I am not enthralled by power fantasies. Which, yes, I know, makes it odd for D&D and all that, lol, but the major factors that drive my possible interest in any anime show are that 1 - the lead by a woman, and 2 - I like the art style.
outside of that, there is no telling.
But that first one? Yeah, that guts most stuff.
A few exceptions exist -- SAO, Slime, Goblin Slayer, Shield Hero -- but by and large, if it doesn't feature a woman as a lead, it is off my list. The exceptions are there for reasons other than my interest in the show, lol. SAO is conceptual, Slime is skating by due to semi-enby ace lead and worldbuilding, GS is useful for side quests, Shield is just a whole wtf.
on the other hand, I know a shocking amount of stuff about different anime, because, well, I am a grandmother that plays D&D, lol. I get told everything.
Needless to say, I don't watch much anime, and what I do watch usually isn't very popular (two current shows being an exception -- Freiren and Apothecary).
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If you're looking for an interesting fantasy world with a female lead, you should try the Monstress graphic novels by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. It's beautifully done.
I mean, if you're enjoying it, you certainly shouldn't stop on my account.
I haven't, but I enjoyed The City & The City, so I'd be willing to give it a try.
Oh no, I just agree with you in that if it gets repetitive then I'll get bored. I was hoping that they would lean into the demons having different strategic weaknesses that required some brains to work out and beat.
I definitely recommend Perdido Street Station. It's delightfully strange.
If you're looking for an interesting fantasy world with a female lead, you should try the Monstress graphic novels by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. It's beautifully done.
Met them at a con a while back, bought the first three books when they were still very new, been following ever since.
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I've yet to see a euro-fantasy anime that I appreciate for its fantasy elements. Log Horizon and Shield Hero were engaging for their game elements, mostly. (And Shield Hero has a lot to answer for in terms of troublesome isekai tropes.) But I haven't seen most of those, either. Idk. It's not something I look for in anime.
I would be curious to see how much of the "I want anime in my D&D" crowd is clamoring for anime in the same genre as D&D, vs other stuff. Like I bet there's a fair amount of isekai enjoyers, probably a reasonable amount of eastern-fantasy fans, but how many are like... Mecha fans? Or shoujo romance? Are people trying to inject Death Note into their D&D games, do you think? Lol.
I've yet to see a euro-fantasy anime that I appreciate for its fantasy elements. Log Horizon and Shield Hero were engaging for their game elements, mostly. (And Shield Hero has a lot to answer for in terms of troublesome isekai tropes.) But I haven't seen most of those, either. Idk. It's not something I look for in anime.
I would be curious to see how much of the "I want anime in my D&D" crowd is clamoring for anime in the same genre as D&D, vs other stuff. Like I bet there's a fair amount of isekai enjoyers, probably a reasonable amount of eastern-fantasy fans, but how many are like... Mecha fans? Or shoujo romance? Are people trying to inject Death Note into their D&D games, do you think? Lol.
So, by and large, the folks wanting to inject anime into their stuff tend very strongly to avoid any isekai (which, especially among the younger crowd, is considered trashy and passe). No, what they want to do is
One Punch,
Death Note,
JuJutsu Kaisen,
JoJo,
Dragonball,
Demon Slayer,
One Piece,
Attack on Titan,
Pokemon,
Naruto,
Boruto,
Chainsaw man
And other hard shonen of that sort where there is a very overt, very "extra level" kid of power fantasy element. At least, based on the kinds of stuff Im seeing and hearing them talk about in the youth groups and online. They also are very keen on creating those worlds for them to play in, and model villains and the like after wat they see in them. So they have their PCs as the pirates seeking the one piece, and then the Villain is some super pirate able to kill things in two swipes.
Also, I forgot Claymore on my list. Which given that Blade and Soul is on my list, I feel very remiss, since I think Claymore is actually better.
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Just so we're clear, I make homebrew for fun without intending to use all of it in game. In referencing Demon Slayer, I wasn't so much trying to play out a power fantasy, and like I mentioned, I don't really care much for anime tropes in general. What I am pondering is a reasonably balanced way to bring some variety into the way martials play. I know you're not really accusing anybody here of anything, but I feel I should clarify why I brought it up.
The more I think of this topic, the more I feel toxic nostalgia for 4e. Lol.
Just so we're clear, I make homebrew for fun without intending to use all of it in game. In referencing Demon Slayer, I wasn't so much trying to play out a power fantasy, and like I mentioned, I don't really care much for anime tropes in general. What I am pondering is a reasonably balanced way to bring some variety into the way martials play. I know you're not really accusing anybody here of anything, but I feel I should clarify why I brought it up.
