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Introduction The subject of world building came up recently. I thought I would give my own contribution to the discussion by getting into the types of and approaches to world building in some detail. There are 3 primary approaches toward world building. They are called top-down, bottom-up and...

I do not know if there's already a "block" feature on the forums, but if there is then it is not in any place that's clear or obvious. I have been dealing with long-term harrassment on the forums by a certain user, and have asked them on several occasions to leave me alone. However, they will...

I just saw someone else do a thread like this. Unless something changes, this should go up right above their thread. Anyway, what I have going here is to build a character for a Magical Girl like story mixed with a bit of Fate vibes. (The series is currently being pre-written. I plan to get...

I need to make up an American town for my story, thus the reference to the Simpsons' "Springfield." So, I need to make up a fake town, located somewhere on the East Coast of the US. Any ideas for a good name?

I'm trying to look up an appropriate fey creature from traditional English or Scottish folk lore to fill a guardian role in my story. It needs to be physically small in appearance, and someone enticing in terms of looking cute and innocent in appearance, but has a role of a guardian to some...

We have seen this common trope a lot these days. The protagonist has a seldom used and under-appreciated magic system, but they somehow twist it to make it amazingly OP. This seems like a somewhat game inspired thing. It's often the case in CCGs, MMORPGs, Mobas, and anything else that has...

Since Raven's Dagger seems to have truly abandoned his Agathara Loop series after the 2nd loop, I have been kicking around some ideas for a magical girl with time-travel powers of my own in order to continue the story concept. I really fell in love with the concept Raven's Dagger put forward in...

-Introductions and defining terms Hello everyone. I was watching a recent video that commented on Akira Toriyama's unfortunate passing, and it got me thinking about this subject. Nobody would dispute, his franchise, Dragonball, was undoubtedly a groundbreaking piece of media. For the purpose...

Just found a good video to share. I'll just leave this here for you.

You all know it. The classic plot of the hero summoned from another world to defeat the demon king. At least half of all Isekai are based around this basic core plot, with various permutations on it. Various different ways they try to just off-set it a little bit from that basic core so it...

My niece and nephew have been really into a traditional Irish song called The Rattlin' Bog, mostly because The Wiggles did a version of it. But, after hearing it over and over again for a while, I coincidentally wound up whistling the tune once and came to a startling realization. I remembered...

I am set to dark theme for both the forum and the main site. However, every so often, my theme for the main site will go back to default. There is no consistency to how long it takes or however many times I revisit the site that it goes back to the default theme. I'm guessing this is likely to...

I tried to post this topic a short time ago, and it was completely overrun by trolls to the extent that I requested the mods delete it so I could start afresh hopefully with more productive discussion. Well, they locked it instead, and now I'm re-posting it here with the same initial idea. This...

I just stumbled across this video on Youtube, really good for helping you understand the causes of procrastination and then how to overcome those causes.

I just spent the day making chocolate peanut butter balls for a Christmas party. Those things are incredibly good, but it is unreal just how much of a learning curve it is to figure out how to actually make them right. It's made especially hard by the fact that I have a food sensitivity (which...

Let me start this one with a bit of a personal experience I had reading a manga recently. I read this manga, and it featured a kingdom in which the ruling family is descended from a hero who is a master of the sword. This hero's bloodline, passed down through the royal family, also passes on...

This is inspired by @RepresentingEnvy for her favorite vampire sub-species poll, I thought I'd post a poll based on the actual vampire lore that's out there. So, for those of you who are unaware of what the actual lore behind each is in the poll above, I'll give you all a brief run-down...

So, I just made a post in "looking for" a short time ago asking if anyone knows of a "kicked from the party" based story that doesn't follow the 9 point plot that absolutely every single one of them follow. It's ludicrous how every single one of those stories follows that exact cookie-cutter...

So, I just asked about another theme that was spreading like a cancer a moment ago, but here's one I think would actually be pretty hard to find out there. The "Kicked from the Hero's Party" and, it's spin-off look alike, "Kicked from the S-Rank Party" are coming to be themes that are popping...

I've just noticed recently, there's a crazy amount of regressor stories starting to come out recently. That is to say, stories where the protagonist goes back in time in order to "do things better." However, almost all of them are based around one of two themes. They're all either dealing with a...