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    Weird Spells & Powers

    Ahhhhahahahahaha
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    Weird Spells & Powers

    "SommmeWHERRRE oover the raiinbowww"
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    Does World Building Scare You?

    I guess its important to define what people mean by "every little detail". How much is too much exactly? Detail is great. Wonderful in fact. But detailing EVERYTHING? Well, for one, that's impossible. It also adds a whole bunch trivial information that readers/players generally don't need to...
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    priests == summoner?

    I like your sense of humour Queshire xD It seems like there would be an interesting power relationship between the gods and their earthly contractors. The priests need the gods, the gods need the priests. No plot holes come to mind as yet. Also the part about the gods manipulating...
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    Harnessing Magic

    Super stoked I could help you Codey! :D
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    A few concepts I'm bouncing around, if you have a minute

    Hey I like the concepts as opposed to objects for your planes I think that is interesting especially the combination of aspects. It can be hard working with that stuff because for me I would want them all to line up correctly but you also want to have a few things that break the synergy ie have...
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    Harnessing Magic

    No its a good question. I have one possible answer: Maybe the caster feels the magic inside them, and because they feel it they can then guide it outwards? It could be an invisible, undetectable force that it always present either within or without, a persistant untapped source of energy...
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    Second Race of My Universe.

    Hey I couldn't view the picture on this forum but I checked out the Kasari on your site and I like how their skin evokes the wasting environment they live in. In fact most of the artworks have a dark 'n' dusty atmosphere that I am finding eerily compelling.
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    At what point does naming countries, cities, places become too clichéd/cheesy?

    I reckon there's something to be said for not bothering with trying to come up with "sophisticated" names. After all, its very possible for invented names to backfire and seem overly contrived, while the thing that first came into your head will seem strangely more genuine, especially if the...
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    Jabrosky's Race Concepts

    Cool :) I don't have much to suggest, but cool. Is this from your Sekhmetka project? I notice you have a pronounced interest in African culture and tribal/primitive cultures in general. Your work has an anthropological vibe :) Regarding magic, I was reading a comic recently call Age Of Bronze: A...
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    Does World Building Scare You?

    That Sims 3 thing is quite a novel solution to planning Saigonnus! (especially since Lego is so expensive these days). I'm fairly into my pet project at the moment. I feel like I have slightly more of an idea of what I am doing, with certain rules of thumb popping into my head when I need them...
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    Stuck on Some Magic-Related Names

    Names for the evil, counterfeit magic as a whole: - Anti-magic - Malfeasance - Malefic - Ersatz ok so the evil counterpart of a magic school works in the opposite way to it's Original version? Can't think of anything yet.
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    Describing Races

    Perhaps reading other people's fiction and borrowing those descriptions wholesale? For example, James Clavell's "Shogun" describes the appearances of Japanese people in vivid detail. One of its sequels, Tai-Pan, describes Chinese people a lot. The contrast of these cultures to the European...
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    Need Feedback On My Third Race

    The darlak lines are a draw for me. Adds a twist to the hardy northerner style, and I like how the lines serve a practical purpose as well. I suggest avoiding futuristic or digital-looking lines unless it is important to the flavour; the patterns on the chest look tribal/folkish, while the...
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    Travelling around your world...

    If I was making up a story within your setting, I would love to have a "madman of the Underground" with the whole bag of lunatic behaviour: hastily scrawled notes and directions on walls etc. Speaking of underground networks, one recent idea of mine involves a vast underground root system...
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