They’ve repeatedly asked me to bring back the same character in other campaigns so I think they thought it was fun too. Everyone generally has their own goals and our primary DMs are all into the political intrigue angles over straight dungeon crawling, so there’s always a kind of Game of Thrones thing going on between the party members even when they’re all good guys.
Kind of a reason why I use a cleric of Cyric; the goal isn’t to straight up fuck everything up as that may lead to war, the domain of Cyric’s rival god, Tempus. It’s to plant the seeds of doubt and make everyone paranoid. 😁
I was playing my evil cleric, just hiding amongst a party of do-gooders, as a follower of Cyric do, and had recently leveled up to where I could now cast Touch of Death(?), a touch attack spell that has basically a 50/50 chance of straight up killing your target and I happened to be talking to an NPC, all alone, that was crucial to the rest of the party’s plans. Naturally I tested out my new spell.
The party investigated, of course, but none of them were spell casters or had enough ability to discern anything. Including interrogating me, since I also had +30 to deception due to some special feats and items I earned previously in the adventure. Since we play entirely online, only the DM and myself knew the truth as the events. Up until my ultimate reveal toward the end of the campaign, they suspected nothing. That was a fun-ass game.
While my original comment was being funny with it, I truly do think that is the case with some brands. I love the Dollar General brand of Pop Tarts more than actual Pop Tarts (the pastry bit is softer and the insides taste more like preserves than artificial jelly) and many of Great Value (Walmart’s food brand) items are loads better than the name brands, like Doritos, Little Debbie’s, juices, etc.
I would say pretty much anything. The only time I got a cheaper brand and absolutely hated it was when I saw a pack of Bar-S hot dogs for like $0.60. You know how the stereotype is that hotdogs are made from feet and assholes? Those Bar-S fuckers tasted like they actually were.
Sometimes the off brand is even better than the name brand. Oreos, for example, are way better than Hydrox.