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Chapter 7 The Star Fiends Of Xyrechnia The next day at 3:32, Lily stood facing a vast window that looked out on the Teardrop Nebula. Ships of every size and shape slowly crisscrossed her field of view. "That is sooo cool." Murray nudged her. "Don't stare too long, you'll mark us for tourists...

Oh man, haha, I actually thought to myself "I wonder if Richards is still around." Glad to know you still are! Ahhh, you're the first person to pop in, and I have this mess spread across multiple sites. It's weird how I need feedback to breathe in a writing environment. Most of the writing...

Chapter 5 Against The Dread Sea-God A fireball burst off of Ar'N'Aeth's thick outer shell, scarcely singing the lumbering crab monster. "Aim between the armor plates!" Lily screamed as she hacked at one of its ten immense seven-jointed arms. Murray screamed back "I'm trying!" The final room...

Chapter 4 Flying With Grandpa "Are you ready?" Lily bit her lip. She was bouncing up and down on her heels, and hiding her excitement would have done her no good. "I think so. How does this work?" They stood outside on Murray's lawn. Here, the comfortably-sized mansion's trimmed grass sloped...

Chapter 3 It's Been Forever Three years later, Murray was lounging in a comfortable chair modeled after one he'd owned in the real world. He'd grown skilled at replicating familiar things from his past. They gave him comfort when he wasn't adventuring, which was more and more often these days...

Chapter 2 Christmas On Cape Cod Two and a half years later, Murray was sitting at a poker table in Monaco. The stakes were high and climbing. A sinister man with a diamond for a glass eye was stroking the fur of the pet hyena beside his chair. A crowd had formed around the table and watched as...

Hiya- I haven't been around in a while, but I was once a regular. I wrote up THE KNIGHTS OF THE SILVER QUILL and THE KNIGHTS OF SPELLFORGE KEEP campaigns here and they did very well. This was back in... 2001-ish. In the end, I wrote over 250,000 words for those stories. Now I'm writing a book...

It's not about being told what I want to hear, it's about wanting reliable information. If you're telling me something I consider unreliable and when asked for a source respond "hey, you don't want our help, hit the bricks. You can find this info as easily as we can," I can't use that. Also, I...

Hey, for all I know Umbran is just someone who made all that up because he enjoys being contrary.

Can you maybe cite a source or two on this?

That's not the plot, though, that's the... I dunno what the term is for that, but plot isn't just a vague blurb sentence. A plot is the ordered collection of events relevant to a story, and that's what I'm pretty sure you can't duplicate with just name and dialogue changes.

These are the same people who will tell you that "there are only two types of people in the world." They oversimplify and they must be stopped. Yeah, but you can't write (fill in plot of Star Wars here, change the names and dialogue) and expect to skate. I'm no legal guy but I'll betcha that...

IIIIII'm pretty sure taking the plot of a story and putting it out with only names changed is still actionable.

And THEN, on the other hand, I have that people are liking my writing and I'm putting together a volume of short stories because why not. Having five novels' worth of material in the can, ready to go but for some intense Find & Replace action, is a tempting prospect and a quick way to fattening...

That was what I was looking at initially, but if I'm now going through and performing a find / replace for everything referencing Greyhawk, pantheons, specific spells, modules, etc... I might as well just give up now, as I'm pretty sure this is going to be prohibitively time-consuming. Then...