Quote:ClassicDrogn wrote:A few months back I noticed some interesting stories that were either self inserts where the ROB puts the SI under RPG rules, or a few where it's RPG character from a setting where people are aware of the RPG mechanics. My inner need to try finding an unlikely/unusual take on something lead me to come up with something for which I have an opening scene (probably to be dropped if I ever continue it), in which a character under Golden Sky Stories rules gets dropped into early Buffyverse. I liked the cruelty of that, taking a character whose rules system penalizes you for resorting to violence and putting them in Sunnydale. (Although a few of his henge powers are handy ones for someone stuck in a horror setting)
...Still true, the more so because he openly scorns balanced characters in favor of utmost min-maxing, while I agree with Heinlein by way of Lazarus Long, that the strength of humans is in being adaptable generalists.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.