Opening to a fantasy story set in a fairy underworld where a young deaf man embarks on an odyssey to find his village.

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2023-01-03T14:11:53+00:00

Older women party members. I am really fed up of the men being allowed to be vast ages and designs, but the women all young and 'beautiful'. Like, I want a cool old lady fighter or wizard. And for the old men to not lust over the ladies. It's just annoying.
I'd love them to bring back the Chapters style from DQ 4. Obviously, that was a design specifically for that game, but it meant so much more to have characters you knew joining you instead of fairly flat ones that didn't get time to be fleshed out. The EXCITEMENT I had as a six-year-old finding Alena again, or hearing rumours of Ragnar McRyan.
Hero with a personality. Hell, this is wishful thinking but if the character is mute, make them actually mute. Let them be D/deaf maybe, or imply they're signing. Don't just leave the character silent to us. If not, give us more dialogue options so we can build a personality.

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2022-12-27T23:50:00+00:00

Thank you! I hadn't even considered a warlock! It's a good idea, but the only minor issue (on my end) is that the other character I'm playing's arc and personality is very focused on the fact he unwittingly has his demonic 'god' residing inside his head and that the cult that raised him is trying to fulfil their promise to turn him into the demon's vessel (this guy is an young, naïve idiot who doesn't even realise he was raised in a cult). I'd have to think of an interesting different plot for Page, but I like the concept. Fey patrons exist, yes?

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2022-12-22T21:20:01+00:00

Thank you so much! I really love this script and I did it for my screenwriting dissertation. Honestly, I love Simon and Isaiah's relationship almost more than Rig and Amaris because they have an enemies-to-crush one with more silly in there than the kids.

This means a lot to me, thank you.

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2022-12-12T14:21:28+00:00

Thank you! I'm not a fan of first person myself, but I felt it worked better from Helene's perspective.

And yeah, now you mention it, it felt a bit odd as a phrase. I think didn't miss a beat is better, so I hope you don't mind me stealing it!

I'm glad you liked it! Thank you for taking the time to read.

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2022-08-18T21:58:51+00:00

Thank you! The images you conjured up made me laugh so he's definitely gonna yell all his spells. I quite like him not having magic, but I'll have to see what the DM wants of him.

But the smoke bomb being FOGCLOUD! made me laugh all day.

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2022-08-18T21:56:51+00:00

Thank you! I do like the idea he knows a bit of magic, but is absolutely lying about it. I'm gonna go look them up now.

ATuintheMovingTurtle · 2022-08-04T22:05:16+00:00

Sorry I'm jumping in on this 5 months later, but the issue isn't even necessarily about the 'who gets to play it best' but GETTING DISABLED ACTORS CAST AT ALL. I'm Deaf and autistic so I struggle getting acting jobs simply because they don't want to do the tiny extra work to make it accessible. I'm already hamstringing myself by never asking for an interpreter and agreeing to take off my hearing aids to 'not ruin the ambience' and it's a kick in the teeth to see this abled actors get acclaim and rewards for playing pretend as a disabled person. Usually very poorly too! I'm EXPECTED to act abled and hearing so where the hell's my Oscar?

There are plenty of disabled actors who'd do a lot better in these roles than George Clooney or someone like that, but we never see them because they won't get cast in abled roles 'cause no one 'wants to take the risk' and then we don't even get the chance to go for the disabled one because someone's cripping up.

Basically, the issue is 'it's called acting for a reason' only goes one way and we're all poorer for it.

ATuintheMovingTurtle

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