#so yeah... My biases are showing

[radnewworld]

So, here’s the thing... Your RPG has a character fantasy that it’s trying to play out, right? There’s a flavor that’s going to be baked into the mechanics to try to make it easy for a player to express and be immersed in their character within that fantasy. There is a LOT to discuss on the subject, but I want to zero in on one aspect that can really make or break the fantasy for your players: success and failure.

Whether it’s tests of combat, social, exploration skills, or something else entirely, most RPG systems will determine success or failure by a die roll. It can be a d20, 2d6, 2d20, 1d100, or some truly wild systems with fists full of specialized dice, but we can boil them all down to mathematical probability. Ignoring modifiers and target numbers, if a person needs to roll a 11 or higher on a D20, they have a 50% chance of succeeding. Duh, right? But really think about what that means... In that scenario, the character’s odds of success or failure are even. Do the thing twice, probably fail once and succeed once. A coin toss. It’s just a matter of pure luck at that point. Certainly not something you’d plan on or expect to work!

Contrast that with having to roll a 3 or higher on a d20: 90% chance of success. Solid odds that you’d feel pretty confident with, right? Sure, 10% isn’t that unlikely, but you’d bet on succeeding. You might even expect that to work. You could form a plan around a 90% chance of success. A failure would be a bit of a shock and maybe cause a significant disruption.

Now imagine you only succeed if that d20 shows a natural 20. 5% chance. It ain’t happening, friend. You’re rolling and only divine intervention will save you. Even before the die finishes clattering, you’re expecting and maybe even preparing for the consequences of failure. Should you succeed though... Whole table goes wild. Cheers, backslapping, and probably the formation of a story that you’ll all remind each other of for decades to come.

So what, right? Maybe you’ve never considered the math behind the die rolls, but this is pretty basic stuff! Stay with me for a bit longer as we circle back to the fantasy... Imagine you’re playing a game about spies and you’ve showed up to the table with an expert lock picker. Your character is recognized as an expert in the field, with years of training, experience, and education under their belt. The game starts, and your GM describes a fastfood joint’s general manager’s door in your path as locked by a fairly standard, hardware store quality lock. You get ready to roll to pick the lock, die cool in your hand. The GM gives you the target number... And after doing some basic math in your head, you realize that, even with all of your character’s expertise and tools, your odds of success are 50%. How’s your fantasy feelin’ about then? Do you feel like your lock picking expert is in control of their fate? Or are they at the mercy of the fickle whims of capricious luck? Do you believe in this world where an expert has a coin toss’s odds of defeating this bargain bin lock? I’ll bet not. It’s as ridiculous and jarring as the odds of a 72 year old librarian with aesthma successfully putting a Hell Angel’s biker into an arm-bar hold 90% of the time.

Take a look at the range of difficulties in your game, then compare that with what a typical player character is capable of. What are the odds of their success for a normal or difficult task? Will your experts generally be kicking around that 80-90% chance of success? Or something closer to 50/50? Is there a substantial difference between your experts and untrained characters? This might seem boring, and probably will need the help of a website for dice odds for non-d20 systems, but it is worth the effort I promise you! With this knowledge, you can better craft your game session or system to present the fantasy you want the players to experience.

Here’s a quick and dirty guide:

If players can reasonably reach the 80-90% chance of success for most common tasks, you’re looking at an expert fantasy. Players want to see their character blow through mundane challenges like Superman through a wooden door when their character’s specialization comes into play. This isn’t to say ALL challenges should be simple; far from it! Players crave challenge, particularly for their character’s specialty, so be sure to include situations that will push their character to the limit. If our lockpicking expert is called upon to open up a bank vault in 10 seconds or less, while their allies battle enemy spies the next room over, and the whole mission is on the line, it is perfectly reasonable for the task to be 50/50 odds (or worse!) for the expert and flatly impossible for untrained rubes to attempt. That’s where the expert fantasy shines: difficult tasks with high stakes that only the specialist can possibly succeed.

