Playing Both Sides

In a world of magic, run by idiots, there is the Lawless Sea. A place where piracy rules. Where the omnipresent Patriarchy has dominion in every country, but a growing Resistance is moving the upset the established order. At the time foretold by prophecy, great challenges will arise that threaten all, and prophesied champions of anti-heroic disposition to oppose them. But besides them, a pirate seeking fortune will run afoul of a witch and set off a chain of events that might forever change the Lawless Sea.

Playing Both Sides is an RPGMaker game in the JRPG style. It features artwork lovingly crafted by an unemployed mathematician, and other much better artwork made by an actual artist. The game features mechanics and a combat system built by aforementioned mathematician, with a few nods to real life swordsmanship. Tactics will usually be the deciding factor in every fight.

Other features include:

• Gender Bending
  
• Witches
  
• Pirates
  
• Title IX Investigations
  
• Trolls
  
• Lessons on the safe use of explosives
  
• Chosen Ones
  
• Lots and lots of cats
  
• Math
  
• More Witches!
  
• Pop culture references to things from before you were born
  
• And fetch quests!