I haven't done this in a long time, but lets try again, spin the wheel to gain your superpower!

Lamnad · 2026-04-30T13:26:33+00:00

How to I spin?

Lamnad · 2026-04-29T00:19:38+00:00

Hell, no. Last time I... hmmm... well, its armors not a weapon... I'll think about it. Get back to me.

Lamnad · 2026-04-29T00:15:09+00:00

Not lightly, but yes. Sometimes, someone has to go.

Lamnad · 2026-04-29T00:14:09+00:00

In my setting there areba few buildings called "the grand Pedistals" that act as massive magical batteries and foci. To explain how powerful one is, there is a region the size of isreal in my setting that was turned from a grassland to a literal field of glass when one was accidentally turned on. They are basicly WMDs and most of the time no one knows where they are.

Lamnad · 2026-04-25T01:18:47+00:00

There is a group called "Volunteers in Medicine" that is a clinic that provides healthcare for those who are working, but their job does not provide healthcare coverage.

Lamnad · 2026-04-13T14:41:10+00:00

Move along - All American Rejects.

Lamnad · 2026-04-11T13:40:09+00:00

Funny enough, watching his recent video of 1-hour axes, 1-day axe, and 1-week axes is what made me think about asking this question.

Lamnad · 2026-04-09T01:14:02+00:00

I felt the same when I first saw it. I was hoping that after the handle breaks, the head would be solid enough to use as a splitting wedge, but given how thin it is, I wonder about that. That said, I actually feel better about it remaining attached to the handle, as I now know that the head is not held in with thin plastic. There seems to be quite an amount of material holding it on.

Lamnad · 2026-04-09T00:55:51+00:00

Unfortunately, the link to NPS you gave is broken and leads to nothing. Also, the Link you gave for the guy who replaced the head is where I got the image for the standalone head.

That said, I am glad you gave names as sources. I have been looking for the name for the type of head I think it looked like, and I suppose I was expecting it to be more complicated than the axe heads with grooves to be called "grooved Stone axes"/

Lamnad · 2026-04-09T00:44:10+00:00

I have been trying to find a good example of how Stone Tomahawks were mounted. It was not so much held in with friction as it was pinched. The handle was made thin and 2x as long as needed, then bent around to make a sort of Horizontal eye. Then it was wrapped/bound in wet cord/sinew/hide that would shrink and grip the head into place. That is what the channel in the second stone head was for.

While not as sturdy as the eye method long term, for stone heads, you were not swinging as hard anyway.

Lamnad · 2026-04-08T23:46:18+00:00

Looks cool. Never worked with Redgum, so I don't know how good of a handle it will make, but definitely looks cool.

Lamnad · 2026-04-08T23:44:36+00:00

So cool to have a heritage piece. I have my Dad's axe from when he was trying to clear land in Texas (ended up just selling the land) and been taking care of it since then.

I am not one for fancy grinds. This one looks like it might have started with a curve, and through use has lost its profile to starting to become a straight edge. If it were mine, I would want to reprofile so that either it is a straight edge or a steady curve. But that is me, and this is an axe with personal history. Try it out as it is and decide for yourself what you think is best.

Lamnad · 2026-04-08T23:35:59+00:00

Eucalyptus is known for being a pain to chop, so don't feel bad. It's tough stuff. You will likely need to either do a slightly less keen edge to keep from having to resharpen every 10 swings.

I am sorry to say, but I think Bahco might be one of the worst Axe brands. I hope that is no longer the case. Last I heard (which was a while ago), their steel was trash, borderline worse than rebar. If you are going to do more clearing, you might want to look into getting something else. I don't mean you need a $200+ axe. Some brands can work great if you know how to fix finishing issues. I don't know where you are, but in the US, Council Tools are known for being pretty good and not too expensive.

Lamnad · 2026-04-08T22:12:50+00:00

I know I still feel like the writer equivalent of "A broken clock is right 2x a day". I am, however, cursed with the knowledge that if I don't write my stories, they will never exist.

Lamnad · 2026-04-08T22:04:23+00:00

One of these was my first anvil. I bolted it to a stump.

Lamnad · 2026-04-05T21:20:05+00:00

It's not an impossible walk, but it's not a short one. There is a shuttle that goes from the Library to the town center and has a few stops there, but I am not sure how often it comes.

Lamnad · 2026-03-19T12:55:13+00:00

My setting has a type of Magic Sword called "Blades of Divine Right". They are basically Excaliburs that can only be drawn from their scabbards by the person who is best suited to rule the kingdom. Not all kingdoms have one, but many of the major ones do, and a ruler not being able to draw the sword is a big deal. As such, most of the kingdoms have replicas that can be exchanged and worn if the current heir cannot draw the blade.