The more I think of this topic, the more I feel toxic nostalgia for 4e. Lol.
Not speaking for anyone else, but I certainly didn't think otherwise.
I just got sidetracked with anime I watch, lol.
But, also, I do tend to try and think of approaches to solve a problem.
But, you sidestepped around one of my pet peeves, lol.
Variety in martials is something that is really hard to do, and really hard to come up with, and that's why I turned to the anime stuff -- as a way to give them something to work on and grow with.
But, I also did so without the goal of trying to "balance" martials and casters, lol.
That is the pet peeve.
They aren't supposed to be "balanced". Martials do martial stuff, mages do mage stuff; it is supposed to be a trade off -- you can do one or the other really well, and then everything else is sorta doing less well in some way with either of those, and the Cleric splits the difference.
But I've been playing since those were the only classes, so imma grouse and grumble and shout get off my rocks -- since I am not allowed to have a lawn.
but meh, they want to nerf the hell out of mages or make fighters into mages, fine, I can help do that too.
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You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
That's about 30% of why I don't often write long posts haha. The other 70% is that I accept the fundamental truth of the world, which is that nobody really cares what I have to say. If I have to write a lot, I start in notepad and copy/paste.
Just so we're clear, I make homebrew for fun without intending to use all of it in game. In referencing Demon Slayer, I wasn't so much trying to play out a power fantasy, and like I mentioned, I don't really care much for anime tropes in general. What I am pondering is a reasonably balanced way to bring some variety into the way martials play. I know you're not really accusing anybody here of anything, but I feel I should clarify why I brought it up.
The more I think of this topic, the more I feel toxic nostalgia for 4e. Lol.
Not speaking for anyone else, but I certainly didn't think otherwise.
I just got sidetracked with anime I watch, lol.
But, also, I do tend to try and think of approaches to solve a problem.
But, you sidestepped around one of my pet peeves, lol.
Variety in martials is something that is really hard to do, and really hard to come up with, and that's why I turned to the anime stuff -- as a way to give them something to work on and grow with.
But, I also did so without the goal of trying to "balance" martials and casters, lol.
That is the pet peeve.
They aren't supposed to be "balanced". Martials do martial stuff, mages do mage stuff; it is supposed to be a trade off -- you can do one or the other really well, and then everything else is sorta doing less well in some way with either of those, and the Cleric splits the difference.
But I've been playing since those were the only classes, so imma grouse and grumble and shout get off my rocks -- since I am not allowed to have a lawn.
but meh, they want to nerf the hell out of mages or make fighters into mages, fine, I can help do that too.
I agree that casters and martials don't need to be balanced. They should certainly be good at different things. I just don't agree that in order for spellcasters and non-casters to be different that non-casters should have very few options.
Take the Tome of Battle, for instance, which was arguably a soft playtest of 4e. If you strip away the more nakedly magical maneuvers it introduced, there were still plenty of flavorful and mechanically distinct options for a martial PC to use. In 5e? Not so much.
You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
All the times.
Ditto there was this one time when
Reminds me of when I taught at a university. For those of you who currently write essays or will in the future: for Pelor's sake it gets exhausting to read through the following:
"In this essay I will..." "Since the Cold War/Great Recession/Dawn of Time, *broad unfalsifiable statement*. (Usually found at the beginning of an introduction.) "incentivize"
I blame teachers more than students for teaching fourth graders a single uniform way to write, and failing to amend that understanding at any point up until (and including) college.
You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
All the times.
Ditto there was this one time when
Reminds me of when I taught at a university. For those of you who currently write essays or will in the future: for Pelor's sake it gets exhausting to read through the following:
"In this essay I will..." "Since the Cold War/Great Recession/Dawn of Time, *broad unfalsifiable statement*. (Usually found at the beginning of an introduction.) "incentivize"
I blame teachers more than students for teaching fourth graders a single uniform way to write, and failing to amend that understanding at any point up until (and including) college.
That’s part of why I always got decent grades on my papers, I wrote them like speeches. Very refreshing amid all of that drivel.
That’s part of why I always got decent grades on my papers, I wrote them like speeches. Very refreshing amid all of that drivel.
Yeah that should work in some settings. What's funny is how among academic publications, the quality of writing varies pretty dramatically across fields. In my experience the best writers are actually legal scholars, which is a bit shocking. In my field it's almost a benefit to be as opaque as possible.
That’s part of why I always got decent grades on my papers, I wrote them like speeches. Very refreshing amid all of that drivel.
