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OK so you've got two powers, elves and vampires. The elves lost the first part of the war and got enslaved by the vampires. (As walking blood banks? As work slaves? As magically controlled thralls?) If you want to make a short story out of it, I'd go full Spartacus on Dracula. Free the slaves...

I agree with encouraging reading, it's always better when an author is well-read themselves. Maybe spend some time on tvtropes to familiarize yourself with the tools you have available. As for the Chinese scene, it honestly sounds like a depressing way to mass-produce novels that are...

I like LitRPGs. They're satisfying that urge to put a value on (power) growth. I know it can be used as a cheap trick, but at the same time it is also a plot device that can enrich a story. Tropes are tools, they have no inherent value, it all depends on how you use them. And a LitRPG setting...

The stakes. To do a good action scene or story, you need to build up stakes. A playground brawl can be more riveting than a fight with a millennial dragon, if you set the scene right. Few people want to read about a murder hobo who kills monsters for the sake of killing monsters. Now if that...

Thanks guys and gals for your stories! You made me laugh a lot.

"Rigul Blador, for the crimes of disruption of hyperspace lanes, active piracy, sedition and consuming a banana in a public setting, you are sentenced to life in prison on Murgrakir." While not unexpected, the Space Judge sentence sends a chill down the spine of Rigul. The prison planet of...

Yeah, that's valid as well. The prompt could be read that way.

I can't really be invested in VRMMORPG settings. Yeah, cool, you're level 1000 and beat the ultimate boss who threatened... a game? OK, cool story bro, but what are the actual stakes? Nobody dies, nobody can be really injured and the only "native inhabitants" are lines of code. Plus you could...

It kinda did, at least that's how I understood it. She was incredibly lucky once, why wouldn't she be twice, with the added irony of the person responsible for her "salvation" being the one who stole her fate. At least that's how I'd play it as a God of Fate, Luck or a related domain.

Thanks! Though seriously, how dumb do you have to be to mess with someone who has insane luck as a superpower? Even if you bring them to the brink of death, you're just winding up the industrial strength spring of Fate and positioning your face right in front of it! And as you've seemingly...

OK, let's move to pm. Not saying that I agree with whatever you said, but I've been warned not to talk about politics on the forum. So, pm or nothing.

I am snek. I am bite. Bite hooman. Eat hooman. Be big snek. Bite lot of hooman. Eat lot of hooman. Be huge snek. Sleep under sea. Be woken up by Ragnarok. Bite lotsa hooman. Bite god. Be turned into forgotten hooman. Die.

How about this: Kallun was worried. He shouldn't be worried, he'd done all he could to stop Belladonna's rise to power and teach her both the hard lessons of life and the more personal lessons on how to serve his every needs. Now Bella stood as his slave, a well-trained servant, obeying any of...

Yeah yeah totally fictional communism! Automated Space Communism for the win! ?

Oops, didn't read the rules! @Anon2023 if you wish, we can move it to pm!

3AM. It's the dead of night. The town is finally silent, save for the occasional car passing in the distance, a lone traveller, a late party goer, someone coming back from their lover, an half-asleep police patrol. It's not yet time for crime, you'd have to wait an hour or so for everything to...

Well, it was a first try, I still had fun reading the answers. I'll try to do better next time.

Unless you're the mongols. Raiding the countryside, letting the European nobles hide in their castles and trouncing them with hit-and-run tactics anytime they got out proved surprisingly effective at the time. But they did have the paper (higher mobility and sufficient ranged damage) to the...

If that power is bestowed by a higher power related to love or sex, you can have them add a carrot to the stick in order to better control the hero. Something like "each time you do my bidding (succeed at a quest, defeat my ennemies, spread the word of my cult, etc...), I will grant you an...