Comments on: ERBoA Anno 3

By: T

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:59:16 +0000

That’s interesting: I figured referencing scenes we’d done before would make things less confusing, not more. You’re right that it might be truer to ERB to do more contests between people who’d never met than between people who had… ERB does the latter on occasion (Adam vs. Eve, Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs), but no more than 1 out of 6 times, it feels like.

One of the reasons I made the picks I did was that the more central a character was to Guilded Age, the more lore from the series we could reference. I talk here about potential lines of attack against Penk and Harky…I’d have a harder time coming up with as many possibilities for Naror’Nj and Caneghem. To be sure, there are some: both are old xenophobes who clash with their young; Naror is a difficult father at best; Caneghem has one friend and no idea how to express friendly feeling. We’ve also got the progress (and lack thereof) of their respective elf societies to talk about. But still, there are huge aspects of their lives we’ve never explored when you compare them with Best or Byron, or even with Harky and Iwatani—and revealing new things about them for the sake of this clash feels like it’d be cheating.

Conversely, the more often a character showed up, the more likely we’d end up with a lot of material to work with. Of the characters we used in the first five raps, nine out of ten of them matched the ten characters who appeared most often in the series. (The exceptions were Harky, who was 19th, and Scipio, who was 9th but clearly not suited to this format.) We did have plenty of potential candidates to draft, but I’m sure you can understand why I elected to play on easy mode.

By: T

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:12:43 +0000

I can work with that, sure. Might be a good thing to offer as we close. Hit me up at tcampbell1000(at)gmail.com to tell me how best to do a bulk transfer for you, and I’ll get on this in the next couple days.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:27:06 +0000

…in that case, would you be willing to make reasonably hi-resolution images available in some form? I find PDF (or CBZ, or similar) a format much more suitable for re-reading and “thumbing” through a story than separate web pages, and though the result may not be suitable for printing (no page borders, page numbering etc, no consistent page size), I could generate a PDF and CBZ from a stack of images in pretty short order, and hand that back to you, to either add to the available ones on Gumroad or whatever else you choose.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:17:32 +0000

The start of this one is quite confusing to me, and I think this and the Rachel/Frigg one could have benefitted from being between two characters that haven’t actually interacted that much with each other (directly), as with the ERBoH episodes. Naror’Nj vs. Caneghem, for example. Or Frigg against her God-thingy. Maybe Harky vs. Iwatani (with Penk and Syr’Nj stepping in at the end, to diss them both to oblivion)?

By: John Waltrip

John Waltrip — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 03:41:25 +0000

Happy New Year to you too!

We have once again reached the arbitrary point in the orbital path of the Earth around the Sun that we call
“the Beginning”. An enormous circle comes to a close, and another one opens. It’s been said that ‘people travel in different circles’, but truly… we all travel in the same circle.

Let’s hope it’s a better one.