catsi:

dungeons and dragons is a versatile game where you can give your character a dramatic backstory, or a tragic and heroic backstory, or just an overall fantastical backstory, and clint mcelroy instead decided ‘my character is a deadbeat dad’. i fucking love that choice? a world of opportunity is available to you and instead he said ‘no my character is just a bad father’ like… it’s Real As Hell. i love it. i love merle