What, He Never Died ain't a classic? Pshaw. Of course Rollins pretty much played himself in that one.

I love that hair. Like a whole second character.

Oh gods. I remember learning to do that. It's like a merciless robot constantly reminding you that you can't count. Then you can, and everything is easier.

When it comes to my comic collection, I am 100% an ass man.

Plus all the usual "I am an unlikeable and deeply fucked male protagonist who works out my Big Issues by externalizing them all over everyone around me" litfic formula gets Extra Ick in the fantasy genre.

Hamilton is a hack. Donaldson is at least interesting, but he's trying to import the sensibility of contemporary litfic into genre fiction without really having much of a feel for the genre he is nominally writing in.

I think sequence. "Fiction First" as a term of art is about play where fiction is the primary input to the rules engine, which in turn generates new fictional position. The other branch where fiction is a trump to mechanics is more of an OST "rulings not rules" thing.