Recent content by Braveface

Ahh...I'm so bad at keeping on top of threads. But yeah, that's pretty much what I went for in the end. Trying to keep things simple, red, yellow and green do the job just fine for what it is.

I needed 3 to 4 key locations and I needed the journey my characters take to make sense this way. I didn't want any arbitrary 'we've got to change course' moments if I could help it. I also wanted the two cities to reflect the ideologies of those who lived there and this came to me a little...

Some very cool ideas in this thread! I like to use a genus, then develop different 'castes' of monsters. So there are the big daddies and the mooks who come from the same kind of gene pool. Their temperament depends on how they connect with the source of evil. Right now I'm thinking...

Nah, much more mundane than that. It is to do with education, so I wanted a symbol for difficulty of courses to add more competition. Work is allocated based on performance in education. If you don't specialise, everything you've passed gets 'averaged' and you get put into the most suitable...

I was doing a bit of world-building and had a thought to use the symbols associated with alpine skiing slope ratings in one of my worlds where I need to show an increase in difficulty. The symbols are: Green Circle, Blue Square, Black Diamond and Double Black Diamond. I feel perhaps Black...

It would have to be scaled up to be able to stand, no? I think they would go waaay too fast to stay upright the whole way down a modern bobsleigh track though. Maybe a similar thing could be done - I'm thinking of skateboarders at a closed water park going down and up the sides of big...

I am more likely to take scenes from real life than characters. I do put an aspect of my own personality, positive and negative, into many characters though.

Oh, I feel kind of dumb. My bad. That wrongly read that line as them discovering the Harry Potter universe.

The 'whole magical world and non-magical surveillance of said world' makes it sound like this borders on fanfiction. If that's a plot within itself, which it ought to be, and the magic discovered is of the potteresque variety. I think with Potter, the reference would need to be very subtle...

Depends. A nod that is a 'coincidence' won't detract from the story but it should be relevant to your own. Maybe a little signpost from something in the same genre or sub-genre? If the reference brings extra complication to your own universe it might not be worth it. But I find them fun often...

But what is evil anyway? Is there reason to the rhyme? Without evil there could be no good so it must be good to be evil sometiiiimes.

I heard their junk was bigger than mine.

She should kill her own grand-father. That'd show 'em.

Why can't they take anything with them?

Oh yeah. Would they have to orbit in opposite directions? Still, I don't feel like that kind of exposition is something I'd really like to get into. It would detract from the story or I am sure researching that to make it right would take away from something more critical to plot that I should...