The themes include: The elves seeing the orcs as a disease. The elves are reborn into their descendants when they come of age bringing their knowledge and personality with them. Conversely the orcs discover how to connect with their ancestral dead and are empowered by them.

The story is about the conflict between elves & orcs. It focuses on an elven general of the House of Crystal & an orc gladiator. In the end the orcs throw off the elven yoke and the elves have a civil war. The House of Crystal is shattered, figuratively & literally.

Allo! I am Tyson, the lead at Double Crescent Productions. I write game supplements, short stories, and novels. I am wrapping up the 1st draft of my 6th novel while looking for beta readers to get my 1st novel into shape for publishing.
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I usually have a rough idea where I want the story to go and what themes I am exploring or what scenes I want to show. My latest book i had the gimmick and themes figured out and some rough outlines of the first 6 or so chapters before I started writing. #TBBChat

With steam pushing Steamdeck compatibility, it is more likely than you think. I am about to take a run as installing steamos on my wife's old win10 machine instead of upgrading.

Mack: They look like angels.
Bo: I thought you said they look like plucked chickens.

I hope to be. By the looks of your feed of art, you are surpassing me at the moment. Lots of plates spinning, few things done on my part.

Yeah, i am wrapping a novella about an orc and an elf whose lives rhyme on opposite sides of the same war. Then trying to clean up my young adult high seas novel to solicit a publisher.

With some more inspiration I will probably try and make another run at it in winter.

It doesn't resolve the problem, adds to the resentment in the city, and gives power to those who can smuggle food in to sell at a lower price in exchange for fealty.

The conflict is put on hold when the enigmatic Pathkeepers instantly "dissappear" the cohort and the rioters to another plane, only to release them in drips over the next year.

It was your basic food riot in a big city. A bad harvest required food to be imported from futher away, spiking prices. Combined with the summer heat fraying nerves, led to riots. Organized factions of rioters clash with each other and the urban cohort.

It was a fantasy novel that was a Mashup of Gangs of New York and Showgirls. Petered out a bit before I got to the bread riots.

Going to pause the WorldAnvil to focus on the @storytellingco.bsky.social's Short Story September. But I will probably still poke at it.

There have been some that utilized social media in concert with Anime. I am thinking of Carol and Tuesday where the characters tweeted as the show was released.

On the RPG side the closest I can think of is Log Horizon where the writer got background character designs from people on social media.

I have seen CYOA games where you use dice as a decision maker, but I have never seen one where you write then re-evaluate that writing with a new prompt. Though that starts to drift into Journaling Games. I think Jack may be right. They are a Venn Diagram flowing from CYOA to TTRPG to Journaling.

It is not just the addition of oracles, but the free-form narrative over constrained choices. I think that is the biggest difference. You are making narrative choices not choosing a set path. In Thousand Year Old Vampire you not only roll dice, but also free-form write the interpret that writing.