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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread Neat Research Resource.Yeah, I was using it mainly to compare when things happened and how much time passed between things. Definitely could be a time suck if... -
Hello! When I'm world building, I like to research various time periods in our real world and see what happened when. Recently I came...
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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread Dragon egg size.This is from an old D&D book, but maybe it can help you.
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No. I'd prefer to be able to have an actual conversation on the topic instead of being forced to spend fifteen minutes trying to figure...
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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.Billybones While I find your responses humorous, they aren't very constructive for this topic.
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BiggusBeardus reacted to Billybones's post in the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"? with
Haha.
How bout somethink like "KADAKKUS!!!" and a giant fireball shoots outta some knotfingered Tai Chi ball cannon or something??? -
BiggusBeardus reacted to Finchbearer's post in the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"? with Like.
Recently read a book with the magical words actually written in, and they made sense and gave the world building a richness. I am all...
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BiggusBeardus reacted to pmmg's post in the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"? with Like.
I'm not sure what I think on this. My inclination is to say, if all my magic was based on jibberish words, and it was frequent in the...
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BiggusBeardus reacted to LieutenantWolf34's post in the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"? with Like.
Words in real life have power so it makes sense in fantasy that certain words would serve as the "trigger" for a magical action.
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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.I've got multiple magic systems. Most of them don't use words. But wizardry does. Technically it doesn't HAVE to use special words. To...
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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.I've actually posted here about that before. I hate coming up with fantasy words because if I search the word, it is ALWAYS something in...
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BiggusBeardus reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"? with Like.
This is how we describe it. It gives us a lot of latitude for personalizing casting spells. ~~ Words held power, for wizards even more...
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BiggusBeardus reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread What counts as "moving the plot forward"? with Like.
Reading about writing is good; I don't discourage you from doing it because it will help. At the same time (I do mean that literally)...
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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread What is your opinion about "magic words"?.Queshire wizardry magic system is kind of like that. The actual words didn't matter. They are something that the caster uses to help...
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BiggusBeardus replied to the thread What counts as "moving the plot forward"?.Thanks! That sounds perfect!