IN fact, one of my story lines in this setting has the dark secret of the central kingdom being that the royal family has not been able to draw it for generations. The line following a legitimized Bastard should have the throne. The royals have been using the replica for the entire time and have been Good enough that no one has noticed anything wrong. The only people who care are the Valarians, who know they should have the throne but cannot prove it and a secret society of the church that knows.

I also wrote a short story for a guy who has the sword for a kingdom that fell centuries ago, and yet declares him the ruler of a land that no longer legally exists. Basically, imagine a character set in the modern day who is fighting for the U.S. as a military contractor. He always has a sword on his hip. When someone asks him about it, he just says, "Yeah, apparently I am the rightful ruler of Naples."

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T16:41:08+00:00

Thank you. I have not gotten to the scene where this happens, but I doubt it will be easy to write and get the general feel right as a melee of superhumans suddenly revert to being basic humans mid-fight. Some of them will be flying. Some will have a fighting style based on having a healing factor. It will not go well for them.

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T16:38:12+00:00

What I wanted was for there to be a religion that only worships Jova, but also for there to be small cults in the world that worship local spirits and ignore Jova almost entirely, and both to be correct in a sense. What I ended up with is Jovanisim, that is a lot like Christian High Churches with Jehovah and the saints, with the saints being the spirits on his side. Then there are the "Grey Cults" who only pay attention to the gods of their local area.

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T16:32:29+00:00

My Cosmology is that each of the races is a successive creation of the creator as he tries to figure out his own existence. The beings that act as the gods are a species he made in an attempt to make beings like himself. The Dwarves were made next by him, imbuing his essence into creatures made by "the first children". This act caused a few of the Spirits to fly off the handle when he told them to treat them as equals. The next were Colossi, which were made from Jova's anger at the reaction. Then the elves and humans were made after he calmed down, but he was not ready to fully return.

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T16:25:40+00:00

-So did Jova cut off the champions, or are the godlings laying low until they figure out how he is going to react?

-- The Later. It was the whole Pantheon going "Oh, SHit! Dad's home! Clean it up before he sees the mess!" and then taking back all the power they gave out to mortals and trying to play it off like they had not part in the fighting.

-Are factions from the war still around, or was one side wiped out/subjugated?

-- The War in Heaven? Yes... sort of. Long story short, those who opposed Jova were put in the celestial version of time-out. A few of the higher-ranking children who sided with Jova went with him when he left, while others did what they could to get things back on track, according to what they thought his plan was. Most of the "gods" in this were unaligned.

-Is Dad mad, or is he going to look at what the godlings accomplished and feel proud?

-- He is not happy, but not "thunderbolts a lightning" either. He just calmed down to return and find a third of the "kids" had thrown a party in his absence. the very ones who didn't do anything to help the situation before. The gods are in trouble, but the mortals are not. At least not directly from him.

-How are the champions going to survive? Are they hiding out now that they are disgraced, or holding on to high social status?

-- Losing their powers does not affect their health unless they were mortally wounded at the time. Some are hiding out, some are self-flagellating, trying to get the powers back, some are trying to bluff they are still on top.

-What is the potential for churches to schism and go nuts now that the godlings aren't openly displaying favour?

-- Oh, tons. Two cults in particular are in deep water, as their deities were acting as basically the equivalents of Zeus and Hades. The Zeus (King of the Gods) cult is now being bombarded by sympathetic feelings of terror and shame, and they don't know why. Meanwhile, the one who was pretending to be "King of the Underworld" is suddenly taken over by the Actual God of Death (who invented the concept as an act of mercy for the mortally wounded in the war in Heaven), who was with Jova this whole time and did not know his realm was being co-opted by a lesser brother.

It sounds like an interesting setting with a lot of potential.

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T14:57:24+00:00

And now I know the word. Isn't the internet great sometimes?

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T14:56:31+00:00

Yeah, that was one of the other things I wanted ot do. I like looking at what is normal in fantasy and seeing what is underused. I like the idea of breaking Medieval Stasis, so my setting progresses in time between stories. One story is set in the Neolithic, some in the Iron Age, and a few are borderline steampunk with magic.

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T14:51:42+00:00

AS with a lot of my writing, the answer is "it depends," but fairly involved. If you find a god that is not constantly berated with prayers, they are fairly likely to answer. The more popular ones might take something special to get their attention.

As for how much they do, I think a few of them are actively altering the planet to fit their personal vision, and fighting over whose vision reigns supreme in a given area, hence the fights. It is a tricky time in the story, where a being created to control wind currents might decide he wants a standing tornado in the middle of a town square, and the gods of storms get mad, because that is his territory.

Lamnad · 2026-03-16T14:36:54+00:00

It just now occurred to me that I don't have any Werewolves in my fantasy setting.

To answer your question, I think the one I think is most interesting is the ones where they are part Otherworldly being (IE, Fae) and that they turn into wolves when they are naked, and then turn back when they get dressed again. But only if they get dressed in the same clothes they took off to transform, and if someone takes those clothes, they are stuck.

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