This is a just an amusing side-note: With RPGs being all the rage, my niece recommended me a book she thought was really, really cool setting-wise it sucks.It goes like this:>Oh no, Romans with guns are colonizing our peaceful backwater Chinese world>I really should fight them with my vaguely-defined powers>THAT HUNKY AUGUSTUS, THOI just find it really amusing that fantasy for girls is just as crap. She also recommended Iron Widow it's Darling in the Franxx, but it sucks and it's not quite my thing, either.Anyway, I just wanted to say, it's nice to see the 'YA fantasy to RPGs' pipeline is ongoing.It reminds me of when we tried to adapt stuff like Animorphs and Gundam as a kid.
>>92606365Thought kids were into Game of Thrones? Or is that a done thing now?
>>92606393No that's absolutely deadI think it's LitRPGs now.
>>92606418Can vaguely confirm. I got a random itch to find something to read and remembered Royal Road was a place for long, original fiction. The amount of "LitRPG" stuff crowding up every section was astounding.
>>92606365>THAT HUNKY AUGUSTUS, THOAs ever, women are inevitably attracted to the power and virility of invaders. Same as it always was.Dare I ask why the Romans have guns?
>>92606565It's just loaded with shit nowJust floods of AI-generated sloppa and Patreon begging.
>>92606578They come from a world where the Roman empire never fell, so they have guns, bombs and planes but still rock the aesthetic.They don't have any magic, but magic is weak as shit anyway, so they start pillaging the Chinese hoping to find useful talents. Turns out being able to control water is not as useful as fully-automatic gunfire to the face.
>>92606591I fucking wish AI was good enough to write an interesting coherent novel. I'd settle for an okay-ish short story.. But every fucking AI out there writes like a 3rd grader following a intro-first-second-last-conclusion template. I feel something worse than pity for anyone thinking that shit is good enough to pass off as amateur fiction.
>>92606638When you say "the aesthetic", are we talking togas skirts and laurels, or segmentata?
>>92606916The latter, but it's not really a major bit of the story. Honestly, I think it's more of a white male, Asian female thing, with the Romans all being tall, handsome and cruel (but in a sexy way.)Seriously, there are no fat or old Romans. Meanwhile all the Chinese guys are generally weak, effeminate or addicted to magical opium. There's this hilarious invader fetish thing, which I think wasn't intentional.I'm not judging, though. If I was writing a fantasy novel I would probably include nubile native women who are inexplicably attracted to human males.
>>92606984Yeesh. As long as they're having fun and cumming super hard i guess. Still cant get over the segmentata though, why go back to an armour scheme that was only used for 100 years before being replaced by stronger and cheaper stuff? Or is it like a segmented balistic vest with the strap skirt part and shoulder pads added
>>92607096I checked, it's just 'armor' and togas.
>>92606984Sounds like r/AsianMasculinity's worst nightmare.
>>92606984Goddamn I hate women
>>92606365I swear that all women’s fiction is the same shit>start reading “the city of brass” (thought it was an adaptation of the original, which also sucks in different ways)>oh no, racist genies are oppressing minorities>I really should fight them with my (desu fairly decently-defined) powers that I can’t master because it’s TOO MUCH PRESSURE, UGH>THAT HUNKY GENOCIDAL DJINN THOAnd then there’s a love triangle, because of course there is. Gotta choose between badboy and richboy, right? Shadow & Bone was practically the same routine. I guess all following the Twilight formula.
Glad that your niece is interested in RPG and wants to start doing her own homebrewing in a world she likes. I hope she maintains this enthusiasm and call her friends to play and happily share a hobby together. It's all about that in the end of the day. >Anyway, I just wanted to say, it's nice to see the 'YA fantasy to RPGs' pipeline is ongoing.Oh yeah, man. I'm currently playing a game with a player who enjoys too much those chinese drama and contemporary stories on "le old china mythical times". He reads lots of fanfiction and loves talking about this (I guess he's autist? More power for him I guess. Go turbo autism, my friend).This only comes as a disadvantage because he can read 40+ chapters fanfiction, but can't read about our setting in Roll20 (which is neatly organized and updated for new players having an understanding on what happened) and he wants insert chinese characters in a countryside french county in late 2000s because "we need some representation/different colour in this setting!".
