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As many other posters have noticed, our tag system sucks and needs improvement. My particular complaint is that the tags don't apply to the base forum view. You can filter them out of search results if you're willing to enter everything you dislike into every search you make, but you can't save...
This isn't necessarily a trope, but I do think it's bad writing advice.
"It's fanfiction, you can write whatever you want."
Technically true in that the fanfiction police aren't going to kick your door down if you write someone out of character but in practice no you can't. Original fiction...
They should take a cue from how Steam handled the release of the Steam Frame. A 3-day window in which you can sign up to order the device through your Steam account, take all requests and randomize the order so it's not first come first serve, and then use that order to send out invitations to...
Does anyone have recommendations for games where you play as a modern urban fantasy wizard? Like Mage: The Awakening or the Nasuverse or The Dresden Files, not Harry Potter.
I think the issue you're encountering is that depending on the person a "subtle evil" choice might seem obviously evil or not even slightly evil at all. Your example with the demon could be any of them depending entirely on context. How about a specific example from a specific game?
The game that I'm told is about how easy it is for a completely normal person to become a cog in a dystopian machine. That kind of subtle evil. The banality of evil as I've heard it called.
Yeah Jade Empire had some interesting ideas in the morality system but mostly failed to utilize them. Although there was that one mission at a pirate fortress where you can refuse to free a little slave girl but also hand her a knife and point her at the slave trader, so clearly someone on the...
The time period depicted by Pirates of the Caribbean (and AC Black Flag) is the post-Spanish Succession era of piracy which is roughly 1715-1730. The American Revolution is still about 35-40 years away after the end of this period.
My guy the US didn't exist yet during the heyday of Caribbean piracy. 💀 And when they did exist they barely had a navy at all until after the Civil War.