but we respect his craft

[kindkit]

I'm partway through the Ancient Rome Sidequest of the Rusty Quill Gaming podcast, and I find myself picturing Alex saying to himself "What this fun and pulpy storyline needs is more moral ambiguity!!" And cackling. (ETA: Alex is--in my imagination--cackling. Not me.)

Further ETA: Having listened to the rest of the sidequest, I'm definitely not cackling. Ouch.

I do wonder what might have happened if it hadn't been for a combination of bad rolls and poor judgment. Might Grizzop and Sasha have changed history? And might they have found a way back to their own time?

Also, I choose to believe that Sasha did not in any way marry Cicero and have a bunch of kids with him. Cicero is her assistant and they're running a school for acrobats and/or thieves.

(And to be fair to Alex, despite his obvious fondness for playing the sadistic god, he seemed pretty upset at having killed off a--mostly--good and likeable character.)

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Grizzop wasn't my favorite character, being a bit rigid and fanatical for my taste

For me, that's part of why I love him as a character -- he's a genuinely good person, who is trying to do good in the world with all his might, and he's also judgemental and impatient and rigid-minded and shouty, and it's all inextricably mixed up together. And that's really interesting to me.

[kindkit]

*nods* I don't dislike him, and I do find him interesting. I like and admire the fact that all of the characters (even Bertie, to some degree) have been nuanced and complex, not Perfect Cinnamon Rolls and not Cackling Villains. Even the NPCs have nuance.