□Parents playing with their kids
□Ragnar eating
□Bros being bros
□Ambitious dude shows up
□Ginger dude roars
□homosexually charged staring
□sacred oaths swarn on rings that everyone, and I mean literally everyone breaks ten minutes later
□slo mo
□the 'Vikings have weird casual sex scene'
□the one hot sex scene
□ that one cart everyone abandons during a raid.
□Ragnar goes to smile then stops himself.
□That one bit of mythology per episode being explained in a story.
□two pigs heads on table
□accepting fate scene
□bit of battle that someone yells shield wall but that one guy gets an arrow in shoulder and throws himself forward.
□bit of battle where the sound goes out whilst someone looks around at bad shit
□bit of battle where everyone vanishes except for people talking
□Todays double cross where everyone is surprised
□Todays double cross where nobody is surprised
□Revenge sworn by person
□overweight character does something whilst disgusting drunk
□slow mo spiritual bit
□Scandinavian band of the week as extras
□RED HOT OBJECT applied to skin
□Willing Sacrifice
□Blood spray on face
□Blood flicked on face
□Ye Olde Drugge Trippe
□Madness and mystics connected
□People in different scenes somehow know something is happening like 500 miles away
□that one dude in the ocre hood just behind protagonist gets fucked by an axe
□Rollo gets his shirt off
□Lagatha takes no shit all season but suddenly accepts abuse for no reason.
□Marry, Fuck, Kill all at once.
□Cut to the new foreign country characters you don't give a shit about
□bit about "am I fated or is there free will?"
□seer mocks customers for asking him to literally just do his job.
□Rhys Meyers... can't deliver... long dialogue... in bursts of... three syllables.
□I love you brother. I WILL KILL YOU BROTHERS.
□Hero being abusive to partner
□"I am with Childe" dude puts hand/head on stomach
□graphic gutting of animal
□saves main character but doesn't know why, says doesn't know. Is just so they can have a scene.
□characters able to recognise and talk to people on other side of battlefield.
□shield wall! (One guy still gets arrow)
□people with shields retreating from archers without using shield
□second wave of archers that would have been better as first wave
□Ragnar staggers back a step when deciding what to do.
□It's your fault we are in this (boat/hut/country/cell/vagina)
□juxtaposing "barbaric" practices with modern Christian practices making you go hmmm
□Bjorn does this tongue thing
□stock crow blinking eye shot
□hesitant skol
As you have read this, in order to please the gods you must make a sacrifice of plunder to:
Okay so fun word stuff. The Swedish Jarl being blood eagled is Borg, the name means fort or stronghold it comes from earlier words for "mound" or "mountain", hence 'Iceberg'. words like German burg (city) English Borough and so forth.
So he was literally...
Broke Back Mountain
Lawgiver: Jarl Borg, the gods have spoken, your fate is...
Borg: blood eagle. I get it.
Lawgiver: I'm sorry, it is just too funny.
Borg: yes for like the one chick who got the joke.
Borg: seer, what is my fate?
Seer: your fame will sleep, until the artist who turns light into monsters writes upon her magic stone and tells the world
Borg: I don't understand.
Seer: nobody will. But the cow herd cannot quit you.
The amazing thing about rewatching Vikings is Gabriel Byrne's Haraldson is a pure evil villain in season one. Yet after watching the entire run and rewatching him in that context of the world and all the other bastards he plays completely differently
Byrne gives us a faded lord, a once hero who has been beaten down by the conspiracies and failings of his people. He has lost his spirit, and that is his failing.
He predicts those who would plot against him, he moves against cheats and liars with restraint compared to...
...the later lords. He makes a strategic marriage for his daughter to profit his people. But, for all that he rules with fear and does nothing to inspire or cheer his people. He is resigned, a threat, and not loved because of it.
So that maths is wrong, I forgot that 666 is the only triple we want in the result, so it is 1/216, not 6/216
That said, that very mechanic can give you a slightly better dice curve in dnd.
The sum of 3d6 gives you between 3 and 18 on a bell curve. This means you are most likely to roll somewhere around 9ish and least likely to roll 3 or 18.
GURPS uses this as the basic mechanic