Tag: Fiction
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How to Level Up Your Bad Guys
Everybody loves main characters who grow into heroes. Over the length of a series, tested in fire and steel, they overcome their weaknesses, become even stronger and more capable, and become more than they are. Indeed, character growth is the foundation of shounen manga — readers want to see the hero grow from a zero to a…
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The Golden Mile Part 8
The Babylon Night There was just one last thing left to do. Connor, Karim, Fox and Wood pulled security in the hallway. Tan, Ngo and Yamamoto rushed into the server room. Tan retraced his steps through the aisles and made his way back to the terminal server. Many servers were melted and destroyed, but the…
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The Golden Mile Part 7
The Void Vast emptiness. The ritual hall was empty. An expanse of empty space, large enough to cram a small army, stretching from the doors to the end of the hall. There was no incense, no ceremonial props, no altars, just… nothing. Nothing sacred. At the far side of the hall, there was a flat…
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The Golden Mile Part 4
May God Help Us All They took the stairs. There was one place in the arcology guaranteed to be nonsecure by design. No RFID readers, no cameras, no drones. No way to jam it either. The emergency stairs. The moment Tan shoved the door open, a fire alarm rang. But only on the lower floors.…
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The Golden Mile Part 1
The Mission Remains In Babylon, the city of skyscrapers, the Golden Mile stood apart. In the heart of Downtown, in the business district named after itself, the Golden Mile was the city’s earliest arcology. From afar, the tower was a rounded column of pure golden light, looming high above the offices and commercial buildings around…
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Designing for Games vs Designing for Stories
A week ago, PulpRev author Jon Mollison wrote a Twitter thread about the role of clerics in Dungeons and Dragons. Among the key insights was this: Wrong. Clerics are a great #dnd class because they fill a proper function within the game – secondary brick with defensive tac support. Designing the class to reflect a literary archetype puts the…