Grrl Power #1271 – Kung Fulcrum
Obviously Jabber takes the shape of her body and center of gravity into account when doing all her Hi-Keebas, but even though her chest has more weight than Sydney’s, it’s not like she’s swinging around a pair of kettlebells. You could do a lot of unexpected flippy attacks if you were holding onto something that acted as a significant counterweight, like a (humongous fantasy) maul or a 40 lb dumbbell. Actual historical mauls weren’t that much heavier than a sledgehammer, so they’d be bad for spirographing kung fu moves.
Now a tail… that could have some heft to it. Not a cat tail or a kitsune tail, but a nice plump lizard tail. Or better yet, an ankylosaurus tail, with that built in kettlebell. Granted, that sort of tail wouldn’t be prehensile beyond waving back and forth. Lapha’s tail is prehensile. She’s still learning to use it for things other than getting it caught in doors and knocking stuff off of shelves, but it’s not really chonky enough to significantly shift her fulcrum if she’s doing spinny kicks. Once she learns to grab stuff with her tail reliably, it will open up a whole new move set for her when she brawls.
I’ve got some book recommendations for you guys.
I recently finished this one, it’s called Invading the System: Systema Delenda Est. I really liked it, probably because it’s a lot different than my usual fare. It’s technically an Isekai book, but unlike most Hero From Another World books, the main character doesn’t get hit by a truck and wake up in a fantasy world. He goes there on purpose. In the form of a ten-ton kaiju. So, while I like LitRPGs in theory, there’s a lot about the genre I don’t like. I’ve said it before, but I can’t do any video game books. There’s just no stakes, unless the story is really about affecting something in the real world somehow. The other branch of LitRPG I don’t care for is the System Apocalypse subgenre, where “The System” comes to Earth, technology stops working, millions or billions die, and people have to rank up or die. I don’t know why, but that subgenre bugs me. Well, the main character in Invading the System agrees with me, because in the book, The System came to an Earth rather far in our future, an Earth where cybernetics were prevalent, intra-system space travel was a thing, and people could become post-biological, i.e. upload their consciousnesses into a mainframe or a bio-weapon. And when The System hit Earth, technology stopped working and like 10 billion people died instantly. But humanity discovered that their bio-weapon organic tech still worked, and The System was only on Earth. Its influence didn’t even extend to the moon. So they orbital dropped Kaiju soldiers onto the planet and destroyed all the anchors (dungeons, etc) needed for The System to stay there, basically eradicating it from the planet. But they don’t know why it came there or how to prevent it from coming back, so, the book opens with the main character going to another world with an established System, intent on purging that world, in the opening salvo intended to beat The System back all across the galaxy and eradicate it from existence. Obviously, there will be enormously powerful beings with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, so, long road ahead. As I said, I really enjoyed this book, partially because the main character was extremely non-human. I won’t spoil anything, but let’s just say the ten-ton kaiju form he arrives in is, uh… his starting point.
Okay, I know I just said I don’t like books that take place in video games, but, this one is an exception because it’s told from the point of view of an NPC. An NPC who is glitched past an early story-driven character-death-to-motivate-the-hero moment and follows the hero through the remainder of the quest. I thought it was really funny because the player… plays like someone playing a game. Like, he steals everything that isn’t nailed down, and continually attempts to break stuff in the game. The whole time, the NPC is playing it totally straight and trying to rationalize the hero’s behavior. The audiobook is especially good because while the NPC is giving herself a lecture about her destiny and duty to aid the hero’s quest, you can hear him in the background going “Hup! Hyup! Hut!” cause he’s jumping on tables and mumbling about trying to fit a broom into his inventory and stuff like that. There’s also a ton of video game trope references which I found amusing. Anyway, it’s cute and funny and there’s a little more to the story than just goofy winks to the reader, but I won’t spoil any of that stuff. Oh, right, the book is called Prophecy Approved Companion.
I think I’ve recommended this one before, but no harm in plugging it again. It’s called Mark of the Fool. Basically, the Big Bad returns on a cycle, but the people are defended by the chosen ones, each given a blessing to become a mighty mighty. The Champion, the Sage, etc. The main character, as you might guess, receives the Mark of the Fool, which means he can’t attack anyone. He can’t punch someone, he can’t throw a rock at them, he can’t cast a fireball spell at someone. The mark does allow him to learn any non-combat skill at an accelerated rate, but historically, The Fool’s contribution to beating back the Big Bad is to die early on, thus uniting the remaining heroes in vengeance. Unsurprisingly, the main character isn’t really excited at this prospect and ducks out, heading instead to wizard school. And it turns out that being The Fool might not be the worst thing in the world if you’re not immediately thrown against the slavering hordes of the Big Bad where you become a massive combat liability for the other heroes.
