Hi so i’m completely new to rom hacking. i’ve watched and followed the “make a chapter in 16 minutes” video by vesly for FEBuilder, so i know the basics. i just need help thinking of what to make like story-wise. i kind of just want it to be a short like 2 maybe 3 chapter hack, but if anyone wants to just reply with just random short story ideas that pops into their head that’d be sick.
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The army needs to stockpile and go to a town to get goods but either A has to defend the city from raiding bandits and in the end get the supplies as thanks. B the forces they are fighting are in the city and are A occupying it without the people supporting them and beating it gets your army a base of operation or B is an enemy city they have to beat before soldiers following them get there are run them out letting you either have a defend map, route map, or escape map all in one possibility :3
Sorry to go off but im in idea mode rn so that came out.
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I like B-A. For extra villainy, you can have the bad guys have broken a local child’s toy. Maybe torn a doll in half.
Army is a group of friends/travelers making a short pilgrimage to a local temple in order to make an offering to the god of the harvest, since their town is in famine, plague or both. The player units believe that making this trip and sacrifice will fix things (is this true 
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However, the region several years ago has been conquered/colonized by a neighboring power with a stronger military, and a distain/hatred for the local faiths of the locals. And they have minimal tolerance of the practice. That tolerance is waning as the local priests represent the only power base/rival communication network that could threaten the authority of the regime. A crack down is coming and it occurs as the player units are making their journey.
the general arc of the story would be:
- units set out and discover what they are doing is illegal
- units resolve that they should continue in spite of the danger
- Units arrive in temple and have to defend it from a severe attack alongside the priests
In my mind this story only ends in the eventual and tragic death of the player group, but you could also have them succeed in their defense and an epilogue could have them push the hostile forces from their region.
Sorry if I rambled, this prompt was fun
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Make a game where it happens in Mars, I will do it in the future, you shoulod do it first
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add dinosaurs
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two people get into a bar fight with the drunken prince of the kingdom and they end up having to work together with the prince to ensure the public doesn’t find out that the prince is a loathsome drunkard
also all of the characters should be afraid of elephants
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You can create a short story trying to showcase the close relationship between Grado and Renais. That’ll also provide a good opportunity to flesh out Lyon’s character besides the flashbacks we get.
make sure they have feathers
yes _ _
Scrapped ideas I had:
Lord with his monster girl waifus protects their farm from weirdly strong bandits.
Opposing forces wage war in big battlefield, chap 1 plays 1 side, while chap 2 plays the other side
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That would be so cool, like a history where mankind actually came from Mars and all life that we know on Earth is actually from Mars :v