I obviously haven't been as active on here as I'd like over the last couple of months. However, even under the pressures of college/life, I've still found time to enjoy myself (probably more than I should). Lately, I've been playing Mother (Earthbound Zero) on a fan-translated GBA ROM. I really enjoy the story and the humorous nature of the game.

So, thinking ahead…once school lets up and I'm done playing the series of games, I'm considering developing a Mother/Earthbound RPG. There's already a lot of material to work off of. Pretty much, I'll come up with a story in the same universe as the game and allow players (probably just a handful) to play it out, saving the world in much the same way that Ninten/Ness/Lucas do. I consider myself a funny/well-humored guy, so I think this is a good place for me to jump back into the scene.

But only time will tell. Does anyone have any thoughts? 

Well, if people have played Smash Brothers, they at least heard of Ness (and probably Lucas if they've played Brawl). But hopefully the content/presentation will be good enough for it to stand on its own and people won't just write it off because they haven't played the games.

There's a lot of Mother/Earthbound stuff in Smash Brothers. Ness (who has been around since the first game), Lucas, Jeff and Mr. Saturn are summoned characters, the Franklin Badge, a couple of levels are based on places in the games as well as the accompanying music. Not to mention some items in SSB such as the Home Run Bat are inspired by the Mother series.

But yeah, Smash Brothers is extremely fun, especially if you have people to play with.

For sure. I was browsing the Earthbound wiki earlier and started reading about prices/auctions. Then went on ebay and saw that they were going for ~$150. Said screw actually buying a copy to play. So now I'm playing the SNES ROM, as opposed to the translated GBA version. I guess I forgot to mention that I beat Mother earlier and then went straight into Earthbound, haha.

Well, it's a collector's item, so whaddya gonna do…

In other news, I'm 75% through Earthbound. One of the most frustrating, but addictive RPGs I've ever played. And like I told you on FB chat, THE SCRIPT IS SO GOOD.

Awesome, I'm pretty interested in hearing your concepts for it.

Though many people might not come here now, that can be changed. Once you have some solid physical work up to show people I don't think you'll have any problem finding your RPers. We'll get the word out.