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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 498558" data-attributes="member: 3820">Ouch!That shattering sound you heard was one of Prisantha's few remaining romantic illusions. It's interesting how this story can go from over-the-top D&amp;D outrageousness to some pretty deft deflation of the sort of heavily romantic, starry-eyed ideals that usually go hand in hand with D&amp;D outrageousness.&nbsp; I don't just mean Pris's, um... less than stellar encounter, mind. Combat can be horribly one-sided slaughters where the PCs rip something up with easy bravado, or it can be insanely gruesome, the sort of thing nobody in their right mind would want to do for a living. Ordinarily, I'd say the two styles would clash too much to be a smooth read, but it manages to work, and be quite entertaining at that. Sorry for the third-rate literary critique there, but I feel obliged to say something other than &quot;Gawrsh, update good.&quot; Now what was this about &quot;poor old Maskaleyne,&quot; anyway? Unless he was hiding under the bedframe quietly sobbing while he listened to his beloved Prisantha get it on with some other man, I think I missed out on where he came into this update. (That, or (contact) was cheating, trying to tease an upcoming combat in order to get us to read the latest post. Shame! Such deceptions are unwarranted and unnecessary.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 498558, member: 3820"] [b]Ouch![/b] That shattering sound you heard was one of Prisantha's few remaining romantic illusions. It's interesting how this story can go from over-the-top D&D outrageousness to some pretty deft deflation of the sort of heavily romantic, starry-eyed ideals that usually go hand in hand with D&D outrageousness. I don't just mean Pris's, um... less than stellar encounter, mind. Combat can be horribly one-sided slaughters where the PCs rip something up with easy bravado, or it can be insanely gruesome, the sort of thing nobody in their right mind would want to do for a living. Ordinarily, I'd say the two styles would clash too much to be a smooth read, but it manages to work, and be quite entertaining at that. Sorry for the third-rate literary critique there, but I feel obliged to say [I]something[/I] other than "Gawrsh, update good." Now what was this about "poor old Maskaleyne," anyway? Unless he was hiding under the bedframe quietly sobbing while he listened to his beloved Prisantha get it on with some other man, I think I missed out on where he came into this update. (That, or (contact) was cheating, trying to tease an upcoming combat in order to get us to read the latest post. Shame! Such deceptions are unwarranted and unnecessary.) [/QUOTE]

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