Ask Me Anything: Legendary_Sidekick

What's the inspiration behind your username, is there an interesting story or was it an on the spot deal?

No story, really. I like co-op games, so my goal is to excel at being a teammate.

Do you teach ESL online or in person?
And if online, do you operate privately or through a school or marketplace?

In-person, at the local high school. My students are from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Uruguay, Honduras, Brazil, Venezuela, Portugal, Ghana, Pakistan, Vietnam and Korea.

EDIT: and Columbia.

I’m kicking myself for not including Columbia because the student who’s from there gave an awesome presentation for his final.

Have you asked any of your students about role playing games available in their home countries?

Your evolution into tabletop gaming is interesting. What about table RPGs keeps you coming back for more? Was there any game that you played that you really enjoyed? What kind of story would you like most to try and play?

Secret of Mana is a fantastic game. I've played it from start to finish many times. I was even listening to some songs from the soundtrack just the other day. Gauntlet is great fun as well. What a black hole for quarters that thing was. "Insert .25 for extra health..."

I have not.

Probably the closest I’ve come to showing this side of myself is using an online die roller (with polyhedral dice) to randomly choose the next student to give their presentation. They get a kick out of that—though they all volunteered during finals last Thursday.
An RPG is an unpredictable story, and I’m in it. Not me exactly, but my mind viewing the world through my character’s eyes.

In my first Pathfinder game (a homebrew, not an AP), my Druid was in Neverland. She befriended a fairy and used Wish magic to become one. The GM weaved descriptions so well, I visualized everything vividly, like dreaming while wide awake. So in the fairy form, the world had suddenly become enormous! It could be horrifying at times—like seeing the decapitated head of a villager I failed to save. But it was fun while the campaign lasted (which was about 5 years).

A campy Charlie’s Angels type superheroine game that takes place before my time, before cell phones, with a bit of a Get Smart flavor and something like those flashback scenes in Watchmen—the glory days of the past superheroes before the morbid reveals. Colorful like Adam West Batman, corny, nonviolent-ish (non-lethal).

Oh—and question for you, @Phil_Ozzy_Fer, have you played Trials of Mana? Not the remake. The 1995 game translated to English. My brother got it on Switch (2020, I think, or 2021), and we played it whenever he was over. It took us a year or two to finish!

@FlyingSucculent

A trick I read in a Modern Cartooning book ten years ago: 3 sections for a woman’s torso, a bowl for the hips.


That said, if I think a pose is boring, I dress it up anyway, then try new poses before I commit.


Third time was a charm! (Second pose not shown. Trust me. It sucked.)


I try to organize layers. I find stupid mistakes as I color.


I have a separate layer for skin and clothing. I will shade each on a different layer, and I’m probably going to use Flat Brush, Jagged Brush and Oriental Brush for shading. These are Procreate defaults.


I’ll post more later, but I gotta pick up my daughters and be the lifeguard at their last-day-of-school pool party.

Hopefully I’ll finish soon. This is Grace, my Fabula Ultima bard who actually hits people with an oversized lute called a Baroque Theorbo. I used a reference to draw it kinda right.

@FlyingSucculent, not sure if I adequately answered your question, but here’s what I came up with in the parking lot just before my girls got out of school.

I think the game you're looking to play sounds fun. Maybe with something like Savage Worlds? There are other people on this site that will be able to help you, I believe.

I have not played Trials of Mana, however(!), I did recently purchase Collection of Mana for the Switch which contains the 16-bit version of Trials.... Depending on my adult schedule, I will get to it! Hopefully it won't take me two years, but at least if it does then I'll know I got good value in quality gaming.