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// FoME's Character Flaws (Masterweaver's THE QUEST FOR GLORY!) 
// Story: Never the Final Word (Vol. 2) 
// by FanOfMostEverything 
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Spike glared as Twilight teleported in a character sheet. "Twilight, we talked about this."

She offered a smile, or at least exposed teeth. "Come on, we already have an oversized party. What harm could it do?"

He crossed his arms. "The last time you played Amaranth, she one-shot the boss so hard it set my campaign notes on fire. Literally."

"Let Trixie guess," guessed Trixie, "typical glory-hogging wizard doing literally everything just because she can."

Twilight snickered. "Please, I outgrew wizards back before my brother stopped letting me play with his group."

"You have a brother?" said Trixie.

"My point is that magic is a crutch for optimizers—"

Spike coughed in a way that sounded suspiciously like "Munchkins."

"Optimizers who want to take the easy route to winning O&O." After a moment, Twilight added, "Besides, the actual magic system is laughable. Yak Stance might have been an incredible fantasy writer, but he was no thaumologist."

"Um..." Fluttershy raised a wing. "How do you win at Ogres and Oubliettes? I thought it was like playing a story."

"It is," said Spike, "unless you're somepony like Twilight. Then it's a math problem to solve. Like how to get one of the least physically capable races to deal triple-digit damage with one swing of her sword."

"All Trixie got from that is that she'll be better at magic than Sparkle in the game. Trixie approves!"