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  • Where’d you come up with this idea?

    Where’d you come up with this idea?

    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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • “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…


  • Gamblers are never nervous. Nervous is something you absolutely do not want your fellow players to notice about you, and it is a habit you should absolutely divest yourself of. Unless you’re playing a friendly game with me, in which case by all means carry on with your tells. You don’t think you have a…


  • Battle Cards WIP!

    I wanted to present the first iteration of The Also Rans as a board game, because this entire week was a breakthrough in learning how to cobble it together and it all clicking! So lets start with the player card. Each player gets a character to play as, or, if you’re doing a solo game,…


  • “Surviving every day makes me happy. Also eating. Not getting stomped on is a bonus, too. If Maslow studied monster society instead of humans, his job would have been a lot easier on him than wondering about all that self fulfillment crap.” (Flonk is a monster with a very narrow view on how things are…


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