If most checks for your players are going to be in the range of 40-60%, and doubly so if the difference between an expert and a normal character is minimal, you are in for slapstick or a lot of hot-or-cold rolling. If a magic item requires an Arcana check with a target number of 15 (a hard challenge as the game states), a 1st level genius wizard with training in arcane lore for a total of a +6 bonus to the check and an intelligent fighter with no Arcana training has a +2, that means the wizard needs to roll a 7 or higher and the fighter needs a 13. The wizard has a 70% chance of success while the fighter kicks a 40% chance. The difference between a lifetime of magical study with a genius intellect and some smarter-than-average newbie is 30%. There are, almost certainly, going to be situations where specialist characters will fail a fairly mundane task while their much, much less expert allies will pass.

Short note, I think a lot of 5e’s math problems can be fixed by doubling Proficiency bonuses, increasing harder DCs by 5, and reworking Expertise into something that ignores Disadvantage or grants Advantage more often. I’ll show my work if folks are interested later.

Lastly, if your characters expect failure more than 70% of the time... Whoooo boy, you are doing something weird! Either the game is based on failing-forward mechanics, something where only the truly lucky or exception survive, or dealing with failure is the whole point. Children With Wands is the only game I’ve seen that makes this fun, but I’ve met some truly special individuals who play early editions of Warhammer Roleplaying specifically to gleefully mulch their way through character after character. I don’t judge.

Hopefully this gave you something to think on if you’ve gotten this far. Whatever your fantasy preference, I wish you happy gaming!

#gm tools #RAD New World is squarely in the Expert Fantasy slice if anyone is wondering #so yeah... My biases are showing

[somelazyassartist]

Rewatched one of my favorite episodes, the music is some of my favorite from the whole series lol :]

#maybe it's just cuz I'm Scottish and my girlfriend's Irish so I'm biased but yeah the music is really really good this episode lol #three eyed cats in my living room #bluey #bluey show #bandit heeler #bandit bluey #bluey bandit #bingo heeler #bingo bluey #bluey bingo #bluey fairies #fairies bluey

[anghraine]

It's honestly kind of funny when people in Silm fandom go on about how Tolkien's narrative is biased against Fëanor et al., and meanwhile it's like

Tolkien: his name was Curufinwë Fëanáro and he had raven hair and limpid grey eyes like tears (also like my wife, a major fucking hottie) and he was the greatest craftsman of the Elves and a brilliant linguist, he made the Silmarils and invented the tengwar and so many other things, oh and he had a great body and was an incredible warrior, and he and Galadriel were the most amazing of all the Elves in Elf heaven, and he slammed his door in Morgoth's face, and you wouldn't believe what it took to actually defeat him but it was really cool, guys, there were all these Balrogs and

#you know how tolkien talks breathlessly about how amazing and beautiful and cool túrin is while chronicling his disasters? #that's not him being unfairly biased; that's one of his main ways of showing love for a character #the treatment of denethor is also of this type imo—they're very different people but the basic type #of a very cool and powerful and brilliant and beautiful figure who falls tragically but with a weird kind of glamour #is SO much his type #i think that's a large part of why he kept going back to the narn and trying to get it right #and it's part of why the narrative adores fëanor so much (gandalf: imagine. imagine seeing his hands at work O_O) #it's not an uncritical adoration but that's because the character's fuck-ups are part of the appeal in the first place #and yeah i like túrin and denethor a lot more but it's clear that fëanor is treated as the middle-earth apotheosis of that type #anghraine babbles #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #honestly tolkien's treatment of his characters sort of reminds me of my fantastic dm #who will create involved storylines spinning off from dubious player choices rather than #a) just letting them pass or b) aiming to punish them #for him 'your choice has consequences... so many consequences' is fundamentally affectionate #and i feel like tolkien treats his characters similarly tbh

[lady-bee-holmes]

So, I realize the intent in trilogies is to move a story forward, rather than back, but wouldn’t it be neat for a prequel storyline for Dishonored 3?

