Recent content by Graybles

As far as creation Mythology goes in Fantasy stories it's always fun to tinker a bit with gods/goddesses you can spice up your world a lot. If the premise of your world is believable the immersion of the reader will be easier. Gods can help you achieve that. A plausible way for your world to...

I use a thesaurus and look for older words especially when doing fantasy fiction in a middle-ages sword & sorcery sort of setting. I also collect all kinds of dictionaries as well for the reason of finding nice words or phrases I could utilize or mold to my needs.

Don't worry to much, I'm not a native English speaker and I know my punctuation is garbo... That is why I don't bother with it until I hit the editing stages in my writing.

There are some interesting books you can read up on: "The Art of Language Invention" by David J. Peterson might be interesting. Also "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" by John Koenig gives a nice look into word creation. Overall speak the words out loud sometimes something looks good on paper...

In the D&D 5th Ed. Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft there was a section dedicated to Lovecraftian Horror called Cosmic Horror. This is how they chose to list up what Lovecraftian and Cosmic Horror is all about: "Cosmic Horror revolves around the fear of personal insignificance. The genre is...

1) Gothic Horror 2) Epic Fantasy 3) General Fiction (Most preferred Fantasy fiction though)

The true question is would it still be your fantasy, or would it be the AI's creation you pretend is your fantasy? - This is more philosophical than anything else I believe. On one side you can claim you provided initial input to get the subsequent final stuff the AI spits out, so you are in...

I think I agree with this statement the most, AI Art is a very handy tool to visualize certain things about your story like the look of characters in the world and certain other things. Using ChatGPT I feel is a double-edged knife. If people learn you use ChatGPT to write stuff for you it...

This depends on the resources and skill of the AI user more than anything else. Stable Diffusion has come a long way from what it was in the beginning. A good Checkpoint Blend, some LoRA's, Embeddings and a nice ESRGAN upscale later and you can create stuff that look way better than these covers...

I always liked the idea of a Giant ripping a tree out of the earth and just slamming the root end in the face of whatever they try to hit, earth and rocks muddying up the area and what not. That... or breaking a big branch from the tree and using the splintered part as the outward swinging side.

Greetings and well met to all of you Mythic Scribes, I'm Graybles, for years uncountable Dungeons & Dragons enthousiast (Especially 2nd and 3rd Ed.) I took it upon myself to try and start creating a full-fledged "Fantasy Realm" to be the background of a bunch of stories. While traversing the...