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Anonymous03/12/26, 23:07No.97699640/wg/ - Writing General (and Storythread)
Writing General: 'psychopomps' edition
Welcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.
As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.
There's a discord for writers here
https://discord.gg/6AwKHGF
The previous thread can still be found in the archive here
>>97133758 [/tg/thread/97133758#p97133758]
And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)
https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Storythread
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Anon03/12/26, 23:18No.97699716
Do you have a personification of death in your setting? Or some other guide to the afterlife, like Anubis, or Valkyries? How do you write them, and what do you think they add to a setting?I'm going to be uncontroversial and say that Death from the Discworld series is the gold standard for psychopomps, although I do have a soft spot for Death in the Sandman comics.
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Anon03/13/26, 20:43No.97703639
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>Anyway thinking on doing spell jammer but I'll use some rules and lore points from the old edition since the 5th is really bare bones.
Yeah, that's been my complaint with it. I've never tried Spelljammer before and I really like it as a concept, but apart from a couple of cool monsters they don't seem to have done much with it.If you take a map of Faerun and throw a dart at it then pretty much wherever it lands you'll have a bit of history and something about the local culture, politics, etc. Spelljammer, not so much. What are some of the major locations on the Astral Plane? Who knows. What are the major factions? I dunno... pirates, maybe? What are Astral Elves/plasmoids/Hadozee like and who are some major figures? *crickets*. The Rock of Bral has been fleshed out a bit but that seems to be all there is in terms of general setting background; presumably in the actual campaigns there are more locations, factions, etc, but I like to feel like the setting I'm playing in exists outside just the specific bits my character happens to be standing in.>the "fun" part of the plant is that I throw 2 D100 one to decide 50/50 if time move forward or backwards, the second to decide how many years. The elf warlord will be multiclass half of it in a warrior spec the other half in a magic spec, the battle will be iun his "throne room" a place where there is a crystal shaped as a throne, when he's wounded he will teleport to the throne and regenerate and he will advance in years or be younger, if he's young he'll fight as a fighter, if he's old he'll use the wizard parts.
That actually does sound cool. Also an ability with a bit of risk to it, since presumably if he exceeds the 750 lifespan of an elf, he dies. Or becomes a helpless baby if he gets too young.
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Anon03/13/26, 21:00No.97703743
YO! It's my Waifu!
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Anon03/13/26, 21:07No.97703783
Can I talk about the setting for my Magic: the Gathering set here?
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Anon03/14/26, 16:33No.97707311
What are some good way to introduce a sense of sonder to adventures without risking derailing them.I just like the idea of occasionally implying to players that there are other adventures going on simultaneously to their own that are just as interesting, complex, and important as the one their on. But that doesn’t involve them, and they may never fully know.