And here’s a manga that I bought like 3 years ago and then forgot I had for some reason. Then I started reading it and bought the rest of the series right away. It’s called A Witch’s Printing Office, and it’s about a girl who gets isekai’d to another world, and her solution for getting back is to basically invent Comic-Market, but for magic. The idea being to bring all the mages together to swap and sell spells and tomes, which will allow her to browse through their offerings looking for a Teleport to Another World spell. It’s 95% humor, with stuff like knights of the realm being used to form shield walls to keep attendees in lines and the MC making deals with demons and dragons to keep expanding the spell offerings, and the while she’s running a printing shop that is hugely overwhelmed with work. And the art is very nice to boot. Actually it’s part of the reason I’ve been trying some new stuff with the comic recently. Honestly, drawing a comic is time consuming and I don’t get a lot of comic reading time. Books I can do if there’s an audiobook, but you can’t really multitask when reading comics, and it’s something I need to set aside more time for.
The new vote incentive is up!
Oh no! Superheroines in a deathtrap! Well… a tickle trap. Okay, not trapped, trapped, but… look, three of the girls are getting tickled. Actually, in a way, seven girls are getting tickled since the other four Harems will feel this as well, but technically it’s only the three shown in the picture since Harem insists there’s only one of her – it’s just confusing since she can be in 5 places at once.
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There goes my head-cannon about Mai.
That was mean, Jabbers.
Sometimes Sydney needs tough love, this probably wasn’t one of those times but all will be forgiven if you don’t report her to HR.
Forgiveness void if added to The List.
Oh. That’s disappointing.
At least Boob-Fu was reverse confirmed with the last sentence.
But if you can absorb kinetic energy like Anvil you should be able to use the movement of large boobs to your advantage right? Some of you educated people should be able to explore this theory further. Anyway, that should count as boob du IMHO.
So for a kinetic energy absorber to take out a tank, instead of jumping out of a plane she would need a few sets of jumping jacks without a bra?
All this discussion of boob energy reminded me of something I would swear I heard on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” show a while back. Someone had invented a bra that could harness the kinetic energy of breasts to charge a cell phone while walking. Or maybe charge a small battery that could be used to charge a phone. The comedians were riffing on “Wow, she could charge an iPad!” and such. But now I can’t find any reference to that at all.
I think she doesn’t get any gain from hitting herself; She’s supplying the energy, too, in that case, any inefficiency in absorbing or generating it is a dead loss.
Good point.
But she can generate the energy over time, and then release it all at once. Hit the harmonic frequency, store the energy in a standing wave. Like a capaci-tit-or.
So that’s the purpose of Power Girls boob window.
no, that there is obviously a…booby trap
You stop the right this instant! *shakes finger*
we can’t stop the right. they are the only ‘right thinking’ people, just ask them they’ll tell you.
yes its a typo, yes I make lots and lots of them… but I’m in an ugly frame of mind and I want more jokes to make me smile or laugh.
(I meant ‘that right now’ dangit)
She gets a small amount just by walking
In the future there has Got to be a fight with Anvil accidentally offloading her kinetic energy with a boob slap on someone!
is that the secret to making a 4D face?
Last panel, someone said something that requires a whoopin’. Or they are sparing… Weight and balance is a serious part of any athletic skill, both times I had cancer I dropped 50lbs/40lbs. in a very short time. You can FEEL the change when it’s that fast, and it wrecks havoc on your balance. Poor Sydney, almost OCD over boob size, shape, and problems they cause the other ladies. I half expected she would have gotten a boob job by now… But I doubt she has the confidence to do that, she’s hardly one for pain, but we are also talking about someone that wanted Dabs to give her a cybernetic hand for a “hammer-space” hand.
given the nature of her employment, there may be a notice period required as she would have a recovery and adjustment period after the change. (In the US you can be fired for having skydiving as a hobby and driving up the employee insurance rate)
related question- what’s the recovery time on a boob job-does it vary based on direction?
