In this edition of Homebrew How-To, I’m going to talk about a staple in many works of fiction and roleplaying games: a fantasy setting, often an entire world or a notable realm of that world. As mentioned in my prior post, this fantasy world is named Wrald. Now, this world is home to a fantasy …
So, in the process of crafting entries for this blog, as well as waiting for the release of upcoming products (the One D&D playtest, the Dragonlance adventure, etc.), I have considered expanding the scope of this blog with other things than just me harping on about roleplaying games or product releases, much less getting on …
One of the most challenging aspects to the creative process, whether writing fiction or a session for a tabletop role-playing game, is selecting the setting of the story/event. In some instances, the very element or issue addressed, or even a character focused on, helps narrow down this selection process; if you’re writing a story about …
Continuing on writing characters for fiction, (and having recently watched, “Murder on the Nile” with Kenneth Branagh), I thought it’d be fun to go over some of the basics of writing detectives in fiction. Keep in mind, these aren’t hard-and-fast rules, but they are some of the basic building blocks that can get you started! …
What exactly is a “broken” power in fiction? I’ve talked about this a bit when we talk about Mary Stu’s and Gary Stu’s, but I think it helps just to tackle this by itself, because sometimes, characters are thought to be “broken” due to their powers, but may have other limitations that keep them grounded …
Why would be choose to use a setting like a post-apocalyptic future, a depressing dystopia, or some form of apocalypse in the future to set our story in? Because you don’t know how good you have it till it’s gone. If this is what you know… … but this is suddenly your reality in the …
