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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For that you need to come up with something coherent

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Turned out, writing interesting compelling stories is hard actually. You need way more than an idea, especially if your idea is "what if true things, but the opposite"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Hell yes! I totally use ley lines, contrails, and all sorts of crap in my DMing. It works crazy well and has so much documentation my job is easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fun fact. I made a fictional world that is a flat earth (flat planet?) I just found the implications of such a world to be fascinating and went with it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Brandon Sanderson is a Mormon and is a professor at BYU. I interpret his works as Mormon fanfiction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This makes the end of The Wheel of Time make more sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Asking is good faith, been some years since i read wot. What part of morminism made it into those last books?

Dont get me wrong, what a lot of us see as "prudish" shows up in his writing, but ive only noticed it in his stuff, not the wot ending.

I was too busy crying when spoiler i dont how to black out matt saved the orphan kid whos now his family while the kid is crying in hell or its equivalent and matt is the first one to ever come back...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was kidding. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mormonism and BYU need to be abolished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whats BYU? Also, dont get me wrong morminism like wow, how could anyone today believe it? But on the other hand, my main one, calling for the ablosihment of a religion is , uhhh, a little trumpey if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Brigham Young University, a place so dedicated to education that they censor genitals in anatomy textbooks.

I’m not calling for the Mormon religion itself to be abolished, I’m calling for the organization itself to be abolished. The difference between Catholicism and the Catholic Church, let’s say.

Trumpy is a funny word though!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

He's pretty good at worldbuilding, too. And so far his worlds are actual spherical planets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i bet those books would suck tbh. the conspiracies they come up with for the most part aren’t even imaginative

if someone said “i just thought of a great idea for a fantasy world for a book im gonna write. you know how the earth is round? what if… it wasn’t?” you would just be like “why?” and none of these people have ever been able to answer that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What if the world was flat, like a disc. A discworld, so to say. And it is like this because the corner of the cosmos it floats through is just a bit more absurd than regular reality.

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