Wanted: Topics for May
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2024-04-09 17:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-04-09 17:24:13 +0000 UTC View PostWars are not easy to write, wars in which the two central countries involved aren't actually at war, even more so. This type of conflict, sometimes known as a "proxy" war, is one where the two part...
2024-04-09 17:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Now. as I'm sure you're all aware by now, I've run into some truly messed-up people over the years: bandit kings with daddy issues, torturers who got off on their work, the kinds of petty tyrants w...
2024-04-09 17:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post
6/1/Annesouais 25
Your Grace,
This message I have dispatched with the courier from your staff, who I had auspiciously encountered the day before. He had not been able to reach me before...
2024-04-09 17:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
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2024-03-07 22:47:18 +0000 UTC View PostA Note on Sources: A lot of the armies on this list have multiple sizes attested to them in various sources. For the purpose of this reference, I'll be leaning towards lower estima...
2024-03-07 22:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post
To the far north, beyond the peaks of the Barazin Mountains, lie a land of icy hillocks and pastures, split by many fast-moving rivers with steep and rocky banks. This is the land of what the Khaza...
2024-03-07 22:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Written on the Third Day of the Fourth Month of the Twenty-Fifth Reign of the Annesouais Emperor.
Your Grace,
I have arrived now in the northern anchor fortification of the Outer Outpos...
2024-03-07 22:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
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2024-02-09 00:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAmateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics", or so the old saying goes, an admission that victory more often goes to the side which is better organised, better trained, better equipped, ...
2024-02-08 20:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The trip out from Torinhall would have been uneventful if not for one rather inconvenient fact.
You see, when the Duke commissioned us on this quest of his, he made the mistake of announcing ...
2024-02-08 20:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The Khorobirit Papers
5/11/617
Thus, it appears that I have outlived another Tierran King. This one has departed his kingdom in a state so very different from how he inherite...
2024-02-08 20:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
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2024-01-07 18:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a question for you: why were there only 300 Spartans at Thermopylae? According to popular history, this was supposed to be an all-or-nothing battle for the future of the Classical Greek Worl...
2024-01-07 06:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
REMEMBER THAT TIME WE KILLED A DRAGON?
The strange thing about being on the open road is that you end up thinking about nothing more than the next village or town. You could be the kind of pe...
2024-01-07 06:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post
ON THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW RIFLE
To my Esteemed Master Truscott,
I greet the news of your continued advantageous position with the greatest of joys. With the situation as u...
2024-01-07 06:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
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2023-12-07 18:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostHow big should your fictional empire be?
That's a question which is actually two questions: a worldbuilding question, and a storytelling question, with the answer to the latter building upon ...
2023-12-07 01:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Agriculture in the Fledgling Realms
Despite the many varied cultures of the Fledgling Realms, despite the power of magic, the ingenuity of skilled crafters, and the increasing proliferation o...
2023-12-07 01:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A REGIMENT DIVIDED
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THE TRUE DISPOSITION OF THOSE BODIES OF FIGHTING MEN PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS THE WHITE ROSE LANCERS,
NOW CALLED "RED" OR "BLUE" LANCERS BY VIRTUE OF THEIR ALLEGI...
2023-12-07 01:47:59 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
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2023-11-08 05:42:01 +0000 UTC View Post
NOTES ON A CRISIS
6/2/617
Awoken early today. Case White.
To say that this was completely unexpected would be to lie. There are contingencies in place. There are preparations left...
2023-11-06 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
FESTIVALS OF THE FLEDGLING REALMS
Montfort Day
Most of the festivals celebrated by the various settlements of the Iron Marches are similar to those which are celebrated in the Concordat...
2023-11-06 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSci-Fi and Fantasy writers, quite infamously, have no sense of scale. While the of...
2023-11-06 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
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2023-10-08 05:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not a fan of the word "subplot". To me, the term has always implied a certain unbridgeable divide between the "main progression" of a narrative and those parts which lay outside of it. With tha...
2023-10-07 06:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A LETTER IN DEFENCE OF THE TIERRAN DRAGOON
By a Confidante of the Gonfaloniere
It has become the fashion in recent years, for men of certain martial pretensions to make comment upon the...
2023-10-07 06:50:00 +0000 UTC View Post
CREEDS AND CULTS PT 2
It ought to come as no surprise that the people of the Island-Cities revere the sea. Indeed, the people of Fiore, Mazzare, Arran, and Isonza owe much of their wealth, sa...
2023-10-07 06:50:00 +0000 UTC View PostPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your two chosen topics in the comments below.
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2023-09-07 17:09:43 +0000 UTC View PostSo far, we've talked about conceptualising our antagonists in a way which would make for a good story, introducing them in a way which hooks your audience, and developing them to fit a broader narr...
2023-09-06 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post