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The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…
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The inspiration for The Also-Rans came from my experience playing classic SNES and Playstation 1 RPGs. Chrono Trigger is an amazing game, and should be on everybody’s “play before you die” list, but that isn’t the game that inspired me to create a story with the unlovable side characters, because there really aren’t any in…
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I really loved the mummy in Kevin’s No Theme Thursday, and that inspired me to make her a boyfriend. Covered in foul disease, because mummies do be like that. So this is an entry into this week’s NTT from a prior week’s NTT. Because my schedule do be like that, apparently! While I don’t necessarily…
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One of my original ideas for a story/game was that writing combat sucks in a lot of ways. Reading about heroes bashing up villains isn’t generally very fun; there’s only so many ways you can do “and they stabbed each other with swords and some of them died” without being boring. Also, there’s the Civil…
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“That one’s easy. Do onto others what they try to do onto you. I usually skip these because, well, they’re crap like favorite holidays or what kind of sweater you like to wear, but this one was made just for me.” (Flonk is a monster turncoat, who joined the crew of the Also-Rans out of…
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Flonk’s battle card and at least the gist of how he’ll play out in combat is shaping up, and I wanted to show some of the thought process! Being a monster, Flonk is assumed to be on the monster’s side, and he’ll pretend to be a turncoat at the beginning of combat with them, with…
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“I should have left so much earlier. When.. oh this is hard. When he left me there, I trusted he would come back. I trusted that I was worth coming back for. I.. guess I wasn’t.” (Alastrina is leading a ragtag group of would-be adventurers on a quest they got ditched for being, well, ragtag…
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