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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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powers and sources and stuff
Jul. 17th, 2023 11:55 pmWas pondering the sources of the magical knights' powers.
I have put in something about how some are more powerful than others. Those being more difficult for a wizard to master, or harder for a knight to recharge. Earth is popular though weak because the only real way to shut you off is to stuff you on a sea-going vessel for a pelagic journey where you never ever come to shore.
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I have put in something about how some are more powerful than others. Those being more difficult for a wizard to master, or harder for a knight to recharge. Earth is popular though weak because the only real way to shut you off is to stuff you on a sea-going vessel for a pelagic journey where you never ever come to shore.
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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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Oppressing the Supers
Jul. 13th, 2022 12:07 amThere's one definitely way you could oppress supers.
Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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Have groups of them, and oppress one.
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boys and girls come out to play
Mar. 16th, 2022 11:34 pmIf the princess was in the habit of playing with the other children, I should probably throw in at least one scene of it.
Not to mention that she ought to know them better from that.
And then I have to dispose of them because they have no future part, after she grows up and falls under the curse and escapes it again in their lifetimes.
Maybe they will all run away from the armies.
Not to mention that she ought to know them better from that.
And then I have to dispose of them because they have no future part, after she grows up and falls under the curse and escapes it again in their lifetimes.
Maybe they will all run away from the armies.
metaorigins and society
Apr. 17th, 2021 11:14 pmMetaorigins would affect how superpowers affect society more than anything else except the nature of the powers -- type or strength. And in some respects, it's more important than parts of that.
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society and the superhero
Mar. 16th, 2021 11:22 pmThere's some major questions before you can even consider the question of realism in superheroes. How many are they? How powerful are they? What are their origin(s) or metaorigin(s)? Are they random, and if so, what is random?
Then there's the questions that synergize.
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Then there's the questions that synergize.
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anti-super sentiment
Apr. 15th, 2019 10:34 pmOne thing that would complicate anti-super-power sentiment is the random nature of the origins, and so of who, exactly, gets the powers.
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chaotic evil vs. lawful evil
Jan. 6th, 2018 08:20 pmNot the D&D alignments, which are as messy and incoherent as the rest of the alignment system.
But -- is the evil in the world organized and unified, or not?
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But -- is the evil in the world organized and unified, or not?
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promises, promises
Feb. 24th, 2014 11:22 pmPromises are a lot more important in a lot of cultures than the readers may expect at once.
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always evil fanatics
Nov. 8th, 2013 10:21 pmPondering the question of always evil groups. One that works better than the people who are (ludicrously enough) evil for evil's sake, or for personal motives that would naturally lead them to clash, is the group of fanatics. Conviction of their purity would offset a lot of the problems that would cause other groups to naturally collapse.
IF they are done right.
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IF they are done right.
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feudal, former times, and force
Sep. 11th, 2013 09:15 pmhmmm -- with all those politics swirling about and leading to battle, the question arises of how the nobles can raise forces.
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loyalty and other problems
Aug. 5th, 2013 09:29 pmAh, the delights of ripping off an idea because you think the writer who had it first did a poor job of it.
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leaving the field
Jul. 28th, 2013 11:08 pmThrashing around with the outline, and whether our hero, so loyal to his lord, has to go off and do stuff while some evil sorcery is desecrating his lord's body and exploiting his men for its own purposes. . . and pondering how long he would stay, and then remembering: this guy was on the battlefield where the lord fell.
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lucky on loyalty
Jul. 11th, 2013 09:26 pmOdd thing in my reading lately: a number of stories making good use of feudal, or almost feudal, loyalties.
Now, there's no denying that this makes a wonderful plot device for supplying even a down-and-out noble with forces and cannon fodder in general, who are willing to do the difficult or impossible in aid of the noble.
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Now, there's no denying that this makes a wonderful plot device for supplying even a down-and-out noble with forces and cannon fodder in general, who are willing to do the difficult or impossible in aid of the noble.
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courts of the Middle Ages
Jun. 6th, 2013 09:41 pmWas reading a collection of Poul Anderson's works, and philosophically contemplating the feudal futuristic world of one, and then thinking, no, that's not right. . .
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