Whose Measure God Could Not Take: Testudis (Cataphracts Setting, Hexmap, Rules)
In describing his logistics-based army game Cataphracts , Sam Sorensen had an interesting problem. It's hard to fully describe a game in wh...| whosemeasure.blogspot.com
Sequel to a post I wrote nearly four years ago on the dot. Been away for far too long.| Throne of Salt
In describing his logistics-based army game Cataphracts , Sam Sorensen had an interesting problem. It's hard to fully describe a game in wh...| whosemeasure.blogspot.com
Are you afraid of using the weather in your writing? If so, you’re not alone. After all, if not careful, weather description can be a minefield of clichés. The sunny, cloudless afternoon at the beach. The gloomy rainstorm at a funeral. Overdone setting and weather pairings can lie flat on the page. Then there’s the […] The post How to Use Weather to Create Mood, Not Clichés appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®.| WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®
Because some find it hard to get excited about a ruleset, I've made a regioncrawl to go with this one.| Whose Measure God Could Not Take
As an adult, my favorite class is the regular fighter, though I did enjoy playing a paladin straight for a campaign's worth.| Mythlands: The Setting to End All Settings
Hi, gang. ✋ Craig here again. We’re continuing my series dive into the speculative genres. Today we’re tackling Low Fantasy. First of all, let me go on record as hating the name. I know how it happ…| Story Empire
I picked up the Vermis fictional game books, and it sparked some ideas about the nature of game design. I’ll repeat the thread here, since it seems the internet is disappearing things quicker…| Deeper in the Game
As one of the last people to jump on the cloak-and-swordbandwagon, I've decided to make myself useful and compile some of the setting details you can find dispersed elsewhere, not touching on the more complicated and remote countries like Noblessie, Inferie, and the Dragoman empire.| Whose Measure God Could Not Take
Hi, gang. ✋ Craig here again. We’re continuing my series dive into the speculative genres. Today we’re going to look at High Fantasy. High Fantasy remains a popular genre, and it has some requireme…| Story Empire
"What if all the Ghibli movies—or stories very like them—were happening in the same world?"| Shadow & Fae
I've been desperately trying to get this out before Halloween, and HERE IT IS!| Shadow & Fae
Death & Divinity| Shadow & Fae
GLoGtober continues!| Shadow & Fae
"From Goblin Market" Arthur Rackham, 1933| Shadow & Fae
One of my favorite conceits for a Tolkienesque setting is to combine Gondor/Numenor with the archipelago of Earthsea, which aesthetically feels like a slam dunk to me. Enjoy this little gazetteer of my version of this idea.| The End Of All Things
The setting is the West Coast through the dark dreamlike mirror of 197X. Perhaps a decade prior, rifts ripped open to a hellish other realm of beings that feast on fear- they emerged with their forms shaped by the nightmares of humanity. Their awful flesh flowed into twisted imitations of the ghosts, aliens, cavemen, robots, glowing deep sea divers that haunted our collective subconsciousness, shaped by the fears of the area they arrived in. | Silverarm
It is a time of concord. It is a time of discord. Peace has finally come between the thousand warring lords of Alba, but it was not won through friendship. A warlord holds the pope for a hostage, and all the great isles hold their breath. Meanwhile, hundreds of unemployed retainers and thousands of disloyal soldiers turn to brigandry on the waves or the hardscrabble life of the wanderer, as news of wealth and horror from farther and farther lands marks a new age of conquest, expansion, and mi...| Whose Measure God Could Not Take
Greetings, friends! It’s Jan here with another look at a color and how we might use it in our fiction writing. Purple is a deep and intriguing blend of red and blue, both opposites as red is …| Story Empire
Fact-checking is critical so that readers trust what you tell them and so they aren't pulled out of your stories by inaccurate details. Fact-check your fiction. The post When the Familiar is Too Familiar first appeared on The Editor's Blog.| The Editor's Blog
(Spoilers below for various Star Wars properties.)| The Benign Brown Beast
Greetings, SE’ers! I’m happy to begin a new year with a whole new series to share with you. Over the next months I will be delving deep into different colors and talking about how we ca…| Story Empire
Somewhere on reddit recently, I saw someone casually mention the different types of fantasy implied by The Hobbit vs Lord of the Rings. And it set my mind spinning on isolating and bringing forth the world of The Hobbit's Wilderland.| Mythlands: The Setting to End All Settings
I observe all this a little bitterly, shivering in rented armor, late for the party, and reflecting how long one waits, these days, even for a cab.| as-they-must.blogspot.com
What do the objects and random detritus contained in a character’s environment say about that person? Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash Here’s a wonderful, award-winning story from Sa…| The Novella-in-Flash
Sandboxes tend to imply factions, but faction play is sometimes a boogeyman for open world games. Should it be subtle, just a thought? Shoul...| d66kobolds.blogspot.com
( Source ) ( Source ) ( Source ) Stones is the starting town in Hellwalkers. These are my own notes for it; I think they're l...| twogoblinsinatrenchcoat.blogspot.com
When does a setting become too typical? When is it overused to the point of being a stereotype? How should a writer fulfill the expectations of readers, supply the tropes that make a story’s …| Chronicles of the Scribe
For this one, let’s take a page–pun intended, ha ha–from Edgar Allen Poe. In his fiction, he demonstrated the effectiveness of imagery, atmosphere, and even the weather on a story…| Chronicles of the Scribe
The locale of a story should affect character design in how that character interacts with the setting or how this individual has been shaped by the place. Setting isn’t separate from your oth…| Chronicles of the Scribe
If you’re thinking you can plunk your action scene in any old gritty dark alley in Generic City, USA, then you’re shortchanging the dramatic potential of your story. For one thing, ther…| Chronicles of the Scribe
Snobbery is looked down upon when it is one of our finest virtues. Learn to hate what you love, and you may have a shot at true happiness.| as-they-must.blogspot.com
