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Eh, from what I’ve heard it’s more about letting junior designers at FromSoft make their own games to see how they do. Asset flips are low cost and thus low risk. Good training/testing ground to see who can be trusted with something bigger. Now, this could be a smokescreen, and to be frank I...

Nah. My favorites are usually absolutely deranged supporting characters that I adore but don’t think I could sustain as a main central character. When I imagine an utter narcissist like Lividia or an eccentric genius like Rowe as MC I’m pretty sure it would wear out the joke through overexposure

No. Tbh I’m confused as to what the purpose of it is. Isn’t that what a comments section is for?

I wrote my first big story on CHYOA chapter by chapter with the intent that anyone could write branches if they felt like it. No one ever did, though they did write their own stories based on the basic premise which is kinda similar. I polled people at the end of most chapters about what the MC...

Yeah I’m on the “asking this question with this level of context is inherently a red flag” wagon, chief. Not giving the vampire waifu the choice is extremely controlling behavior, and without further context there is basically no reason not to ask. Does she need to kill someone every few days...

Ngl this would logically result in crazy Caprid key parties where every caprid has a bunch of cages containing light beer in their house for stat grinding. One guy is sober and lets everyone out in the morning. Permanent buffs are THAT GOOD. Idk how many stats your system has so I’ll assume 10...

Indeed, if you squint you can see that the only reason our cubic champion even met his favorite shiny is because it wanted to multiclass into artificer, and its favorite snack was introduced as a direct result of it accidentally multiclassing into Warlock, and even the elf/catgirl yuri is only...

Though primarily a comedy that lampoons the genre by having a random sociopathic dungeon monster become an unholy terror that regularly interfaces with deities through a combination of luck and stubbornness, Everyone Loves Large Chests nonetheless has a fairly reasonable approach to...

“To adverbly verb” (that exact sequence) is apparently considered to be bad form, despite being grammatically correct. It’s one of those things that you can do occasionally but it strikes many as weird/wrong.

My editor has insistently asked that I dial back on split infinitives. Also, chalk up another member in the over-embellished dialogue tag gang.

This works as an explanation if we have a few assumptions made for the system 1. The system has been mathed out to the point where a consensus has been made and everyone of importance knows at least one meta build that can handle most situations. 2. Everyone cares about optimization. 3. The...

The version I’ve seen that seems most reasonable for the sake of storytelling is that your class gives you a few set abilities and a lot of mutually exclusive optional abilities. Further, there’s a small number of those optional abilities that have no prerequisites but the overwhelming majority...

I specifically made my first MC a healer/support guy with minimal/inefficient offensive abilities to force myself to make sure he relied on his allies, so he was on the healing factor train asap. My second MC had a healer sign on pretty quickly because in a ttrpg setting what kind of deranged...

Despite the name I suspect Caleb Striker would not be striking many Calebs unless an evil clone gets involved somehow. Just because the tendency to not give multiple people the same name.

I mean; you might try having them just tend to be polyamorous in their homeland, with monogamy being something that only fully integrated satyrs do. Then they can have a reputation for “sleeping around” but it’s actually just that they have a different structure around romance/sex than you find...

How many gods do you really need, and how many are important? A whole pantheon of lesser deities can be implied while you focus on the big bois that are actual characters, bringing up new ones as the plot demands. Sorta like countries in that way. Don't bother with gods that you don’t have plans...

Of characters I’ve actually introduced? Definitely Break-Neck Jerry. He’s a reasonably skilled necromancer doing freelance work as a resurrection specialist until he can retire. Even the thing that terrifies him most, the chance of his old master finding him, is drastically less of an issue...

It works best if it’s not the focus, I think, or you subvert it somehow. Or… idk, anything to make it so that the story itself isn’t about minorly incrementing a number. 2000 dead boars can not be the solution to all your problems unless you want to get into the logistics of gathering that many...

There isn’t much I would want to write that I wouldn’t write, if that makes sense. If something doesn’t sound like it would be fun to write, for example a gratuitous torture scene, then it probably won’t make it into the story. I don’t do this to be kind to my readers though. If I thought that...

Hmm. I will cheat and use NEO-GOOGLE aka ask an ai. Heracles had arrows dipped in hydra blood. Zeus’s thunderbolts are generally presented as basically just divine javelins, as were fashionable at the time. Vijaya Dhanush, a bow created by the Hindu gods which has the same ambiguous “you...