@weasalopes
Having just read the new apothecary diaries piece, I'd say this is absolutely true.

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@rsog412 said in Min-Maxing My TRPG Build Vol. 2 Discussion!:

@justaidan - Maybe they just expel all their waste in gaseous form?

I resent the fact that this topic is technically relevant to the body of work covered in this thread and is thus appropriate (for a certain definition of such) for posting. =P

One of the things I'm really liking about this light novel is how Goul, the Dark One a.k.a. the Demon Lord, is an average guy. He's laid back, reasonable, mostly, and just enjoys being himself. He doesn't put on a facade and act all domineering and truly cars for the people around him.

I'm just really the departure from the character norm here and how the author is going against the isekai way were they can.

There was a lot of action here, but if you were looking for character growth—look at Sion—it is as if he’s becoming the sage he thought he was in original timeline. He has become very Mia-like; he may not perceive everything correctly, but his heart is always in the right place, and he is asking the right questions. Sure, he saved Abel’s life with his sword, but he was also wise and empathetic enough to guide Abel away from a sacrifice that would have broke Mia’s heart.

@planguy Given the look on Ai Fa's face, "reluctant" is putting it mildly.

Huh, looks like Makoto is constantly living with his RPG Player's 3rd person perspective active. That along with Calm Mind, I wonder if this will end up affecting his sense of reality down the line.

Kind of like how for the first few volumes, Satou from Death March didn't see the Isekai world as real because he sees everything as old school MMO interface and his stats keeping his mind calm.

@terabyte said in Record of Wortenia War Vol. 13 Discussion!:

@retailed said in Record of Wortenia War Vol. 13 Discussion!:

Ah, are we skipping this week? :(

Yeah, the part is currently listed for next Monday. At the same time as Instant Death Cheat V7P9.

Once again, the J-Novel Club Server Crash is announced in advance...

@leinade
Wait really?! You know what going back and looking at it, there is a slight difference between the two pictures. Huh, that makes this even worse though because we haven’t even gotten into Baal yet.

@travis-butler oh yeah, it's definitely giving me Bofuri vibes, specifically the "playing the game like no one else, so unlocking Easter eggs"

The difference to me is that in Bofuri, she's doing things the devs don't expect so unlocking late game skills early.

Here, it feels like the MC is playing a way that the devs absolutely planned on someone doing, it's just he's the first one to end up on those paths. Like, the quest train that led to Sakura started with picking up trash in the beginning town, but it was a quest posted by the Tamer/Summoners guild. I bet if some other tamer follows the quest series now, they'd get a non unique tree dryad, which would still be a good rarer monster, just not as powerful.

@paul-nebeling true, but Tesfia isn't exactly the typical noble girl...
Lettie would be a nice choice. She is a great character and being a single she's the only one who can stand on almost equal footing with Alus, but I suspect that Alus declining her invitation to join her squad put an end on her chances. I might be wrong though.
Of course, this is an high probability the story will simply end with no romance.

@travis-butler said in Dragon Daddy Diaries Vol. 2 Discussion!:

she swings both ways?

across species too !

@masterlillyclaw said in Dahlia in Bloom Vol. 2 Discussion!:

This series shilling the "this guy and gal think they're just friends but everyone knows they're going to fall in love" concept becomes maybe 6x funnier to me when Dahlia and Marcello are right there, being absolutely platonic but still perfectly good friends. Unless it's subtly trying to go for the angle that a mixed-gender friendship only works when at least one of the parties is already spoken for? Regardless, I support Irma & Dahlia & Marcello friendship hours.

It's a bit of a shame it was made obvious at the end of volume 1 how Volf is starting to feel without him realizing it but for Dahlia's part her inner thoughts haven't actually indicated anything to the contrary. We could get a double bluff of sorts where he does declare his feelings but she remains firm in her desire for friendship only and he happily abides that resolution. Or a triple bluff if you factor in the romance tag the series has. That would be the ultimate gatcha on the readers. Romance novel edging.

@zwabbit Snarky, but true

@thefirstpunicwar I think that he also got another one from the airplane project, but I can't say for sure because I don't read the early novels recently.

Haku, super tier waifu

Rose, what are you doing?!

Okay, what is the deal with Klaus and is Rose following the right path with him? Personally I think she's walking a dangerous path but it might be the best one moving forward. Klaus isn't just a masochist, I think he has a hidden darkness inside him that he feels better about when someone is figuratively (and maybe literally) holding his leash. In the original timeline Rosemary discovered this side of Klaus and used it to get close to him. Unfortunately though Klaus couldn't bring himself to deny the princess offering something he on some level needs it still poisoned their relationship. Klaus felt like he had corrupted Rosemary. Now the relationship is more platonic in nature while still satisfying Klaus need to make himself subservient to some authority.

@hylebos said in Villainess: Reloaded! Vol. 3 Discussion:

Elsa would have to do something especially different to disrupt the status quo. We've not heard much about her but she doesn't seem like the sort of protagonist who is sickly sweet and corrupts everyone against the villainess through her unpragmatic optimism, so I don't see this becoming an Astrid faction vs Elsa faction thing. I guess it could be something like "Elsa falls in love with the teacher I like and I can't solve that with bullets, what do?". I guess it'd be amusing if Elsa got corrupted and became a gun nut or something but that doesn't seem like it's a long term generator of interest.

Remember that in the one interaction Elsa has had with Astrid so far, Astrid saved her.

It's quite likely that if Elsa remembers Astrid, she will see her as a hero to look up to and someone she really wants to be friends with (or conversely might put her on a pedestal and be scared to interact with her because she's out of her league).

@rkkn ah my bad for misinterpreting. Well to them, it's probably also not that surprising. For the last year or so, they've been seeing that Allen has been regularly killing monsters, and thus going through Trials of the Gods, which they know makes them stronger.
I'm not sure how much stronger she's gotten since then (a little due to age yes, other than that hard to say), but they've seen large evidence of the fact that Allen is so much stronger than anticipated. Krena also had to activate a special state to beat the Knight, which didn't activate here.
Also they don't tend to ask much about Allen's strength in general.

@village-idiot What I found amusing is that while scolding Hvedrungur for breaking character in public, Felicia did the same by calling him Big Brother.