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Neat trick. I recall, I think two stories Ramsey Campbell wrote in second person. One has "you" coming home after visiting the noble in the castle on the hill to find your wife is now afraid of you, hung foul smelling stuff in the windows to try and keep you out, has vitriol by her bed that...

I take it you didn't learn with BECMI boxed sets then... third level was the limit in Basic, Expert took it to 7 IIRC, Master to 12, Companion to 20 and Immortal to "beyond 20" And until AD&D you never really did know because some classes had charts that went well over 20 but most "topped out"...

Haven't had that problem here but one site I literally could not post anything to because anything that fit neatly into one of their tags had content that violated their terms of service.

About 2 out of 3 times (the other time it's first person). It sometimes fits the story or genre better.

Sadly he passed halfway through writing the series, but the late James M. Ward was working on a LitRPG series that wandered through various mythologies - I believe the third book had been sent to the publisher and he was well into the fourth at the time of his death (the series was supposed to...

Just make sure it IS Sci-Fi and not Skiffy or Sy-Fy... :biggrin_s:

So the Isekai/Gender Bender/Urban Fantasy novel I'm half-working on (at CH6 currently) BARELY makes the cut (roughly every four chapters)...

Well, assuming you're "debunking" trans people, this is null and void when you refer to a Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania, of course. Far too many lose sight of this and use entertainment to teach and push an agenda these days, sadly. The Sesame Street syndrome - it made...

If there is "smut" as a "detour" from the story, or even as part of it but not a defining trait, then it just needs the "Adult Content" tag/warning (tag overall if it happens occasionally, warning for specific chapters if it happens rarely or only once) IMO. If the story is all about "smut" and...

People like GL with gay or trans people. But make it BL and they run in terror, or so I've heard.

First time I've heard of that one. Cool. If I ever decide to write pure sci-fi (I tend to do hybrid stuff or straight fantasy... or occasionally horror) I'll have to check it out.

I have tried to keep it in mind in Strange Awakening. Even had the character keep his/her short hair (and then find out that it doesn't grow anymore... and is resistant to dyes... but that's another point) - though it becomes less important to the character over time until things force a...

There is a site called "Space Battles" that seems to have the strongest Sci-Fi following. Was a bit of a pain to wade through so I lost the bookmark - it's all forum-based so stories are done as posts, and comments are sub-threads.

Because that shows you've been read, even if your name (or pen name) is unknown, and even if you are making little or nothing from it.

Darkseid is the big one in DC. They also have a bunch of unnamed demons and devils, as well as Neron (the architect of the Underworld crossover event... which felt a lot like a more focused version of Marvel's Inferno), The Endless (Death, Destiny, Dream, Destruction, Desire, and ... the one...

To answer the question, though, as I've already done something like the Artificer myself (not the same but close enough), I'd rather see the one I haven't done, the shapeshifter.

Or faceless value. Though I should probably have a "B" instead of a "C" ...

An unfinished story of mine had a geomancer who could talk to stone. The more "raw" it was, the more information she could get but the less usefully it would be organized; a statue with facial features could talk clearly but did not sense as much as an unworked chunk of rock, while the chunk of...

Why is there room for only one MC? You could try to do an Avengers/Justice League/Fellowship of the Ring type of team story... It is generally easier to work with only one MC, but rewarding to work with a team (I've had a lot of fun with Between Worlds, for example; it has six MCs, technically...

Ah - yeah, I guess that could trigger it. Ouch... I had several friends who got into the books BECAUSE of the sex stuff ... and even more who stopped reading them when it took over. And one who kept with it and proudly announced Laurel was "back" when book ... eleven, I think it was ... dropped...