#character optimization

[rpgbot]

Single-Class DnD Parties: Oops All Rogues

[opportunity-strikes]

hey so this is your permission not to improve at your hobbies. you dont gotta do more or try new things with it. you arent obligated. are you happy drawing the same 3/4 profile headshot of your blorbo??? do that. enjoy walking but dont wanna go further than your usual route at your usual pace? dont. enjoy collecting trading cards but dont actually like playing the game? never play the game. like learning the names of birds but dont care about their calls? just learn those names babeeeyyyy.

do what you want as you want and as many times as you want in the ways you want to. i am actually asking you to do this. you dont even need to get better. crush that weird feeling that you need to be doing 'more'. the goal doesnt have to be improvement. it might happen incidentally but like, thats whatever. you can set the goalposts and then just sit by them and enjoy the scenery. if you decide to move them or get up and sit somewhere else thats cool, but you dont gotta. doing things that make you happy is enough

[artgletic]

case study of the self-identified god

[mobius-m-mobius]

Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it.

OWEN WILSON as MOBIUS M. MOBIUS in LOKI (2021 - )

[tobyisave]

now i'm sure that it's true

[dootznbootz]

Fascinating how Polites, the character who is the personification of Odysseus' optimism and is only in 5 songs, is more grieved and appreciated than Eurylochus, a character who is his own person and is in 11 songs.

[voidedjuice]

From an outsider's perspective, Ilta can be quite scary

[cloudprincesslady]

ok I'm literally in love with nick marini like. keeping track of all his own shit (FOUR CLASSES), tracking the uses of his buffs on other characters to keep them honest, helping noshir keep track of all HIS shit, defense rules lawyering for the whole table, getting it all RIGHT. LIKE. MARRY ME.

[frogsandmagic]

I’m honestly so proud of Kristen’s growth in battle. She went from her friends looking directly at her and going “hey. I think our major problem last time was that our healer went down first. Do you think you could try to avoid anything too dangerous?” Which she immediately followed by jumping in kalvaxus’ mouth.

But now!! Now, she realized there may be something dodgy going on in relation to the revivify spells and with Buddy specifically. So what did she do? She had adaine teleport her up to him as soon as possible, and prioritized heals and doing insight checks on buddy. She did some other things too, but she knew them avoiding death was important and made sure they were able to do so first and foremost.

I just <33333 I love her so much. She’s come to find how she can be the most helpful in a given battle, not what the most fun and wild thing to do is.

[punkrogue]

People: rogue is too morally dark rn i dont like it

Me: you do remember she was raised as a terrorist by mystique and destiny, stalked dazzler with the intent to kill her AGAINST her parents wishes, was present for the moorlock massacre in 616, was stripped molested and enslaved on genosha in 616 and survived a GENOCIDE in this, once lead a xmen shock team that was 50% villains and killed TWO men on international television right?

[rpgbot]

New Handbook for the 2024 Rogue

[divinish-comedy]

The fact that Mia's path in law led her towards defense and not prosecution is fascinating- her primary goal was to avenge her mother and Misty Fey was really screwed over by two defense attorneys (Gregory Edgeworth who lied to her and Robert Hammond who attacked her in his defense). Even if revenge hadn't been her goal at first, it's strange she'd want to go into a profession that had shown her almost nothing but lies and corruption. She was also very close with (idolized?) Lana, who was always associated with the police and prosecution. Despite everything, she never allowed herself to turn bitter and her career choice shows that.

[carlyraejepsans]

HELPP i found out about character AIs and im losing it over calling deltarune sans "a more manipulative personality" 😭😭 like whatt we've only seen this man like 2 times

sorry im being a hater hgfjdks but you're the sans understander

lmaoo character.ai, look where the fall of ai dungeon got us, smh. thank you for the compliment though!

[justablix]

JD Payne: "the innocence and optimism of elrond"

The Elrond whose parents were attacked presumed dead when he was small, who was kidnapped, who grew up loved and loving but in a warzone, who watched his foster father(s) likewise be lost to violence and despair and sorrow, who was forced to choose to be forever parted from his twin brother, the only constant in his life? Who watched his twin die, and his nephews and nieces, and their kin slowly be corrupted? Who had to watch Beleriand sink, the only homes he ever knew destroyed twice over? Who lost more mortal friends than he could count, to war and to old age? That Elrond? That's the Elrond you are talking about? His innocence? He loses his innocence during season 2 of rings of power? His what?

[gobbogoo]

I was initially uncertain of Fallout's Lucy, because naïve and optimistic protagonists can be tricky to write well, often falling into one of two traps:

1. They're written to be infallibly trusting/positive and always morally correct, making them feel one-note, delusional, or grating in their perfect morality.

2. They're cynically punished for their attempts at kindness and optimism, basically being told to "grow up" by making their acts of positivity, trust, or kindness backfire horribly.

Lucy meanwhile hits the perfect balance. She's kind but not incapable of cruelty, naive but not stupid, and pushes back when the world (represented by The Ghoul,) tries to force its cynicism upon her.

[everymariemjolnir]

Honestly what makes Stein a good execution of the mentally unwell mad scientist trope is that unlike your Rick Sanchez types who would scoff and debunk a cheerful character's optimistic worldview as cringe and naive he actually enjoys their presence and values that quality in other people

like he's realistic and acts as a voice of reason but doesnt revel in dashing anyone's hopes and dreams (unless it's spirit but that's just what they do to each other, and even then it's mostly taking the piss and not too serious)