Recent content by WeilderOfTheMonkeyBlade

So I'm a second year student studying Ancient History - currently doing a module on the roman army (yeah its pretty cool) One of the required bits of reading - i've just put it down, coincidentally, is Soldiers and Ghosts; a History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, J.E Lendon. Now theres a LOT...

How was such a weapon used?? Tbh a lot of weapons are used a lot differently in real life - everyone knows that swords cut and thrust, but you rarely see half-swording and the like, not much in the way of "choking-upp" the blade. I think I've maybe read one fantasy book where the pommel and...

Legendary Sidekick, (actually, anyone who may have been offended by my post) many apologies - didn't mean to offended anyone! It wasn't meant to read in an anti-christian (or anti-Islam/Judaism) manner, though as you've pointed out, it isn't written in the best terms - I'm a history student, and...

Okay, brofisting ammo into guns. That's happening. Sure, he's got four shotgun barrels in one arm of his armour, (and it's not ridiculously bulky, think more like iron man, with a jet pack on the back), but that can be on one arm only or something. But that is awesome. As for not using real...

Thanks for this! How about we collab? I get to come up with fun ideas, and you do maths things? :) But, yeah, John, I did word that section about the rifle wrong - the mags are floating in a magnetic field below the gun, they're not physically attached to it, though my reasons for it, other...

Hello, I am obviously aware that here on Scribes we all ply in the noble and honourable art of Fantasy, and leave Sci-Fi for the nerds who wouldn't know a longsword from an arming sword, or a sallet from a barbute until it was rammed sideways up their. . . you get the idea. So basically, if...

Firstly, I'd like to say I'm an athiest, and I'm really not a fan of the ideologies presented by monotheisms, so when I read a carbon-copy of Christianity in a book, it pisses me off, especially when everyone in that religion is amazing and wonderful - look at history. Religion is anything but...

Honestly, I think the populations are a bit on the small side. When you say three countries to a continent, which I'm presuming is going to be roughly Europe sized (quite a small continent, relatively speaking), and each country has 300k people in it? Less than a million in total. That's VERY...

Seeing as it's a desert, then I recon you should be fine - though I'm not sure if sand and grit getting into the firing pan, frizzen or the mechanism would be a problem. I do think you might face a problem with the priming charge though, and you would also have to cock it first. Also...

When you say neewb writers are arrogant . . . yeah. They are. They really are. When I started writing, 3 years ago, fresh off from my first reread of asoiaf, I was as arrogant as hell. More. Looking back, I was writing a convoluted, if mildly original plot populated with world building and...

Haha that sort of program would be amazing, but I doubt you'd be able to get anything like that for free (we can but hope). InKarnate isn't perfect - There's a lack of textures and I'd like some actual forest symbols, but I'm holding out hope for the Alpha version - but for free it is pretty...

Sign up for the InKarnate beta. Sign up. Now! It's free, still in the beta stage, but it is super easy to use, looks great, pretty accurate. . . its the whole thing, for free. You'll love it. (I've also tried AutoRealm, and InKarnate blows it out of the water, and then hits it with a...

I think the best way to show grey, proper grey, isn't to try and walk the middle line where everything is shitty, but could be shittier. If you want to show great beauty in a city, a really wonderful palace or something, do it. Wax lyrical about the marble coloumns, the high towers, the rows...

Firstly, this might be my cynical nature talking, but I would really not be able to get behind the idea of these people with gunpowder and not using it. Lets take a look at our history. It has taken us developing frigging NUKES, and still using them twice, to get a weapon so powerful we've...

I'm not that sure mate - I prefer colder environments for my own writings, if I'm perfectly honest - tundra, steppes, alpine valleys and moors, pineforest, that sort of thing. I'll have a go at hazarding some suggestions and ideas, but you might have to double check them, as they could be...