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    Dresden Codak--awesome webcomic

    Dresden Codak has been my favorite comic for years! Honestly, I have no idea how something so perfect in so many ways ever came to exist, but it's pretty awesome nonetheless.
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    Who Do You Write Like?

    Wow. I entered an old short romance story I wrote for some contest or other and got Jane Austen. Then I tried another couple of short stories and got Stephanie Meyer, Rudyard Kipling, PG Wodehouse, and, finally, Dan Brown. Having read all of these except Meyer, I'd have to say I write...
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    How to write a romance

    @Calyb Don't worry, there'll be no vampire-demon-werewolf love triangles created here.
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    How to write a romance

    So today I (perhaps unwisely) challenged a friend of mine that I could write a romance short story better than she could. All she reads is romance, which gives her just a bit of an advantage. There are no genre limitations, so that's a plus for me. The question is, how does one write good...
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    Why use D&D races in our stories?

    I don't know if this has already been posted, and I'm feeling too lazy to go through all the replies and check at the moment, so here's something that you may find interesting. reinventing fantasy races | Terminally Incoherent
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    Vielmond's Works

    These are all amazing.
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    Fantasy/Ancient WMD Ideas?

    Have you read Voyage of the Shadowmoon by Sean Mcmullen? It deals with this same problem, and it does it excellently. My personal suggestions would be 1. Greek fire 2. Some magical artifact for gathering or manipulating energy 3. Plague, Bubonic or otherwise 4. some form of crop blight? 5...
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    Ceramic Armor

    So something more along the lines of a cross between lamellar laminate, linothorax, and a central part with a layout designed like Dragon Skin was?
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    Ceramic Armor

    So in my world, Antikthon, armor for the wealthy or for professional soldiers is mostly made of nonmetallic substances, ceramic being a favorite because of its resistance to heat/cold, and because of the fact that nobody wants to fight someone who can melt steel with a thought in a suit of steel...
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    What to call mages

    @ WooHooMan post #1: good point. Using an essence is usually controlled by a series of gestures or words, though this varies from mage to mage. In theory, though, essences can be wielded without any outward signs. The gestures and phrases are a bit like training wheels, and they also slightly...
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    What to call mages

    Every great fantasy has its own mostly unique magic system, including better words for using said magic than just either a) calling it magic and the practitioners mages or magic-users and b) better terms for using the magic than "using" a spell. For instance, in the Lightbringer books, the...
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    The purple Bengal Tigers eat yellow marshmlllows and should they be Rasberry flavour

    In response to the end of post #18, no,but that's what imagination is for. What are you trying to say anyways????? And what's all this nonsense about bruised egos??? Also, just because someone defends their work or methodology doesn't make them in any way guilty. It makes them someone who...
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    codename

    Try Frost Walker, Snowbird, Winter Fury, Ice Stalker, White Huntress (Is that Artemis???), Glisse (Ice in French), Coldheart, or some such thing for the woman.
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    Fantasy Name Generator

    As do I. Also, I'm having a serious problem naming a fairly important evil henchman. I just can't come up with an evil-enough sounding name. I am also in serious need of a name for a thief, as everything I try just sounds... wrong. Help!
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    Creature Name Needed

    What about Svorrel? Or Krynth Aelorth Rixars Yversa Just combine random letters into an easy-to-say pattern.
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