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Author Craft / Re: how to say goodbye
« on: April 25, 2010, 03:24:06 AM »
Have his little sister get really pissed at him, mainly because he is leaving, but partly because she can't go with him. She has a screaming/crying hissy fit.
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Author Craft / Re: Character Intro
« on: April 10, 2010, 10:22:25 PM »
The day started out average, but I knew something was wrong when the guy teleported into my office.
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Author Craft / Re: Need a name for your friendly neighborhood occult shop
« on: April 10, 2010, 10:15:47 PM »
Mycroft's Curiosities
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Author Craft / Re: Help needed: Good song for a vampire stripper
« on: April 05, 2010, 02:20:57 AM »
"Magic", sung by Olivia Newton-John.
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Author Craft / Re: sugestions on a name
« on: April 05, 2010, 02:16:11 AM »
How about Portia, or Julia?
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Author Craft / Re: Help needed: Good song for a vampire stripper
« on: March 12, 2010, 08:11:19 PM »
Annie Lennox, "Love Song for a Vampire".
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Author Craft / Re: The Secret History Spectrum
« on: February 23, 2010, 07:48:46 PM »
Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson novels had a nice way to keep the supernatural secret, he called it the Mist. It worked on ordinary people by clouding their perceptions as to what was going on.
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Author Craft / Re: Some Fantasy Standards
« on: September 27, 2009, 02:31:10 AM »
wizard, shaman, thaumaturge, all names for the same thing.
Oh, and the Druids of legend are nothing like those so named in D & D, and heaven save me from those writers who can't divorce themselves from this game system.
Oh, and the Druids of legend are nothing like those so named in D & D, and heaven save me from those writers who can't divorce themselves from this game system.
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Author Craft / Re: Some Fantasy Standards
« on: August 29, 2009, 02:09:37 AM »
First off, the whole sunlight thing was created by FW Murnau for his rip-off of Dracula.
Crosses are also solar symbols, and some authors throw in the idea that Crosses are psychosimatic.
In legend, garlic is a symbol of life, but you could throw in the fact that garlic is a natural antibiotic.
I see shamans as a weird combination of a priest, a psychic, and a thaumaturge(wizard).
Crosses are also solar symbols, and some authors throw in the idea that Crosses are psychosimatic.
In legend, garlic is a symbol of life, but you could throw in the fact that garlic is a natural antibiotic.
I see shamans as a weird combination of a priest, a psychic, and a thaumaturge(wizard).
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Author Craft / Re: Locations and Copywrite (or, Is Disney gonna sue)
« on: July 11, 2009, 04:44:42 PM »I believe this is allowed under Fair Use, though you might want to tread with caution if one of your characters goes in for some negative criticism of the place in question, (e.g. "This Busch Gardens place really sucks ass, doesn't it?!)
I didn't hear of Jim having any problem with using the Field Museum or Sue in Dead Beat or Wrigley Field in Blood Rites; whether he had to get permission is something one of the mods may know about.
Doesn't part of their funding come from public sources?
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Author Craft / Re: Creating a Vampire Breed - A critique would be appreciated
« on: June 26, 2009, 08:28:20 PM »I think he should keep it, it could lend itself quite nicely to a variety of plot arcs. Especially if vampires can turn out considerably different as they 'age' depending on choices they make.
Sunlight could "turn off" their abilities.
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Author Craft / Re: Creating a Vampire Breed - A critique would be appreciated
« on: June 26, 2009, 04:18:15 PM »
Throw out the sunlight thing, that was added by F. W. Murnau.
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Author Craft / Re: Making Generic Magic more Appealing
« on: June 03, 2009, 03:05:16 AM »
What if there is a defensive spell that causes a magic to return to the environment.
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Author Craft / Re: Prototype Magic system
« on: May 23, 2009, 02:36:16 AM »
Throw in a Hex Gate, that allows a person to control chance and probability.
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Author Craft / Re: Making Generic Magic more Appealing
« on: May 20, 2009, 10:23:50 PM »
Why not use the idea of magic being able to manipulate the Platonic Realm? (I don't think this is a new idea, but alot of authors don't come out and say that is the main basis of their magic.)