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Tree people share the same gut bits as us flesh bags? Huh. That's news to me.

Counterpoint; philosophy is good actually.

I'd say that this characterization does a disservice to those with an interest in philosophy. The pop culture view of Nihilism is bad. It makes for easy villains, but it cuts off a lot of neat ways you can play around with the idea. I mean, Buddhism can easily be described as nihilistic and...

Hm, maybe he was caught in an accident and now his heavily damaged body is floating in a medical tube somewhere. The game could have been a rushed method to ensure that his mind remains active & engaged. Part of facing reality could be facing up to being heavily disabled in the real world.

Naru described what character prompted the thread a couple posts up.

There's a few routes you can go with. Now, the first and most important aspect to keep in mind is that the impression your audience gets from a character is going to rely a lot on how other characters react to them. Admittedly this comes from my D&D experience more than from my writing...

Eh? What was wrong with Avatar the Last Airbender map?

While this video is focused on NPCs in video games it's just so conveniently timed to this thread that I have to share it here;

It hasn't really come up, but I prefer playing around with the font or quotation marks to indicate foreign languages. <I might write something meant to be in another language like this,> or use italics to indicate telepathic communication. If you're focusing on publishing online instead of on...

One thing to keep in mind as fantasy writers is the heightened emotions that occur after dangerous situations. Fighting is a stressful and adrenaline filled thing where instead of the gentle caress of a hand you're more likely to find a hand pointing a sword at you! Even if your characters...

When it comes to purely physical attraction I prefer to use actions to communicate it more than physical descriptions. Instead of describing the knight's muscles have the party mage pause to watch them training in the morning with sweat glinting on their skin and their movements kicking up the...

Well, I'm a few decades younger, but I'm in the same position. With sex itself it's probably easiest to just fade to black. For intimacy and relationships I've found it most useful to read a lot, pay attention to how other stories handle it and compare that to how you handle that in your...

??? What's there to complain about?

The herds of cattle a drover drives to market have a lot of cows in them so that's where the connection to a lot comes from.

Well, if you're talking about cowboys driving cattle to market then there's naturally the wild west. I'm not sure if they're what most people think of when it comes to transitory groups though. Boom towns could be interesting to look at though. In a lot of ways they're entirely made up of...