Citation needed. Probably illegal in colorado. Probably legal in many states (employment at will).
this was many years ago in a national magazine devoted to running a machine shop. it was an ask the HR person column. (before the internet I read a lot of magazines.)
related note- member of extended family was commenting, the company he helped run was involved in adaptive equipment, so they tended to hire more people who needed adaptive equipment. then their health insurance salesman told them their rates were going up.
You can’t tell me that the likes of Dabbler doesn’t have a “Boob Growth” spell if one were really inclined here.
With Dabbler it would probably be more of a glamour than an actual change. But she could let Syd try out the perception of bigger boobs. Despite Sydney being self concious about her breast size I would guess that she really isn’t all that interested in getting hers inflated. It seems more like curiosity driven by high intelligence and ADHD driven trait of asking a question before thinking it through.
Would love to see a short story arc on that theme. Maybe it could help her get more comfortable with the size she has.
(Sorry for the duplicate posting. I intended to put it here and accidentally put it at the end of the thread. (And can’t find a way to delete the other posting.))
Something like the “loaner body” that Dave had as a vote incentive some time back. Sydney’s body was in a tank, battered and bruised, (my guess was like a Bacca tank) and her mind was transferred into a bio-mech body while she was waiting on her own to heal. Dark haired, much more like Jabber’s in many ways. only thing was the orbs stayed with her actual body, so not a long term option…
I went and looked in the patreon exclusive stuff for that: The orbs actually moved over to her rental body after a few minutes (They had to bonk their way out of the tank first)
If you’re talking about the same votecentive as I remember, you didn’t read the after-comic where the orbs burst out of the tank to orbit the body with Sydney’s mind in it after she settled on a preferred body.
Fairly sure that is Math (you can tell because he is barefoot), so… he said something :P
I keep thinking one of Sydney’s orb powerups will be getting a genuine superhero body.
Maybe she’s still shorter than normal for a human superhero. But getting the good health, ripped body, and natural boob job which goes along with having superpowers.
I’m kind of hoping you’re wrong on that.
Then again, I think that in her own waifish way Sydney’s already plenty sexy. As are the other members of this comic’s IBTC.
Sydney triggers my cuteness aggression, I can’t see her as sexy but I would love to instigate trouble with her.
Man, every time Dave recommends a new book series, I immediately look it up and 90% of the time I’m disappointed that it’s not available on my Kobo…
Oh man, InadvisablyCompelled. Well, I read Blue Core, so here comes another binge-read
I read a lot of LitRPGs, but I have a hard time taking them seriously unless the System is a tangible part of the world – that is, you can theoretically go to its main server and wreck it, repair it, or build a new competing System from scratch.
“Super Supportive”, “Delve”, “A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World” and indeed “Systema Delenda Est” are good examples of this sub-genre.
In Rich Cook’s “Wizard’s Bane” you had the inverse: A programmer imported into a world with magic wrote a compiler and OS for the magic.
But you’d be thinking of something like the Isikea “So I’m a Spider, so what?”. A plot element is that the magic world almost got destroyed by the gods dying, and to save the world the mages and powers actually created that system, apparently modeled off role playing games in our world because they didn’t have time to invent something from scratch, and it had been a good enough fit. The protagonist actually ends up meeting one of the system administrators…
> In Rich Cook’s “Wizard’s Bane” you had the inverse: A programmer imported into a world with magic wrote a compiler and OS for the magic.
I love that series!
While LitRPG is a distinctly guilty pleasure of mine sometimes, I can think of one series like that – War Core, which was also part of the Dungeon Core sub-genre. It’s a very late-book spoiler of sorts, but the System turns out to be a galaxy-spanning AI built for a sort of gladiatorial entertainment by a dead alien empire, that has been running itself on autopilot for millennia. The protagonist manages to win control by finding the abandoned imperial homeworld, and orders the System to shut itself down.
Wait, you talking about “Delve” the web comic?
Probably this: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25225/delve
Fair warning: the beginning is truly excellent but after that the pacing turns into a glacier. People disagree about how long “the beginning” is, but I would say it’s about 50 chapters.
