“The creative mindset is happy and passive and enjoys. It’s the child mind, the finger painter, the beginner’s mind, not the furrowed brow working at the wheel, sharpening the sword.” 26:35

"Knowing your creative origin". Great post. Doubting yourself by worrying about originality and plagiarism is something that has only increased with this Internet era. Personally I've found creativity even more challenging because I waste SO much time Googling to see if someone else has already done the thing I'm genuinely striving to create. You make a valid point about having faith in your own ideas and understanding that being influenced or inspired by things we connect with is not the same as simply copying them.

The RPG Mainframe is always a highlight of the week. Just killer content, every single time.

Keep coming back to this one... It actually brought me back to being 11 or 12 years old, sitting at my grandpa's house, trying to figure out a way to make Chrono Trigger style combo attacks work in AD&D. Thanks for the reminder.

Innovation is an emergent property. We fill our brains with inputs, they combine and recombine in different ways, and sometimes a new and interesting combination emerges that is powerful enough to begin to appear as its own thing. Knowing you're doing this can help you avoid creative paralysis, and understanding your sources as deeply as possible can help you refine your craft.

Chrono Trigger is 100% one of those origins. When I dig deeper, I find Castlevania, Ghosts n Goblins, and Splatterhouse as MAJOR influences in my creativity.

Interesting topic. Specially now that a lot of creatives are afraid of feeling like they might be plagiarizing or that they are not original enough. Jumping into this Creative Origin and exploring it to see what you like and how those who inspired you achived that feeling they managed to give you as you enjoyed their art. For me its many things. One Piece being a huge part of it. But what I enjoyed the most is the tearjerker scenes. To this day any scene in media that manages to make me cry is what I deconstruct and dissect as I scavenge for those pieces I need to make powerful moments. Thats how I learned the basic concept of TONE CONTRAST. A good example of this would be in the movie Mulan when the soldiers are singing "A girl worth fighting for" a pretty light moment that immediatly drops you into the most harrowing scene of the movie when they get to the aftermath of the General´s battle. I now realise thats why I often subject my players to these kinds of scenarios. Many DMs or new writers try to make serious or sad moments by constantly building up to them with increasingly "serious" imagery. But by doing that you prepare your players for whats to come and that takes away from the impact you´d most likely want. If you have them run into an old house splattered with blood, the dead body they find inside will be just another prop instead of a shock. While if you have them babysitting an orc child who won´t stay still so you have them play hide and seek to distract him and as they look for him mildly annoyed or amused his father´s body drops from a broom closet you´re gonna have a good time

Jack Vance (The Dying Earth), HP Lovecraft, JRR Tolkien, and the Conan series for me. That's why I've been happy with running AD+D 1st ed and Call of Cthulhu for all these years.

I'm with you 100% on Chrono Trigger! I flipped it on the Nintendo DS wearing some great headphones. It's a beautiful game. I find a similar situation happening when watching Legend. The dark ones voice is my go to voice, the seductive ballerina dance is always playing. This is such a great insight into creativity. Thank you Hank!

@phaedruslive

5 ай бұрын

For me it was the dream sequence from The Explorers. The idea that an alien could send me messages remotely and give me otherworldly knowledge was appealing to me since I was very little.

Have you ever read "Steal Like an Artist" by Austin Kleon? It's a quick read about how we can't help but to mash-up the creative influence of our lives. Yes, we steal artistic ideas, but we use them as fuel for our own creativity. Keep up the good work. 11:51

You are the best teacher in this hobby. Thanks for you work!!

What an excellent listen!

Chrono Trigger is what started me down the RPG path. And I am forever grateful to have had that experience early as a child first hand on the SNES.

As a half nerd half jock I missed some games, including this one sadly. I did play the shit out of Earthbound. I wonder if I revisited how much of my inspiration comes from there.

When you said "Originally released on PlayStation 1." I had to pause and breath into a paper bag. Man... When that game first came out it was all SNES. I remember the commercials they ran for it were in Japanese. I played it non stop after it came out. Chrono trigger was a very formative experience for me as well but not nearly as much as Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior for NES.

Best reason to have a Bday today..? Runehammer! 🛡️

Zelda a link to the past then further onto ocarina of time. Weirdly Sherlock Holmes and discworld aswell. Music wise motorhead and alestorm.

@scottmckay9049

5 ай бұрын

Ps I only played chrono trigger 5 years ago it's not just nostalgia that games still amazing with fresh eyes

1980s horror movies 🎬 💀

i wanna haer about ur stories! i listen to books as i go to sleep, what is the nameof ur campaign summary?

@Runehammer1

5 ай бұрын

all here on yt