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I suspect you'd need to poll something like the Internet Archive (The "Wayback Machine") to get this kind of data from beyond the current week or so, unless the site was designed with tracking details provided by the hosting service.

AD&D had orcs looking like humanoid boars but with less hair originally; don't have the "white box" versions to check and don't recall the D&D Basic description though. 2e adopted "greenskins" quite possibly from Warhammer (also turned kobolds from dog-like to reptilian).

That's why the magical fight scenes in Between Worlds start out very small scale - a few clumsy spells and magical creatures and not much else, until the one-on-one MC vs. Arrogant Master fight around CH 25 or so. I realized how tricky it could be to write while doing so. Am about ten chapters...

Interesting - wonder what your take on the magic systems (yes, plural ... sort of... two, actually) in Between Worlds would be then... The system in Strange Awakening is "anything goes..." :D Too Danged Long (to) Read?

Star Wars is technically "Science Fantasy" (or Pulp Science Fiction, I suppose). But yeah, magic, or something magic-adjacent, is a staple of several Martial Arts films, some superhero stories, horror stories and shows up other places as well.

The thing about magical battles is that they either are the comic-book SFX fests with flashy lights and fireballs and air vortices ... or they're all in the mind of the combatants, taking place on some astral realm. Or they're a weird hybrid of these - E. E. "Doc" Smith did some good "hybrid"...

90% of the time, the writer does not need to go into this level of depth - and 99% of the time the reader does not care IME. Before I drifted off you seemed to have some good points here but ... if any writer goes to this depth (if you want to see how far Tolkien took it, look for his essays of...

Then you have your answer - the JP novel format basically IS standard short story formatting, but extended into a long light novel usually. Just look for short story writing techniques - or find a bunch of short stories by authors you like or who are well-known for short stories (e.g. O. Henry...

Because AI cannot be critical, unless forced to by a very narrow prompt. AI reviews are always either positive or gibberish (or positive gibberish). It won't point out flaws (well, at least one of them WILL if asked but it sugar coats it and points out positives more heavily - I saw a guy who...

Our politicians are suddenly big fans of Artificial Intelligence. Probably because most of them ARE artificial and have no clue what intelligence is...

What exactly do you mean by "one-shot" - a short story, a stand-alone novel, or something else?

If I had anything that would make sense for, I'd submit something but it really doesn't fit anything I have right now. Nice offer though, and I hope someone who can use it has a good enough story to take it off your hand!

First, remove the disclaimer - telling the reader there's not going to be any logic is a bad way to start. More description of the setting - not in painstaking details, but some colors and smells and feelings beyond pain and fear. Right now, it feels like the characters are actors at a dress...

You do not need to show the worldbuilding, really not EVER - but you need to make it clear that it exists, that there is some logic behind it all. In a visual medium you can get away with a lot more than in pure text - look to the better of the Marx Brother's movies, for example - there is...

Actually parodies may require MORE world-building than a serious setting. Look at Terry Pratchett's Diskworld novels - yeah, he does sometimes contradict himself (occasionally intentionally as part of the joke) but there was some very heavy-duty world building at play in those books. Just...

Actually there is a Glossary section that is ideal for that kind of stuff.

First it depends on what you define as AI - some consider grammar and spell-checking to be a form of AI (in the newest versions it comes close). Others only consider AI to be the part that writes or edits sections of text for the user. In my opinion, if you do more than use AI to translate...

Hmm - I know a few fans of The Acolyte who would strongly disagree with you but I think you're onto something. Though the videos in the background are a bit distracting... Not sure if this is a flaw in your concept here or I'm a freak or this is something you have in mind but I know as a...

Ah, but which witch is which?

Best bet is to drop hints of the larger story without committing to anything that is not part of the current story - in both stories - until they merge.