Like, whether it would follow some of the early Marked or focus on our resident void boy, it would be cool to see the world before the main storyline

Especially if it followed our void boy in the time before becoming the Outsider

#ok am I biased? yeah #but listen #the month of darkness set a tone for what the world was like before #so what if it showed us a world before the outsider became the outsider? #granted it would also be awful because he went through a lot #but like #a return to the ritual hold before it became a relic #maybe leading into the eye of the dead god and how that came to be #there is so much lore to dig into from Before that I think it would be a neat option #I don’t know the idea of this game is loving rent free in my head and I’m having fun thinking about this series full time again #time to dig into all the past games again lol #come chat with me if you have opinions on this #dishonored #dishonored 3 #microsoft leaks #arkane studios #just a buzzing bee

[dolokhoded]

epic the musical can die by my blade i don't think there's anything actually wrong with i'm just abhorred by the amount of tenors and think everyone sounds like the vocal equivalent of an iphone face

#🧅 #really im just biased against any american take on greek mythology. cause it always Feels american you can just TELL #also the weird voice effect on polyphemus is horrendous. just cast a bass...... why is modern theatre afraid of basses ....... #and also i think that the structure is a little wacky so far. #like. there was nothing distinguishing the opening number from any other number. and some other stuff im not gonna list rn cause im tired #but whatever #like i know its not even over yet. but i predict rhe whole things just gonna be like that. no start middle and end just thing happening #thing happening thing happening thing happening no character aside from odysseus ever getting any substance final number #literally every song is 'this is what odysseus does next' and it's getting tired. no real ensemble numbers. no other character solos. #athena's introduction is literally made by him instead of her #it's just a lot of 'odysseus and some other people i guess'. which yeah is a lot of the odyssey #but you can't write a show where EVERY SONG is like that it gets boring real fast #however that's just my opinion. what do i know i've never written a show

[moonsidesong]

played the fangame danganronpa another with a friend and i didn't really like the ending but i very much enjoyed mekaru bc she's just woman byakuya togami. i'm going to talk a lot in the tags now

#the translation was kinda weird and bad but you get used to it after a while #i do plan on playing the sequel just cause me and my friends enjoy playing murder mysteries #oh uh spoilers beyond this point i'm gonna give some hot takes for. the 3 followers that care about dangit grandpa #anyway uh. ending. yeah i'm definitely biased bc i don't really like sad endings for the most part #but i didn't really. like it. #i'm not really opposed to the idea necessarily of the protagonist NOT being a survivor it's definitely interesting #but given that this game's take on hope vs despair is that 'hope is created not found' #i thought it kinda sucked that they just left maeda/utsuro to die despite obviously being the one suffering the most #also i didnt. like. kisaragi much. him/his alter ego being the epic savior in the end sucked bad not gonna lie #i thought he was really interesting in his initial appearance bc he was someone who Knew what was happening #but was rendered unable to communicate any of it bc of his brain damage #but then he dies (which was expected wasn't really upset about it) and from there you only have flashbacks to go off of #and then he's just kinda boring #it'd be one thing if he was a heroic reliable person we knew from the start but he's just this. guy that shows up in chapter 5 #and we get told he's like the best we should trust him and believe in him but. like. idk this guy! it didn't feel earned #anyway kinjou was. a character. for sure. #i liked his arc and all but when they revealed in the ending that Oh actually his beliefs on crime haven't changed at all lol<3 #he still only thinks in extremes even after all that mess about recognizing the murders were done in gray area circumstances #so like what was that all FOR #also. like. Goddddd. GODDDD. AKANE TAIRA. UGH #when she gets revealed as the mastermind and she's like going crazy off the walls sillygoofy despair lady I thought she was really fun!!! #i enjoyed her quite a lot!!!! #but then utsuro gets involved and she's just immediately extremely pathetic #she just immediately loses all presence bc she just stops taking any authority as the mastermind and is like ouwuoiuuh utsuro samaaaa #i thought her being a maid but actually is a girlboss would be a FUN SUBVERSION but nah we just have peko pekoyama 2: evil this time #like when are we gonna be done with the trope of Woman is cool and powerful until Man shes subservient to is involved and then she's a wuss #it sucks it SUUUUCKS #utsuro himself is. fine. he's basically just bootleg izuru but i didn't really mind that i thought his origins were kinda interesting #anyway i'm out of tags so i guess that's the end of my hot takes #i liked the individual cases! i liked mekaru! ending was kinda bad. goofbye

