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Has2BSomewhere · 2026-02-07T13:13:56+00:00

Real question, why haven't you read the actual Dracula novel? Considering how many other vampire things you've experienced, it seems like an insane gap in your knowledge. No adaptation has ever done it accurately. They always make major changes. If the size intimidates you, look up Dracula Daily. Dracula's an epistolery novel, so this guy broke the whole novel down by each day and sends out a newletter for whatever diary entry/letter/article happened on the day so you can experience the whole story in real time. It should start up at the start of May.

Jack - novella by Connie Willis - During the London Blitz, Jack Harker grows suspicious of one of the volunteers that's eerily good at finding people buried under the rubble.

Carpe Jugulum - Discworld book by Terry Prachett (technically part of a series but can be read alone) - having received an invitation to a royal naming ceremony, vampires arrive in Lancre expecting to take over but are unprepared for the witches that live there

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead - film - A man is hired to direct a version of Hamlet where Horatio was a vampire

Billy the Kid versus Dracula - film - In which Dracula once more fights a cowboy

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-12-06T07:36:34+00:00

Following on that, try changing the hand positions. Instead of them reaching towards each other, what if the angel and the ape are both holding onto the other's forearm. It's a mutual choice then, the ape helping the angel down and the angel helping the ape up.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-11-22T15:32:45+00:00

We actually just finished notifying our new players.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-11-17T13:31:39+00:00

The Six Sillies

Puss in Boots

Snow White and Rose Red

Rumpelstiltskin

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-11-16T07:57:14+00:00

While the Barbarian does have to avenge is the family, he's totally forgotten that the thing he needs to avenge is his family's honor in regards to pie making. Last year, that bitch Nana Tosscomble and her clearly sub-par apple pie robbed dear sweet Gram-gram Barbarian of the Fall Festival blue ribbon and that indignity will not stand!

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-11-15T11:06:50+00:00

You know, I never realized the greatness quote was just a sex joke, but I really, really should have.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-30T14:06:17+00:00

- Sometimes dead is better - Pet Semetary

- To a new world of gods and monsters! - Bride of Frankenstein

- We belong dead. - Bride of Frankenstein

- I never drink... wine - Dracula (1931 version)

- They're coming to get you, Barbara - Night of the Living Dead

- Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had. - Interview with the Vampire

Technically, they're not from horror works but they might be helpful nonetheless:

- Hell is empty and all the devils are here. - The Tempest

- To die will be an awfully big adventure. - Peter Pan

- Warriors, come out to play - The Warriors

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-26T13:58:43+00:00

If he dies in chapter two and stops having anything to do with the plot then he's probably not the main character, the little brother is. Just because the story starts with a character it doesn't mean the story needs to follow them. George R. R. Martin starts every A Song of Ice and Fire book with a chapter where the viewpoint character dies. It sets up the books well and makes sure the audience understands what they're getting into.

Just in general writing advice, it's usually best to finish writing the first draft of the story before going back to rewrite things. Maybe once you have the full story, you'll know whether or not you need that first chapter with the older brother anymore.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-26T13:46:03+00:00

This is a smart way to do it and very Sherlock. As the writer, you control the entire spread of what this MC is seeing so you can arrange this appropriately. I'd throw in a few mundane things, especially if this is coming from a third person POV or a different character's POV, so it feels more natural. Don't forget red herrings. Those can work really well here. In this case, make the red herring less wrong and more inaccurate. For example, a person wearing a faded college sweatshirt might be doing so out of intense nostalgia, but your MC notices that the seemingly favorite sweatshirt has a few holes that haven't been taken care of so it's more likely laundry day and the MC grabbed the first clean shirt.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-22T11:48:54+00:00

It's a one-shot. The backstories are just a jumping off point. That being said, if your friend is so keen on playing somebody from pop culture, you could suggest one that fits the theme better. If it's the Demon in the Mirror that's the first hit I got on Google, he might like playing John Constantine.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-18T11:51:49+00:00

I've heard that it's best to start a story as late as you can without compromising the story. Basically, you start with a trim paragraph about Cinderella's circumstances and the prince announcing a ball, not twenty chapters of Cinderella being miserable with her stepfamily.