So not delvecomic.com, although the mc in the webic kinda gets retro-isekai’d… it’s complicated, but good :)
Another LitRPG in with that element is the “An Unbound Soul”/”Erryn’s World” series. The first book is of the dungen core genre (although somewhat atypical) and the other are an Isekai in the same world. The system is a magitech supercompuer built into a mountain and was created by survivors of an apocalyptic war to rebuilt the world and discourage the technological development that caused the apocalypse. Then later an add-on is created to discourage war and conflict between people even further.
It’s not like she just got them. She’s had years to adjust and subconsciously make the thousands of muscle micro-adjustments.
Yeah, that’s what a lot of non-bewb carrying people don’t realise
It’s what a lot of actual bewb carrying people don’t notice either. Of course part of Jabbys bonuses is also being part of the super side. It’s not just that they’re perky but they’re naturally adjusting due to superpowers. She probably COULD make bewbfu a thing. It also might be the only chance she has against Math… This also depends on how through his training was since last time.
Background
1st & 2nd Panel: I’m assuming we’re seeing then “hearing” what happened to Lapha after she attempted to hit Seneca while she was distracted by Sydney’s challenge.
Last Panel: What’s happening here? Is Detla disabling Math by flashing boobs? She learned quickly, but that doesn’t seem like an honorable move, and Dabbler vouching for her honor is a big reason she was allowed to train with ARCSWAT. That said, a true “professional” warrior will always use all weapons available to them and knows honor is for posers. The goal is always to defeat your enemy in the quickest and surest way possible, whether that’s a long-range kill from a sniper or removing their fighting ability with a boob flash.
Don’t let her stoic demeanor fool you, Detla does have a sense of humor, so she may be doing it as a joke. She might have also gotten frustrated with not being able to land a hit on Math and so is attacking him using his only known weakness. There’s also the consideration that galactic society seems to be much less squeamish about sex and nudity than Earthlings are (they do have succubi, after all), so distracting an opponent with nudity may not be seen as dishonorable – if they’re so immature they can’t handle seeing some boobs, that’s their problem. The distraction also represents a significant trade-off in such a high-tech society, where ordinary clothing can likely be as protective as (flexible) armor – you’re exposing a vital area to being attacked in exchange for a chance to distract the foe, and in many cases are disadvantaging yourself in other ways (Detla’s hands and arms are occupied holding her shirt up in this case, and even just shifting your clothing around is likely to result in a distractingly-poor fit). So, in short, I can readily see such tactics being considered honorable.
Even on earth there is a huge difference in the acceptance of nudity from region to region. Also the association from nudity to sex covers the whole range from “always” to “almost never”.
in some more restrictive countries, ‘naked’ means ‘wearing a bikini’… or just short shorts and skinny top..
some girl came to England and saying ‘everyone is naked!!!!’
Math is also a very pragmatic fighter. If mamary serves me right he have been building up a resistance against boobs. You got to admire his dedication and professionalism.
He was actually directly ordered to watch porn until boobs bored him. It’s just that everybody underestimated how long that would take.
I’m 64, been married to a large breasted woman for nearly 40 years, I still like looking at them, so that’s never going to happen! Something tells me that Math was a bottle-baby, and never grew out of it. Or he’s just a major perv…
You forgot the popular Bra-Zilian Jiu-Jitsu.
A fine martial art that deserves some lift and support.
It’s Jiu-Titsu, thank you.
Wouldn’t that be no-Bra-Zilian Jui-Titsu?
Would that be something like historical pankration? That was practiced nude.
There was an argument that women should also train pankration. Just not with men. Because mixed gender nude wrestling, well, that is too close.
All of you. Ninja hit squads for all of you!
…mine wore fishnet tights. They’re still manboobs on ninjas, just in fishnets. I think they are practicing nintitsu.
Ok, the the second time in two weeks I’ve read a comic with boob-fu. The other it seems to be real.
In the Kevin Smith Spider-man comic “The Evil that Men Do” Spidey and Black Cat team up and fight a lady Scorpion called Scorpina. They eventually need to interrogate her so they go to the prison she is being held at. Since Spidey is the only one that can stick to walls he is the one asking the question while Felicia is up on the roof. After a few minutes Felicia calls down asking what Scorpina is saying and Spider-man yells back (jokingly) that there is no way that a woman with a chest that big can move the way that she does. Black Cat yells back that her boobs act as ballast. Then the comic turns into drugs and sexual assaults.
… the boob is strong with this fu….
I titty the fu.
