yes, I’m a DM, yes, I love writing, no, I don’t know how distance works. Is that building 100 feet away or 40 feet away? Should you be able to see something ten minutes down the road? Is 1,000 feet long? Is 30?? Is 6??? Could you walk across the continent in 2 weeks or 2 years? I hate this. I hate travel. I hate measurement. Fuck you.
the “games shouldn’t have politics” crowd is always dumb but it’s also hilarious when it manages to overlap with the “I hate twee fluffy ‘wholesome’ games” crowd
what these people think “a game without politics” is: Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid, Nier Automata
what “a game without politics” would actually be: Froggy Friend Goes To The Marshmallow Picnic
They think Froggy Friend Goes To The Marshmallow Picnic is a propaganda piece because the frog is gay.
A self-proclaimed “greatest swordsman in the world” who’s legitimately unstoppable in a one-on-one duel, but messily goes to pieces in literally any other scenario because their training didn’t cover that. The party’s basic battle strategy consists of pointing them at the highest-threat target and going to extraordinary lengths to ensure nothing “distracts” them.
A wizard with a wildly eclectic yet strangely limited selection of spells who dismisses any shortcoming in their repertoire by claiming that it falls outside their specialty. If anyone tries to pin them down on what their specialty actually is, they remark that there’s no word for it in your barbarous tongue, then refuse to elaborate.
A cleric who’s embroiled in a constant ethical debate with their own god, voicing their arguments out loud and receiving replies which evidently only they can hear. The topics discussed range widely, though they always seem to segue to whatever the party is currently up to just in time for the cleric to prove a point by casting a situationally appropriate spell.
An extremely Lawful rogue who’s perfectly okay with cheating, stealing and murdering, but only under the terms of an elaborate code of conduct they’re able to cite chapter and verse at the slightest provocation. These are allegedly the bylaws of the prestigious thieves’ guild to which they belong, but no-one the party encounters has ever heard of it.
There are fights in FMA in both of the anime and the manga that are fluid, frantic, and dramatic as all hell.
And then there are the fights where Roy Mustang is pissed and he snaps fire on somebody for five minutes straight.
And I them both equally.
never really thought about it but fuck roy has a lot or restraint. like its lampshaded on the promise day when he goes out of his way to only give minor injuries to incapacitate but thinking about how he destroyed a near immortal homonculus… just fuck