Yeah that should work in some settings. What's funny is how among academic publications, the quality of writing varies pretty dramatically across fields. In my experience the best writers are actually legal scholars, which is a bit shocking. In my field it's almost a benefit to be as opaque as possible.
I appear to be cranking hard today, lol.
It is funny that you mentioned quality of work in pubs, because it is Friday and my little side gig is on deck and now I am going through a stack of seven papes and I swear, if I could just get the EIC to approve a few minor stylistic things....
What folks don't always realize is that most peer reviewers get paid squat (if at all -- average is about 125 bucks a paper), get a ton of crap on their desk (nothing from today's batch is getting my approval), and have to spend likely an hour just writing up their peer notes.
Uness they have a sub-specialty, in which case they will be dealing with likely two to three hours. Per document, 6 to 10 documents a week at least.
And that is why I am cranky.
Well, that and I just realized i forgot to eat today. I should splurge big and have it delivered so I don't throw my darn pots and pans around...
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Welp, got around 300 posts worth of stuff up on the site, after breaking it all down. That completes a huge chunk of stuff that was waiting. Pleasant "new look', at least to my eye, and my player group loves it (after telling me to do it more like DDB, lol).
I simply could not stand to go as granular as DDB. I would like to stop c/p into new documents in this lifetime, lol.
ten days left of my final extension, and I am please. As boring as the rest of the stuff is, right now everything would work with using default classes.
Surrendering to our new AI overlords sucks, although I am glad I was able to create a lot more images of folks that are hard to find otherwise.
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I mean, if you're enjoying it, you certainly shouldn't stop on my account.
I haven't, but I enjoyed The City & The City, so I'd be willing to give it a try.
I am...
Not a teenage boy or young man.
I am not enthralled by power fantasies. Which, yes, I know, makes it odd for D&D and all that, lol, but the major factors that drive my possible interest in any anime show are that 1 - the lead by a woman, and 2 - I like the art style.
outside of that, there is no telling.
But that first one? Yeah, that guts most stuff.
A few exceptions exist -- SAO, Slime, Goblin Slayer, Shield Hero -- but by and large, if it doesn't feature a woman as a lead, it is off my list. The exceptions are there for reasons other than my interest in the show, lol. SAO is conceptual, Slime is skating by due to semi-enby ace lead and worldbuilding, GS is useful for side quests, Shield is just a whole wtf.
on the other hand, I know a shocking amount of stuff about different anime, because, well, I am a grandmother that plays D&D, lol. I get told everything.
Needless to say, I don't watch much anime, and what I do watch usually isn't very popular (two current shows being an exception -- Freiren and Apothecary).
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If you're looking for an interesting fantasy world with a female lead, you should try the Monstress graphic novels by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. It's beautifully done.
Oh no, I just agree with you in that if it gets repetitive then I'll get bored. I was hoping that they would lean into the demons having different strategic weaknesses that required some brains to work out and beat.
I definitely recommend Perdido Street Station. It's delightfully strange.
I love SAO. I have the first book of Shield Hero but have yet to read it.
Bubblegum Crisis
Madoka Magica
Sailor Moon - which I found surprisingly entertaining for a time
Appleseed
RWBY
Blade and Soul
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Staying with D&D relatable, lol (or you get Sakura Quest and food and camping and...added)
A handful of others, but they aren’t all that influential for me in D&D or haven’t given me useful story stuff.
(edited for bullets, formatting)
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I've yet to see a euro-fantasy anime that I appreciate for its fantasy elements. Log Horizon and Shield Hero were engaging for their game elements, mostly. (And Shield Hero has a lot to answer for in terms of troublesome isekai tropes.) But I haven't seen most of those, either. Idk. It's not something I look for in anime.
I would be curious to see how much of the "I want anime in my D&D" crowd is clamoring for anime in the same genre as D&D, vs other stuff. Like I bet there's a fair amount of isekai enjoyers, probably a reasonable amount of eastern-fantasy fans, but how many are like... Mecha fans? Or shoujo romance? Are people trying to inject Death Note into their D&D games, do you think? Lol.
So, by and large, the folks wanting to inject anime into their stuff tend very strongly to avoid any isekai (which, especially among the younger crowd, is considered trashy and passe). No, what they want to do is
And other hard shonen of that sort where there is a very overt, very "extra level" kid of power fantasy element. At least, based on the kinds of stuff Im seeing and hearing them talk about in the youth groups and online. They also are very keen on creating those worlds for them to play in, and model villains and the like after wat they see in them. So they have their PCs as the pirates seeking the one piece, and then the Villain is some super pirate able to kill things in two swipes.
