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There is something kinda funny about ostensibly writing a story using an RPG system but then you start fudging dice rolls because they're messing up the plot, though.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:There is something kinda funny about ostensibly writing a story using an RPG system but then you start fudging dice rolls because they're messing up the plot, though. Does anyone have a link to that old post on TV Tropes where the dude was agonizing having to rewrite how many health potions he gave his protagonist because he didn’t have enough at the end to defeat the big bad and get his “random drop girlfriend”? 
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Stuporstar posted:Does anyone have a link to that old post on TV Tropes where the dude was agonizing having to rewrite how many health potions he gave his protagonist because he didn’t have enough at the end to defeat the big bad and get his “random drop girlfriend”? Seems like the solution is to say your LitRPG works on Super Mario RPG rules, where if your hero hits 'A' at the exact time he drinks the potion, he gets another for free!
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Nov 21, 2021 22:31
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is it railroading if you make your litrpg characters do what you want them to
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Nov 21, 2021 22:47
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sebmojo posted:is it railroading if you make your litrpg characters do what you want them to Now I know why they call grrm George Rail Road Martin
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Nae posted:Now I know why they call grrm George Rail Road Martin GRR Martin has a team of assistants to keep his worldbuilding straight when he writes because he can't remember the minutiae from past books. Another strike against going whole hog on building thousands of years of mythology before you start writing, in my opinion
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Nov 21, 2021 23:57
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https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/1447366032721653761
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change my name posted:GRR Martin has a team of assistants to keep his worldbuilding straight when he writes because he can't remember the minutiae from past books. Another strike against going whole hog on building thousands of years of mythology before you start writing, in my opinion sanderson does this too, tho i think its like 2 people and a wiki mostly
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change my name posted:GRR Martin has a team of assistants to keep his worldbuilding straight when he writes because he can't remember the minutiae from past books. Another strike against going whole hog on building thousands of years of mythology before you start writing, in my opinion poo poo, you'd think it'd be easy for him to remember his world history when none of the family trees have any branches
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anime was right posted:sanderson does this too, tho i think its like 2 people and a wiki mostly Peter and Karen Ahlstrom, a husband and wife team who started with him at BYU. Peter works out all of the complicated world building physics questions while Karen is the continuity editor. Both of them maintain the world building wiki, which started life as a 300k word three ring binder that he had handwritten while he was late night clerking on the graveyard shift at a hotel and according to the last publicly given word count (circa ~Jan 2015) has ~400k words in it. The wiki he uses specifically is Wikidpad I'm not entirely clear whether this is EVERYTHING or just the Cosmere stuff. But he's released a lot of stuff since then so it's probably at like close to ~1m words by now. Incidentally I got to the point of NaNoWriMo last week where I got fed up with my ~42 page Google Doc and started up my own wiki using TiddlyWiki. It is SOOOOOOOO much easier than using a laggy Google Doc, though I will be screwed when it gets really big. Then again I'm not writing anything as ambitious as the Cosmere so I'll probably be fine.
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Leng posted:Peter and Karen Ahlstrom, a husband and wife team who started with him at BYU. Peter works out all of the complicated world building physics questions while Karen is the continuity editor. Both of them maintain the world building wiki, which started life as a 300k word three ring binder that he had handwritten while he was late night clerking on the graveyard shift at a hotel and according to the last publicly given word count (circa ~Jan 2015) has ~400k words in it. The wiki he uses specifically is Wikidpad I’m gonna need a wiki to contain all my poo poo eventually. Right now it’s spread across several Scrivener projects and spreadsheets. So many spreadsheets 
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Leng posted:Peter and Karen Ahlstrom, a husband and wife team who started with him at BYU. Peter works out all of the complicated world building physics questions while Karen is the continuity editor. Both of them maintain the world building wiki, which started life as a 300k word three ring binder that he had handwritten while he was late night clerking on the graveyard shift at a hotel and according to the last publicly given word count (circa ~Jan 2015) has ~400k words in it. The wiki he uses specifically is Wikidpad Uh can you elaborate on the wiki thing and how you used it?
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Stuporstar posted:Does anyone have a link to that old post on TV Tropes where the dude was agonizing having to rewrite how many health potions he gave his protagonist because he didn’t have enough at the end to defeat the big bad and get his “random drop girlfriend”? SurreptitiousMuffin fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Nov 23, 2021 |
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:This wasn't TVT, was it? Pretty sure it was a creative convention original, dude had been scouting for beta readers in the book barn and I was one of them. It was like a decade ago and now I'm worrying I got a wire crossed or something but I'm like 70% sure it happened entirely over here, and the thread is where "if you want to cast a shadow, move a mountain" comes from. That was a dude a bit later who wrote a thing about going to the “items shop” to buy “health potions” (why do I remember details ohgod help me). I remember because I quoted the TVT post at him to go, are you doing this, seriously? And now RPGLit is a whole drat thing and they’re everywhere
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FWIW I remember that scenario and I'm positive it was something brought up in a TVTropes mock thread in the days of old. I tried googling "TVTropes potion dilemma" and instead I got multiple pages about the ethics of giving someone a love potion. I want to say TVTropes has had a page where you got writing advice, either that or it was back when Troper's Tales was still a thing.
