Recent content by Autumnal

And I was! Not amount in USD, of course. Maybe baht or something.

This has become increasingly common over the last couple decades or more. I have no idea what some distributors are smoking, but in genre fiction, no author I know is really surprised to see preorder listings for books that are not yet edited, or written, or that have been cancelled outright...

Me too, and I was paid for a million and a half words that made it into print. I know that people make mistakes of all kinds no matter how experienced they are and how carefully they scrutinize their own work. Editors and proofreaders are absolutely necessary for the lowest error rates. Period...

Narrativist. Or postmodern D&D - same thing. Now I must flee before the mods catch me. :) (And I actually will be interested to see if you get a good name for the category .)

Nurgle loves you and has a wonderful plan for every one of your cells.

Did I ask for John Norman’s LitRPG? No, I did not.

Having been there, I just wanted to note that part of dealing with meds that exacerbate depression is trimming as many life sources of depression as you reasonably can. Gaming stuff has been getting you down since well before some of these other factors, so it’s a good candidate for drastic...

No, it alternately bores me and irritates me. But I like to know what’s going on in my genres.

Sudden insight into a publishing opportunity: so nearly as I can tell, all actually existing LitRPG fiction presumes a very directly D&D-like system running the world. So there’s an obvious opening for LitRPG stories where the system is Burning Wheel-like, or Apocalypse World-like, or...

@trappedslider Where’s the pineapple?

Neon City Overdrive lays out a pretty classic framework and is easy to tweak. Hard Wired Island is an alternate present with the pace of tech shoved ahead a bit, set in an orbital habitat that could pay the one in Neuromancer.

Starforged is worth a look. It’s got a standard milieu, but really really easily switches hats for others.

At first when I read that 4e has significant assets for narrativist play, I went: o_O Then I went: :unsure: And now I go: (y)