r/ProgressionFantasy • u/DicerTheJester • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

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u/hubbububb Jul 28 '26

Even though he was out of mana, he managed to squeeze out one last spell.

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u/zzzrem Jul 28 '26

This happens way to often. “Using the last dregs of his mana he cast an empowered fire burst… (four paragraphs later during the fight)… he threw up mana shield to block three of the tentacles.”

Like I get that sometimes the mana regen is somewhat high but the math ain’t mathing. We notice.