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timely thoughts
Dec. 27th, 2023 12:06 amI was looking at some stereotypically steampunk art -- all those clocks -- and it occurred to me that in that era, clocks weren't all that accurate.
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super vs powers
Nov. 11th, 2022 11:23 pmWhat makes a superpower super?
If the powers only recently appeared, it would be anything a human can do -- fly, shoot energy beams, survive grenades without a cut -- that couldn't be done before the appearance. (Plus that minimizes the alternate history need.)
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If the powers only recently appeared, it would be anything a human can do -- fly, shoot energy beams, survive grenades without a cut -- that couldn't be done before the appearance. (Plus that minimizes the alternate history need.)
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taking the train
Oct. 23rd, 2022 08:39 pmThey have to take the train. Somewhere. At some point.
Because I have to establish that there is such a thing in their world. Just to keep it look like a classic high-fantasy world. It's probably going to be a magical, clock-punk train though.
I don't think there's a telegram, they use magic for that.
Because I have to establish that there is such a thing in their world. Just to keep it look like a classic high-fantasy world. It's probably going to be a magical, clock-punk train though.
I don't think there's a telegram, they use magic for that.
action at a distance
Oct. 20th, 2022 11:59 pmSo, I handle the "flying, not flying" problem by separating the flyer from the character who will need him.
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think it through
Sep. 29th, 2022 09:31 pmIt's all very well to have different things in your world-building, even things that would be impossible in the real world. But think it through?
You want epic fantasy, with vast battles, in the modern world with cell phones, motorcycles, and laptops.
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You want epic fantasy, with vast battles, in the modern world with cell phones, motorcycles, and laptops.
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steam and sorcery?
Jul. 22nd, 2022 11:05 pmSo there's a scene in the story that opens with two girls are sitting at a pastry shop. (Eating pastries, of all things.)
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decisions, decisions
May. 24th, 2021 11:57 pmSo, does the king return before the prince has arranged for the exiled princess to have new, clockwork hands because hers had been chopped off? Or after?
And how do those hands work, anyway?
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And how do those hands work, anyway?
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D&D and the Connecticut Yankee
Jan. 26th, 2021 11:48 pmThe deep fundamental questions of life:
If you were thrown into a D&D universe, and wanted to play the Connecticut Yankee and improve things, what spells would be the best ones to substitute for industrial processes? Hmmm. . . .
If you were thrown into a D&D universe, and wanted to play the Connecticut Yankee and improve things, what spells would be the best ones to substitute for industrial processes? Hmmm. . . .
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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decisions, decisions
Aug. 11th, 2018 11:44 pm Was wrestling with the technological capacities of a certain high-fantasy setting for a story still poking at an outline.
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Pondering the sorts of imitation-of-modern-day technology that you could do with clockpunk.
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well, that settles that
May. 20th, 2017 11:39 pmWas poking at a story idea, not sure exactly when it was taken place, could have been high middle ages even --
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