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I'm looking for Reqs with particularly creative takes on LitRPG, largely for research purposes. No particular compunctions about content or content warnings, I only care about finding creative and high quality LitRPG content. Even if I've already read an example I'm provided with, that's still...

Epic Heroes. Gilgamesh, Achilles, Beowulf, Herakles; the ancient examples. Epic Heroes. The Dragonborn, Aragorn, (Various Star Wars Protagonists); the modern examples. Do you like reading them? Do you like writing them? What is the general opinion on these types of characters and stories in...

As title. give me the words your protagonist would shout before throwing themselves into a battle to the death. Mine? Current protagonists are all the silent types. but, if my main guy had to pick, he'd probably shout "I AM AWAKE"

Disclaimer: Studio Ghibli exists, and is being ignored because I believe the (two? three?) movies that resemble what I am talking about do not count because of the themes and allegory inherent in those films. They are not relevant here. You read the title so lets cut to the chase; ever played a...

The story opens in media res, the protagonist in the middle of a chaotic, messy, and horrific battle. Who is on what sides, what the stakes are, and who is currently winning are details that are not elaborated on. The only focus is on how much fun the protagonist is having, and the unhinged...

Tl;dr local autist wants to make things less ambiguous and more helpful, other equally funny jokes coming next week The writing advice 'Whenever you get stuck, kill a character' is widely accepted as being categorically bad in just about every way writing advice can be, so much so that I'm just...

Hit me. I want your truly worst and most cursed concoctions to soothe my wounded soul

I'm doing some creative exercises disguised as a longform novel. I'm not advertising that, it's just necessary context for people that will inevitably ask me 'why' when I follow up with the actual point of the post. I've been doing some magic system tinkering for a thing I'm making. In this...

I've been reading a lot of fantasy and consuming a lot of fantasy related or adjacent media lately, and one thing I can say with absolute confidence is that outside of clearly deliberate writing choices, no one seems to understand how swords work on a fundamental level in combat. Like, so, so...

Me and my friend wrote a song (you can't see it because I don't have the file) about the concept of a car/hovercar/spaceship race at massively FTL speeds. So, the prompt is this. You are the pilot of a one-man Hyperlight spacecraft in the year 5XXX, participating in a Massively FTL Race from...

So. Let's have a nuanced(highly niche and boring) discussion of interesting(it was irrelevant years ago) genre takes, satirical, parodical, or otherwise. In particular, I want to bring up two things; Watchmen and The Boys. Let's start with a poll to determine who I'm talking to here. Both are...

The name is misleading, but the idea it evokes is what I'm talking about. I'm looking for more ideas to go along with the following: Martial arts, as in both the real world hand-to-hand/antiquated weapons combat stuff and the fictional wuxia nonsense, but set in a such a way that mundane...

I CAST PHANTOM ITCHY FEET (This is my escape from trying to come up with sufficiently sensible magic recipes for my fic)

Premise: Someone opened the metaphorical pandora's box of eldritch horror and the world is now in the midst of an ongoing eldritch apocalypse. Your protagonist's fraying sanity is the biggest danger to their goals, monstrous hallucinations are just as dangerous as the real things would be, and...

I have a oneshot fic (5 pages) I wrote as a lore document for a oneshot D&D session many years ago. After four years of occasionally revisiting it, adding more stuff to its ideas section, and so on, the time has come for me to write something serious on it. It is ready, and I am ready, but I...

As the title implies, this is a small glimpse into my idea graveyard, a document of concepts, some more fleshed out than others, that I've determined I cannot do anything with despite liking them in isolation. -A magic system where memories are fuel for casting spells, the more important the...

So. I've started yet another of a steadily growing collection of documents in my file folder I call 'procrastination novels'. It works like this: You start a project. Get really, really invested into properly planning and editing and preparing that project, and then- You open a new document...

Go into whatever doc you use to write your story or stories. Do CTRL+A, change formatting to double line spacing, change font to times new roman, and font size to 12. Now look at how many pages that is. That's how many pages of standard hardcover book you've written. You're welcome.

Title is the only question. I'll go first: My protagonist is heavily based on characters with a strong sense of drama (like Lelouch from Code Geass or King George III from Hamilton the Musical), mixed with a poetic and brutal sense of justice, plus a healthy dose of confident and consenual (but...