>>92606365>it's Darling in the Franxx, but it sucksSo it's Darling in the Franxxx
>>92606365>I just find it really amusing that fantasy for girls is just as crap.It's sad. I guess fantasy is just fucked in general. I have a weird soft spot of Shoujo anime with a supernatural element. Wonder if you can find anything like that in western works.
>>92609486You should do a Three Kingdom inspired setting, but with more magic.
>>92609767It's an interesting idea, but not a chance I'd GM for that guy. If he can't read a setting from a game he himself enlisted to play, I wouldn't waste my time GMing a setting of his personal preferrence. It's very disrespectful of his part. But now a question regarding Three Kingdoms: Could an adaptation using L5R work?
>>92606365sounds based
>>92609767>You should do a Three Kingdom inspired setting, but with more magic.A finger on the monkey's paw curls.
>>92608450You mean the ricecels?
>>92606365>it's Darling in the FranxxAnon, I have something to tell you...
>>92606365>THAT HUNKY AUGUSTUS, THOThat's funny to me that even in a fantasy book with Evil White Colonizers, written by an Asian woman, they still write in a white dude as the love interest.
>>92616748Apparently the backlash to this book was so bad, in the second book she might hook up with her childhood friend who is secretly infiltrating the Romans.A lot of people compared the romance to a Jew falling in love with a Nazi, or - worse - a WWII Chinese girl with a Japanese imperial soldier.
>>92617533>had to hide her fetish to appease peopleKinkshaming never stops...
>>92609072Found the weak, opium addicted fantasy asian
>>92609486Well he can, it's not like there's no chinese diaspora in France. If you really need a special justification, just say that they opened a chinese restaurant nearby or something >t. Omelette du fromage. Surrender French, yeah yeah
>>92617703I'm not Asian,just dislike seeing my bros put down like this. One of my closest friends had a complex because of stuff like this
>>92617774He indeed can, but the complain was about the player's autistic behavour in trying to put his magical realm on the game while not even reading the setting.I wish he had thought through this instead of just blatantly putting "representation" in the scenario.
>>92606393Game of Thrones has been over for years, and it left exactly zero cultural impact
>>92617533>or - worse - a WWII Chinese girl with a Japanese imperial soldierThe reactions I get when I refer to it as "The tender and consensual loving of Nanking" in conversation are always worth it.
>>92619327It's just the way of the world, those who get sex and those who don't. No use getting upset about it.
>>92606984>There's this hilarious invader fetish thing, which I think wasn't intentional.YA Novels for girls that is entirely intentional.The only YA girl novel I don't remember having hunky outsider and weak pathetic insider was one where the girl found out that her society lobotomizes people, and after failing to escape it and seeing the people she befriended lobotomized or killed off, she becomes one of the best hunter/killers of the society, being allowed to keep her intelligence and use it to bring unity/peace to others who thought they could escape.I wish I could remember the name because I remember that shit being jarring as fuck to a young me, and yet the girls I know who read it were talking about how awesome she is and how even better she is in the later books where she goes 100% into the role.
>>92606984>Seriously, there are no fat or old Romans. Meanwhile all the Chinese guys are generally weak, effeminate or addicted to magical opium.Is that for real?>>92608450>Sounds like r/AsianMasculinity's worst nightmare.Yeah, no way it wasn't on purpose.
>>92620588Uglies / Pretties / Specials
>>92606706Why the fuck would you want AI to be able to write an interesting novel when, even if we reduce our conversation to genre fiction, there's like a fucking century of work to go through, with the benefit of time winnowing the crap?
>>92619327>women find fictional love interests of a different race from themselves attractive, I'm being oppressed
>>92623088>why would you want tailor-made suits when there’s hundreds of outfits at Asda
