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hard counter posted:too wasteful imho unless you suck at making someone likable without devoting a whole book to them It's the best friend/love interest character whose personality is issuing affirmations and healing speeches to the main protagonist, who incidentally is the author with better hair and a darker past his tragic death will be the thing that finally motivates the heroes to bring down the villain that's destroying the world come on this is baby school here
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Fojar38 posted:after they take down the villain it should either be revealed that the love interest isnt really dead or they get a thing to bring them back come on we have standards here this isn't comic books, dead is dead and the protagonist will eventually hook up with the antisocial, violent drunk who puts on an unapproachable persona because deep down they're a tormented sensitive soul
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Feb 23, 2015 22:13
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hard counter posted:drat you're right I forgot about that one Yeah this is fair give him a scar over one eye to show that he's been through some poo poo, but not in like a gross or seriously disabling way
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Feb 23, 2015 22:19
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it's OK I have a set core of main characters who really do stuff and they all have scars over one eye too
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Feb 23, 2015 22:39
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hard counter posted:sex-based majicks Good sex magic or evil sex magic?
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Feb 23, 2015 23:35
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Parallax Scroll posted:all members of royalty are either kings or princesses Kings are women and queens are men, did I just upend your world patriarch still just as brutal as always tho
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Feb 24, 2015 00:03
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Pick posted:the villain and the hero are actually very similar There's at least one pre-battle soliloquy to this effect
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Feb 24, 2015 00:44
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Parallax Scroll posted:i'm thinking that something has upset the balance, and balance has to be restored. and the villain doesnt want to restore the balance The proper balance between the eternal forces of Order and Chaos is Order winning and reigning supreme forever after, but not like fascism or anything like that sort of implies A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Feb 24, 2015 01:01
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Speleothing posted:Listen, Let me know when you've figured that out I've got a complete geneology of their royal family dating back to prehistoric times and up to the protagonist
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Feb 24, 2015 08:31
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Going to break from the standard fantasy elf/orc/dwarf template with unique new races quadroon, octaroon, celestial
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Feb 25, 2015 00:28
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Changed my mind everyone's dogs now, no worries tho they all still talk and act and have haircuts like people and their society is basically urban America but with horrifically violent discrimination against the dogs with wings
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Feb 25, 2015 00:35
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Parallax Scroll posted:there should be a cap on strength stat for female characters -2 str, -2 int, +2 dex, +2 cha. I'm still polishing the speech where a character explains this in the novel this will eventually be
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Feb 25, 2015 00:47
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Pick posted:my fetish, but for a reason Dissertation on the ins and outs of an economy based on blowing people up with a bicycle pump
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Feb 25, 2015 01:42
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There's guns and big modern cities and flying battleship things everywhere but when it comes down to fighting almost everyone uses a sword
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Feb 25, 2015 03:10
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naem posted:The first book should be a really sharp and well defined mideval Europe setting with warring factions and a couple suggestive supernatural elements, it should be aimed at an obvious but well written conclusion in three books. Just a rare well done series. if you got to a first book you didn't worldbuild enough
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Feb 25, 2015 04:56
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everyone fears and hates those the gods have cursed with heterochromia, but secretly it means they're an angel
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Feb 25, 2015 18:35
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Whybird posted:Regular pirates are pretty played out by now, but get this: what if their ship can fly There's about 400 pirate ships for every merchanter and they only ever steal from the totally evil kajillionaire one A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Peanut President posted:Cities have like 20 neighborhoods and all kinds of named locations but only like 100 people actually live there. Industrial Zone Warehouse Zone Docks Zone
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Feb 25, 2015 19:20
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Gold is overdone I feel strongly that a naturalistic fantasy world full of magic and wonder should base its economy on a more exciting standard, like catgirl sweat
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Feb 25, 2015 21:15
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Parallax Scroll posted:its a jetsons like future except instead of flying cars everyone rides dragons The dragons are sentient and talk but are still treated as vehicles, it's unclear whether they're slaves or what
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Feb 25, 2015 23:05
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I've written four paragraphs of the plot and sixteen hundred pages of scenarios where all the characters are gay and bang each other, even the ones that are supposed to never meet
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Feb 26, 2015 06:07
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Pick posted:just writing out some character bios here Also this is set in fantasy 17th century Germany
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Feb 26, 2015 06:15
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In the beginning the gods divided the world into the two equal forces of Light, which is basically a normal self-sufficient fantasy world, and Dark, which is hell monsters that exist only to destroy the Light
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Feb 26, 2015 19:30
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Once every ten-thousand years an unholy union gives rise to a half-vampire, unearthly beautiful and superhumanly strong stalkers of the darkness, only this decamillennium it must've happened like at least forty times going by the characters
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Feb 26, 2015 19:39
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It all started as ironic then I got caught up in the characters and now I have a serious, grittily realistic epic of Captain Crunch's ageless battle with the Soggies.
