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Reading Excuses / Re: Reading Excuses is one year old
« on: December 08, 2009, 07:35:46 PM »
Awesome. Way to stick in there everyone. It's been fun.
"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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There's an entire thread dedicated to Frog-bashing? Wow. I'm jealousThere are actually several, all masquerading as critique threads. I'll try to properly label the next one so we don't have any more confusion on where to direct these worthy comments.
Third: Anyone who carries a sword has culture. i know you're trying to hide that but anyone who knows anything about weapons is going to say "Hey, they've got swords. That means they have culture." So if they have swords they would never be perceived as "just feral former humans."I don't think he specifically said they made the swords, just that they had them. How smart do you have to be to scavenge and pick up somebody else's sword?
With Frog's writing, she writes a lot about non-human races, and I'm prepared to be bored to death.Hey, what's the deal? Don't we have enough Frog bashing in the designated 'Frog bashing Thread'? What's it doing over here?
Angsty teenagers.Is there any other kind?