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In general, if the terms appear in multiple games, they're acceptable as long as you don't copy spell descriptions verbatim. And some spell names vary from system to system (Magic Missile is recognizable but definitely mechanically different between HackMaster current edition, Advanced Dungeons...

You don't get a confirmation, it just appears. It can take up to 48 hours, especially if you post on a weekend or during peak hours. Also sometimes it doesn't show up with only one chapter posted (had that happen once... wound up deleting it because it was more of a joke than anything else...

Would it be appropriate to say "you killed it" without specifying which type of killing you did?

Depends on the character. Jack Diamond would assume it was an illusion and wind up getting himself in a lot of trouble. probably miss the dance in detention, or wind up banishing the school administrators to some other dimension if he has access to even 1/4 of his resources. Kelly (Strange...

I am created the Tedious. I am become bored, the shatterer of words, The dull night tiger who makes the masters of Sinanju go elsewhere.

I just used prose and framed it in "<" and ">" signs myself. <Your strength is 16. Your agility is 18.>

Okay, I'll give you that.

I just remembered one other place that seemed to do this well. I'd have to look up the title, but there's a Japanese TV series on Netflix about a police department with a bureau that investigates the paranormal. The scenes in their squadroom are pretty much solid comedy (the chief is a...

The only way I know to force that kind of reaction is to get them to read it out loud. And even then, it's a crapshoot whether you can actually trigger tears, just generate sadness, or have them laugh at your overblown prose.

Oh no -the emotion they found they brought with them: greed. (Two out of three times so far, I got them to stop bothering me by asking "Which story are you referring to?" ... and one I just laughed at, literally as the story referenced is just sample chapters of other stories... One did...

Like I've come a long way, but still have a long way yet to go.

When and if I start making some real money off of my writing, I intend to "share the wealth" - but that may be a long time coming.

2012-ish (pretty much the year my old desktop died and I started jobs that I had to drive to commute to instead of taking public transportation) to 2019 (just started back up before COVID hit and got into it during the lockdown)

I thought that about one of mine until I was forced to cut down a few (one had just hit 5.5k and another was 4.8) for PocketFM (also had to pad a few that weren't 1k - wound up changing my chapter numbering by about 8 when all was said and done). Though I hated having to redo the entire first...

Any way you could cut the chapters in half and post more frequently? Chapters that large can intimidate a lot of readers.

Though there is no "hard and fast" rules - the "sweet spots" tend to be 20, 50, and, allegedly (have not gotten that far myself with anything here) 100. You'll see upticks when you hit each of those chapter counts. As to comments and feedback... those are completely random (and, IME, mostly...

Really the "ideal" length for online stories seems to be "greater than 1000, less than 2000, absolute limits at 750 minimum, 2500 max." Then again, PocketFM insists chapters be between 1000 and 5000 words, with the "sweet spot" the 1250-2500 range so the rules are not that hard-and-fast.

They're artificial but may have forgotten the intelligence part.

I keep reading this as "There's the charm-free feedback thread"...

Ah, but make it like Squid Games - if they don't keep both factors high enough, they are executed and removed from the game...