Recent content by eliec

I tend to use people more than events. I based an entire character on one guy I saw in my morning commute, just because of the way he said a particular sentence. That put a whole scene in my head right there.

You could also take the ontological inertia approach: The villain's dead or defeated, but his plans are still proceeding without him. Let's say he pulled off a ritual that attracted an asteroid to the planet: He dies before the asteroid actually makes contact, but the heroes don't know that and...

Being an agnostic myself, I'm never really comfortable writing about gods in the anthropomorphic sense. The closest I can come to them are forces of nature or spirits that are simply another class of being like old style Fae. The only one that can somehow qualify is the Enemy, but that thing...

Look up Lord Foul from Stephen Donaldson's Covenant books. He kicks off the plot, but after that we hear about him many times but he never appears until the conclusion

Thanks a bunch, guys. I think I have a variety of ideas to use here, between pikes, crushing weapons, and the noose-immobilization idea. Hopefully I'll put something up in the Showcase section soon.

The protagonists are medieval level or earlier, and fighting them in mountain passes so I'm not too sure about gases, flames, or otherwise. Also this is a very low-fantasy setting: There is some esoteric magic, but no fireballs. I'm still working on the minion concept, actually. I want...

Hey all I'm working on a piece where the enemy minions can best be described as "chitinous". I was wondering, what would be the best way to kill a scorpion, centipede, or lobster that you can't really crush? Is it possible to bleed them out like mammals? Would you have to hit their vital...

No worries :) I'm just correcting you so that you don't end up taking a flight to the wrong place! Although I'm pretty sure the local food and scenery would more than make up for any lack of camels.

Sounds good to me. I'd be careful of explaining the cause too much, however. Part of Lovecraftian horror is that there is so much we do not understand, and we don't know when that will bite our collective ass.

Thanks everyone :) The camel races are actually most famous in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, my caffeinated friend. And I am a member of that same Christian church ;) (or a nominal one, at least) The kufiya is incredibly useful, I know. Always kept one when I went hiking, or doing some yardwork...

Hey there! I'm from Lebanon, from the Byblos region. Glad to see that not everyone sees the Middle East as a monolithic block. It seems most people think we all wear turbans and ride camels to work.

They'd still need to to be able to get that gear on in a hurry, if they were hauling it up using ropes. And "super strength" is always an iffy way of explaining things, because you're bound to run into a limit where it simply becomes unfeasible. I'd suggest using shorter weapons designed for...

There's quite a bit you can do with low levels of power. Instead of creating fireballs, throwing huge boulders telekinetically and illuminating an entire football field, imagine a guy who can only make sparks, throw coins and create pinhead sized light sources, about as powerful as a light bulb...

Not at all, I'd love to read about a guile hero who outsmarts his opponents rather than smashing their heads in. As for the setting, why not use some kind of Lovecraftian cataclysm? Door to the Beyond opens, people go crazy everywhere and start destroying indiscriminately. Some people are...

Wouldn't Shannara or Shadowrun be examples of that?