Ok, I knew jabber was fucking around with Sydney when she said she used them as a fulcrum. This isn’t how fulcrum works lol!
well, they certainly aren’t a half~crum
Told ya Sen wouldn’t get sucker-punched by Laph :P
Yep, I’d like to see Seneca spar with Math. They are both very skilled non-supers. Although they have different skillsets I would bet that Seneca also subscribes to the “Three moves ahead” philosophy.
Jabs looks cute in panel three (and four)
That’s a low blow Jab… maybe for later as well. XP I’m sure Math isn’t complaining though.
“Ju-Tit-Tsu” and “Teet-Kun-Do” almost killed me. XD
well, stop trying to motorboat ’em in the middle of a fight!
Cats use their tails when turning to land on their feet or jumping from one place to another, there’s lots of slow motion video showing how they do it :) You don’t need a hefty tail, just one you can reposition to shift a little mass around and a little is all you need, angular momentum does the rest.
Except they can land on their feet even without the tail. It can help, but it’s not the key component.
Humans can do that rotate in the air thing, too, and we don’t have tails, just relatively massive legs relative to our total body mass. Learned it in gymnastics.
Squirrels are apparently excellent at mid air maneuvering because of their tails
I’m reminded it became a serious point in Gold Digger for the were-cheetah Brittany as her extra-large breasts actually do require super-power grade bras to prevent her having problems using her full speed when running. She was trying to run to save her daughter but couldn’t get up to speed because she lacked one of her special bras before she finally remembered she could shift and went full cheetah.
Wow, you’re gullible, Sydney.
I admittedly am also a little curious about boobs in battle. Like can they absorb damage? Would getting punched in the boob hurt less or protect you a bit better like shock absorption? What about using them as weapons? I once read a story about a guy who went to the hospital because he suffocated under his wife’s boobs. Could a woman perhaps headlock a person in a way that they could pass out from their boobs? Maybe just slap or slam someone with your boobs and it would hurt maybe?
My understanding (From my martial arts days, now long past) is that getting punched in the boobs is somewhere between getting punched normally, and getting nailed in the balls. Would they absorb damage without critical injury? Probably, but it would hurt like hell.
I understand the female equivalent to a male getting “nailed in the balls” to be getting “nailed in the ovaries”. I’m male, but have seen the instant reaction when pregnant women get fetus-kicked in the ovaries. They act remarkably similar to nut-punched men.
I personally believe this to be one reason a gut- or kidney-punch to a slender woman is so devastating.
Also, boobs aren’t just blobs of fat. They are (sometimes) functioning glands that could be seriously damaged by a hard hit. My wife suffered from an inflamed duct while breastfeeding and was in serious pain.
I can confirm from observation, where and when I shall not say, that you are correct. The dummy kept taking swings at her opponents. Each swing received an axe block, sufficiently fast that I could not see the hand move, only see the deflection and hear the sound. Eventually the defender tired of this and did a stiff-finger jab into the target area, leaving the aggressor lying on the floor screaming. 15 minutes later the aggressor was helped to her feet and led off.
This doesn’t actually mean that Boob-fu isn’t real in the setting. Just that Jabberwocky doesn’t use it, for the purpose stated.
Dabbler probably actually does know it. Or at least something with that name.
It’d certainly be something if Sydney learns it, then uses it against Jabberwocky.
As an expert (I have boobs and have been punched in one before) of course it depends on the individuals sensitivity like everything else, but no they’re not good shock absorbers and it hurts just as much to get punched there as like your arm or stomach- more if they get the angle right. You could definitely suffocate someone, but hitting people with your boobs is too impractical, really small range of motion, so if you already have them that close just hit them with your fists or feet.
This is meant to be a response to sirksome, the site glitched out when I posted it :/
Today’s comic sponsored by Joe Bob Briggs and the Last Drive In.
As a former figure skater who suddenly blossomed into DDs, completely ruining my center of gravity and making it impossible to do a sit spin (see old videos of Katarina Witt in her early years, and then after she came back to the Olympics after having been a pro, having a kid, and going up 2 cup sizes, SHE couldn’t do a full squat sit-spin, either!)…boy do I *WISH* I could’ve used them for *improving* my center of gravity. Alas, it does not work that way…
Also, I am absolutely DELIGHTED by all the “fan-tits-tic” martial arts names you came up with, DaveB! XDDDD
Started reading Witch’s Printing Office, and I’m three volumes in, out of six.