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Leal posted:ethics of giving someone a love potion What the gently caress, why is that even an ethical question? 
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D34THROW posted:What the gently caress, why is that even an ethical question? it's a deep rooted trope. It's like charm person in d&d, which is really a profoundly evil spell if you think about it for a moment.
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Leal posted:FWIW I remember that scenario and I'm positive it was something brought up in a TVTropes mock thread in the days of old. I tried googling "TVTropes potion dilemma" and instead I got multiple pages about the ethics of giving someone a love potion. I want to say TVTropes has had a page where you got writing advice, either that or it was back when Troper's Tales was still a thing. This the one? "TVTropes - Help Making This Plot Work posted:So, at the end of Issue One of my current story, the main character has been injured by various fights with Mooks and also a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere. He then gets into a fight with the Big Bad (of issue one). My problem is that the main character doesn't have enough health potions to recover enough health to win this last fight. Furthermore, it's absolutely vital for the plot of future Issues that he win this fight, because he gets his Yandere girlfriend as a Random Drop at the end of the fight, completing the Battle Couple. So how should I fix the discrepancy? Looks like several mock threads covered it, e.g. here.
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Staggy posted:This the one? Oh my god its even more beautiful than I remember
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D34THROW posted:What the gently caress, why is that even an ethical question? There's a reason love potions have been banned from league play in D&D
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change my name posted:There's a reason love potions have been banned from league play in D&D “This is why we can’t have nice things”
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Wait how the gently caress is there competitive D&D
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Is this like when someone figured out how to create a character who instantly becomes a maximum divine rank deity the moment the campaign begins? Is that how you 'win' competitive D&D?
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General Battuta posted:Wait how the gently caress is there competitive D&D It's Adventurer's League, which is running through modules from WotC and keeping your character/items between them. So officially sanctioned group play, not competitive.
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General Battuta posted:Wait how the gently caress is there competitive D&D  1st ed tournament modules are ridiculously good fun, you basically get scored on how far you make it before you die, I can recommend running hidden shrine of tamoachan or tomb of horrors as a very entertaining way to spend an evening with ur nerdbuds. 1st ed is almost system free, you just need a few tables and the players handbook for spells.modern stuff idk, seems a bit silly but no more than pretending to be an elf?
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General Battuta posted:Wait how the gently caress is there competitive D&D
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sebmojo posted:
sebmojo posted:Post your own thread for this kind of thing, I think
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One time in Thunderdome I got the assignment 'base your story on Tomb of Horrors' - it was lucky, I got the special one - and I had to read the whole thing, never had before. It was fun to write fiction about but I would have imploded trying to run it for a group.
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https://www.elegantliterature.com/contest/ I just learned about the Elegant Literature short story contest, and thought I would share it here. You have 4½ days left to win TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for a 500-2000 word story about descent into darkness. The only caveat is that you can't be a professional writer, but that only applies if you are outright making a living from writing. Even if you don't win, there is still a chance that they will purchase the story for 10 cents / word. If only I had learned about this earlier... I need time to brainstorm ideas. Edit: There is a de facto $10 reading fee, but the organizer is offering to cover it if you are too poor to afford it: https://twitter.com/maxgladstone/status/1462125789269442569 Also, the $10 is actually for a subscription to the magazine and comes with a bunch of discounts for writing tools. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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I am unfortunately a Professional Writer and can't apply but I will say that this is an absolutely bonkers opportunity. 20k for a short story is unheard of. And your chances of winning are probably higher than selling a story to Clarkesworld or a similarly competitive market.
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General Battuta posted:I am unfortunately a Professional Writer and can't apply but I will say that this is an absolutely bonkers opportunity. 20k for a short story is unheard of. And your chances of winning are probably higher than selling a story to Clarkesworld or a similarly competitive market. https://twitter.com/ElegantLit/status/1459975885956820998 I checked their twitter, and apparently last months contest had 178 entries, which makes for a 0.56% chance of winning, pretty close to the Clarkesworld acceptance rate. If you don't win, there is still a 6.8% chance of making a pro-sale. Also, I guess this is a monthly thing, so they must have found a wealthy short-story enthusiast. I wonder how long they are planning to keep that going.
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“But, like, what’s her motivation for being Asian?”
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Multiple agents have similar sentiments as a required question in their submission forms. Insane poo poo. My response has been similar to that tweet.
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Honestly that makes me feel better  impostor syndrome, I guess?can’t be accused if you never actually write! 
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I don’t know, isn’t it better to struggle to keep up with your characters (as indicative of effusive ideas for them) than to struggle where to drag them next? I know I’m interpreting a bit, but I’d almost rather too much than too little (yes, I can see how this is ironic and/or fitting).
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