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Mythcreants Posts for November

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View this email in your browser   November Newsletter You can give us feedback via the contact form on our website. (If you reply to this email, we might not see it.) Have a wonderful month! Analysis, Monsters Could Kaiju Defeat the Military? By Oren Ashkenazi on 11/01/21 It's not even close. Read in browser » Worldbuilding, Magic 351 – Magic Items in a Magic System By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and B.A. on 10/31/21 What if you put a spell... in an item? Read in browser » Analysis, Worldbuilding, Technology Building a Sea of Stars: How Paolini Undercooked His Setting By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/30/21 What happens when you throw together tropes from popular worlds. Read in browser » Storytelling, Plot Five Important Ways Episodic Stories Are Different By Chris Winkle on 10/29/21 Your novel can include fun side adventures, but it needs to be structured correctly. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Sorcerer Subclasses Ranked, Part 2 By Ari Ashkenazi on 10/28/21 How do you make the sorcerer better? More spells! Read in browser » Unlikely Suspect By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 10/27/21 Trust no one. Read in browser » Storytelling, Characters Should My Side Characters Stick Around? By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/25/21 If one of their friends is a grand high arch mage, that might not be a viable strategy Read in browser » Storytelling, Characters 350 – Character Karma By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle and Wes Matlock on 10/24/21 It's the invisible force that makes us feel like characters deserve good things or bad things. Read in browser » Commentary, The Writing Process, Wordcraft How Useful Are Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing? By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/23/21 Writers love to offer lists of rules for writing, especially if they've got a book to promote. Read in browser » Storytelling, Writing, Plot, Point of View The Problem With Multiple Viewpoints By Chris Winkle on 10/22/21 Why we're so cranky about a writing practice that's considered normal. Read in browser » Roleplaying, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Ancestry Review: The Fairy, Harengon, and Metallic Dragonborn By Ari Ashkenazi on 10/21/21 "Harengon" is a very weird name when "rabbitfolk" is a word. Read in browser » Protective Father By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 10/20/21 He only has his best interest at heart. Er, your best interest. Read in browser » Social Justice, Disability & Neurodiversity How Should I Depict a Character in a Wheelchair That Transforms Into a Monster? By Fay Onyx on 10/18/21 I have a group of kids who can transform into monsters. Think Animorphs meets Godzilla. One of the kids uses a wheelchair. Long-time user, adjusted physically and emotionally. Their monster form is able-bodied. The transformation is temporary and the monster form can’t fit in a typical building or otherwise function in normal society. Is this […] Read in browser » Analysis, Magic 349 – Our Favorite Spells By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and B.A. on 10/17/21 No critical analysis to be found here, just wholesome magic content. Read in browser » Analysis, Magic Six Magic Powers That Writers Had to Ignore By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/16/21 Unused spells can distract the audience during important conflicts. Read in browser » Storytelling, Worldbuilding, Magic, Tone, Wordcraft How to Create a Mysterious Atmosphere By Chris Winkle on 10/15/21 Unless you use restraint with fantastical elements, you'll lose the aura of mystery. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Sorcerer Subclasses Ranked, Part 1 By Ari Ashkenazi on 10/14/21 In a game as random as 5E, adding more randomness generally doesn't help. Read in browser » Fancy Words By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 10/13/21 Fantasy worlds are 95% new terms by volume. Read in browser » Worldbuilding, Magic How Do I Make My Story's Elemental Powers Feel Natural? By Chris Winkle on 10/11/21 Have your mercury cake and eat it too. Read in browser » Commentary, The Writing Process 348 – Process Advice By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle and Wes Matlock on 10/10/21 We know how to write, but do we know *how* to write? Read in browser » Analysis, Worldbuilding, Robots Five Stories That Break Their World's Theme By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/09/21 Worlds that feel slapdash make suspension of disbelief harder to achieve. Read in browser » Storytelling, Writing, Mystery, Plot How to Keep Mysteries From Looking Like Mistakes By Chris Winkle on 10/08/21 If you treat unexplained events like they're normal, readers will get confused. Read in browser » Roleplaying, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Drakewarden Ranger Review By Ari Ashkenazi on 10/07/21 With some quick reflavoring, this subclass can even serve as a replacement for the Beast Master. Read in browser » The Helicopter Problem By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 10/06/21 Don't forget to bring extra gasoline. Read in browser » Worldbuilding, Religion Do I Need Religion in My Fantasy World? By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/04/21 Just don't do what Wheel of Time does. Read in browser » Writing, The Writing Process, Wordcraft 347 – Narrative Premise By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and Juan Pistis on 10/03/21 Telling a story is one thing, but how you tell it is another. Read in browser » Analysis, The Writing Process Five Movies Critics Loved but Audiences Hated By Oren Ashkenazi on 10/02/21 Do audiences have no taste or are critics elitist snobs? Read in browser » Copyright © 2021 Mythcreants LLC, All rights reserved. 