It's fucking wild how little I care about every other tolkien ass RPG ass fantasy (Even the good ones. I simply am not super interested. I'm sure Frieren is good, it sounds great, I don't feel like watching it) but THIS one, about the most Cliche-seeming D&D party LITERALLY on a quest to Fight A Dragon IN A DUNGEON, is also somehow the most original take on the concept, specifically because the Food aspect of it is tied in so well to the world-building, it makes everything so believable, because the ingredients have to come from Somewhere.
The dungeon is an ecosystem, there's a food chain, there's Reasons for them finding specific ingredients in particular places. Like yeah there's the LORE about the dungeon that looks to be important to the over-arcing narrative or whatever, but that's doing LESS world-building work than the food shit imho, though I'm only like 20 chapters in.
Also as someone who loves cooking, I just wanna make all of these with real food equivalents.
Also Human who is Autistic about Monsters and Elf Girl who is Gay and Afraid. I don't need any more and yet they also give me the occasional treat of Buff Dwarf Woman <3
Hell yeah we love buff dwarf woman in this house
