#nva

[aberfaeth]

literally cant wait for cinderella and snow white to fail miserably and as a result have to contend with the fact that what happened to them can’t be unwritten or scratched out but instead has to be lived with—they have to choose to live because there is no other option, no easy do-over, no martyrdom to be found in death. and so they live.

[ihavemints]

actually, brennan, none of that happened.

[maybeimmac]

the bravest little girl in the world...

[zodiac-wars]

seriously tho emily axford is incredible for this moment, people give her so much (deserved!) credit for the funny ways her out of the box thinking messes with brennan's plans but she deserves an equal amount of praise for her emotional scenes

[ofmisfitsandmagic]

obsessed with barrel swordsmen 03 going for twice as much as gerard in the neverafter auction

[strawbfairyy]

guess what I’m rewatching

[strangetorpedos]

daily mantra: they wouldn’t have released a pin set if they were dead

[gorgugplushie]

Underated dyanmic: old mother father and his cat

[thenerdyindividual]

“Everyone who told you that they would keep you safe as long as you behaved and were good, were already hurting you.”

[the-butter-churner]

what happens when gerard of greenleigh stares veritas in the face and gilear faeth's yogurt stained visage stares back at him

[aberfaeth]

there are so many dope directions they could take this in. what if they groundhog day. what if they all make entirely new characters. what if they all wake up in modern day louisiana as normal people with the gut instinct that something is deeply wrong.

[thisisnotthenerd]

d20 finale thoughts.

for being the ‘horror season’, the intrepid heroes really go all in on the comedy in neverafter. i was laughing through the finale, in between some high stakes roles, npc and pc deaths, and wave after wave of enemies.

now that i think about it, this finale just shows how much the intrepid heroes have really tightened up their strategy as players, to the point that they can pull really crazy bits in the midst of battle and still hit a victory at the end of the day. for every ih season, they’ve had to step up the final battle to make it something that’s conceivably a challenge to the players

like in fhfy, they had some quips in the final battle, and a clutch beardsley roll to kick off the final ep, but it’s all battle focus. more individual attacks, and just trying to keep everyone alive pre-aguefort intervention. they had a few smaller enemies to deal with, but the primary issue was kalvaxus.

with tuc, it’s a similar scenario, but they have more options in terms of calling allies and a more complex environment. the individual appeals from the american dream, as well as the continuation of their fight with robert moses make this a more involved combat than fhfy. they were more confident coming in.

with acoc, the balance between troop mechanics and individual combat was the new challenge--the gimmick of the battlefield being the one they had previously fled from, as well as the task of getting rid of the leaders as well as the general troops added a new dimension to the ih final combats. edit: the intra-party tension added to this battle in particular; saccharina & ruby really defined the end of the campaign.

once they hit fhsy, battles became longer and carried out over more than just the two finale episodes. with theater of the mind, brennan could give them a longer sequence of individual and group combat. it starts with the nightmare forest individual fear scenes, layers on the need to rescue their attacking/trapped allies, as well as the continuity of the lore going on throughout the battle. i would say this style of battle, with multiple waves to exhaust the intrepid heroes, set a precedent for future combats.

with tuc II, the longer battle sequence continued, but more condensed. tony simos @ gramercy took 1 and a half episodes to get through, and so did null at the dragon’s hoard. again, each battle had layered mechanics e.g. having to stop the umbral engine overload and then having to birth the dragon. this style of battle aligns with what we saw in previous final combats, and has just the funniest instance of a divine intervention that i’ve seen.

in starstruck, they have talespire. they also have a lot of enemies, with their guns, trained on you. there were a few layers to this combat. again, the extension from a previous battle episode, the split between minis and ship combat, and of course, who could forget margaret encino, turning their enemies away with the power of emails and girlbossing her way into a campaign office. literally overwhelming odds that they managed to pull through including a 2 on the die from gnosis.

and now with neverafter, they had waves of powerful enemies, going from a siege to a tower defense from one episode to the next, the baba yaga, the ally persuasion mechanics, and the objective of holding concentration on bottle of ink that has hand(s), while either convincing or killing everyone else. the actual battle was not the hard part--as evidenced by the shenanigans they pulled off by the skin of their teeth. it was just the singular goal, and more rp than previous final combats. they also just crit. so much. no need for a beardsley crit when you’ve got siobhan one-shotting fairies and zac killing god and rolling an 18 that makes a new universe.

in short, as d20 has grown, so to have the intrepid heroes (+brennan). i’m excited to see where they go from here.

[companionsofusall]

[id: fanart of Pinocchio from Dimension 20’s Neverafter. Pinocchio is a wooden marionette doll with a broken off nose, dressed in a bright red shirt with a white ruff and three buttons. His limbs show off the texture of the wood, and his feet are flat ovals while his hands have gloves covering them. He’s hanging in an uncomfortable position by red strings, one of his arms is pulled straight back, the strings attached at the wrist making his hands limp. His legs bend at the knee but one of his feet is twisted the wrong way around. His eyes are small dots, and the wood grain knots at the eyes, giving him a worried, harrowed appearance. His strings are red, and they connect to a slightly open doorway, or perhaps a slightly open book, that only opens to a redness that matches the strings. Surrounding him are the words, “Pinocchio was a young wooden boy who was completely free and able to have fun. End id]

He’s just a kid :(

Rosamund | Ylfa

[paladinbaby]

….once upon a time…..

[Image Description: A digital drawing of ylfa snorgellson from neverafter. Ylfa is a young girl with short brown hair and freckles. She’s looking upwards with her mouth open as if she’s shouting, revealing pointed teeth. One of her eyes is completely red and the other has a red iris with tears beading up. She wears a red cape with the hood pulled up. Above her head are two small flames, positioned and shaped to look like wolf ears. Surrounding her in a bright blue are the outline of wolves teeth. Written following the shape of her hood in bright red are the words ‘Your story ended in the dirt.’ End ID.]

[tmgstudios]

i think its really funny that gerard has a negative 1 charisma. like yeah it might be because of the frog thing but its way better to imagine him trying to chat up some nobles in the castle as a full human guy and he is just the worst ever. hes almost caused several wars with other kingdoms by putting his foot in his mouth during diplomatic meetings until elody bans him from attending because hes just so accidentally insufferable it makes everyone in his vicinity want to stab him

[aydascomprehendsubtext]

"Aesop does not pass the vibe check" listen I understand we are all enamored with the funky queer librarians but they are if anything more resistant to challenging the author/character relationship and definitely have more information than they're sharing about its nature. NPCs are in fact more interesting if their initial interests are not perfectly aligned with the PCs and Aesop and the librarians both check this box in the same way