Bloggin'

Phew! All right, with that heady mix from last week churning around, let's step back into something more sane: actual and unapologetic magic in an actual fantasy world. In this case, I'm thinking of the magic in the Trench Dungeon story that I'm presently writing. To explain the setting in brief: a fantasy world has just been through a magical version of World War I, and now a small band of protagonists are desperately making their way through the trench dungeons - a serie

Ralph Richardson playing Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest Probably one of the first and biggest things that most folks remember about settings like Star Wars or Harry Potter's Wizarding World is the special powers inherent to those settings. Oh, fine, let's call a spade a spade: they both use magic. Same with Naruto, if we're being honest, except they call them "jutsus," and with the Avatar: the Last Airbender universe, where the powers are called "bending." The exampl

This quote, I think, encapsulates why I think we need to strive toward a post-scarcity society One aspect of worldbuilding that regularly gets overlooked is the money. No, that's not quite accurate: there's a *lot* of aspects of worldbuilding that get overlooked all the time, but we allow it as readers and watchers and listeners because we suspend our disbelief and want to just get on with the plot without having to fret about stuff like, for some examples, where does the po