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What is the most obscure video game you are a fan of?
Mine was probably Crimson Shroud, a 3DS eShop game. Weird little RPG, but it had rad character design and it rolled actual dice to determine effects.
oh fuck I just got reminded of another diamond in the rough: Mark of Kri. This game had an amazing hand-illustrated design and style and had a really thorough story. It fuckin OOZED style.
I think any Sega Saturn game is obscure by default, but I knew not many fans of Dragon Force, which was a shame as it was the only game where you could make ninjas fight wizards whilst commanding armies of harpies and monks who could kung fu kick horses to death
@AbsolumT lol I am glad you liked this tweet
this is my favorite thread I’ve ever made
also holy shit some of these cover arts hahaha Jesus
I think this is the least obscure one I'm a megafan of, but I never see anyone talking about it
but if you didn't play Tetris Attack you missed the fuck out
that's like having never tried spaghetti in life
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Hags in DnD are cool because they just look like they’re having a blast whilst doing villainies
they are the monsters whose motivation is most often “because that shit was funny to me”
#HagFact: Hags come from many different environs and are always jerks, just in different ways
A Forest Hag will attack you by hurling raccoons at you, whereas the more passive-aggressive Ice Hag will likely stand in winter conditions in a nice coat and say "you look cold"
#HagFact: Hags sometimes do weird shit for no reason on the off-chance it might bother you
they will curse you so that you fart out your mouth and burp out your butt and it's way more uncomfortable than it sounds
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I've said this before, but to flesh out your characters, give them interests that have no bearing on the plot.
It may seem odd, but we're more interested in a hero that wants to save the world and loves to cook or garden than we are in a hero that only wants to save the world.
Mind you, that's not to say you need to dedicate a chapter to exploring their interest. In fact, it's best to keep it minimal. When you allow the audience to imagine what they do in their free time, the more invested the audience becomes in the character.
Have you ever noticed how much fanart revolves around brave or action-y characters eating, relaxing or pursuing some other thing? Have you ever seen fanart of a character doing something like that and thinking, joyously, "they WOULD do that?"
It's the same principle.
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I’ve always said I write broken, damaged, wounded characters because they have more conflict. And that’s technically true. But deep down, I think I just want to figure out how people go back to being okay. To living with their wounds.
I guess that’s why scars figure so heavily into my books. They’re reminders of what happened. You can never make them go away, so you just sort of figure out how to make them work, figure out what they mean to you, how to accept them as a part of you.

Like any pain, really.
Because, honestly, that’s a question with no real answer. There’s no actual diagram for figuring it out. It just takes a lot of time, reaction and consequence. And time, reaction and consequence is what a book is, more or less. So every story about it is new and hard.
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Let's get the obvious one out of the way, DMs: Your game is not about you. And it is not about that really cool NPC you invented.

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