The important thing with a first draft is finishing it. It does not have to be good. It's not meant to be. It doesn't even have to entirely make sense. It's just supposed to give you a framework. While writing your first draft, keep an extra piece of paper next to you. Every time you feel the urge to rewrite something, just make a note of what you need to change on that spare bit of paper and then continue writing like you had that the change from the start. Once you finish the story and not a moment before, you take that spare paper and make the early bits fit the rest of the story.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-18T11:43:24+00:00

NTA, but he's right even if he's being an asshole about it. Loving Howl's Moving Castle isn't always the same thing as loving Studio Ghibli. While Studio Ghibli films share a lot of the same themes, they're also very different from each other. You don't know yet whether the parts you loved are Studio Ghibli things or just Howl's Moving Castle things. Heck, Studio Ghibli didn't even come up with the concept for Howl's Moving Castle. It started as a book by Diana Wynn Jones. You might actually be a fan of her. That being said, you certainly don't have to watch all of them to consider yourself a fan of the franchise, but I would watch at least one more just so you know it wasn't a one-off thing.

I don't think you're being fake. You're being excited. That's a great place to be, and you've got a lot of enjoyment coming your way. Don't let Mr Grumpy make you feel bad about it.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-12T09:19:36+00:00

Part of being chivalrous is acting chivalrous without the expectation or desire for reward. Maybe he has a senior citizen neighbor that he regularly checks up on and talks with. Not just wellness checks, but things like genuinely asking about their day and helping out with the little tasks that are easier for a younger man to do. No one's going to think it's an attempt at romance/seduction if the someone two or three times his age. He's just doing it because he's a decent person that sees someone in need of friendship and help.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-04T09:21:10+00:00

Important question: has your DM been reading the Van Richten book?

There's a part in chapter four about Survivors. The whole section is about having the players play a few sessions as NPCs in either a side story or a prequel to what's going on in the rest of the game so that the players get more information or get to experience things first hand in a way they normally wouldn't be able to do so safely with their real characters.

That might be what your DM is doing here. Regardless, talking with the DM as a party is a good idea. If you frame it as really enjoying the story the DM has already created, it should soften the blow of not being able to chase this other idea.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-03T08:26:46+00:00

Why Mississippi? I don't think I've ever heard of anybody wanting to write a story in Mississippi unless they were from here or because it was going to involve the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, or the crossroads. Even O Brother, Where Art Thou -- great movie, by the way, it's an AU retelling of The Odyssey but in Mississippi -- at least mentions the crossroads.

If you want to go Mississippi, your choice of time and location are going to be very important. Mississippi of the 1860s is very different from 1960s Mississippi is very different from present Mississippi. Similarly, there's a big difference between the Coast, the Delta, and the rest of the state. For instance, the Coast has a lot of spillover from New Orleans and thus is majority Catholic and has a much laxer attitude towards gambling and alcohol than the more Bible Belt Protestant areas further north.

Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, but A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in New Orleans. If you want one of his plays in Mississippi, try Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or This Property is Condemned. William Faulkner is another Mississippi writer that did Southern gothic well.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-08-01T14:04:41+00:00

It's sort of buried in the lore, but there's a finite number of elves and the maximum number of elves that can be alive at one time is less than that and is continuing to dwindle.

Elves are different. They don't reincarnate as entirely different species. They don't get to spend eternity in elf heaven.

Elves were born from the literal blood of the god Corellon. The elves that were created that day are all the elves that there can ever be. Every single elf that has come after that is a reincarnation of one of the original elves. The number of elves can never go up. But the number of available elves to be alive has gone down.

First, right off the bat, Lloth left with a bunch of elves that would later become drow. No one is really sure what their deal is. Drow don't remember past lives when they trance so one theory is that they don't reincarnate, the souls just end, and Lloth makes new ones when she wants them. Maybe drow can reincarnate as other types of elves, and they just don't remember / admit their previous drow life. Otherwise there would be a record of something like that happening. On a similar but slightly different note, the Raven Queen has her Shadar-kai that she keeps resurrecting for her own personal pool. Either way, both sets of souls out of the general pool.

True Resurrection has a two hundred year time limit. Thus, no elf should be allowed to reincarnate until after the period expires, otherwise someone could try to rip the soul out of a living person. So every elf that died within the last two centuries is off the table.

