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The best parts of SAO are the music and the abridged series. The first few episodes were okay, but the main character is bland, as you said, as he is the typical light novel self insert power fantasy boy.

Nah, you completely underestimate the role the East, especially Japan, had on the Fantasy RPG genre. And the prevalence of Nintendo in the late 80's would have pathed its way to the West as well. I think there would still be a Legend of Zelda and the likes. Whether or not turn-based styles would...

I'd think the equivalent of "anime" would be "TTRPG" and not D&D. You cannot compare Berserk to ShinChan to Sailor Moon to HolyYoungMen to Monster to Madoka to Love Hina to anything Ghibli (and don't get me started at the more R rated stuff).

Yeah, it is hard because of course the WC devs were huge fans of both D&D and Warhammer, but several influences point to a specific influence of the Forgotten Realms. And we can be sure that Greenwood would have published his works and therefore his world in one way or another.

Am I the only one who is quite astonished by the merger of these character sketches with what looks like a very much polished background? Especially as I am totally capable of producing the former and utterly unable of doing the latter. (No, really, the poses remind me 100% of my Sailor Moon...

That sounds like a damn interesting setting. I'm always more keen on seeing and playing in worlds that offer unique quirks and rules instead of going with "PHB rules work somehow" no matter how crazy the setting. As long as it is consistent that is. Also, Shaha would make a good ally for the...

Session 47 Final Preparations After that rather long talk, we start preparations for our trip to Elfaivar. But before we even pack our luggage, we decide to wrap up as much as we can as we don't know when we'd be able to return to Flint. First, we pay Vitus Sigismund a last visit. It...

Haha, sure, but it totally worked since I got an Email notification about the thread reply :D

A future uncertain: Gabriel and Auryn As soon as we return back to Carlyle's house in Stray River, he asks Auryn what's wrong with her as she is clearly not her usual self right now. But she just shakes her head and says that she's worried about Morris Dawkins' health and fears that...

Ah yes, L5R... I don't know too much about it, but Tiz is a huge fan of the setting and the system. While I'm very obviously an anime fan, play JRPGs and am interested in japanese culture, I've never been drawn towards it. Maybe because the closeness is too much for my personal taste (I'd also...

Ooh, that sounds interesting! I guess that the adventure is meant to be set in your post-ZG setting? So I'm pretty curious to see which "default world" you would envision after the events of the original campaign. It will most likely differ a lot from ours though in my headcanon it could be...

I rally like your "Great Winter" foreshadowing of the events to come, even though I'm personally not a fan of shoving too much direct references of RL-mythology into a game world. What I'd suggest though is that you'd maybe adjust the text a bit to maybe include female nouns or names as well if...

A future uncertain: My dearest friend Once we're back in private, Carlyle stresses out that he won't the one to manipulate Kasvarina as this would just be wrong and against everything he believes in. So he asks Auryn to stay true to her creed as well as he knows that she is quite adept at...

Looks really interesting! And no, with PF2 you cannot simply swap between 5e and PF if you'd want a "crunchier" game. They are structurally very different beasts and if you look into the PF2 Core rules (which is a whopping 600+ pages book), you'll see why most players wouldn't "just switch...

Trying to rescue the Obs was definitely a risk, and not part of the mission, so I totally understand how your party made their choice. And yep, we also didn't know whether rescuing Vitus was going to fall back on us someday as to this point we've never met a decent Godhand. Tiz' personal dislike...

On difficult terrain Back in Flint, we use pretty dense security measures to bring all of our prisoners to the RHC for further questioning. We spend the next couple of days writing reports and interviewing all of the Obscurati, especially the higher-ups. Of course, we quickly and...

Shipping Fools We continue our focus on the conglomerate while Xambria Meredith and Vitus Sigismund take on the singular ghosts. After a while, we manage to dissolve all ghosts and the conglomerate. This Council, it seems, would a thing of the past. Macbannin thanks us for our...

(Hah, thanks! Just the beginning of a pattern from this part on... our characters acknowledged that Nic has some pretty interesting, and even good ideas, but he always manages to screw them up at some point. If he'd just follow his own ethics more strictly...) Crossroads, part 4: final parting...

Crossroads, part 3: Ghosts of the past We return to our rooms and then one by one summon Eskrine and Macbannin for a private talk. To everyone's surprise, Auryn directly turns to the ghostly ex-mayor and reveals that she knows about his plans to sacrifice himself via witch-curse. Macbannin nods...

oh you are right, they do have the rings! Maybe these things didn't exist when adventure 7 was written, so... yeah canonically, it should have been a mind blank