[laugtherhyena]

Sometimes i remember how long it took for Dra to get a full translation and think, wow, if it had a more speedy english translation back in the day (sorta like the one Sdra2 had) and i had my first experience with the game be as intended i don't think i would be writing -2+2 today

#putting this in tags because idk. my self-conscious bitchass tells me that this may ruin the fic for some people #but. #-2+2 started as a hatamori oneshot #the idea i mean #and then i started going “hey wouldn't it be cool if” and the ideas kept piling and piling #and i was like you know what i should make this a bigger thing #and it became a story focused narrative rather than a ship fic #but in it's core it's still the story i started writing out of thinking about my weird little rarepair and going #I NEED TO SHOW THEM MY VISION‼️‼️ #and I get to write them living and being nice to eachother #going back to what i was talking about in the post. if my first impression with Dra had been with the full translated game #rather than learning about it from random Wikipedia pages. biased posts and massive spoilers #i am 99% sure i would be an ayakane shipper #cuz like. c'mon #they have so many moments in canon it's crazy #but nooooooo your girl here had to do a fucking 180 and become attached to hatamori instead #and i MEAN attached because when i got back into the another series last year i lost interest in all the ships i liked back in the day #EXCEPT FOR THEM #THEY'RE STILL MY FAVORITE PAIRING IN THE ANOTHER SERIES #and it's wild to me because at this point i don't even remember why i started shipping them to begin with #anyway. if you went through all these tags and feel disapointed don't worry #-2+2 is never gonna get to a point where they're gonna have a love confession and kiss in the mouth #because i want the focus to be the story and the characters rather than the ship itself #but it's still me writing it at the end of the day #so yeah. #hyena ramblings #dra #dra -2+2 #danganronpa another

[jaekaicx]

i just finished playing in stars and time the other day, and because everything has to come back to amphibia, im thinking about the calamity trio and timeloops.....

#isat spoilers in the tags #gonna ramble a bit in the tags but before i do that #isat is a really cool game that you should totally check out if its ur type of thing #and i wanna talk about spoilers #so consider this a warning #anyways. i keep thinking about specifically marcy and siffrin #the way that they both held on so tightly to their closest and only friends #how they were both so scared of losing those friends and the extremes they went to in order to make sure they wouldnt #but then also how all three of the calamity trio were so codependent towards each other at some point #how they all held so much fear - in some shape or form - of losing the others. of being left behind #like im very biased towards marcy so he's always gonna be my first thought #but also theres that one sasha timeloop fic that left a permanent dent in my brain #and theres all the sasha and siffrin parallels... how they both were so desperate for control #for some sense of agency. for security. #....i feel so bad about not adding something about anne #but. i'll be real. marcy and sasha are the main ones that are. in my brain. with this. #but uh. yeah #the isat brainworms. the amphibia brainworms. theyre plaguing me. #(​i hope this doesnt show up in the main tags-) #j rambles #k.txt

[krismoss-dreemurr]

Hey so I think we need to stop pretending our favorite characters in media are completely innocent and could never do anything wrong or fucked up. And also I think we shouldn’t have this mindset that what a character does in the past defines them now despite any personal growth

Maybe instead we need to try to understand why our favorite characters do the things they do or why they did certain things in the past and like. Chill out a little bit

