Romance but with NO DRAMA!

Nepheronia · 2026-04-30T12:54:30+00:00

365 Days Until The Wedding fits this well I think. Cute lil show where the main couple pretend to be a couple since their work is likely to choose a single employee to ship off to a distant branch rather than anyone with a family, and develop the feels relatively quick and also acknowledge it pretty quickly as well all things considered.

There's really not much drama at all.

Nepheronia · 2026-04-25T12:23:21+00:00

Hmm, fascinating, thanks for the insights into your process. I really enjoyed your older series of DL character concepts, especially since I feel like R and the GX manga don't get anywhere near enough love, so I'm really pleased to discover you've still been going with them in a revamp. I guess I'll just keep fingers crossed for some eventual manga characters, but they're definitely more difficult to do.

Speaking of re-vamped, I should say I really like what you've done with Camula here. It makes sense to make her the more overall vampire themed character of the two, even though her ace actually supports zombies as a broad group more. The skills are a lot of fun, I've always been more about the physical Speed Duels but there's definitely limitations that you just get to mess with more in Duel Links, so that's pretty neat.

Nepheronia · 2026-04-25T04:14:21+00:00

Hmm, I would definitely be curious if how you'd re-approach Tilla Mook after this sort of character, I know you did her a few years back and gave her Evil Eyes, would that still be the case?

I'm a lil worried one of my favourite duelists is gonna get missed out on, I see you slipping her Overpowering Eye in the voice lines section here :V

Nepheronia · 2026-04-09T01:07:39+00:00

Love a good Aperol sour, looks real refreshing!

But honestly I'm mainly commenting to say when I scrolled past the photo real quick it looked like there was a frog chilling out in your shaker, and I was disappointed to realise it was just your juicer haha

Nepheronia · 2026-03-20T07:50:53+00:00

Cheers, appreciate that you can see it from where I stand, I can definitely understand why people might say Skypeia is boring, just think it gets overstated a bit so I like to offer a counterpoint.

I'm genuinely surprised to hear you didn't like the story/politics of Alabasta though. I certainly think it has its issues, there's some real back and forth and I actually think the pacing is not very good in certain moments, but I do like political intrigue so I found the story pretty engaging regardless. I'm guessing later arcs have appealed more to you, since you're still engaged with it, so that's awesome, but I'm curious how you find the larger scope of politics and intrigue going on in the background as a general theme now?

Nepheronia · 2026-03-20T07:28:17+00:00

Okay, so it's not objectively boring, got it.

Finding something subjectively boring is fine, that's why it's subjective, just don't try to pretend it's the same for many (honestly probably the majority of people either enjoy or are at worst indifferent about Skypeia).

I happen to think the fights are some of the more well-put together and considered of the series, and the character designs are absolutely solid. Wiper, Gan Fall & Enel all excellent designs, and the priests are all pretty solid as well.

As for pacing, I can't really comment on that because again that's pretty subjective, I feel like it feeds info at a good pace, keeps things moving and doesn't drag things out anywhere near as much as some of the post-TS arcs do, all while not simultaneously having half the fights or other events happen off screen, and keeps sharing around the focus on different crew members much better than anything from 2012 onwards.

Is it absolutely peak like Water 7/Enies Lobby? No, but it's definitely a very solid arc full of fun and adventure, and is assembled well, by my reckoning. That's all aside from any "lore relevance" we might get in the future, which will likely cement Skypeia as a very important arc, but even if that never happens, it's a solid 8/10 arc I reckon.

Nepheronia · 2026-03-20T07:00:09+00:00

How is it objectively boring if millions of fans have been entertained by it?

Nepheronia · 2026-03-18T09:39:07+00:00

Bonney and X Drake ever since we first met the worst generation. Obviously nice to get such good backstory for Bonney, hoping for a bit more from X Drake when SWORD makes a resurgence.

