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You need indomitable human spirit to accomplish anything worth doing and have it feel satisfying. So the question is if they have all the other things that they need? If they don’t, how to they deal with that? What partial victories are possible, or is it a tragedy where their stubbornness gets...

Weakest character that actually DID THINGS? I wrote a fanfic in which a guy ended up isekaied into the World of Warcraft with the ability to grow in power at a ridiculous pace (my first story I ever posted, pls no bully.) One of the early people that joined his party was Big Tony, a level 2 thug...

We must examine the potential intersection of dragon and vampire. For that, however, there needs to be a larger dragon population to allow for cross pollination.

Could be interesting. I’d put forth the suggestion that there might be different breeds of the parasite. The System is only one common symptom. Several breeds will also drastically alter the personality of the host, giving false memories of either another world or a potential dark future...

In the real world? There would be at least one technical term that would be used only by boring people and public speakers, but understood internationally, while every country and probably every subculture would have their own colloquial terms based on what they look like or what that group...

Killing gay people and disabled people might have been pride based. The Jews were targeted because they were perceived as being more affluent and it was assumed to be some big Jewish conspiracy keeping the good ethnic Germans from being so successful. Same thing happened to the Jews everywhere...

The most destructive is the one that brushes against societies weaknesses in that exact moment. I’d say Envy is the strongest force for evil in the last century. The Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, and various communism-backed mass killings were caused by envy at their core. None of the groups who...

Why would one be the most powerful? Any one of them can damn you. If we are talking personifications they would all have their own strengths, weaknesses, and skillsets. I’ll be writing these all on the assumption that they are an incarnation of the sin, as opposed to a victim of the sin. Lust...

It would be reasonable, but it would alter how that character is seen in the future. Permanent blot on their record that would need to be addressed, even if just by feeling guilty about it, for the readers to take any moral stance by the character seriously in the future.

Oh thank fuck someone stepped in to explain everything. Cyborg Nala here just cleared it all up.

Dough a deer a female deer day a dammit autocorrect where was I oh my wife is listening to TikTok if I could fall into the sky do you think time would pass me by and you know I’d walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight man that’s a really far distance to walk actually shit 1000...

Authorial intent does not single-handedly determine the reader’s reaction, no matter how good they are at writing. That doesn’t mean the author has to play into a popular head canon or ship, either. Some of my favorite characters and scenes in my stories get basically zero reaction. That’s...

Not so much a fight as a battle, and I’m more proud because I just finished writing it than anything else, but I’m having fun with a small magical siege in my current story. The attacker is a necromancer who can only raise a small handful of skeletons at a time. He hasn’t appeared onscreen, but...

Erich: yes but only because of shapeshifting magic Emrys: he’s a beautiful borderline drow femboy. He could manage it pretty easily Gil: as a world hopper you never know what skills you might need. He wouldn’t look great but he could manage it if he had to, assuming he can get his hands on...

Eh. It’s more something I’ll add to my toolkit of interesting concepts to use. It might not find a place in one of my games for years, but now I know of something interesting I could use.

I mean I’m gonna steal the folklore bit for my TTRPG campaigns, I’m sure I can fit it in somewhere, but I’m already writing a serious story *and* a smutty nonsense story so I’m pretty much topped off there.

Hmm. Play into the maxed out stats but no op ability by having him be a consumable item crafter. He can make *the best* healing potions, *the best* alchemical liquid nitrogen, *the best* smoke bombs, and *the best* rapidly hardening foam solutions. They take time and effort to make, so they are...

To be fair, Brando Sando is a cinnamon bun so his response would probably amount to “well yes that works for some people. It’s not how I write, but I find that having a hard magic system helps me tell a more satisfying story. That’s just what works for me though.” His rabid Fanbase, though...

Power systems are a form of world building. World building is seasoning. If someone truly hates fish, it is extremely unlikely that any combination of seasonings will make them like that fish even if they would LOVE that style of preparation if the meat was chicken. Good seasoning can...

I will never stop being annoyed by people whose complaint in my giant smutty power fantasy with a system (my first ever story btw) is 1. The MC is starting out “weak” in that he’s *merely* a prodigy in the use of holy magic that gets big tired if he instantly obliterates someone. I’m sorry. I...