Recent content by Ban

I don't believe there is such a thing as too much worldbuilding, but too much worldshowing certainly does exist. Your world may well be your primary interest, but in each individual story set in that world, the story must take precedence. If your display of the world unduly interferes with the...

I watched Bojack Horseman some years ago. Depressed Hollywoo(d) horses seem to align with me.

I enjoy viewing martial arts, so in my fiction I want to be able to follow the action step by step. The type of scenes that work for me as a fight fan versus someone more distant from such sports should be seen as a key factor. While I want to know what moves are made at each moment, which...

Agreed. AI can only copy the fruits of labour, not grant in any way the experience and mastery that doing labour may instill. If a writer's concern is solely with the product of labour, then AI can create one. A derivative one, empty of any novelty and not reflecting the soul of the "writer"...

I'm not a moderator. I just write/wrote articles for the website and chat along with the mods, but I don't have any ability to ban folks despite my fitting name. The Article Team implies nothing more than that we used to write articles when that section was more active. For your information...

Welcome back aboard. The ship is luckily still sailing steadily across these turbulent seas.

All the best Lowan (all of you). Take your time to grieve.

Seeing as Tolkien spun a whole genre-defining (subgenre-generating?) world out of his conlangs, you're in wonderful company. Personally, I rather enjoy creating conlangs. Specifically, I enjoy creating Romance and Germanic-derived languages, because that's where my knowledge and interest lies.

Ban said: "I currently have 423 colons and 40 semicolons spread throughout a rather short novel. I tend to use colons in connection to dialogue, so the colon count (odd term) would be reduced by many hundreds if I were to remove those. "

Personally I enjoy maps in fantasy, but I believe they should fit the worldbuilding. Having a mercator map filled with accurate details a their correct distances from eachother, seems to me rather unbelievable in a feudal setting. I'd much prefer seeing a map that resembles historic maps of the...

Haha that ought to make matters easier. I can often string together the overall meaning of Spanish text, but I would have to rely heavily on a translator to do anything more.

So far there have been no folks who have chosen the same class, which is somewhat interesting since we are all driven to engage in the same hobby (and for some profession).

Hey Lope, welcome aboard. There should be enough passionate fantasy folk around here for you to converse with, though regarding the "constructive criticism" I should not that we don't have a lot of Spanish speakers. It might be hard to find folks who can help with critique requests.

I looked up what the options are and figure druid is appropriate. I am an erudite fellow and care a great deal for the greenery where I live, as well as spending time within it. If I'd have my way, there would only be villages and thorps in Limburg. Cities stymie my spirit.

Avatars are always a fun concept to play with as well. Makes me think of another idea. Two avatars bound together in one of the manners above, but their originating deities (which the avatars are aspects of) are not intertwined. Or vice versa, where each side of the pair uses their avatars as...