#yes this is about the kris and Susie thing and yes I’m biased because I’m a Susie fictive #but can we also come at this from Kris’s perspective and acknowledge that kris was never afraid of Susie and they never seemed to hold what #she said against her. it’s so clear in both chapters 1 and 2 that they’re besties. we’re besties like no hard feelings about any of that #and it’s something that can be expanded on and worked through in the future #please let’s just trust Toby for the time being. I’m not saying you can’t feel a certain way about it or that you can’t analyze it #but let’s not freak out about it or let it completely change the way we see their current dynamic #personally I thought that it was a really interesting moment for both characters and it actually showed some growth for Susie because she #never was THAT terrible to kris after whatever kris said. I think when you’re a teen and you’re hurting you say and do horrible shit and you #might not even realize it until after the fact or don’t understand exactly how your words can affect other people. kris wasn’t reacting abd #when they did she thought they were laughing at her and given she was already taking out her feelings on them it probably felt Not Great #neither of them are good at effective communication or really being emotionally vulnerable #anyways yeah there’s my take #wrote this mainly in 3rd person because if any singlets see this I don’t want it to be too confusing #Susie talks #kris dreemurr #Susie deltarune #deltarune #safeutdr

[the-batblog]

Dr. Who/Batman crossover?

But where Batman/Bruce is the Doctor?

I mostly like this idea because of the regeneration possibilities; maybe Adam West Batman (Batwest???) regenerates into Michael Keaton Batman (Batton?????) regenerates into Batbale into Batfleck into Battinson.

But it doesn't have to be in order!

I was thinking that each regeneration would have its adventures and such with one Robin, as tends to be the case with the Doctor and his companions. Dick would start us off, and maybe his best fit would be with one of the slightly darker versions of the Bat, like Keaton or Bale. When Dick grows up and decides he needs his own path, maybe there's a delay after we meet Jason before Bruce regenerates into West or Affleck. Then afterwards, when Jason is gone and before we get Tim, we get Pattinson.

I just think there's a lot to do here with how each Robin influences each regeneration, as well as all of the cookey sci-fi, the death-defying adventures, the time travel, and the planet-of-hats enemies.

#Doctor Who #Batman #crossover #adopt this fic #Batman and Robin #Bruce Wayne #🦇 #and of course you could do this same thing with different writer's/artist's versions of Batman in comics #but the movies are highly accessable #my favorite movie Bat and Robin combo to think of is Battinson and Jason #but I am so extremely biased #I think going from Keaton partway into Jason's tenure into West would be a fun way to show that Jay was a ray of sunshine to B #and with how violent and brooding and frankly wreckless Pattinson is it would be a fantastic follow-up and a great challenge for a 12yo Tim #to bring him back and show him again why he was Batman in the first place #anyway yeah whatever #I will never get to write this but I had a vision of Bruce in a peacoat and scarft stepping out of a red phone booth #with a little Robin (probably Dick) sticking his head out behind him #if there are fics out there like this already I'd love links #thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[no1ryomafan]

Another thing I also realized from watching big o that’s not even related to the show itself is I legitimately do better to committing + enjoying a show if I actually watch it out of my own accord and not for someone else. A general struggle of mine is people pleasing tendencies so a lot of shows I’ve watched was out of obligation for someone else-regardless if they outright pushed me to watch it or if I saw it so much in circles I was in I felt like I needed to watch it-but that tends to end up leading to me not liking it and I either take forever to finish or not finish it at all.

Meanwhile this was a show my friend did rec me and I heard about a lot but I decided to watch it just because I felt like it and now instead of procrastinating or worrying I won’t finish it I’ve literally binged half of the show within last week and will probably finish it this week if everything goes accordingly. I really outta do stuff for myself more but I guess this is a good starting point.

Even if yeah- moral of the story don’t rec me things unless I actually ask lol.

#meg text #I’ve had this realization for awhile but idk if I ever put it into words #there’s actually a term for this given the fact I’m autistic called PDA autism but it’s a whole ass thing to explain #(And also hearing that people would probably assume “public display of affection?” 😭) #but yeah this is like the real reason I’ve avoided watching certain mechas (gestures to gundam) #I still prefer robots with sentience though and also I need to see if I can handle a 40 ep show bc I also need to resume TFA 💀 #I know there’s shorter gundams to watch as well but idk I’m vibing with the earlier era more whenever I see it mentioned #it’s probably bc I’m so much more biased for cel but also associate mecha at it’s peak with cel #granted don’t ever expect me to watch like every mecha ever #because even if robots are my main fixation I do wanna focus on more human-like ones #only problem is finding more then 5 Animes that do this so mecha is kinda where I have to go for anime robo fill #but I’ll worry about that another time bc there’s none robot shows I wanna watch anyways #I’m just rambling in tags at this point but god it’s easier to get my thoughts out here then twitter #also less likely to be judged because I hardly see mecha stuff on my dash anyways

