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hair, and other details
Oct. 29th, 2024 08:23 pmPlugging along on the story. Threw in something to make it easier for a hero to find the captive.
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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.
info dump by dialog
Jan. 7th, 2024 12:37 amAm trying to work up the scene where our hero rescues children instead of taking down the bad guy.
Muse is having fun having the children babble to the secondary hero that they were rescued by an angel because of his specific powers. Secondary hero is annoyed, partly because he can do what the hero did, and he knows he's human, not an angel. (No wings, even, in either case.)
Muse is having fun having the children babble to the secondary hero that they were rescued by an angel because of his specific powers. Secondary hero is annoyed, partly because he can do what the hero did, and he knows he's human, not an angel. (No wings, even, in either case.)
what would happen to a wizard?
Dec. 14th, 2023 11:51 pmAh, complications. Sometimes it is clear what sort of powers suit a personality. Flight for those who want to get away from things, or fire for a fiery temper.
But what sort of superpower suits someone who is studious? Except, perhaps, more knowledge.
But what sort of superpower suits someone who is studious? Except, perhaps, more knowledge.
Supers and the origin
Nov. 10th, 2023 11:48 pmRan across some bad advice about making a super-system: namely, that all powers have to come from the same source. Radiation, for instance. It even talks about choosing between a scientific or a magical explanation.
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So there's a fight. It's to establish the complications of the world, that there are other foes than the original ones. To help conceal the hero, actually.
But when I hit it, I think the secondary hero could deal with it too easily. Not that it's meant to be difficult, but if he's too competent --
I think about tactics a bit. Especially because the foe is necessarily stupid.
But when I hit it, I think the secondary hero could deal with it too easily. Not that it's meant to be difficult, but if he's too competent --
I think about tactics a bit. Especially because the foe is necessarily stupid.
Too Good To Be True and other plot devices
Sep. 9th, 2023 11:44 pmA frequent fantastical plot device is the production of something wonderful that will produce real and earth-shaking changes for the better -- only for it to be revealed that it has a secret flaw.
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on powers, good and evil
Aug. 12th, 2023 01:29 pmSo, for plot contrivance reasons, there are not good powers and evil powers, beyond the obvious things like "animating the bodies of the dead" or poisoning people, which are intrinsically evil.
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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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knights errant
Aug. 9th, 2023 11:01 pmRumors are flying. One is that there is a knight errant, wandering about, doing good deeds.
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juggling and memory in world-building
Aug. 3rd, 2023 10:53 pmWas pondering what personality-based powers to give two rather nasty characters --
When I remembered that only very strong-willed characters (and those born with their powers) exactly fit their powers. Wizards can impress a different set of powers, if not too incongruous.
Fortunately these two are merely extremely spiteful and potential bad influences. Plus potential sources of misinformation. Not that the hero and heroine are any slouches in their own misunderstandings -- culture clashes are involved.
When I remembered that only very strong-willed characters (and those born with their powers) exactly fit their powers. Wizards can impress a different set of powers, if not too incongruous.
Fortunately these two are merely extremely spiteful and potential bad influences. Plus potential sources of misinformation. Not that the hero and heroine are any slouches in their own misunderstandings -- culture clashes are involved.
showing one's self
Aug. 1st, 2023 10:30 pmThe thing about personality powers is that it does impose limitations on the villains of the piece.
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refining the fight
Jul. 28th, 2023 11:30 pmSuperhero fights can't be so dramatic on the written page as in the comics.
Still, I think mine need some work. A baseline of energy attacks and some kind of defense lacks the magical touch. Especially when I specify that every single knight has a unique prowess, however much they can be classified.
Colors are only a start. But they are a start.
Still, I think mine need some work. A baseline of energy attacks and some kind of defense lacks the magical touch. Especially when I specify that every single knight has a unique prowess, however much they can be classified.
Colors are only a start. But they are a start.
legacy of leaping
Jul. 21st, 2023 11:30 pmThere's a superpower -- well, a magical prowess (I may change that term) -- where a knight can pass from one place to another without going through the intervening distance. They call it leaping. Sometimes they can take other people, and things as well.
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hero by stuff
Jun. 20th, 2023 11:32 pmWas pondering how few origins there were for superheroes in my high fantasy world. Then I remembered that I had actually had another: gadgeteer. Mind you, with magical gadgets. There are clockpunk ones, but clockpunk needs something magic to make the springs hold enough power.
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super vigilantes
Jun. 11th, 2023 11:26 pmIn discussions of superheroes and the law, one thing that always comes up is that vigilantism is really, seriously illegal.
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knowledge is power
Jun. 4th, 2023 12:07 amThere's one advantage of the erratic, one-of-a-kind nature of superpowers.
There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
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There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
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