As I was by the daily deal, I was checking out some new boots. My wife happened to glance by, and asked: "Are those shoes?" I replied: "No, those are boots! They give my charachter different abilities." She then commented with a smirk: "Are you shopping for your princess?" "Is she your paper doll?" My female elf warrior obviously catching her eye. Suddenly realising what was going on, I felt the redness come to my cheeks, and then came to a startling conclusion. This really is a princess game, and we are playing with paper dolls!
Busted. Although these paper doll RPG/boardgame/whatever hybrids are more about satisfying a geeky war of numbers than any sort of aesthetics. You'd better believe that if a chest dropped something like a Giant Black Rubber Dildo with six Obliterating Bludgeons, I'd be running around swinging that thing all night long, Hatchet Harry style.
I know a lot of people call "action figures" just "dolls" because that's basically what they are. Works in this instance too.
If this happened, I'd immediately buy all the undead adventurers and equip as many skull themed items as physically possible.