[zymstarz]

RWBY V9 E8 !?!??!??!?!?? OH MY GOD

#WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS [insert image of neos house thing] #WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!! #WHEN I SAID I WANTED TO SEE THE VACUO CREW I DIDNT MEAN I WANTED OSCAR TO SHOW UP LIKE THAT :( #also. im sorry the cut to ozpin fighting ruby was so funny #pyrrha and penny were like 'our deaths were so tragic [>:( and :( respectively]' #and ironwood was. saying whatever he was saying i dont really remember #AND IN COMES OZPIN WITH THE STEEL CANE ‼️ #yeah uh. WHAT THE FUCK THOUGH. RIGHT. OH MY GOD. #explodes into a million pieces. my jaw was on the floor the whole episode good god #zymtalk #rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby v9 #<- sorry to whoever sees this post in the main tags bc of these i just like blog organization </3 #ALSO HEY REAL QUESTION DID OSCAR PINE SPECIFICALLY LIKE. RUN OVER EVERY SINGLE CREW MEMBERS DOG OR WHAT #i am biased towards him bc. [sighing dramatically and pointing at my name] unfortunately thats there. you know. #BUT THIS IS OUTSIDE OF THAT BIAS WHAT DID HE DO HELFJSPFKP

[lilmeowmeowsagelesath]

danny/blaze/kieran being the cheater is so ridiculous and ooc i can’t even take it seriously 🤧

#like yeah they’re not cheating on mc bUT STILL JUST IN GENERAL- NO!! #on two of my four playthroughs it’s danny and LMAO that boy would NEVER #sorry but it should’ve just been dez so it would be the same for everyone no matter the route #and not be a li #these three boys would never!!!!!!!!! #its not even me being biased because i don’t even romance kieran #also zayid being a prince and very much in the public/world eye - even before the show… doesn’t seem like he’d do it either #nico ily babe but 😬 i could possibly see it happening #but also on top of all this how tf are eve/her guy the ones having so many issues & drama & infidelity but autumn/her guy …?????? #this game is so messy lmao i hate it but yet can’t stop playing #i love danny&blaze too much also i unfortunately don’t get to choose my hyperfixations </3 #lib game #love is blind game #libtg #personal #mine

[sharkieboi]

mostly posting this as a note to self but remind me to get an ACAB sticker or smth to stick to my work desk, especially since some fiction crime shows have been added to our TV list

#shhh sharkie #i just want my stance to be clear #if i get in trouble for a very simple ACAB sticker on my desk i have many legs to stand on in my defense yknow? #we have an hour for lunch and we watch tv together in the office #we have a whole spreadsheet of what episodes of what shows we’re on #so i just. need my stance to be subtle but clear. yeah this is a fun show but the police are the bad people no matter what. #main characters aren’t police themselves but they work for the police #and the harass clearly biased and quick to book with as little evidence as possible person is technically a good guy #i will tolerate the show being played and enjoy the fun japes and such but my stance needs to be clear

[gayness-and-mayhem]

CITV is moving completely online now? Honestly, this shit is getting ridiculous. Like, I thought we were trying to convince kids to spend less time on tablets and phones and stuff and yet the first channels to become streaming only all seem to be children's channels? I get it, terrestrial TV is going out of fashion (awful, but hey ho), but it's so much easier to turn a TV off and get kids doing other things than it is to prise technology out of their hands. If anything, I think they should be the last to go online. I'm honestly so fucking pissed off.

