http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-121-creative-process-minions-and-henchlings
I'm glad "henchlings" has become a thing. :D
I like it better than "henchMEN", personally... :-\
"MINIONS!!!"
(No, but seriously, someone on BGG put together The Monarch as an SotM villain...so awesome!)
That is a really good deck, no lie.
Apropos of nothing, the worshippers of an ancient god were called...a cult. As in, the cult of Atum or the cult of Ra.
Stinger in this episode was great. The often are not worth listening to but this one made me laugh.
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Trolley Problem should be a story of a Batallion squad under the command of Steven Graves when he’s a disgraced merc, working for BRon Blade for pay, not yet Fright Train. Possibly he has PTSD about the choice he made which resulted in his obsession with trains.
If you’re a prisoner in your own mind, aware of the things your body is being externally forced to do, you’re not responsible. But a thing fiction doesn’t tend to address is the idea that mind-control things might not be about hijacking control of your body from your mind, it might be rewriting your mind. If you’re a flesh child in deep cover, you might think that you love your dog, but Biomancer can force you to kill your dog, and in that case Biomancer didn’t kill your dog, you did, because he made you decide to.
The Omnitron cult should be called the Basilisks.
An ex-GB is a great character concept. There are humans from the end of OA who Voss did that to.
“Pretty much any of the heroes could take Chairman.” Miranda vs Graham bare knuckle boxing match confirmed.
There aren’t a lot of henchwomen. It’s a dangerous job, female people generally try to avoid endangering themselves, and the men in their life generally work to keep them from having to. There are obviously exceptions, because duh, but I think calling a woman a henchman is way less insulting than calling her a hench-thing or hench-fledgling or hench-Earthling or anything like that.
I really like the Capitan mutiny stories; there should be at least three and they should be told out of order.
“Plague Rat under RevoCorp is a minion under duress. And the handlers are also minions.” It really should have been said that the handlers are also under duress, rather extreme duress in fact, the entire time they’re handlin’. Handlin’ does NOT make them feel good!
New villain confirmed: The Zookeeper. He she or it would be some sort of cross between Kaargra Warfang, The Entertainer, and Menagerie from the Cauldron; instead of wanting glory before a crowd or wanting a collection to keep in enclosures, the Zookeeper would want to have this sort of mobile ecosystem under the Zookeeper’s control, with animal minions who are loyal because he takes care of them. I think I imagine him as like D&D druid who casts a weird variant on the Awaken spell, so that his animals gain sapience but not actual free will, they’re sort of brainwashed in that he builds a mind for them the way Baron Blade builds programming for a robot, where the hardcoded core instruction is absolute loyalty to him.
I’m saddened to hear that Adam 2019 hadn’t played Final Fantasy V, my favorite JRPG ever (not that I’ve played a lot, but the list includes Chrono Trigger and FF6, so I’m putting it above those). I hope that by this year, he has had the opportunity to check it out, even if he had to play one of the IMO-inferior later versions on the Game Boy Advance or later systems. The original SNES, fan-translated to English with numerous eccentricities, is the One True Version to me. (Much as the OTV of 6 for me is a malfunctioning emulator version on a YTK-era computer, which played the songs “wrong” and thus the real versions were forever “wrong” to me.)