Recent content by Badgerfrog

There's some weird things in this book, I'll admit. But I love weird. I don't think I could ever stop reading though.

Ohh, yeah makes sense, formatting often doesn't transfer well Ignore all that then lmao

Reminds me a bit of some old Forgotten Realms lore, which had the different species all interacting with the Weave in different ways and laid out how different magical traditions were rooted in culture but all connected to some vast unknowable whole. I dunno if they've retconned it though, like...

This one, I'm re-reading Dune for the first time since high school and need something to drown out the drunk teenagers outside my window. I started with the movie soundtrack and some Arabic/Egyptian stuff for Dune/Messiah, then went Greek for Children, but now that I'm on God Emperor I wanted...

Swords are cool tho. I'm a dude, man. The first thing I see is that your post is pretty focused on the capabilities and limitations of the magic system itself and somewhat its history. Purely as a magic system it feels pretty fleshed out, as though you have a good idea in your head of how it...

The moment I had the idea, I immediately forced myself to create a bunch of limitations for it because otherwise it's too world-breaking and you're left asking both "Why doesn't everyone use this?" and "Why doesn't everyone kill people who use this?". Part of it was strict requirements in...

One of the group of main characters in the first book, yeah. She's a partial POV character and becomes a major player in the world later too, and mind magic plays a prominent role in the first book.

Yeah, all the other magic is more external/physical(in this era). Another aspect is that abstraction(in the sense of being able to achieve more fantastical and ill understood effects) can be done by just pumping in enough power. I'm trying to build layers that are unknown to the characters and...

Found another one while editing. Sorry for double posting. "A nod farewell to the matron and he was away. Always matron. He’d called her by name once and she’d beaten him with a broom."

“You needn’t worry, you may remain in the waiting room when we arrive at the palace.” She said. Not funny out of context, but I got a chuckle out of ending a chapter with this line.

It's interesting going down the list and seeing how many I knew off the top of my head for a series I'm working on. But then it got me thinking about whether I'd really displayed all that much of my knowledge in the script itself, so thanks for raising interesting questions.

"Loose framework" means different things to different people and for different stories/settings. For me a framework is enough to start if I really need to get something down on paper, but it's also about 4 hours of frantic typing just to outline a broad timeline and bullet point history for the...

The obvious comparison is squibs, so unless you want people making that comparison you'll need to do something to differentiate them. Also the addiction aspect seems like it'd have a pretty huge effect on how they'd raise children and on how education would work. Additionally, some questions...

I wrote a bunch, often just worldbuilding thought exercises or gibberish but sometimes short stories or outlines, in a google doc. I don't consciously remember starting, might have just been inspired by a book or something a few years ago. All of it got deleted when I got bored of a concept...

Edward is fine, Eddie might be a stretch but you could make it work depending on the setting.