#Rant #No need to respond I'm just fucking seething and this is the only place I can have a rant without people I know seeing it #Maybe I'm biased bc I hate the nature and just the whole idea of streaming #Like having to wait a week for the next episode isn't a bad thing #Yeah I've binge watched shows online before so maybe I'm a hypocrite but I prefer having to wait bc it lasts longer and honestly I think #the speculation is so much more fun #Anyway I'll just fuck off now I've said my piece #Text post #Personal #Also ik CBBC hasn't gone online yet but the fact that it is going to is fucking shit #Plus wrt CITV ITVX is literally the shittest streaming platform out there so I don't think it's gonna go that well anyway #Idk maybe I'm just behind the times and it's all nostalgia based but I think companies putting all their eggs in one basket is truly an #awful idea

[krakaslaug]

I'm so confused... why do people like lotl and think we're getting any points with this band? The lyrics don't make any sense or have any meaning, they sing with a terrible german accent (just sing german at that point) and they don't really commit to the metal genre. The only thing they got going for them is their vibe/look. I mean, please enlighten me, maybe I got it wrong since so many germans seem to like them lol

I should probably preface this by saying that they've been a long time favourite band of mine so I'm super biased and can only give you my subjective opinion so yeahhh...

I genuinely think they make great music and I think none of your arguments actually are arguments. For one, I don't think the accent is that bad. It's way worse when they're just talking instead of singing lol, and it doesn't impact the overall quality of the music at all. There's worse things than having an accent. Personally I find Chris Harms' voice very soothing actually, at times operatic and strong when he does scream vocals. I think they're all good with their instruments too.

Them not committing to the metal genre is also not a real critique imo? They're very self-aware of where they stand in the scene, there's plenty of instances where they make jokes about it themselves (even in the esc bewerbungsgespräch video itself) and they've said themselves that they just want to do what they want, that they want to be their most authentic and that had them happen to fall somewhere into glam metal. Idk if you just mean Blood and Glitter in particular but there's a lot of variety in their songs from way heavier stuff to songs like See You Soon. Blood and Glitter, I would say, is a lot more "mainstream" even, so it just rides that line.

The song itself is about life btw. Chris Harms said himself that the Blood part is nothing negative. It's about life that flows through you. The glitter, the beauty of life and experiences. The up and down of life.

And yeah. Of course their looks play a part in it.

I guess overall - and I mean no disrespect to any of the other contestants. I found positive things about all of them (except maybe Ikke Hüftgold...) - but we had the choice between not one but two Sad Boy Ballads and other songs that were pretty generic within their own genres. And with LotL Germany would send something interesting again. Something that is not pop, that's a little heavier, flashier and sticks out with both visuals and sound. Especially after the whole thing around Electric Callboy last year where the critique was that the other six songs were all the same with little to no variety at all. So even if LotL hadn't won this, I think, personally, that this year was a huge improvement to last year. But as a fan I'm incredibly happy!

I'll stop here because I feel like I'm justifying myself when I don't have to, and I happened to see that I'm not the only one who got this exact ask, so yeeeeah. I'm love them sorry not sorry. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to ramble for a bit hehe

#esc vorentscheid #lord of the lost #i think i'm being too mean to the other contestants here #so truth be told anica russo was my personal 2nd favourite. i like her voice and especially the chorus has punch #i think both will church and rené miller have great singing voices and clearly sang from their hearts #even if their songs weren't for me and i don't think they're very esc-tauglich #same with patty gurdy. i thought she looked very nervous and sounded breathless halfway through her song #but she's nevertheless a great singer #lonely spring seem like sweethearts too. my personal 3rd place. some very nice 2000s nostalgia #i thought trong was sweet too. he had such a lovely positive vibe but also. just not esc material imo #as i said i'm probably super biased because lotl's been a favourite band of mine for very long #but the song just. slaps. #blood. glitter. flame thrower stage show. that's the esc vibe #i think not letting themselves be confined by genre is actually a better be yourself-message than trong honestly #i was just being nice to trong but to sing dare to be different while being dressed uniform to your dancers. #gives a different/conflicting visual message #i'm getting rambly and i'm pitching two bad bitches against each other. so sorry #anyways yeah #we love lotl on this blog #i like when music has e-guitars and germany has not sent enough e-guitars