Chebucto Regional Softball Club

> Why should your fantasy game be limited by something like “health”. One way of escalating drama and tension is by injuring a main character. The scene in Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor has to knock the T-1000 into the blast furnace with consecutive shotgun blasts, isn't nearly as cool without her doing it with a wound in her arm. Frodo collapsing from exhaustion gives us the incredible moment of Samwise shouldering him and carrying the guy, ring and all, up the slope of Mt. Doom. And particularly for folks invested in the coolness of their characters, some conflicts are much more fun when the outcome isn't anything either storyteller or player could have anticipated. A totally unexpected David v Goliath moment, where a scrawny guy fells a giant with a lucky shot, will be the kind of story people talk about for years.

> To write good Fantasy (of SciFi), you have to go through a process called “World Building” I think this is more implying that you don't have to work from the same framework for every fantasy world. Not everything has to be set in Medieval Times with Crusader-Era social sensibilities. The menagerie of mythical creatures isn't a prerequisite or delimiter (dragons / unicorns / etc are not a requirement nor are robots / cthulhoid horrors / woolly mammoths disallowed). You need internal consistency (to a degree) but you aren't forced to adhere / omit any genre trope. I would say, at an absolute bare minimum, you need some kind of fantastical or supernatural element to make it "Fantasy" as opposed to "Historical Fiction" or "Science Fiction" some other category of fictional prose. Although, the genre of "Magical Realism" does make even that distinction a bit fuzzy. > many literature teachers / professors don’t even know about the idea of World Building You don't necessary need to go through the whole work of World Building if you're just banging out a short story or novella. Even serial writers don't necessarily bother going deep on the background material until they feel the need to expand the scope of the setting. A story that takes place entirely in a single house over the course of a long weekend doesn't need the kind of scaffolding that a Long Walk to Mordor requires.

If they don't taste like peppermint, I'm sending them back.

BBEG: ~~Rogue~~ **Paladin Player's Little Brother's Character** Paladin Player:

Best I can do is "Above Rocks, Jamaica"

No need to stop at Australia. You can take this international. * Unterhaching, Germany * Unterseen, Switzerland * Sous-Bois (as in Montfermeil-sous-Bois), France * Sotto il Monte, Italy * Altındağ, Turkey

Ha. No. Just love reading.

JRPG: "Hello Great Man of History, I am the ruler of the country. I have a terrible secret that is the singular cause of all my country's problems. You'll find the answer directly behind a book case in the basement, right after you fling 200 hand grenades at the faery vampire butler who guards it. Read the book to unlock the next step in your perfectly linear journey towards a quest to Kill God." Real Life: *drops doisee on Osama Bin Laden on desk* "A fringe sect of an Afghanistan anti-Communist militia has turned against its former CIA backers while..." *drop report by NAFTA on desk* "...as shifting trade relations flood Latin America with cheap corn and open a lucrative market for narcotics." *drops report on East Asian export markets* "As Pacific Rim manufacturing heats up and..." *drops report on Midwest industrialization* "... and the US " *drops the Starr Report on your desk* "In 1992, Americans elected their horniest President, resulting in a series of military strikes on said fringe sect's activities in Africa." *drops report on the second Congolese War on desk* "Meanwhile..." *drops the third season of Voyager on desk* "... a future IL Senator's wife lands a career defining role on a Sci-fi TV classic, leading to another sex scandal that propels the career of America's first black president..." *drops report on the history of race relations in the US* "... which creates a political backlash that leads us to... " *drops six seasons of the Apprentice on desk* And that's just the highlights. Let me talk to you about a man named Jack Welch.