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I could see some of the vampires of the Sanguinus family in "My Vampire System" literally doing this (the Family Power is called Puppet Master or Puppeteer and lets them embed threads in people to fight as their "puppets" as they fight better using others than they do using their own bodies)...

Random NPC who happens to have an "Internet Gibberish to Comprehensible" Translation Card walks up, slaps me with it, figures out what just happened, and walks away laughing at my stupidity. Jealous Girlfriend develops a crush on random NPC and runs after him...

Would depend on how they are consumed. If they are just absorbed then, probably not. If you cut off and eat their flesh, then yes, if they are all of the same species as you, or "sometimes" if they are occasionally of the same species but sometimes not.

The owner says: "This is an adult bookstore. I need to see some ID first!" "I am 21 in scale years..." "Sounds like you're trying to pull something fishy. Get out!" "Sorry, dude. I was going to pay in Spanish Dubloons..." (Holds up wet purse of old Spanish gold)...

From what else I've read here it SOUNDS LIKE the main villain forced a restructuring of magic on the world and did it in the form of Cards. The Principal, acting as the Big Bad's agent or proxy, maintains the illusion that he developed the system and that the academy exists, at least in part...

Actually talked to a guy who knew one of the creators of Yu-Gi-Oh. Originally, the manga was meant as a parody of Pokemon, but they used creatures bound to cards instead of trapped in orbs. It sold so well, they wrote subsequent issues to parody other types of manga, and when it was optioned...

Suspect I posted this to the wrong thread about looking for ideas.

I like (and try to create) protagonists with a sense of humor and something distinctive about them - maybe not unique but distinctive. Could be their attitude, or being stuck in someone else's body, or a physical trait but something that makes them stand out. Some of my favorites are...

It took you this long to figure out?

That was more a brutal method of execution than torture though - the American name (allegedly it was done by the US Cavalry for acts of treason) for it was "Drawing and Quartering" but I believe it had a few other names over the years and in other lands.

I actually saw an explanation for that before I ever heard the "theory" itself... NASA could not get images from the flight to the public in "real time" due to limitations of the technology of the time so they used photos of training sessions in the desert as "fill ins" during the initial...

If all other factors are equal, it depends on the job - if it is a sales or PR position, the liar might actually be the better choice, while if it is a technical position, the honest person would almost always be. While both would probably be equally bad choices for a lawyer type position.

I tried to focus more on those elements in mine because it seems kind of cheap to ignore some of the biological and social complications ("I would like to take this moment to apologize to every woman I ever did that to..." "No, you did not take a blow to the stomach, at least not from your...

Depends on the type of story. The first one is the one most likely to lead to tragedy - the others could lead to redemption arcs, revenge sagas or dark comedy at least as easily.

It is easier to vote AGAINST some of these than FOR them... I'd toy with having a party of characters with linked abilities (kind of like Power Rangers but without the Zords - they just are stronger together but don't have a separate fighting form EXCEPT... One character dies early on and comes...

The card thing gives you your answer I think - the boss has a lot more cards than anyone else, and thus is more flexible, but the MC has one or more unique or rare cards (the specific card(s) revealed early in the story, perhaps far before their significance was known or even usable) or a card...

The first one seems more like a tragedy or very forced comedy. The second, the Roman one, has a lot of potential to be just about anything.

As someone who has about seven or ten or so stories in various stages of development, I find sometimes one story or character will "call to me" and I really can't focus on the other ones, no matter how I try. And sometimes I hit stumbling blocks where I need to research something either...

I had considered doing a kind of parody of the System stories - "My Kaiju System"; In the year 2245, Hikaru Smith (the heroes usually have an American or European first name and bizarre last name so reverse it...) winds up trapped in an old army bunker during an alien attack. The aliens showed...

Ah but that was after he cleaned up his image (was even portrayed by Jackie Chan once)... And he is a very odd character in the game Raid: Shadow Legends (was a "free if you log in for X number of days in a span of 30 days" character; current "free" one is a weirder version of Loki from the...