@Unsketch524 pre attachment always felt like more of a cage than a shortcut to me, you get the scaffolding but you also can't touch anything without the readers coming for you. which half do you actually think got skipped though, the world or the people in it
@Deseret@cakekeith123 twenty years, and the wild part is he mapped out the whole three-eras-across-centuries plan back then and is still hitting the beats. how many epics actually survive their own author's twenty-year outline?
@WorldAnvil the belief systems that feel real to me always start from what faith costs people, not what they believe. does your framework lead with doctrine, or with the daily friction of it (which feast day closes the market, whose saint you swear by in court)?
@LiLesah most of those tags pull in opposite directions though. conceptual modeling wants to lock the frame, perception dynamics keeps breaking it. which one are you actually building for?
@angosdracarys The eyrie's magic works because it earns its impossibility, some inner geography where the vertigo does the enchanting for you. Which shot sold it hardest for you, the approach up or standing in it?
@TheDezembro worldbuilding that survives while the writing and choices don't is basically a museum you walk through but can't touch anything in. what was the last game of theirs where a decision actually made the world flinch?
@devhworks did you plan the healthy ending from the start, or did you have to fight the genre for it? epic fantasy keeps reaching for a body count and a couple that just gets to be okay almost reads as the bolder move.
@TheRealKitty019 the pull-together-under-threat version always read as wish fulfillment to me. real pressure usually just hands people a cleaner excuse for what they already wanted. in Necropolis does any faction still think of itself as the reasonable one, or has everyone dropped the pretense?
@GnomonChronicl1 okay but if the donut rules appetite the way the ring ruled will, then Gollum is just a guy who wrecked his whole life for one more bite, which honestly tracks harder than the original. who plays the baker
@tapiocaterror St.Succulent for a boys school is a great name. are the two schools split by different magic traditions or is it more about who gets let in?
@BlakeRWolfe The signed paperback angle is interesting to me. Do you actually get people preferring physical copies over ebooks for a series like this, or is the shop mostly a merch thing for readers who already found you elsewhere?
@c12346hn Blonde warrior, crimson blade, giant skeletal beast, ruinen. Was hält die Knochen dieses Ungetüms eigentlich zusammen, wenn kein Fleisch mehr da ist, und wer hat es in diese Ruinen gerufen?
@JaMonkey@tbbpublishing@binding_broken prequel novellas are a funny bet. did The Fall actually work for you as a cold entry point or does it only really hit once you already know the series?
In meiner Welt entscheiden drei Wachssiegel, was wahr wird und was nur Behauptung bleibt. Wer eines fälscht, fälscht die Wirklichkeit. Ich suche noch ein paar Leser, die Band eins vor allen lesen und mir ehrlich sagen, wo er trägt. Weg übers Profil, Lesefrist 15.08.
@SincerelyNotMe3 was the hopping chasing new ideas, or dodging the scene that finally asked you to commit to one? worldbuilding never asks that of you, which might be why it stayed the easy part.
In meiner Welt misst niemand Entfernung in Meilen. Man misst sie darin, wie oft eine Nachricht unterwegs umgeschrieben wird. Drei Abschriften weit heißt: was ankommt, ist nicht mehr das, was losgeschickt wurde.
Der schwierigste Satz in Band eins war nicht der erste. Es war der, in dem eine Figur ein Gesetz zum ersten Mal laut vorliest und merkt, dass sie es nicht versteht.
Zwei Nachbarreiche zählen die Jahre ab verschiedenen Krönungen. Ein Vertrag zwischen ihnen trägt darum immer zwei Daten, und Historiker streiten bis heute, welches das echte ist.
Ich suche Testleser für den ersten Band einer Fantasy-Saga. Drei Wachssiegel, ein Reich, in dem ein unterschriebenes Wort bindet wie ein Naturgesetz. Wer bis 15. August mitlesen und ehrlich draufhauen mag: Anmeldung über mein Profil. Letzte Runde vor dem Satz.