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Feb 27, 2015 00:46
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At a cost of several billion dollars apiece a company has produced sapient, incredibly obnoxious robots
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Feb 27, 2015 20:48
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Parallax Scroll posted:there's a magic fountain with a mermaid that lives in it that.. grants wishes? oh and she's topless She really only grants one wish but everyone asks for the same one anyway
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Feb 28, 2015 03:45
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in my world, Things do not have Names, there is always only one Thing and it is referred to by its common noun but Capitalized
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Feb 28, 2015 06:53
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40 page, exhaustively researched, figure-heavy design document on the constructions and specifications of a high-C-fractional star drive that'd totally work if quantum tunnelling somehow negated gravity
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Feb 28, 2015 09:50
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Professional-looking, detailed blueprint of the dystopian royal guards' elite railguns that are four times the size of modern small arms and have no way to move bullets from the magazine to the barrel
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Feb 28, 2015 09:56
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Giant bipedal walking robot hastily recolored halfway through to be made of brass, powered by steam
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Feb 28, 2015 10:01
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:There's a race of animal-people. To cover up the tracks a bit they're a little different from that real-world culture, in that every last one of them is really lazy and steals david... posted:animal race people always make their spaceships look like the animal so like bird people fly big bird ships but the humans don't fly around in giant nude human shaped things hell, maybe they should
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Of all the species in the galaxy humans are the only ones good at more than one job yet somehow they are a plucky underdog and not genociding everybody
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hard counter posted:Sometimes the other species will just be imagined in terms of a simple human traits too. Some aliens will be all greedy, others will scheme all the time and there will definitely be proud warrior guys. Maybe nice naive aliens too. This way every culture can do all the jobs but still be different. Proud warrior scientists get off on making explodier bombs and maybe making the ships that deliver them, while schemer doctors cheat and do all sorts of crazy plotting to get ahead. Greedy alien farmers are all about the yields and sales. The warriors are definitely all about climbing in their interstellar spaceships to go fight people with fucken spears and the space farmers are also basically medieval peasants in jumpsuits A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Orcs are cruelly oppressed by human culture in an overt racism metaphor but are also kinda shown to be objectively inferior animalistic beings, and the oppression is mostly that they have to live in a fairly nice segregated quarter of town
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Bobert Bobertson posted:in my world the heros are sent to fantasy vietnam and fight against various guerilla groups of goblins/kobolds/whatever, and the wizard promises that slay plantlife poison spell is "totally safe yo." most of them die, a few defect to live with the guerillas and the ones who go home are treated like beggars + horribly traumatized. also they get magic tumors i'd read this, probably
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And bugs! They'd all die of malnutrition without the bugs.
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Mar 2, 2015 21:08
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Speleothing posted:What if the king is secretly one of the Ancients, and he knows all sorts of secrets of both technology and magic. But for ambiguous reasons he won't reveal them to end poverty and make life better for everyone. Because it would disrupt the Balance.
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interdimensional travel is possible and all my favorite cartoons and video games are really parallel realities and the main characters are all friends
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