#Not rimurus first experience with dungeons

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"Adventurer"

Famed adventurer from an eastern forest nation. Adventurer has the size of a child and a constant hunger, allowing for the ability to make their meals strength their own

Starting Skills

Predation

Consume others to gain their strength (restores hunger and has a small chance to grant a skill from prey or restore hp)

Great Sage

Analyses items and skills and gives more precise descriptions (gives actual numbers and percentages in item descriptions)

Unique Intro Skills

Regeneration

Heals you over time at the cost of hunger (restores one health every 3 seconds at the cost of 6 hunger when the skill is activated)

Black Flame

Flame that surges with electric might (combustion but with a 10% chance to half a limbs accuracy for 2 turns at the cost of 10 hunger)

Wanted to make Rimuru a character whos main gimmick is having to juggle hunger instead of mind in and out of combat, making the cost for their strength being a high risk of starvation and motivation to fight as many enemies as possible

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Do you have any roleplaying pet peeves?

What made you choose your muse(s)?

Pet peeves? Don't really have any besides the usual. Like porn bots or rebloging memes without sending one. I have a meme account where I add memes I rebloged. It's even better if it doesn't have a source, so you don't have to feel bad.

This is going to be a long one since I have a lot of Muses. Some with 5 + years experience. Mukuro is my oldest roleplay character. 14+ years. It started as an MSN rp group until it was shut down. I kinda chose him after a few quizzes I took when I first started reading the manga. Before I knew who Mukuro was, I got him as a "Which character are you." So, when I started rping, I chose him as a character. He has been a ro character ever since. Chrome is a second, and I added her when I became part of the Tumblr rp community around 7+ years ago. It was more to add a little diversity to the type of character I can play. Chrome is a bit kinder and easier to interact with as a first-time character. Mukuro, not so much.

I have been a huge fan of Naruto since I saw it on TV back in high school. Being as I am 34 years old, that was a while back. I would cosplay as Itachi and do live action rps with family members. Mainly my sister... One cosplay had my younger cousin at the time convinced I was actually Itachi. He monopolized my time and asked me a ton of questions. I stopped for a while and wouldn't mind getting back into cosplay. But it's the reason why I chose Itachi as a muse. Deidara is my favorite Naruto character. So thst influenced my choice. Madara zi actually picked up for a friend both times. In the past, it was because an Itachi rperwanted to ship with a Madara. I was the only one willing to ship with her. Izuna, I don't have an answer. I just liked him. The same goes for Sasuke.

I chose Rimuru for two reasons. One, he is such a wonderful character, and two, there are not enough active rp blogs for the fandom. I plan to add more of the characters to my blog.

Thistle, Dungeon Meshi is my new current obsession. I like Thistle's unhinged personality.

My Fandomless OC Nitsuki is just a baby of my muses.

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isekai recs?

this is the only ask that matters to me.. i won’t give content warnings but some of these stories contain sensitive themes. in very loose order:

Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken / That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (anime + manga)

one of the big boys last season. the MC guy dies + transported to another world but is reborn as a slime and, through this, basically becomes a god even though he mostly just wanted to build a safe city for monsters. the cast is mainly male but there are multiple major female characters.

i like plot stuff but it’s actually great fun watching rimuru develop his city and casually become super powerful. i’m still really interested in seeing where the plot goes and the less plot-centric stuff doesn’t detract from enjoyment of the story as a whole because it throws in character development too.

*The Ways of Strolling in the Demon Country is good and cute spinoff manga

Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari / The Rising of the Shield Hero (anime + manga)

and here’s the other big boy of last season. the MC doesn’t die at the start (good for him), but he’s summoned to another world as one of the four legendary heroes. cool! until he’s immediately stabbed in the back by royalty and cast away. the mood of this show starts off and generally remains a lot darker than every major isekai but re:zero.

what sets this show apart besides the intriguing element of the MC’s legendary weapon being a shield, is (incoming low bar) the other 2 major characters, both ladies. raphtalia, the emotional soul of the show, wields a sword instead of being a typical female mage/archer. firo is the team’s tank and mount (in her real form, a large bird). the team goes through so much shit that when they defeat something, you feel satisfied instead of thinking ‘OP fantasy bullshit again’

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! / God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! (anime + manga)

this one uses the classic “MC dies + is transported to another world” trope but it has a big focus on comedy. humour is its biggest selling point and it is a absolutely hilarious. i particularly love the voice acting. the art is nice though the animation is lacking (budget issues?).