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View this email in your browser   October Newsletter You can give us feedback via the contact form on our website. (If you reply to this email, we might not see it.) Have a wonderful month! Social Justice, Disability & Neurodiversity Seven Misconceptions About Madness and Psychosis By Sofia Jeppsson on 10/01/21 Problematic assumptions abound in our stories. Let's fix that. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Rogue Subclasses Ranked, Part 2 By Ari Ashkenazi on 09/30/21 Swashbuckler doesn't need a friend to use Sneak Attack. Read in browser » Invincible Woman By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 09/29/21 No one is prepared for her strength in battle! Read in browser » Storytelling, Mystery How Do I Create a Satisfying Mystery Payoff? By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/27/21 That's why a lot of mystery stories hide information from the reader. Read in browser » Storytelling, Plot, Turning Point 346 – Making the Climax Exciting By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and B.A. on 09/26/21 Unfortunately, readers don't generally accept "and then something exciting happened." Read in browser » Commentary, The Writing Process How Useful Are Neil Gaiman's Eight Rules of Writing? By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/25/21 As a successful writer, he must have something useful to tell us, right? Read in browser » Worldbuilding, Magic How to Create an Elemental Magic System By Chris Winkle on 09/24/21 While it's easy to make these systems rational, a flawed set of elements will ruin the effect. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Rogue Subclasses Ranked, Part 1 By Ari Ashkenazi on 09/23/21 Even Supreme Sneak isn't sneaky enough. Read in browser » Moral Dilemma By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 09/22/21 REAL dilemmas have only one option. Read in browser » Storytelling, Agency, Characters How Do I Give My Protagonist Agency? By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/20/21 A lot of heroes lack agency because they don't have the skills to meaningfully affect the plot. Read in browser » Inspiration, Worldbuilding, Magic 345 – Witches By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and Svend Phillips on 09/19/21 Let the season of witchery begin! Read in browser » Analysis, Characters, Plot How WandaVision, Falcon, and Loki Score on Engagement By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/18/21 Let's find out which of these three Disney+ hits has the most ANTS. Read in browser » Commentary, The Writing Process Why You Shouldn't Write a Masterpiece By Chris Winkle on 09/17/21 Your magnificent novel in progress could be holding you back. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Ranger Subclasses Ranked, Part 2 By Ari Ashkenazi on 09/16/21 Time for my hot Gloom Stalker take. Read in browser » Political Marriage By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 09/15/21 To have and to hold in recessions and in booms. Read in browser » Analysis, Characters, Conflict, Star Trek How Could Archer and T'Pol Have Been Better? By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/13/21 I love to theorize about how to improve Star Trek. Read in browser » Storytelling, Characters, Likability 344 – Jerkass Characters By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and Juan Pistis on 09/12/21 Oh boy do writers love to get this wrong. Read in browser » Analysis, Worldbuilding, History, Space Building Mass Effect: How Bioware Imagines the Future By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/11/21 Whatever the Reapers are working toward, it must be big! Read in browser » Writing, Description, Wordcraft Which Descriptive Details Are Excessive to Readers? By Chris Winkle on 09/10/21 Don't describe scenes as though you're taking a photograph. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Ranger Subclasses Ranked, Part 1 By Ari Ashkenazi on 09/09/21 If Horizon Walker is the biggest joke I've seen, Beast Master is the biggest mess. Read in browser » Time Brawl By Bunny and Chris Winkle on 09/08/21 How every time travel adventure would go. Read in browser » Storytelling, Characters, Likability How Do I Portray an Ambitious Character? By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/06/21 If your character's ambition is to do something good, then audiences will view it positively. Read in browser » Worldbuilding, Monsters 343 – Giants By Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock and B.A. on 09/05/21 What's 20-feet tall, lives in the clouds, and can smell your nationality? Read in browser » Analysis, Characters, Star Trek, Star Wars, Villains Five Villains With Contrived Wins By Oren Ashkenazi on 09/04/21 When the villain wins, it builds tension - but only if it's a credible win. Read in browser » Writing, Description, Wordcraft How Can Writers Make Description Evocative? By Chris Winkle on 09/03/21 The best description conveys the right tone, is easy to imagine, and makes the world feel alive. Read in browser » Roleplaying, 5E Subclass Ranking, Game Mechanics D&D 5E Paladin Subclasses Ranked, Part 2 By Ari Ashkenazi on 09/02/21 We shouldn't punish a player for doing what their subclass is telling them to do. Read in browser » Copyright © 2021 Mythcreants LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving emails from Mythcreants because you signed up on our blog. Our mailing address is: Mythcreants LLC · 19712 50th Ave W · Apt 3 · Lynnwood, WA 98036 · USA Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.