You have a pattern
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
RPGMemes every party needs at least one weird little guy
My weird lil guy was a monk multiclassed with wizard, because he was obsessed with going fast. He also loved taking drugs. There may have been a couple sonic comparisons
I've written two, too-long fiction books. After the second one, I realized I only have one story to write, and can't think of anything else. I tried to start a third one, and it's just turning into the same story--everything I like. So, I think I'm done writing.
Take a look at the Shonen anime community. There's a huge market for the same story repeated over and over.
It's all about whether you enjoy writing it.
Take a look at the Shonen anime community.
Oh my gosh. Or friggin' isekai.
"I Was Dead and Now I'm in Another World That Works on JRPG Mechanics and I'm a _______ ?!?!?!?!?!!!!!????"
Step 1. Fill in the blank with something clever.
Step 2. Too late! Someone already made it, and it's got an 11 episode anime on Crunchyroll that ends abruptly and will never see continuation.
... "Reincarnated As a Vending Machine" is legit good though, the way it leans into its ridiculousness. XD
Mandatory magic power classification orb that explodes when touched by the MC
This is basically what Brandon Sanderson does and they're all good. It helps that his favorite thing is inventing new magic systems.
Michael Moorcock made a career out of writing the same story over and over again.
Try writing a story from randomly selected elements. You might surprise yourself when writing under constraints.
Literally! Restrictions make us more creative, I always loved writing prompts for this. You could come up with some elements and number them and roll a die to choose them
Just write the same story in a different setting. If you're good at love stories, try a fantasy love story or a sci-fi love story or an occult noir love story.
Go look up the belgariad and then the other series by the same author. Wonderful writing and enjoyable story but every series is the same story with different characters.
The same character living the same story in a different setting is way different like the classical white Knight war guy in Arthurian myth or the crusades or the us civil war or each world war are way different then you get past world war two or world war one if he's Russian or Chinese and things get real real different
Like does that setting have a side that's the good guys or both kind of have a point or the whole war is nihilistic stupid or its like a Hitler versus Dracula kind of situation and how does that character change when fights are long affairs with swords or industrial meat grinders with machine guns and chlorine gas like the last gasp of the noble knight guy was von Richthofen and arguably your chuck Jaeger's with shreds of that cultural cachet spilling into civilian astronauts and now you have like sociopath spooky operator guys as the war expert people and how does your white Knight gut fit in with each of those and that's just like stuff closely based on reality how does he cope with fighting a hive mind or giant robots or being a wizard or the same guy but he's more a science hero macguyvering his way with science magic or breaching the warp core or whatever
You can write the same story again and it's still good did you ever watch 'samurai champloo' it can totally work
Sometimes you just need to play a weird Lil guy.
My first one (while cliche) was an over the top positive eccentric gnome artificer who was quite naive and always saw the best in everyone, had so much fun playing that bloke that I think it actually improved my mental health and at least made me try to stop being pessimistic so much in RL
My over the top positive lil guy was a halfling bard who was a baker. All his instruments were pots and pans he would bang on. His vicious mockery was telling you ways that you let down people in your life and genuinely wanting to help you do better. His bags were full of homebrewed muffins that were infused with calm emotions which he would use to pacify and bribe NPCs. Whimble Buttercrust became the de facto party leader and turned our resident murder hobo into a struggling pacifist who would snap if anyone put Whimble in danger.
The other halfling in our party was a horny rogue, so I played Whimble asexual. The DM was also horny so they found it amusing to watch Whimble struggling to graciously excuse himself while remaining oblivious (until it was no longer possible and then becoming flustered).
Mine's a Triton bard that plays 80s glam rock and dresses like he's in Motley Crue. Nothing weird about him.
I hope you're playing 'Dr. Feelgood" when you or someone else heals.
...well, I am now.
In my group there are at least these patterns:
- are you a moon druid?
- are you attacking everything, always, under the guise of protecting the party?
Uhh I would just excitedly say "Yep!"
