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What is a bad writing trope you hate in fantasy fiction ? (lemmy.world)

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[-] Wooster@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago

This is specific to the videogame-ish sub-genre, mostly Isakeis…

But you go out of the way to include RPG mechanics into your story… but the only real influence it has on the storytelling is spending an inordinate amount of time grinding… a mechanic explicitly added to RPGs to pad the game.

There are good video game based stories, Survival Story of a Sword King and Dungeon Reset both immediately come to mind… but I feel like this is a widespread problem.

[-] wahming@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The Wandering Inn handles this well, where to hit large milestones you need not just xp but self development.

[-] nom_nom_nom_9999@ani.social 1 points 3 months ago

Is The Wandering Inn this one https://wanderinginn.com/ ? Can't find anything else .

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