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Jul. 22nd, 2023 04:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethBeen playing Trickster path on Wrath of the Righteous
but the cumulative choices just tipped character's alignment to chaotic good
which was the goal, free your mind and enjoy grand cosmic powers,
but everything that has happened since then has been like
woah, too free, bad idea, where are the brakes on this story, oh dear there aren't any.
... which is what happens when I liked the chaotic good Azata storyline best, but, also, if you end up Trickster because of an ongoing lack of respect for gods and monarchs, the increasing requirement to interact with same is a *problem*, and the idea that figuring out how portals work means making more portals is just insane. So I backed into this questline from an angle that no longer fits, and having played it once I know there's a chance to change tack, but, sooner would be better.
Also I got stuck trying to find a remotely acceptable set of options on a companion quest and there just aren't any. Because a serial killer is a Problem, but the story only presenting you with the option to kill or keep is a Bigger problem. There's a prison right there! And is there no mental health care in this setting at all??? I mean there is because there's rules for it... in the Horror books, everywhere else would fix it with a Heal spell. But no, this set of choices has no fix. And I know it's putting highlighter on the thing where actually they go around killing people a lot so really where is the clear bright line here? But also no, nope, this is Bad and she should be locked up getting treatment. But kill is also a Bad option, because as stated, not a million miles separation from other characters, and, also, since I'm playing as Ianto ish, and I decided Restoration would unretcon people, he can remember being a serial killer too. Sure he didnt do it, but the memories beg to differ. And even retconned Ianto remembers doing shit that could have ended the world. So it's a key question for him, grace or a swift ending? And the best option isn't on the menu. Though to be fair imprisoning someone with mythic power on top of their thirteen levels is just... not very likely. Problem.
Am having fun playing but do keep running into stuff that makes me want to write it different.
Or write it up in detail, because Blackwater plus Ianto Jones equals Drama.
Did manage to get through Blackwater, after trying it once and running away until I'd levelled up twice. It was still hugely difficult and I had to go rest outside twice before clearing it but I think if I understood the rules better it would be easier.
... playing it on the computer means you need GM level knowledge of every character class, or to just pick one or two tricks for each of your dozen or so companions and hope like heck they'll work.
Playing one character at a time has such a smaller rule set to learn.
Don't much like what they've done with mythic powers etc, and the skills list is different, and the spell list is far too limited to progress right, but, it's playable and I like playing it.
So that's a nice day.
but the cumulative choices just tipped character's alignment to chaotic good
which was the goal, free your mind and enjoy grand cosmic powers,
but everything that has happened since then has been like
woah, too free, bad idea, where are the brakes on this story, oh dear there aren't any.
... which is what happens when I liked the chaotic good Azata storyline best, but, also, if you end up Trickster because of an ongoing lack of respect for gods and monarchs, the increasing requirement to interact with same is a *problem*, and the idea that figuring out how portals work means making more portals is just insane. So I backed into this questline from an angle that no longer fits, and having played it once I know there's a chance to change tack, but, sooner would be better.
Also I got stuck trying to find a remotely acceptable set of options on a companion quest and there just aren't any. Because a serial killer is a Problem, but the story only presenting you with the option to kill or keep is a Bigger problem. There's a prison right there! And is there no mental health care in this setting at all??? I mean there is because there's rules for it... in the Horror books, everywhere else would fix it with a Heal spell. But no, this set of choices has no fix. And I know it's putting highlighter on the thing where actually they go around killing people a lot so really where is the clear bright line here? But also no, nope, this is Bad and she should be locked up getting treatment. But kill is also a Bad option, because as stated, not a million miles separation from other characters, and, also, since I'm playing as Ianto ish, and I decided Restoration would unretcon people, he can remember being a serial killer too. Sure he didnt do it, but the memories beg to differ. And even retconned Ianto remembers doing shit that could have ended the world. So it's a key question for him, grace or a swift ending? And the best option isn't on the menu. Though to be fair imprisoning someone with mythic power on top of their thirteen levels is just... not very likely. Problem.
Am having fun playing but do keep running into stuff that makes me want to write it different.
Or write it up in detail, because Blackwater plus Ianto Jones equals Drama.
Did manage to get through Blackwater, after trying it once and running away until I'd levelled up twice. It was still hugely difficult and I had to go rest outside twice before clearing it but I think if I understood the rules better it would be easier.
... playing it on the computer means you need GM level knowledge of every character class, or to just pick one or two tricks for each of your dozen or so companions and hope like heck they'll work.
Playing one character at a time has such a smaller rule set to learn.
Don't much like what they've done with mythic powers etc, and the skills list is different, and the spell list is far too limited to progress right, but, it's playable and I like playing it.
So that's a nice day.