Welcome Greed! No biggie on the lurking. I spent like a year lurking the heck out of this place before i started posting rather recently. I think you'll enjoy yourself here! Also, is your nickname a reference to Full Metal Alchemist by any chance?
I miss turn based CRPGs ans JRPGs SO MUCH. Like, when is the videogame industry planing on making a story with a fraction of the inspiration behind Planmescape Torment? Or a game with 14 distict endings like Chrono Trigger? *goes into a corner, mumbling about the good 'ol days*
I think that preference ties into what I was saying. I mean, a society which pays a football player more than a teacher undoubtedly has very clear priorities regarding the education level of people in general.
Not understanding Shakespeare is fine. The stories may be timeless, but the language is not, and it's perfectly understandable that it's harder to understand in the XXI century. Language has evolved (i'm not saying language now is "better" than language then, that would be silly, it's just...
I may be getting a bit political here, and if so any mod feel free to delete this post, no offence was meant.
Sometimes it's hard to forget that the purpose of wide spread education is not to have a big chunk of population being very smart and educated citizens. If you read up on the history...
I think it's a bit strange to promote a book that hasn't come out. And, at least if I were doing it, i'd definitley feel like my priorities are messed up. After all, I write because I want to tell the stories I imagine in the highest quality I can achieve, not to sell a book or make a million...
I also find it strange that people wonder at how advanced we were 1500 years ago. I mean, on an evolutionary scale that's the blink of an eye. I'm no evolution specialist, but i'd guess we aren't so much smarter than ancient humans as most people seem to think. We do however have access to more...
First of all I don't have any experience in combat, of any kind. With that out of the way, I'd say that throwing knives might be usefull, depending on what you want to use them for. If you want to ride into battle throwing knives like confetti of death and hit 20 out of 20 marks you'll probably...
For the story i'm writing currently there are no other races, only humans, although there are a lot of what I call Non-physicals (haven't got a name for them yet) which are, you guessed it, forms of consciousness that don't have a physical body. You could say they are ghosts-ish or spirit-like...
What about manipulating one dragon or group of dragons into doing the job for you? You know, the whole "pen is mightier than sword" deal. Sure, you'd need to be Machiavelo on metaphorical steroids to pull it off, but that would make for a very interesting plot. A king from a small kingdom uses...
I like it, I think it's rather fresh. There's just one thing that bothered me, it's the part where the griffin Blaritos falls from the mountain and creates grass from his corpse. What of the corpses of the griffins that had died in the previous drake war? Why didn't they spawn grass or other...
Here go my finds:
The Watcher and the Dance (something about a cold, gritty veteran developing a paternal bond to a young dancer)
Tricked by science (mad scientist thinks he's working on a time machine, finds out it's a trans-dimensional transporter instead, gets lost, hilarity ensues)
Zamboula...