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tales of old
Aug. 2nd, 2024 08:37 pmSo there I was with the hero having a handy place to exposit on certain principles of magic and their application.
So naturally the muse invents a bit of potted history that expands on it nicely and explains that one of the youngsters has heard of it and thought it just a story, giving a hook. . . .
One way to get the wordage.
So naturally the muse invents a bit of potted history that expands on it nicely and explains that one of the youngsters has heard of it and thought it just a story, giving a hook. . . .
One way to get the wordage.
I need a legend.
I keep poking at legends I know of, trying to fit it in. It needs to foreshadow the paths about the forest that aren't commonly known to outsider. Also, it needs to fit the stories planted thus far without making the world too confined.
I think there is going to be a quarrel over it, where some people claim that birds were involved as guides, and others a cat.
I keep poking at legends I know of, trying to fit it in. It needs to foreshadow the paths about the forest that aren't commonly known to outsider. Also, it needs to fit the stories planted thus far without making the world too confined.
I think there is going to be a quarrel over it, where some people claim that birds were involved as guides, and others a cat.
super stealth
Jan. 9th, 2024 11:55 pmThere are superheroes with stealth powers. Why, the Legion of Superheroes had an entire team dedicated to espionage.
Now I just have to decide which of them actually fit in this world.
It helps that this is history, describing how one woman was the first spy knight. She had been a spy, and then knighted so she could do it better.
Now I just have to decide which of them actually fit in this world.
It helps that this is history, describing how one woman was the first spy knight. She had been a spy, and then knighted so she could do it better.
Was thinking about real world events in a story with lower stakes. I hadn't thought it was much of an issue when stakes were lower.
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the real, the unreal, and the Doctor
Aug. 17th, 2023 11:24 pmDoctor Who is not quite the perfect endless series, for all its virtues. It hits the same issue as the superhero behemoths: the relative weight of the historical real and the fictional real. And it does not manage to thread the needle there.
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series of days
Aug. 16th, 2023 10:51 pmThere is one substantial problem with an endless series, even when you deal with the character development part by off-loading it onto secondary characters who come and go.
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convergence of the muses
Aug. 11th, 2023 10:43 pmWas pondering the question of vigilantism in my high fantasy superhero work. Decided to allude to it.
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superscales
Apr. 7th, 2023 10:02 pmOne thing that a world's history really matters in is how much time they have had to analyze superpowers.
Even in the basic sense of categorizing them as types and by strength.
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Even in the basic sense of categorizing them as types and by strength.
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supersuits and sobriquets
Mar. 29th, 2023 11:39 pmDramatic code names and the distinctive costumes are part and parcel of the genre. It's hard to hit enough tropes to make it superheroes if you don't include them. But they are really hard to world-build. And probably have the most variation.
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supers and setting up the setting
Mar. 22nd, 2023 11:59 pmIf you decide to write your own superheroes, and escape the behemoths of Marvel and DC, in a contemporary-ish setting -- I urge you to make it an alternate history.
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a history of knights
Mar. 1st, 2023 11:49 pmThe first knights, I know, were enchanted to be super-knights. Stronger, tougher, faster. . . .
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wild supers
Jul. 18th, 2022 11:29 pmInto a setting, I introduce spontaneously developing supers. Always before -- for centuries -- supers had been deliberately made, for the service of king and country or at least the super-maker himself. . . .
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superpowers, and suits
Jul. 17th, 2022 09:58 pmNothing is more iconic to the superhero genre than those brightly colored, form-fitting suits. And nothing is harder to justify.
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enter the ogre
Aug. 3rd, 2021 08:10 pmWas paging through fairy tale collections for a story about a prince and a princess in nearby castles but NOT actually across the street from each other -- as I like neither the prince, nor the princess, nor the plot in that one -- and then --
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only die once
Jul. 15th, 2021 10:06 pmSo, Sleeping Beauty's parents die while she's asleep. (Perrault, not Grimm, the learned will note.)
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the past and power
Jun. 27th, 2021 05:02 pmOnce upon a time, there were immensely powerful wizards who cast mighty spells in their wars and made the land a desolate waste. They were overthrown by slightly lesser wizards banding together, who made a green and pleasant land of the waste.
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