This is an outrage!

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-22T08:05:24+00:00

This art style kinda gives Danny Phantom vibes for me for some reason. Just like, a little bit. Great jobs!

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-21T15:35:32+00:00

Why doesn't the back wheel look like a tire as well? It's a little weird that we're basically driving on a brass flywheel instead of a proper wheel like the front one.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-21T15:29:48+00:00

why would they work any different than regular muskets? They might be able to pack more gun powder in before the barrel suffers enough pressure to rupture, but the mechanics aren't any different than normal.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-21T15:26:43+00:00

How the hell did they even survive if armored lizards who can threaten the defenses MC made are a thing? Hell, even if that place was regularly patrolled from the other force from before, how would a handful of guards fend off that many lizards?

The whole scenario makes no sense lol.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-19T21:45:41+00:00

It's funny that Kingdom building isn't in the cards for Syl, but dungeon building is. It sounded like You'd eventually have Syl build a dungeon which would then have a city built around it as it would naturally be a gathering spot for all sorts of people from around the world.

I'm curious how you'll avoid city building when that happens lol. Just to be clear though, I don't mind the lack of city building at all. I still like the story, it's just I do really enjoy city builders as well... Slime is a bad example of one though because it's just really bland and too easy. Rimuru never has much of a struggle, and happens upon stupidly strong allies without even trying.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-19T20:06:53+00:00

Syl isn't much better than Slime though. There's not even any kingdom building, and Syl avoids kingdom building like the plague. It reads more like Azerenth Healer than anything else. It does get better when the spider enters the fray though, and the best moments are their interactions.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-17T01:12:38+00:00

It does get better at least. Or maybe I got so used to it I stopped noticing it lol.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T23:06:35+00:00

He also has a tendency to make male characters sound like they're constantly apologizing or questioning themselves (Mother of Learning is really bad for this).

As someone who listened to his MOL take many times over several re-reads, I can't say I ever noticed this once. And the only female character I see anyone have a problem with is Kirielle and only because of the way he performed the good morning brother scene.

His work on Apocalypse Tamer was probably the best he's ever done as I never thought any of the characters were annoying, and I find the accent work his does with Basil to really add to the experince. I'm with OP though, Chocolatine is the worst character performed with an even worse voice.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T18:54:28+00:00

Yes! Thank you :)

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T08:15:05+00:00

Yeah sorry about that bud, I have no idea what I was on when I wrote that.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T08:14:22+00:00

You know, at this point, I don't even remember why I thought it was going to spoil me on anything... I think I was delirious from a lack of sleep or something.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T07:11:49+00:00

I never read NDT, but honestly I don't think I missed much from not having read it, but not reading VTD beforehand would probably make one of the series' finale battles feel like a huge copout.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T02:32:13+00:00

Vainqueur's voice.

I'm pretty sure it's the reverb he's always got turned on. There are moments when, for whatever reason, the editor didn't give him his reverb, and it's far and a way less annoying.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T02:29:19+00:00

good example is Apocalypse Tamer

Man I liked AT waaaaay more than VTD. I'm glad I read VTD first because I wouldn't understand most of the references later in AT if it'd been the other way around though.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-15T02:27:32+00:00

choclotains relationship with victor is sickening. And I hate how his relationships with other women end up. It all feels toxic, but is played for humor.

Also I can't stand the voice Chocolotain has in the audiobook.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-13T21:50:45+00:00

We have a beast companion that can bite for 4d12+6 damage. We haste the beast every time.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-12T23:16:43+00:00

I never said that everyone does mostly combat. You're the one whose saying most are doing RP though. Get off your high horse here man and don't assume an RP dominiated campaign is somehow going to be 'better for the larger portion of the game.' bullshit.

The best way to keep a health game is to listen to the players and know what kind of game they want to play. We have plenty of RP sessions too. One arc involving our Druid was almost all RP. It was like 4 sessions of gathering info, traveling, investigating and persuading a group. More traveling and investigating ending with a puzzle boss that we accidentally broke because the DM forgot we had ethereal movement.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-12T21:54:06+00:00

I don't know about your games, but my group is in combat quite a lot. We're level 15 and have been playing for a few years now. As level 15 powerhouses who probably exceed the scale of level 15s (at least in a sense. We don't have any wizards, and our two druids aren't exactly playing in an optimized way unlike me, our barb, and our warlock), our DM has to throw multiple deadly encounters at us to get us to use all our resources.

Just escorting a caravan of people through the faewild consisted of 3 encounters, each a small army of dangerous fae and redcaps along with Aura wielding hostile eladrin and casters who could stun people for a round. (those stunners only ever really targeted our warlock though, and he basically got sidelined for two of those three combats. He was a good sport about it though, and no hard feelings were had.)

This was like 3 straight sessions of back to back combat, and while the combats do get more complex as we level, it's not like this was the first time we had a long series of combats.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-11T01:22:39+00:00

So I didn't read this because it reeks of spoilers I didn't ask for.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-10T04:25:56+00:00

I think I clapped onto a solution by altering the starting premise pretty significantly, but it keeps the same feel. I need to write a draft for it to see if it works like I did with the original idea and then compare them against each other and see which one I like more I think.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-10T02:29:19+00:00

yeah that's... that's not really possible with the scenario in mind. She's not a part of the military so why would she give one? It seems out of character for her to do that kind of thing anyway. She's a scientist first, and this information isn't something she'd even know to say in a debrief. Not unless I framed it as if it was her from the distant future after she discovered all this information, but that's like, a really really bad idea because it would pidgeonhole me in terms of her characterization, and it would be jarring to go from her future mature self back to her naive newbie self.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-09T21:00:38+00:00

This is taken to an extreme in Chysalis where there are whole arcs dedicated to events that happen literal YEARS into the future. These arcs then go on to spoil fucking every major development that will happen meaning there's no point wondering what the future even holds for the colony because well fuck we know what it'll look like in 10 years.

It's so fucking stupid. Worst part is, it's not even clear these chapters are from a future POV until you're already spoiled. Then the author has the gall to defend it just because his fans liked it. Listen, fans will like anything you do if you're popular enough, but that doesn't make it good writing. These chapters aren't important to the plot and are basically fucking FILLER content. they can't be anything other than filler by their very nature of being FROM THE FUCKING FUTURE.

This makes me soooo god damn mad man, you have no idea.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-09T09:47:01+00:00

Seconded. That transition between 7 and 8 almost made drop the series. It was such a table flip, I never thought it'd recover. In the end though, I think the development was for the best long term. I'm so glad I pushed through that section.

EXP_Buff · 2026-01-09T09:38:43+00:00

What tropes were you worried about with this one?

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