you really grow to love the characters through their ridiculous shenanigans and as a plus, the main cast is mostly female (the MC guy, useless goddess, mage girl who can only cast explosion, and paladin knight lady who enjoys taking damage) and they’re hardly ever put through ecchi situations! yes the bar is that low! there’s minimal romance in the show atm thank god

Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi / Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill (manga)

the OP skills this guy gets when he’s summoned to another world? infinite storage and online shopping. he cooks so well he garners the attention of legendary wolf beast fenrir, and they’re bound in a familiar contract because fenrir REALLY likes the food this guy makes. it’s great if you like cooking and fantasy - light-hearted, fun, and funny. i love the art style.

Isekai Shokudou / Restaurant to Another World (anime + manga)

the kind of thing you consume for warm fuzzy feelings when you also like food. a restaurant in our world has a door that connects to a fantasy world, and once a week, people from the fantasy world can come visit and eat. so more like reverse isekai. each chapter revolves around a different fantasy person/people, and through this, you learn about each of those characters. slice of life vibes, light, fluffy. if you like yuru camp and food shows, you’d like this.

honourable mentions:

Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon (manga)

oh this is it. this is my most recent 10/10 rated animanga and holy fuck. it’s not an isekai, it is fantasy. one of the heroes is eaten by the dragon, the others have to retreat without their supplies, but they gotta go back for the person they lost. without rations, they end up eating the monsters in the dungeon. this sounds like a light-hearted premise (sort of), but you never forget the underlying goal of rescuing the girl, you see through flashbacks and interactions the importance of her to the others.

it gets pretty heavy and even dark later on without sacrificing its ability to be comedic. this one balances incredible art, an intriguing story, humour, emotional moments, delicious fantasy food, and characters who are evenly developed. the author is a woman and you can tell because there’s zero fanservice. it’s purely a fantastic story with beautiful art and hilarious expressions.

No Game No Life (anime + manga): game world isekai that revolves around playing games. the games are the most interesting element of this world and layers of mind games, cheating, etc. keep you guessing about the various outcomes. the colourful art style makes for a unique visual experience. more politics than even slime datta! you maybe assume the MC siblings are trying to conquer the world for the human race, but they’re actually just trying to become god. *has a prequel movie: NGNL Zero. incredible animation, it’s lore if you like the world

Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu / Starting Life in Another World (anime + manga): wow the MC sure did think being in a fantasy world would be cool! labelled psychological horror and has a very dark tone throughout. most of the characters are female. the show is rife with suffering and while there is a story element to it, the first season of the anime ends with many questions and loose strings. great animation.

Kumo desu ga, Nani ka? / So I’m a Spider, So What? (manga): the MC girl is reborn as a little spider and she becomes more powerful. it’s hard not to root for her as you watch her grind through the cave. the interesting thing is that she actually becomes more like a villainous monster, partially because of how intruding humans repeatedly destroy her web home. also getting an anime soon!

Kujonin / Exterminator (manga): the MC uses his past life’s extermination skills to kill monsters and basically cheeses his way to OP ability. includes a tragic amount of one-sided love for the MC and fanservice. the characters he meets along his travels make for a more interesting story though; there are some solid moments.

whatever the opposite of recommendations/honourable mentions is:

sword art online.

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Tabletop vs. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: How Do the Monsters Compare?

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is a fun show that’s nicely self-aware of its genre’s tropes and how to make itself stand out from the crowd. While the likes of Overlord take a much darker tone, Slime takes the more positive message of trying to bridge differences and make peace with everyone.

As the Dungeon Master of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign though, one thing has festered in my mind for a while now, starting when Treyni the dryad summoned what seemed like an elemental (called a spirit summoning in the show) to attack Gelmund. I used a dryad in the first encounter of my campaign. They can’t do that! So, between goblins, dryads, lizardfolk, orcs and all of the other fantasy creatures in the Forest of Jura and overall world, how accurate are the monsters to their real life tabletop counterparts?

The obvious start point here is with dryads, since they sparked the initial thought.

In Slime, we see them as protectors of the forest that everyone respects, which is exactly how they are most commonly depicted. As for their abilities, thus far we have seen Treyni’s summoning attack and a few instances of dryads seeming to appear out of the ground. The summoning has no basis in any tabletop game. In D&D, dryads can cast spells like Barkskin to become harder to damage, Shillelagh to deal more damage and Entangle to hinder their opponents. Over in Pathfinder, they have the same Entangle ability, Charm Person and Suggestion (which temporarily makes an enemy do what you want) among a few other spells.

