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A 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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So what problems come with the powers? There have to be some or there is no story.

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Supers are unique. Or at least belong to a small and probably interrelated group, who all have (more or less) the same origin.

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You start with what you start.

But in some respects, if the muse puts forth a theme, it's the hardest thing to work with.

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marycatelli: (Rapunzel)
I was pondering the world I was making and realized that since wizards make things that will generate monsters long after the wizard is gone. . .

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marycatelli: (Cat)
Should I put in a scene of the necromancers nattering about an important justification for certain events? Which also has philosophical implications. . . .

It's the point of view question.

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marycatelli: (Galahad)
So the characters are standing around arguing about justice and the rule of law and vigilantes especially when its officers of the law who are breaking the law. . . .
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marycatelli: (Galahad)
Every now and again, there's a fight.  Out of nowhere and leading to nothing.

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marycatelli: (A Birthday)
When writing superhero stories about an inner or philosophical conflict -- what is the best use of my powers?  should powers serve the law to preserve order even at the price of accepting more injustices?  -- you have to invent villains and conflict.  Becuase what's a superhero without a villain or two to toss around?

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Was contemplating a book full of monsters and stats. . . .

You don't want to use the omnium-gatherum in a novel. Lacks unity. OTOH, you often don't want to use them in a game. Many discussions recommend paring them down hard.

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Pondering whether there will be weather. And how much of it?

All very well to set up the dramatic scene with a thunderstorm threatening in the evening, but if the heroine and friends are to flee a mile down a road -- in the wild, with trees to either side -- with maybe a lantern --

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 I wasn't planning on this.  But in no less than two novels, characters are going to sit down in lulls in the actions and gather 'round the fire -- literally in one case, in the other they can't get the fire wood -- and one of them is going to tell a story. . . .

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