Fantasy Media Analysis #

Truly, there is no limit to the flavours that you can concoct in your games, stories, and otherwise. This of course is to say, whether you wish to run a game that feel like Lord of the Rings, xyz, xyz, Princess Bride, and more are all viable atmospheres to create for your game.

The Princess Bride #

Characters: Princess Buttercup, Inigo Montoya, Westley, Prince Humperdinck, Vizzini the Sicilian, Fezzik the Giant Locations: Florin, The Cliffs of Insanity, The Fire Swamp, The Thieves Forest, The Pit of Despair, Guilder Notes:

• Comedy:
  • “ROUS? I don’t think they exist”
  • (The Albino saying: “The Pit of Despair, don’t even thin-” *clears throat and talks normally)
  • Vizzini’s Thieves making rhymes
  • Billy Crystal as Miracle Max (A Mage/Druid/Miracle Worker)
    • “Only Mostly-dead”
    • “Go through his clothes and look for loose change”
    • “He said to blave which is to bluff”
    • “‘This a miracle pill?’ -> ‘Chocolate coating makes it go down easier’”)
  • Westley’s ragdoll bit
  • “Give us the gate key -> I have no gate key -> Fezzik, tear his arms off -> Oh you mean this gate key?”
  • and all the other gags in the movie.
• Love:
  • Buttercup & Westley
• Revenge:
  • Inigo and Count Rugen
• Triumph:
  • “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.” Loop -> “Offer me money, power too -> It’s yours, please -> offer me everything I want -> Anything and more -> I want my Father back you son of a bitch. *Kills him”
  • Wesley Bluffing Humperdinck and WINS when he only had the strength to stand and draw his blade! (“To the Pain” scene)
• Villainy:
  • Humperdinck, Buttercup, & Westley
  • Count Rugen “You’ve been chasing be all your life, just to fail now? That’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard, how marvelous.”
• Twists:
  • Westley wasn’t dead, in fact he BECAME the Dreadpirate Roberts
• Worldbuilding:
  • Each Dreadpirate Roberts is just a 007-James Bond-esque title rather than a true ‘name’
• Quotes:
  • “But for now, rest well, and dream of large women”
  • “We are men of Action, Lies do not become us”
  • “You are the Brute Squad”
  • “I want my Father back you son of a bitch”