In terms of the teleportation ability, both Pathfinder and D&D agree that dryads have an equivalent, but not quite as powerful as what is shown in the show. Instead of appearing by sprouting out of the ground, tabletop dryads can meld into and walk between trees, an ability called Tree Stride. So for dryads, Slime vastly over estimates their power, both in combat and movement. What about the goblins, and eventual hobgoblins, that Rimuru leads?

In Slime, the goblins are initially almost helpless, barely even being able to survive against the other monsters of the Forest of Jura. If not for Rimuru’s assistance, the dire wolves likely would’ve wiped out the village. This is fairly close to how they are depicted in Pathfinders, where goblins can be a tribe can have a significant portion of the population be noncombatants, and they tend to favor temperate forests and coasts, like the Forest of Jura.

In terms of abilities, tabletop goblins have so little that the show almost perfectly matches. In the tabletop games, goblins have some kind of shortsword and a shortbow. It's not exactly what the goblins have in the show, but they are making due with rusty swords and no armor, so it's not too far off, either. D&D goblins also get the ability Nimble Escape to get out of melee combat while Pathfinder goblins have improved initiative, to act more quickly in combat, and a significant boost to their ride skill, allowing them to more effectively utilize mounts (which the goblin riders will utilize).

Once Rimuru names the goblins and they become hobgoblins, things are less exact. Tabletop hobgoblins are less of an evolution of goblins, and more of a side branch. They are more militaristic and industrialized, with less focus on stealth or riding.

In terms of equipment, hobgoblins have longswords and longbows, and, depending on the game and specific type of hobgoblin, some amount of metal armor and a shield. While we do not have explicit confirmation on what kinds of weapons most of Slime’s hobgoblins are using, this upgrade would easily happen once the dwarves began aiding the village and providing better made weapons and armor. But what about the leader of the hobgoblins, the titular monster itself: the slime? 

  It's obvious Rimuru isn’t a normal slime, even directly after being reincarnated. In both Pathfinder and D&D, slimes (technically called oozes) have no intelligence, as most people in the world of Slime initially expect of Rimuru. However, before absorbing various creatures in Veldora’s cave (and Veldora itself), and eventually gaining a human form, Rimuru is supposed to be a mostly standard slime, just with extra intelligence and some abilities that carried over from when he was dying in his original world.

Rimuru’s main ability, Predator, is closest to being an evolution of the Engulf ability from D&D. Both abilities dissolve whatever creature is consumed over time, but Predator has no limit on how large the thing being consumed is, and when a creature gets consumed, Rimuru gets its main abilities. Engulf only works on size class large or smaller creatures (horses are considered large, humans are medium), and an engulfed creature is restrained like in the show, but then it just takes acid damage until it dies or passes a strength check to escape. No touching scenes of past life experiences or new abilities from eating the enemy.

Tabletop oozes are also immune to exhaustion/sleep effects, whereas Rimuru passes out for several days afterusing too much magic, but since oozes don’t have magic to begin with, that is potentially just something unique to Rimuru. Interestingly, even Rimuru not being able to see much anything until Veldora teaches him magic sense is not accurate to tabletop oozes. In both Pathfinder and D&D, oozes have blindsight, which allows them to see a certain distance despite not having eyes.

So in short, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is all over the place with respect to how close the monsters are to their tabletop counterparts. Rimuru is nothing like an ooze, which is to be expected, but neither is Treyni anything like a dryad. Meanwhile, the goblins and hobgoblins are surprisingly close in many respects.

My best guess as to why some monsters are strikingly similar to their tabletop counterparts while others deviate heavily is that the show takes much more inspiration from video games. As a result, the monsters that were adapted to the video format and retained many of their tabletop attributes were likely represented more accurately in the show, while those either adapted for video or left out entirely changed much more significantly.

All said, the show is still very enjoyable to watch, especially as a more upbeat and positive take on a popular setting in recent years, and the various monsters work off of each other in a way that makes the world feel complete and lived in, even if some of the monsters need to be adapted more than others to complete the transition.

There you have it, that was my analysis of how the monsters of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime compared to their counterparts in tabletop gaming! Do you have any other ideas as to why some monsters lined up almost perfectly, and other not at all? Do you want to learn about more of the monsters from That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime, like the Oni or Lizardfolk? Let me know in the comments below!

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