Worth the Candle
Sep. 20th, 2018 02:24 pmWorth the Candle is another loooong webfic, adjacent to several rationalist stories, but much less in-your-face about it.
It chronicles the main character, a teenage GM whose best friend has just died, thrust into a secondary world that seems inspired by a giant mash-up of all his different roleplaying campaigns.
It covers the basic ground of levelling up and dealing with immediate quests in a fun way, but I love the way the various characters grow and become much more complicated.
It wins the Anton Macgyver award for the "most surprisingly beneficial potential use of an apparently useless special power" :)
And the as-yet-unnamed award for portraying a realistic, relevant therapy session, not just someone shouting at the protagonist what's obvious they're fucking up but it was glossed over, but verbalising the realistic and difficult details of the relationship between the main character and the character he's dating, which should have been obvious but weren't, and don't immediately go to "fixed" or "fixed, backsliding, fixed, backsliding", but are clear they're things they can work on, but it will be difficult.
Thanks to DRM for making me aware of it.
It chronicles the main character, a teenage GM whose best friend has just died, thrust into a secondary world that seems inspired by a giant mash-up of all his different roleplaying campaigns.
It covers the basic ground of levelling up and dealing with immediate quests in a fun way, but I love the way the various characters grow and become much more complicated.
It wins the Anton Macgyver award for the "most surprisingly beneficial potential use of an apparently useless special power" :)
And the as-yet-unnamed award for portraying a realistic, relevant therapy session, not just someone shouting at the protagonist what's obvious they're fucking up but it was glossed over, but verbalising the realistic and difficult details of the relationship between the main character and the character he's dating, which should have been obvious but weren't, and don't immediately go to "fixed" or "fixed, backsliding, fixed, backsliding", but are clear they're things they can work on, but it will be difficult.
Thanks to DRM for making me aware of it.