Yeah, Bree is acting like every player in every campaign I’ve ever run. 🙂
(well, except the time they hard-negotiated for more gold from the village to save them from impending doom until it was a) too late to stop the impending doom and b) too late to escape the impending doom. Short adventure.)
And now the DM is scrambling to come up with maps because the players (Bree & Paige) ignored the ‘thou thall not pass’ sign and are now planning to run/explore the area that is completely outside the campaign and anything the DM had planned paterial for.
DM: “You can’t go that way”
Players: “I cast dimension door and go past the obstacle, what’s that way!?”
DM: “A dimensional rift into a particularly nasty spatial pocket that budded off of the Negative Energy Plane. Roll for Constitution save, DC 80. Roll for a new character.”
Just as whether an act is good or evil always has subjective aspects, whether someone is a ‘Karen’ or not is subjective. If someone is being a d–k to a business essentially because of their sense of entitlement, they are being a Karen. Is Bree behaving that way? I don’t think so but it is partially subjective.
Bree is sincerely outraged on behalf of others, the others being the non-protagonists in her story, the ones who have no chance at determining their fates. Bree knows they have no chance because she is aware of the virtually ‘meta’ nature of their existence, which they don’t. And yes, our beloved storyteller hasn’t actually violated the fourth wall with us but I don’t know what proper terms other than virtually meta to apply to the story.
But anyway, Bree is being a d–k but she has reasons that aren’t primarily selfish, aren’t tribal politics, so not a Karen.
I find “full Karen” a silly expression, and I don’t know anyone called Karen. This is Bree being Bree. Remember the Valryn with the two angel guardians of the Found? If the ‘Rules’ don’t make sense, ignore the rules! Go for it, Bree!
But, Bree can’t do that, others can, but Bree has to be idiot who keeps losing her clothes, she can’t be smart! (only partially serious, mostly mocking the anti-Bree Squad)
Really? Bree has ridden out 12 years of outsmarting and defeating a lot of adversaries, plus making a lot of good allies and friends on the way. She’s no idiot! You’re talking to Bree’s Number 1 Fan, sir! And I have her autograph to prove it! She’s one of my all-time fav fictional feminist heroines. As for losing her clothes, well, she still has the Orc bikini. She is not like Jane of the UK “Daily Mirror” newspaper on that score! Now there was a girl who rarely went a week without having her dress ripped off!
Definitely looks more like a horse body. So a centaur with horns (that honestly look more like a buffalo’s horns to me than like deer antlers) and four ears that happen to also be eyes, in addition to the eyes on her head.
You’re right. My mind somehow made them deer-like before I wrote the first comment… probably influenced by the body being clearly not-bovine. Then I looked again…
Looking at those beautiful muscles on your centaur 🙂
Centaur biology and anatomy has always been an interest of mine, ever since Disney’s Fantasia: that was the first and only time I’ve seen centaurs portrayed as a singular being rather than two halves of two different creatures
Yeah, Bree is acting like every player in every campaign I’ve ever run. 🙂
(well, except the time they hard-negotiated for more gold from the village to save them from impending doom until it was a) too late to stop the impending doom and b) too late to escape the impending doom. Short adventure.)
And now the DM is scrambling to come up with maps because the players (Bree & Paige) ignored the ‘thou thall not pass’ sign and are now planning to run/explore the area that is completely outside the campaign and anything the DM had planned paterial for.
DM: “You can’t go that way”
Players: “I cast dimension door and go past the obstacle, what’s that way!?”
DM: “A dimensional rift into a particularly nasty spatial pocket that budded off of the Negative Energy Plane. Roll for Constitution save, DC 80. Roll for a new character.”
Okay, Bree’s gone full Karen.
Just as whether an act is good or evil always has subjective aspects, whether someone is a ‘Karen’ or not is subjective. If someone is being a d–k to a business essentially because of their sense of entitlement, they are being a Karen. Is Bree behaving that way? I don’t think so but it is partially subjective.
Bree is sincerely outraged on behalf of others, the others being the non-protagonists in her story, the ones who have no chance at determining their fates. Bree knows they have no chance because she is aware of the virtually ‘meta’ nature of their existence, which they don’t. And yes, our beloved storyteller hasn’t actually violated the fourth wall with us but I don’t know what proper terms other than virtually meta to apply to the story.
But anyway, Bree is being a d–k but she has reasons that aren’t primarily selfish, aren’t tribal politics, so not a Karen.
“How to cheese death gate guardian with Bree”
Don’t lynch me for that pun. Please.
I find “full Karen” a silly expression, and I don’t know anyone called Karen. This is Bree being Bree. Remember the Valryn with the two angel guardians of the Found? If the ‘Rules’ don’t make sense, ignore the rules! Go for it, Bree!
But, Bree can’t do that, others can, but Bree has to be idiot who keeps losing her clothes, she can’t be smart! (only partially serious, mostly mocking the anti-Bree Squad)
Really? Bree has ridden out 12 years of outsmarting and defeating a lot of adversaries, plus making a lot of good allies and friends on the way. She’s no idiot! You’re talking to Bree’s Number 1 Fan, sir! And I have her autograph to prove it! She’s one of my all-time fav fictional feminist heroines. As for losing her clothes, well, she still has the Orc bikini. She is not like Jane of the UK “Daily Mirror” newspaper on that score! Now there was a girl who rarely went a week without having her dress ripped off!
And that’s why Pluto has a dog with three heads, because three heads think more than just one.
Also good luck outrunning a deer, Bree.
Or is that a horse? I got confused by the horns.
Definitely looks more like a horse body. So a centaur with horns (that honestly look more like a buffalo’s horns to me than like deer antlers) and four ears that happen to also be eyes, in addition to the eyes on her head.
You’re right. My mind somehow made them deer-like before I wrote the first comment… probably influenced by the body being clearly not-bovine. Then I looked again…
Just run straight for the biggest tree, then Duo-Door away, wait for the wet-crack and then calmly walk away 😛
Adventuring with Bree….Not for the faint-hearted.
Bree embracing the chaotic alignment. And Paige is having all her lawful tendencies scream, “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck,”
8)
Looking at those beautiful muscles on your centaur 🙂
Centaur biology and anatomy has always been an interest of mine, ever since Disney’s Fantasia: that was the first and only time I’ve seen centaurs portrayed as a singular being rather than two halves of two different creatures
I think Philip Jose Farmer did an interesting take on centaur anatomy in his… World of Tiers series, I think?