It’s very informative about the book business, and the convention business, Protagonist-chan and her employees work on all the very real problems anyone would have when trying to grow their book printing business and book convention, only with actual wizards and magical beings, which gives it a realistic whimsy. (Like the time she needed red dragon hide for book-binding, and ended up negotiating with a red dragon for his molt in exchange for all the latest books)
However, as a result, it’s really just a way to study our real world printing and publishing industries. The characters are all very business focused, and we don’t get much personality beyond their work lives.
If you want a way to trick yourself into learning about industry, because it’s flavored with magic (a valid strategy I’ve used on myself countless times) This series is perfect for that. But if you’re looking for personal drama, love, or deep explorations of character, you won’t find it here.
Maybe Ascendance of a Bookworm, then? The protagonist loves books so much she has to invent the printing industry from scratch when she finds herself reborn in an Isikea after dying under a fallen over bookshelf, in order to have reading material.
on the whole isekai thing. “My Uncle From Another World” manga. It’s the usual “guy wakes up in another world” but in this case. it’s he wakes back up in his original world. from a coma. that he was in since he was a teenager. And. he starts proving to himself, his nephew, and a few others. that he really was in another world. via things like casting an actual fireball.
The most excellent webic “Merceneiress” currently features a fight with a large breasted female who has been known (not shown, just talked about) to have used her breasts as weapons in her previous fighting days (currently suffocating her opponent beneath… unless her opponent takes a bite out of them :P )
Would love to see a short story arc on that theme.
I expect that their weight is negligible to someone who is six foot of muscles.
rumor has it that they can… um… pull awkwardly. if they are large enough. I suspect they have to be deep in the double letters to actually slap the bearer.
just remember a boob job is one of the few operations that was successfully deducted as a business expense!
There’s actually a character in My Hero Academia whose superpower is just that he has a big powerful tail, and it makes him extremely potent as a martial artist.
it is a justifiable curiosity. she’s in a unique position to evaluate and check video game boob physics against reality.
The Ankylosaurs used a “tail club” to fight with. The better choice would be the Thagomizer as seen on Stegosaurian dinosaurs. You still get a good amount of heft, with the benefits of a morning star. Crushing and piercing all in one good smack.
Plus, the Thagomizer was first named by Gary Larson of The Far Side.
I hope the 3 tone drawing style leads to some extra panels somewhere…
This one’s Jab, or Walk – Can’t Touch This, for six months starting today, but there’s a problem.
https://ibb.co/VwhbYdz
That site is having server issues. Need another. I’m no art deviant, just a yokel playing with CGI pics, looking for a place to show a few JPGs. If Dave sees this, I saw you have a fan art category. I’ll send you more of these if you like ’em. Just tell me how.
You should check out. “Epic NPC Man” on youtube. Could basically be described as a sketch troop focusing on Video game logic. But in their NPC work, the focus is mostly on Gregg, a poor Garlic farmer who has become self-aware to a certain extent.
That is the comedy troupe Viva La Dirt League, and they are epic. I think they started with Epic NPC Man, but they have other skits in the same fictional Fantasy-MMO/RPG game world as ENPCM, about actual online games (PUBG, Witcher, etc.), about Dungeons and Dragons, and about running a fictional real-world big-box tech store.
https://www.youtube.com/@VivaLaDirtLeague
I think they started with Bored -and- Epic NPC Man. Bored was sort of like Clerks but in a tech store,m and Epic NPC Man was sketches in the MMORPG of Skycraft seen through the perspective of the NPC Greg the Garlic Farmer in the starter town of Honeywood. :)
They’re hilarious. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-c7TjfMzK4
Coming this summer BOOB-FU MASTER!
I will second Mark of the Fool, it’s not the best I have read but it meets the “good enough” bar for an audiobook to listen to while doing other activities. My only warning is that it is EXTREMELY DnD in its pacing and power scaling. By that I mean the universe and story that we follow feels like a table top. Everyone progresses at a very similar total power level in spite of studying vastly different areas of knowledge or martial technique, fights stay aggressively within the range of “intended CR for current party level”, certain 1-hit /1-round kill vs “npc” moves fail to kill even secondary characters in a very “player characters get death saving throws” kind of pattern, etc. It’s the main thing I find to hold back my full engagement with the story.