@Letter Bee There's always room for new players. What part of "dark fantasy" doesn't agree with you? My own interpretation of it might vary from yours.
@LetMeDoStuff Thank you for coming back! <3
Well, let me see; my problems with Dark Fantasy are:
- Reliance on shock factors, such as gratuitous Blood, Gore, Death, and Rape. I've used that last one a lot in my earlier days, and all that resulted in was me getting called shallow and cheap. Not saying you would use those kinds of things, it's just that Dark Fantasy rings alarm bells inside my head, making me think of those factors.
- The 'Big Good/The Gods' turning out to be Evil, or at least morally dubious, with only a bit of foreshadowing. The Good Guys' organization turns out to be hiding skeletons in its closet, and the party is now being hunted down by their former allies. It can be done well, like in
Generator Rex, but stuff like in
Evangelion or 'Insert Anime X', well...
- The Universe singling out specific individuals to 'break', instead of distributing the suffering 'more realistically'. While there are good reasons for idealistic characters to suffer more than more cynical ones, sometimes, it seems as though the story goes out of its way to make the idealists suffer for their beliefs, even when said idealists have actually done something like
prepare for defeat or actually come up with a smart plan.
Sorry if I seem to be griping.