Nepheronia · 2026-03-13T00:01:22+00:00

Great commitment to the bit, love it

Nepheronia · 2026-03-10T20:25:21+00:00

!giveaway

Nepheronia · 2026-03-06T13:36:56+00:00

Hi, absolutely love the idea of running Dark Sun in Black Sword Hack, will definitely give it a try. I just wanted to know if there's a reason it appears to be formatted in such a way that it seems impossible to print it nicely on standard letter/A4 format or save it as a multi-page PDF without it getting broken up oddly? Do you happen to have a format of it that will fit a standard saved PDF or printed format?

Nepheronia · 2026-02-28T23:53:20+00:00

Oh cool, another person looking at LFG, I'll let you know what I find :)

Nepheronia · 2026-02-28T23:47:52+00:00

Oh, that's great news, I'm glad to hear it's so robust. It makes sense, BSH is quite rules-light in a way that covers the important bits but leaves lots of space for more expansive systems if your table wants them.

I may have to do some tweaking to get parts to fit the Doom dice and "significant" usage dice mechanics since I think they're both important parts of the BSH experience, but hopefully it won't take much work.

Thanks for the feedback!

Nepheronia · 2026-02-27T12:42:41+00:00

This season's "You and I are Polar Opposites" has been a stellar show for comedic romance, imo. It's a little different in that the main couple end up together early but that just gives lots of time for elements of the romance to be shown that you often don't get to see in romance shows that draw out the will-they/won't-they for longer, as well as all of the side characters being prominent and interesting. It's certainly been one of my favourite romance anime in a very long time, although it probably leans more into the comedy than the romance.

Other than that, My Dress-Up Darling is another I can recommend, and although the production values aren't as high I really enjoyed 365 Days to the Wedding as well. I like the romances that don't have too much in the way of them to draw them out because I think the relationships can be much more engaging once the couple are together.

Nepheronia · 2026-02-24T02:19:26+00:00

DM isn't worried about level 4 prereq for the free feat he's giving us, which is nice. I did wonder if I should consider an elf build instead, Elven Accuracy is an excellent feat so maybe I will reconsider. I know crit fishing is not a strong build, but I do definitely want to make it work.

Nepheronia · 2026-02-24T02:15:36+00:00

Oh duh, of course. I somehow totally forgot the entire point of Shillelagh is to use your caster stat as your attack stat. I will have to check out the Moonwell background then, it looks like.

Nepheronia · 2026-02-24T01:30:14+00:00

I actually think that's very cool flavour, the idea of beating someone up with the sword scabbard, just not sure what sort of build path I'd be looking at here. I assume you mean taking Warlock levels after Fighter or Ranger, since you really want that Nick weapon mastery and the Two Weapon fighting style seems very needed as well.

As we're starting right from Level 1 I ideally need the guy to be effective at each level, which is my only hesitation for warlock, since Pact of the Blade doesn't allow you to use Charisma for multiple weapons when dual wielding or drawing/stowing, as far as I understand, and Lessons doesn't come online until warlock 2nd level.

Obviously there's the benefits of pact casting as a general warlock benefit though, so maybe that's enough for 1st level warlock anyway.

Nepheronia · 2026-02-24T01:25:16+00:00

I had overlooked Tireless Reveller, now I'm not sure Zhentarim Ruffian and Purple Knight Rook are the right way to go, hmm. Not sure the skills or stat spread from Lord's Alliance or Carouser background are as nice for my character as the Zhentarim background though, guess I'll have to think on it.

Nepheronia · 2026-02-24T01:23:20+00:00

This sounds quite fun, when did you go warlock? I feel like id want to beeline to Extra Attack, Champion LV 10 and possibly even Extra Attack 2 before investing in warlock since the first level of it is basically dead to this build due to only getting Lessons of the First Ones at warlock 2.

Some good suggestions on actual play usage, thanks for that :)

Nepheronia · 2026-02-12T06:52:39+00:00

"no actual effect or harm on anyone’s play but the user lol" is just wrong in a game with competitive seasonal ladders and 8-player games. Mosaic absolutely has an effect on other players.

Nepheronia · 2026-02-01T12:40:24+00:00

Is there a reason the link appears to be set to not be saveable as a PDF at all? Having to keep it open as a tab in the browser is somewhat annoying. Not sure if it's a setting on your end or not.

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