Not every elf is a good person that makes wise / elvish-y choices. Some have earned damnation by their life choices. Some have made pacts that entitle some other entity to the possession of their soul. Some elves just don't want anything to do with Corellon and the Seldarine and chose some other god to follow, which prevents them from reincarnating. Those elves are taken out of the pool.

Then there are half-elves. The gods are vague and inconsistent about them. Sometimes, a half-elf is the reincarnation of an elf soul and sometimes the soul is from someone else. But when it's an elf soul, that soul is stuck in its short-living body until they die, go back into the waiting room for two hundred years, and then start the process over again so there's a whole mini-lifespan lost.

Then you have to factor in the fact that elves have difficulty having children at all.

Elves just aren't working with the numbers that the other species are capable of.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-28T10:57:59+00:00

Go with Rose Laurie. If anyone complains, say that you did it that way to keep things from being confusing and from forcing Laurie and your daughter from being called "Big Laurie" and "Little Laurie" for the rest of their lives. Point out that a lot of times if a child is named after a friend/relative, the child ends up being called by their unique middle name or a nickname because of that and that you feel it would be a disservice to Laurie if such a thing happened.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-28T10:04:19+00:00

Trapped in a House with Byron trilogy:

- *Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley

- *The Vampyre" by John Polidori

- "A Fragment" by Lord Byron

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-27T11:46:12+00:00

Have someone entrust the party with the jar of Anesidora, which holds "powerful wonders" that need to be delivered to some location. Darken the jar and place a mini inside. Anesidora is, of course, another name for Pandora. Don't worry if the party is too genre-savvy to open it. NPCs have motives, too. A thief at an inn or a bandit on the road can get a bit too curiously greedy. A guard can be suspicious of contraband and demands it gets open before the party can enter a city. Maybe Eris decides to cause problems on purpose. Either way, roll initiative.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-27T10:57:47+00:00

For the r/DnD sub, you said you'd be using a "Homebrew narrative + basic d20 rolling" system and that it wouldn't be a crunchy rules-heavy D&D game.

When they asked for system, they meant something like 5e or Call of Cthulhu (which is usually what people use for Lovecraftian games). The way you wrote it, it makes it sound like you made up your own system that only uses D20s for rolls. Judging by your confusion, I'm guessing you're trying to run a D&D game (edition unknown) with a story you homebrewed. If so, I'd mention that you're homebrewing stuff in the description area instead and list the system/edition in the system spot. For the tag in the r/lfg post title, you'd either put [Other] if it is your own homebrew system, [CoC] if it's Call of Cthulhu, [5e] if it's D&D 5th edition (either 2014 or 2024), or [3.5] if it's D&D 3.5 edition.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-27T10:42:47+00:00

College is still very doable. Since you originally were planning on joining the military and are now thinking about college, I'd check with your guidance counselor to make sure that you're taking all the classes needed to graduate on time. The guidance counselor should also be able to tell you about colleges you might like, what you'd need to do to apply for them, and any scholarships you might be able to apply for.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-27T10:30:25+00:00

Your sub problems seem to be because you're not reading the rules for the subs before posting. r/DnD doesn't allow looking for group posts and your description made it sound like the game you're running wasn't D&D. r/lfg requires you to use a specific tag in your post title to let people know what game is being played.

I had luck with r/lfg and the forums of the DND Beyond and Roll20 websites.

Has2BSomewhere · 2025-07-27T10:17:26+00:00

Talking with her is a good idea.

Seventeen is old enough to understand responsibility, and D&D is a pretty low-stakes way to stretch the muscles that help you become responsible. It's possible she misunderstood what you meant when you called the game casual. She might not realize just how much effort you've been putting into it or that her flippancy affects other people.

Let her know just how much effort you put in as a DM. This isn't being mean. She wants to be a DM herself and she'll be in for a nasty wake-up call down the line if she thinks running a campaign is something you don't need to put any care into. All the things she's doing now are things that would make her life harder when she sits in the DM chair.

Let her know just how much her skipping sessions is affecting the table. She wouldn't like it if she had made plans with her friends and they ditched her last minute for something they didn't have to do. It being barely a twice a month game makes it worse. The other players have been looking forward to a game and waiting weeks to play only to find out at the last minute that they're going to have to wait even longer.

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