Also, I forgot Claymore on my list. Which given that Blade and Soul is on my list, I feel very remiss, since I think Claymore is actually better.
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Just so we're clear, I make homebrew for fun without intending to use all of it in game. In referencing Demon Slayer, I wasn't so much trying to play out a power fantasy, and like I mentioned, I don't really care much for anime tropes in general. What I am pondering is a reasonably balanced way to bring some variety into the way martials play. I know you're not really accusing anybody here of anything, but I feel I should clarify why I brought it up.
The more I think of this topic, the more I feel toxic nostalgia for 4e. Lol.
Not speaking for anyone else, but I certainly didn't think otherwise.
I just got sidetracked with anime I watch, lol.
But, also, I do tend to try and think of approaches to solve a problem.
But, you sidestepped around one of my pet peeves, lol.
Variety in martials is something that is really hard to do, and really hard to come up with, and that's why I turned to the anime stuff -- as a way to give them something to work on and grow with.
But, I also did so without the goal of trying to "balance" martials and casters, lol.
That is the pet peeve.
They aren't supposed to be "balanced". Martials do martial stuff, mages do mage stuff; it is supposed to be a trade off -- you can do one or the other really well, and then everything else is sorta doing less well in some way with either of those, and the Cleric splits the difference.
But I've been playing since those were the only classes, so imma grouse and grumble and shout get off my rocks -- since I am not allowed to have a lawn.
but meh, they want to nerf the hell out of mages or make fighters into mages, fine, I can help do that too.
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You ever type up a passionate six-paragraph response in a thread, quickly switch tabs to find a relevant link, and when you switch back to the page you see that it decided to refresh itself and get rid of all six of ‘em?
Yeah, me too.
Okay, that’s not really a lot of writing, but still. The sheer audacity of my browser! I never should have trusted you, Chrome!
Just felt like venting here because I know a lot of you folks can relate ;)
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That's about 30% of why I don't often write long posts haha. The other 70% is that I accept the fundamental truth of the world, which is that nobody really cares what I have to say. If I have to write a lot, I start in notepad and copy/paste.
I agree that casters and martials don't need to be balanced. They should certainly be good at different things. I just don't agree that in order for spellcasters and non-casters to be different that non-casters should have very few options.
Take the Tome of Battle, for instance, which was arguably a soft playtest of 4e. If you strip away the more nakedly magical maneuvers it introduced, there were still plenty of flavorful and mechanically distinct options for a martial PC to use. In 5e? Not so much.
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All the times.
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Ditto there was this one time when
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Reminds me of when I taught at a university. For those of you who currently write essays or will in the future: for Pelor's sake it gets exhausting to read through the following:
"In this essay I will..."
"Since the Cold War/Great Recession/Dawn of Time, *broad unfalsifiable statement*. (Usually found at the beginning of an introduction.)
"incentivize"
I blame teachers more than students for teaching fourth graders a single uniform way to write, and failing to amend that understanding at any point up until (and including) college.
That’s part of why I always got decent grades on my papers, I wrote them like speeches. Very refreshing amid all of that drivel.
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Yeah that should work in some settings. What's funny is how among academic publications, the quality of writing varies pretty dramatically across fields. In my experience the best writers are actually legal scholars, which is a bit shocking. In my field it's almost a benefit to be as opaque as possible.
I appear to be cranking hard today, lol.
It is funny that you mentioned quality of work in pubs, because it is Friday and my little side gig is on deck and now I am going through a stack of seven papes and I swear, if I could just get the EIC to approve a few minor stylistic things....
What folks don't always realize is that most peer reviewers get paid squat (if at all -- average is about 125 bucks a paper), get a ton of crap on their desk (nothing from today's batch is getting my approval), and have to spend likely an hour just writing up their peer notes.
Uness they have a sub-specialty, in which case they will be dealing with likely two to three hours. Per document, 6 to 10 documents a week at least.
And that is why I am cranky.
Well, that and I just realized i forgot to eat today. I should splurge big and have it delivered so I don't throw my darn pots and pans around...
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Welp, got around 300 posts worth of stuff up on the site, after breaking it all down. That completes a huge chunk of stuff that was waiting. Pleasant "new look', at least to my eye, and my player group loves it (after telling me to do it more like DDB, lol).
I simply could not stand to go as granular as DDB. I would like to stop c/p into new documents in this lifetime, lol.
ten days left of my final extension, and I am please. As boring as the rest of the stuff is, right now everything would work with using default classes.
Surrendering to our new AI overlords sucks, although I am glad I was able to create a lot more images of folks that are hard to find otherwise.
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
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An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
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