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I have 16 in my setting. 2 per element, one male, one female. 8 elements. Often there's some thematic overlap. Like Umbra (Darkness, male) is the god of secrets (and is all about keep things secret) While his sister Nocture is the goddess of mysteries. She's all about leading people on to solve...

I am just a hobbyist writer with a few hundred readers. Writing has cost me money, and earned me nothing. AI doesn't fiscally impact me in this area. But I am a programmer and a game developper, and people in my industry are losing their jobs thanks to AI. Translators, artists, editors...

If people ask ChatGPT "Write a book" or "Write chapter about X" and copy-paste this into their books, people will quickly realise they can skip the middle-man and ask ChatGPT to tell them a story directly. For any book to have value, people will have to add some human oversight to the output...

I didn't suggest or say that. Some people are writers and will keep writing. What you'll see is some people who used to write because they had to will no longer write, because they don't have to. What you'll also see is people who know how to write, and will learn how to use AI as a tool to...

Are you saying movie directors shouldn't feel proud of their movies? They didn't act the scene, write the lines, cast the actors, stitch the costume, aim the camera or any of these things.

Some people aren’t writers, they’re directors. A narrative director in a game or a movie director doesn’t personally write every line or scene, but they’re still crucial to shaping a coherent story. Their job is to guide the emotional arc, the themes, the tone. They have to trust the...

Daily release is best to get new readers organically. You should probably try to have 30+ chapters already before you post any, then drop one per day, to help people find your story in the recently updated. But it's hard to sustain that output. I do Tuesday-Friday releases usually, except this...

I just fed it an image I had generated a while back. 100% confidence it's not AI. Every single AI detection tool is worthless.

Random note, but I started reading a LitRPG on the other site. It's not tagged as AI-written or assisted. But as someone who uses ChatGPT at work and to bounce ideas, I see its fingerprints everywhere in that novel. But how many piece of evidence do you need to find before you throw the first...

I'd pick the martial artist MC from my team for this trial. She's a petite fighter using Baji Quan. I think she'd ace it. Especially since she is counter-attack focused and a pro-gamer in the top percentile.

It's actually 4 different stories intertwined together! (And I've tallied 20 distinct point-of-view characters as of last count...) Thanks you for your review and Grok's! It was super interesting feedback! I don't generally hear those complaints, because the folks who are still commenting on...

You just reminded me of my one attempt at writing a super hero story too! Also the same theme as all my other works. So yeah. While I can challenge myself for change GENRES, I can't escape my monotheme :)

If the Hero’s Journey is the monomyth, then I’m a monothematic author. I don’t set out saying, “I’m going to write about Theme X.” But no matter what I create—whether it’s a genetically modified child-soldier in a sci-fi campaign, a magical construct in modern-day Vancouver, a LitRPG about...

KISS: Keep it Simple Stupid. Same rule of design for most things. There's a reason most games have some kind of weapon-triangle (spear beats sword beats bow); rock-paper-scissors is timeless. Make up something unique and cool. Put it over something proven and true. Voilà. You have a good...

I would aim for stats nearing 100 around level 75, not 25. That’s because I’m conscious of the cognitive load that comes with numbers going past three digits. Once you’re dealing with 300s, 400s, 500s, you start to lose granularity, and it's harder for readers to intuit what those numbers...

Technically I am a returning member. I joined in 2020, posted a little, then vanished until December 2024

I will echo what many people in this thread have said about the stats scaling drastically. I'll also mention that racial stat bonus is pretty passé at this point in RPGs. In a videogame (and thus LitRPG) it's fine if the race gives a +1 bonus to one or two attributes. When all your stats are...

"roger" or "copy that" would be 了解 , no? うん to me sounds almost like an onomatopeia! I'd probably go with "mhm!", "mmm" "yeah..." "uh-huh" はい is the one to translate as "Yes" "Got it" "Understood" "Right", although context matters a lot. Answering はい to お元気ですか would probably translate to "I'm...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/money-printer-go-brrr It's an old meme. People will usually go "[x thing] goes BRRR" now to mean a million different sort of things, but usually it means it's doing something. Or just vibes. As for the post itself, I'm probably somewhere between "I get so little...

I leave some kind of conversational comment at the end of each chapter. They rarely talk about real life, but they might talk about the process behind the creation of the chapter.