I loved Project Lawful/Planecrash (not sure which is the actual title), but I do hesitate to recommend it to others. Not everyone likes their medium-core S&M with a side of hardcore decision theory, or vice-versa. It is definitely weirder than HPMOR.
Something that threw me off at first: it takes the mechanics of the adapted setting very literally (e.g. spell slots and saving throws are non-metaphorical in-universe Things). That’s not normal for (good) game fanfiction. The authors make it work anyway—perhaps because clear rules make it easier to produce solvable puzzles—but it took some getting used to.
The glowfic format is strange, yeah, but it doesn’t read much different. It does make for a clearer delineation of character perspectives (e.g. compared to an omniscient narrator), and the portraits/icons carry more weight than one might expect. The main drawback I noticed was that, without chapters, clear “you can stop reading and go to bed” breaks were sometimes quite far apart.
(also I had to take Stylus to the CSS to render it comfortably readable, but that’s every site on the internet these days)
I loved Project Lawful/Planecrash (not sure which is the actual title), but I do hesitate to recommend it to others. Not everyone likes their medium-core S&M with a side of hardcore decision theory, or vice-versa. It is definitely weirder than HPMOR.
Something that threw me off at first: it takes the mechanics of the adapted setting very literally (e.g. spell slots and saving throws are non-metaphorical in-universe Things). That’s not normal for (good) game fanfiction. The authors make it work anyway—perhaps because clear rules make it easier to produce solvable puzzles—but it took some getting used to.
The glowfic format is strange, yeah, but it doesn’t read much different. It does make for a clearer delineation of character perspectives (e.g. compared to an omniscient narrator), and the portraits/icons carry more weight than one might expect. The main drawback I noticed was that, without chapters, clear “you can stop reading and go to bed” breaks were sometimes quite far apart.
(also I had to take Stylus to the CSS to render it comfortably readable, but that’s every site on the internet these days)