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You mean y’all have adventuring parties that aren’t composed entirely of weird lil guys?
Sometimes they’re at least partly made of weird big guys. Or weird lil gals. Or weird big gals.
Hey now, sometimes my character is three little guys in a suit pretending to be one bigger guy. Or sometimes I’m a dwarf barbarian who has had so many CTEs that he thinks he’s a wizard.
Hey, if D&D wasn’t created by a bunch of weird li’l guys to play weird li’l guys in their favorite story world (LotR), then I’ll find one that was inspired to do so. 🤪
All DnD characters are weird by definition. They are generally magic-weilding mercenaries in worlds that are populated almost exclusively with people who are not. They are the types of loons who hear, ‘There are monsters in that cave that will paralyse you, bind you, fill you with digestive juices, and then leave you to die slowly over the next few days, but there MIGHT be something of value in there, though there’s no reason to assume there is,’ and decide to run in so fast they forget their pants.
every party needs at least one weird little guy
Yes, but it does not need three.
What if you stack them on top of each other and cover them with a trenchcoat?
Three is fine. Just not thirteen. If you’ve got thirteen weird little guys you’ve got to recruit a fourteenth.
I’ve written two, too-long fiction books. After the second one, I realized I only have one story to write, and can’t think of anything else. I tried to start a third one, and it’s just turning into the same story–everything I like. So, I think I’m done writing.
Go look up the belgariad and then the other series by the same author. Wonderful writing and enjoyable story but every series is the same story with different characters.
And settings that, ten years after you get done with them and liked the whole thing based purely on the characters, make you go “wait, that was actually super racist and more than a little pedophilic”
Then you find out about the child abuse charges and some things start making more sense.
Yeah, I read them as a teen and really liked them, so read them (well, the Belgariad, at least, then kinda stalled on the next series) to my daughter more recently and didn’t find them quite as enjoyable. They were still fun but full of a bunch of questionable shit. I’d say it was very boomeresque with a lot of its humour. Also the weird recurring “oh drat, you have out-negotiated me again, Silk!”
Well damn. That was an unwelcome surprise this afternoon. The more you know I guess.
Take a look at the Shonen anime community. There’s a huge market for the same story repeated over and over.
It’s all about whether you enjoy writing it.
Take a look at the Shonen anime community.
Oh my gosh. Or friggin’ isekai.
“I Was Dead and Now I’m in Another World That Works on JRPG Mechanics and I’m a _______ ???”
Step 1. Fill in the blank with something clever.
Step 2. Too late! Someone already made it, and it’s got an 11 episode anime on Crunchyroll that ends abruptly and will never see continuation.
… “Reincarnated As a Vending Machine” is legit good though, the way it leans into its ridiculousness. XD
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