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ah metaphors
Mar. 31st, 2023 10:13 pmOnce a writer was skipping along in her work, describing a bear as cinnamon colored. . .
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food first philosophy
Mar. 3rd, 2023 11:15 pmA character has escaped! Hurrah! Away from the necromancers, away from the battle. . . .
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of mountains and men
Jan. 22nd, 2023 05:45 pmIf the mountain setting is to be more nightmarish to the characters, it needs to be less welcoming.
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Put the heroine in a room. All day.
It was not until I was finished that I realized that I had to put in something about lunch. Her meal could be assumed, but there would be some todo about her lynx and her parrot.
Fortunately, not about her sea serpent eating fish in the harbor. Otherwise there would have been a showdown because she would insist that the box she brought had to go down while she fed the serpent, and only back up again when she was done.
It was not until I was finished that I realized that I had to put in something about lunch. Her meal could be assumed, but there would be some todo about her lynx and her parrot.
Fortunately, not about her sea serpent eating fish in the harbor. Otherwise there would have been a showdown because she would insist that the box she brought had to go down while she fed the serpent, and only back up again when she was done.
sword & sorcery goes to war
Jul. 23rd, 2021 07:55 pmWhen sorcery goes to war, what would it do? How would the kingdom use wizards? How would wizards work in kingdoms? Like, becoming king? (And, come to think of it, superpowers would have much the same effect.)
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It may be wise to have the hero and heroine buy food, they know they are in danger of being unable to buy, owing to magic.
But either I have to use the fact later, even if the heroine only frets that she can't stop and eat even if she collapses, or remove it. And either way, I have to parse this way down.
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But either I have to use the fact later, even if the heroine only frets that she can't stop and eat even if she collapses, or remove it. And either way, I have to parse this way down.
sigh
ah, incidents
Apr. 21st, 2020 11:50 pmA character starts to cook something in a scene where they are regrouping, and given her noble birth, someone will jest that she was taught for fear she would have to run away from home and get a job in a scullery, like a fairy tale princess.
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technology and other questions
Dec. 17th, 2019 09:59 pmSo exactly what technology level do we have?
The question is one of food. What do they have to do to store food?
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The question is one of food. What do they have to do to store food?
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D&D disease
Nov. 10th, 2019 10:31 pmA Gamelit world with Cure Disease spells --
Would it work on scurvy, or would you have to resort to a Create Food spell and feed the victim up?
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Would it work on scurvy, or would you have to resort to a Create Food spell and feed the victim up?
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the rest of the magic
Mar. 8th, 2019 11:49 pmD&D has its little spell lists. The odds that any moderately realistic world would have them thus limited are very stiff indeed.
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curbing the magic
Nov. 6th, 2018 10:28 pmThere's another way, come to think of it, to curb magic besides plentiful anti-magic and counter-magic.
It's simply making magic rare.
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It's simply making magic rare.
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celebration
Jun. 27th, 2018 10:03 pmFunny, having a celebration come up sets the level of the world much more strongly than anything else before.
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philosophy and four-leafed clovers
Feb. 10th, 2017 03:38 amWas pondering a magical potion in a marginally contemporary world. It involves iron filings and four-leafed clovers.
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food and the Fair Folk
May. 5th, 2016 09:51 pmWas reading a discussion of the problems of genre: your character really needs to know whether accepting food means a bond of hospitality and so protection -- or whether it's a trap.
One wonders if it could be both. If the Fair Folk could trap you in their hills or on their islands until all you know has perished because of the hospitality. To keep you safe. Or because their world is so much more wondrous than the human one that letting you go is doing you injury.
Or, of course, they weasel out of it because the food is illusion and the bond springs from real food.
One wonders if it could be both. If the Fair Folk could trap you in their hills or on their islands until all you know has perished because of the hospitality. To keep you safe. Or because their world is so much more wondrous than the human one that letting you go is doing you injury.
Or, of course, they weasel out of it because the food is illusion and the bond springs from real food.
steampunk and supper
Mar. 19th, 2016 11:09 pmwas reading a book -- Steampunk Tea Party: Cakes & Toffees to Jams & Teas -- which was light and humorous and often of the "stick a cog on it and call it steampunk" persuasion. Knowing Victorian cookery would let someone see some of the roots. . . .
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Decided on the mail. Or rather picked two techniques, one of which is older than the other but both of which are still in use -- one of which has dangers that are going to have to come into play -- and naturally stumble on another question. Hobbies.
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Hogwarts and population
Aug. 2nd, 2015 11:44 pmFans have had some calculations about the number of students at Hogwarts. Some reason it's about forty a year. (Evidence here.) But it's inconsistent, and Rowling has stated there about a thousand students.
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