July 16th, 2012
For those of you who might not know what's going on, I used to post quick drawings of random chubby animals when I was late for Today Nothing Happened updates. I didn't have any time this week for comicking, so when someone requested I do the same with the aberrant monsters of Runewriters... I really couldn't resist.
There are, in fact, specific different kinds, some more common than others, including one of them you haven't seen yet! SNEAK PEEKS ALL AROUND~!
I had a blast at the Con, but for now it is time for sleep and rest. I'll see you guys next week with a new page!
It's actually not based on D&D at all! In college, my good friend Josh was working on building his own tabletop roleplaying game, and he's the one who came up with the idea of writing runes to create spells, and if you rolled poorly the spell would cast incorrectly. I was hugely inspired by that, as well as a random idea that I'd had about runewriting being an imperfect art where you have to experiment to figure out new spells, and that's when this story slowly took shape! Other than the notion of runewriting that Josh invented, everything else in the world is pretty much my own creation. :")
D&D does in fact have a type of creatures called "aberrations," though they have very little to do with the aberrants of Runewriters other than the fact that both are considered unnatural even in a fantasy world.
posted at 11:23pm on October 24th, 2012
Ohhhh! Well then, I apologize for my misconception! This is a super awesome world and made all the more so by knowing that you made it up yourself. =D I think the aberrants thing is what threw me off; I must have heard the term before, plus I think the friend who recommended this to me may have made some mention of D&D. I am quite pleased to know that I was wrong; original stuff is awesome. ^^ Keep up the great work!
posted at 2:21pm on October 25th, 2012
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posted at 9:24pm on October 25th, 2023
Comment by Riverfox237
So is it that essentially there is an aberrant for each type of runewriting magic? That would make sense. I don't know how much from this comic is based on D&D and how much you're making up yourself, truthfully, so feel free to fill me in! =D (I've never really played the game, although I've vaguely heard of aberrants maybe? Unless that is another thing you made up. See, I am clueless.) But it doesn't really matter because the comic is pretty awesome either way. ^^
posted at 10:21pm on October 23rd, 2012