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Luci

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"If you meant what you said Alistair, then swear on the divine. 'Tis not often you get to be in her presence" "I- It's- You never stopped being mean, do you?"

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Celebrate being a writer. Celebrate your stories, your characters, and the wildest concepts of your imagination. We spend too much time beating ourselves up, criticizing our writing, pointing out mistakes and weaknesses. It’s time to become proud of your writing. Even if you think it sucks, I promise, it’s good enough, it’s beautiful. You can always become a better writer, but you don’t do this by bringing yourself down.

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I am unwell lmao

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actually now i’m curious

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Cosmetic box

Egypt, 600–500 B.C.

Source

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oh i never posted this, it's still kinda cute tho

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the audience

1.7k words, T

The moment the whole world came into question. Surely there had been more capable mages available to do this. Yet it was not a matter of capability. It was a question of obedience. “Good. Undo it.” Caterina’s demand left no room for question. That was why they were here. This was a test. - Andrea de Riva must undergo a final test before being accepted as a fully fledged member of the Antivan Crows.

some pre-canon andrea fic about how they became a Crow. :)

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not me forgetting illario shows up partway through bloodbath and on seeing him around the corner, very on edge bc this quest beat my ass on normal and now im on nightmare, instinctively trying to shoot him in the head 😭

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solving that very mysterious case of the missing fish...

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🌖The Calling🌘

You can get a print of this piece here!

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might as well do them all. if you played more than one, choose your favorite :) please reblog for larger sample size

mage poll, warrior poll

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Monk flicks on the lights in the monastery basement. The rats scatter, but for a moment he glimpses little brown robes and tonsures.

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"Why are you complaining about not having evil options? I know that none of you play evil/the majority of people play good characters anyway."

Most good RPGs won't just give you an evil choice and a good choice. Usually it'll be a sliding scale of assholery, and usually there will be a decent enough in-universe reason to do something "evil".

A good enough writing/dev team will make it very tempting to pick a shitty option, be it through gameplay advantages or character motivation. Some games get away with just making it fun/unhinged to be a dickhead (Mass Effect Renegade Shep comes to mind, as they objectively get a "worse" mechanical outcome at the end of the trilogy, but plenty of people still maintain it's the best way to play). WotR gives you enough wacky chaotic options that playing a goody two-shoes makes me feel like I'm missing out.

I actually think that having bad options presented to the player makes the choice to be good all the more rewarding? Like when I see just how much of a shithead I could make my character, what truly cruel and unhinged things they could say, that makes it more meaningful when they don't? Ya know? I could be evil but I choose not to? In games where I'm placed in a position of power? Imagine that. Not picking those options is just as much of a power fantasy as anything else, to me.

You can be good without being nice. Games aren't great at this distinction yet, but being able to be sassy or stoic or rude while still making "good" choices is very much a part of roleplaying. I don't have many "evil" OCs (aside from my original work), but all my OCs are good in different ways. Some of them are just barely good enough to not be evil.

Sometimes one "evil" choice presented can fit an OC that is otherwise a disinclined to do bad shit, just because it better aligns with their personal morality. So even if I don't play a wholly "evil" OC who picks every "evil" choice, I can still play somebody who's unique and complex. Or at the very least somebody who makes mistakes? Like people do?

Replayability? In an RPG?? Might be important? Yes most people don't play evil ... for their first run. But people who replay games, and particularly RPG players, will make multiple characters/runs, and the existence of different options makes the prospect much more rewarding.

Idk man. There's like a bajillion reasons that players who only play good guys should still want the options to be shitty in their games. And a bajillion more for why they should exist in roleplaying games in particular.

Just my onion though.

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The Wigmaker Job outfits ✨

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NEVER STOP BEING OBSESSED WITH YOUR OCS 🫵