment of the entire series. 'Animorphs' ruled my elementary school years in like second and third grade. I loved that sh*t so much. I was so super-amped when the live-action TV series was released. My mom took me to Blockbuster right as they opened on the day that first 'Animorphs' movie came out to rent it (it was just a release of the first few episodes of the series in more of a feature-length format with some special features like "behind-the-scenes" stuff and interviews with the cast and Applegate and such). I even had a bunch of the toys and everything, like those weird transforming figures. Good memories for sure...

xyz in space tends to be the death of any franchise. fortunately, just the space part of the franchise, here.

Didn't realise the fandom had similar issues to Dune and such (children trying to continue a series of an author). Really good deep dive, I'm glad the algorithm sent me this way.

My goldstar has me in tears, thank you Crom...

I've gotten my parachute stuck in a thermal and I can confirm it's a wild feeling. All of the sudden you stop falling and you're just vibing in the sky.

My mom and I were shopping for a short driving trip and she told me to pick a book to read for the weekend (total enabler behavior). I picked an interesting title called The Long Patrol. That was my Redwall gateway drug, and I could not be more thankful for the time I spent in that world.

An Animorph video game would slap so hard if done well.

I have an Idea let's make a fan fiction called Eragoon make the Dragons into Dragoons like the s dragons in Rick and morty

I carry the entire series around on my Kindle. I've loved these books since the 4th grade