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Malik replied to the thread A Setting Based Around Gryphon Riders.My series has a country with gryphons as mounted aerial assets. Recommended reading if I say so myself. ;) -
I was fortunate enough to visit Oslo briefly some years ago and happened on a museum there (the historical museum, not the ship museum)...
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Malik replied to the thread "Swords aren't Lightsabers".I haven't heard this. It's possible, but the trick is to get exactly the right amount of carbon in your iron for the task at hand...
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Malik replied to the thread What's the best writing advice you ever received?."Always do whatever's next."
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Malik replied to the thread "Swords aren't Lightsabers".And again--please read my earlier (years earlier) posts on this--if there was some kind of super-steel, you wouldn't have medieval...
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Malik replied to the thread "Swords aren't Lightsabers".You don't mine steel. Steel is iron ore, heated and mixed with charcoal (carbon). Steel is not naturally occurring. God, I wish more...
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Much depends on the author here, though the reader bears some of the load. On the author's side, expectations must be set. This can...
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Malik replied to the thread "Swords aren't Lightsabers".https://josephmalik.com/steel-the-everything-of-all-things "Swords are swords because steel is steel" Do a search for the phrase...
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Malik reacted to skip.knox's post in the thread Is this a 'real' thing? (In reality, not just romanticized fiction) with
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>Someone write a book about a guy in his 50's, limping his way through an adventure, sitting the hell down after a fight and smoking... -
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And he tells the best stories. :D *raises hand* I smoke like a chimney, and it's finally started really working to help me make pages...
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Excellent article on armor and excellent post, as usual for Malik. Specially liked the compound curves section ;). Malik is a site...
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Malik reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Is this a 'real' thing? (In reality, not just romanticized fiction) with Like.
Erik paced in front of his throne, wearing only a pair of dudetastically faded jeans. The corded muscles in his arms flexed and shifted...
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Malik replied to the thread Is this a 'real' thing? (In reality, not just romanticized fiction).I'm a former amateur boxer and retired Army, with nearly 10 years in Special Operations. I've been beaten up, blown up, shot, stabbed...
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I've got some thoughts on this, but instead of talking theoretical, let's see the execution. Do you have any of this on the page, yet?
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In combat, whether you're using knives, swords, guns or baseball bats, it's usually the combination of shock and blood loss which kills...