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Seems a little disjointed - and like 75% of that disjointedness is intentional, primarily to show the MCs state of mind. It works in that context but does make the flow a bit uneven throughout. Actually it feels like it was meant to be the script for a manga or comic book, but is missing the...

This is something that sometimes "My Vampire System" does well and sometimes it does very tediously. About 1/3 of the time, the character names his move - Shadow Step! Blood Swipe! Shadow Void! and it's kind of cool the first time or two it comes up, but then it's just kind of distracting...

It varies. I've seen a few great short stories in second person (most of them by Ramsey Campbell), but it almost always falls apart in longer stories, unless it's a "Chose Your Own Adventure" or other gamebook format where the author is literally asking you, the reader, what path to follow...

Thank you for that. As an aside, Casebook One is complete over at Royal Road - one of the reasons I started posting here was hoping doing so would prod me into finishing Casebooks two (and further)... Ah - the MC is not (yet) the kid - that's about Casebook five or six where that character...

If it's first person, then the inner thoughts make sense, but if it's any form of third person then they can easily take a reader out of the moment (if there's a mistake you can make in a sex scene, I can pretty much guarantee I've made it, either in writing or in real life, and this is one I've...

Experience and mastery of mathematics - the mage learns to cast the spell so that it detonates far enough away that he just feels a wave of heat and not much else (unless he miscalculates and roasts himself and the entire party... or, if the mage happens to have a Ring of Fire Resistance or...

Another good example would be a lot of the better (and some, like Gamera vs. Jiger, worst) ones have a story where human (or, less often, but definitely there, alien) agents are really the primary antagonists, with their leader (be it a bandit, a king from another world, or just a renegade...

Maybe this should be like in one Rowan Atkinson sketch: "One has to wonder if the child might have turned out better if you (the parents) had administered a few lethal beatings."

Oh, but I suppose I should admit that one reason my "lore bible" no longer exists is that my world was destroyed in 2001, part of the Gawdswar, that reordered the universe and created Garweeze Wurld for the old HackMaster RPG

My apologies, Gabrielle - though it was an informal request, so I thought I could slip by the formalities... :D

Heh - though I took a full chapter to do so, that was pretty much how Olean described Magic to Kelly in Strange Awakening. A bit more detail too, as there are three types ("Mundane magic" which is what allows biology, chemistry, etc. to function consistently, "Elemental Magic" which her kind...

I just realized recently that I have a bunch of supporting characters explicitly (though I had not realized it at the time) to make these kinds of comments so the MC does not have to...

Well, if you're really bored and can see my signature, feel free to check out anything listed there. If not, then eh - seems like a fun thread at least.

Ah yes, the "Yu-Gi-Oh Lesson" - talked to a guy who knew the creators of the franchise. They first wrote a one-shot Pokemon parody manga, with cards instead of magic balls to hold the monsters. When that took off, they added a one-shot parody of the gamers who took over their shop two nights...

If I have to explain it, it is advanced science, not magic. Magic defies explanation - it is tampering with the fundamental forces of reality, bending the elements to the will, altering the flow of energy, summoning Powers from outside of Time and Space. OR magic is what it is in our mundane...

The last one I had was fifteen pages of text and ten pages of game information (for an AD&D campaign back in the 90s). But everything is in flux so I don't really have a set one anymore.

Never heard of this one before. Not big into mermaids (and my "favorite" version were horrific monsters with fish tails, bird-like faces, and nasty claws who created illusions through their singing) myself, but a cool idea.

Batman/Judge Dredd Batman/Predator Deadpool is Marvel (and he did Defeat the Marvel Universe); the DC equivalent was Lobo (who did beat up HIS universe)... A really crazy one was done last year - Godzilla vs. King Kong vs. The Justice League of America (70s version). This year, Godzilla instead...

Or it might be like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or the novel Silverlock, or some of the Herold Shea stories, or Craig Shaw Gardner's Cineverse Cycle (maybe even his Ebenezum/Wuntvor "Eternal Apprentice" cycle but that was more parody).

Romantasy is an actual genre, at least according to Amazon.