SciFi Author James Krake

I'm here to entertain you with books. 7/100 have been published.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

I'm releasing a new epic fantasy over on Royalroad!

It's a heroic fantasy tale of adventure with my style of progression system. LitRPG without the numbers. I've got something I think is a little better instead.

Goblin slaying awaits in the link below!

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

I'm surprused I can't recall ever seeing any conspiracy angle that cryptids (ie bigfoot et al) are aliens.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@ARmastrangelo Why are there three left hands?

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@ReviewsPossum Too linear. Make it every power of 2, so he gets a taste of rewards early and then gets nothing for ages.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@georgecursor What part of "creative direction" sounded like an excuse to you, rather than identifying that they are pursuing the wrong thing?

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

It's the lighting.

I'm willing to bet the model is entirely spot on, the problem is the creative direction to do "realistic" lighting instead of manipulating the light to create the desired impression.

Games are art and art is not beholden to strict reality.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The new God of War Faye spin-off is getting huge backlash for making the in-game character way uglier than Deborah Ann Woll, the voice and motion-capture actress behind Faye.

Sony did it again, you can thank the usual consultants

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@georgecursor You seem to have failed to understand my point.

I'm not saying they didn't make the character ugly. I'm identifying the mechanism they used.

I am attacking the very assumption that what they did is justified.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@TheTrinketMage Just play magus of the moat

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

This is the kind of factoid that makes me tell people that if they want to write fantasy, they should study history.

If this doesn't give you plot ideas, you might be in trouble.

[Greater Pennsylvania @PennMaxxing]

King of Sweden figured this out 500+ years ago to price cargo value for import taxes

1. You declare the assessed value of your asset, you pay the tax on your assessed value

2. The king has the right to buy the asset at the declared value

Lindy

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@fandompulse @InfinitaleComic WotC has an obsession with puns. There's probably something quite broken with their work culture. It's not just a pride thing.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@UsagiKaede1 What do you even do with Trostani in the command zone though? Don't you need blue for funny tokens?

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

I refreshed my timeline and lost a post just as I realized I wanted to send it to someone.

Damn.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@DougTenNapel I have never seen a writer dismiss the effort of other creative fields, except the effort of marketing visual mediums.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

I need to reach the mtg players. I'm in need of a storage box for 8 commander decks, with room for archenemy cards, and doesn't result in them getting damaged like the shit box I bought from Microcenter.

Any recommendations?

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@Kristin_Fiction I see you have succesfully cultivated your reach away from the furries.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

So I was talking to a coworker about one of my stories. Two months went by without seeing him (different ends of the office) but when he caught me, the first thing he said was bringing up my story because he had still been thinking about it.

That's gotta be a good sign.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@DracoWrites7 Okay first of all, Dragon Ball Z is still from the same Dragon Ball manga.

Second of all, the ability to circumvent them does not mean they're meaningless. Nobody thinks power level is a deterministic predictor of the winner (except powerscalers). They are a communication tool.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@DracoWrites7 That is incomplete. You're thematically correct about overcoming limitations, but;

They exist to efficiently tell the reader "X can probably beat Y", and thus define the tension points and relevant plot beats. Same as (well written) game elements in litRPG.

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@tuckerlindgren I think you've reached too far with this one.

You'd be better off doing this skits as "trying to explain to your new friend that you're not cheating."

Like casting Take the Bait after combat damage has been dealt

[SciFi Author James Krake @KrakeJames]

@cglassey_author It is a reflection of the real world, but that does not necessitate that any Earth culture exists in surrogate form among the xenos. If you tried mapping the xenos to real cultures, you'd realize you're being absurd, or insanely racist.