ARCAN'S PROFILE

Hmm, you should really look into variables as well. They are much more versatile than switches and will save you a ton of work when you go on to make more complex systems.

1. Make the act of reading a letter turn on a switch called "Read Letter"
2. Make the event that teleports you out of the house upon contact with 2 pages
-page 1: the default page with no contents
-page 2: teleport the hero upon contact, has the switch condition of "Read Letter"

Despite the shenanigans in the other thread I feel Corfaisus made a valid assessment here and I agree on most of his points. I can see you disagreeing with him if this game is intended to be comical, but I don't remember that being stated anywhere and if fact at the start you seem to be implying otherwise, "The tale I am about to tell you is not to be taken lightly. Although it is a tad bit gruesome..."

Also, just because an RPG is commercial doesn't mean that everything in it is an example of good design(ie. the TnT thing, secret entrance the hero that only hero knows about). I feel the secret entrance thing can be explained sufficiently if you add more the information to the story(as well as a lot of other things Corfaisus pointed out), but others like the TnT situation just seem plain stupid.

I wouldn't recommend using enemies that were literally drawn on paper as the style of the enemies would likely clash really bad with any digitally made image(aka everything else in your game). Anyway, using clashing graphics is a pretty common pitfall that beginners fall in to and the problem might not be obvious to you until you have made art for a while.

There might be a way to achieve a colored pencil look, but it would probably take at least some form of digital alteration to make it fit. I feel like that defeats the whole purpose of you wanting hand drawn images. In my opinion, digital art is the only practical solution and that kind of work takes a lot of time. I'm still an amateur but even 100x100 images can take up to few hours to make and at $10-$25 per image I would still be working for minimum wage.

Yes Space Funeral is a classic