kontextmaschine:

On the Visegrad populist medieval fantasy CRPG tip, still playing Kingdom Come but I was startled what they did with one character, they first did some encounters to set him up as an antagonist like “arrogant feckless young nobleman”, like the archetype of the Bad King (-in-waiting)

…but then subvert that towards that he’s not rotten, and actually pretty charming and competent, and it’s mostly that he’s fresh to the role and under stress and a lot of his schtick is basically ballbusting but at the end of the day he is an entitled lord and you are an undistinguished commoner and he’s not at all ashamed of the dynamic

That’s interesting, I hadn’t seen it before, and it’s a way these Eastern European feudalism-from-below narratives really are novel

I mean it’s a better idiom than blue eyes/brown eyes