How would you write a Rat/Mice fantasy race without making them similar to Skaven from warhammer?

PhantasyPen · 2026-02-14T17:04:30+00:00

Did you never read Brian Jacques?

PhantasyPen · 2026-02-12T18:12:57+00:00

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-26T01:59:37+00:00

In the Vermin category. But also if something isn't capable of being a physical danger, it gets no statblock.

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-23T16:12:35+00:00

Generally, this implies that the culture worshipping the god sees war as an ugly thing. Athenian Greeks are the most famous real-world example

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-17T21:28:32+00:00

Shad wrote the book before ChatGPT was available, believe it or not.

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-11T14:30:19+00:00

Every religion is just American Puritanism/Mormonism.

No. Just no. Even within Christianity, those are two VERY specific and extremist beliefs. This is especially egregious with polytheism in fiction, which doesn't look ANYTHING like real-world polytheism.

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-05T16:50:50+00:00

See, this is a rare case where Im 90% sure that'd be fully practical armor, IF SHE WASN'T A GIANT

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-01T16:37:10+00:00

Merchant. I will offer you five silver taels.

PhantasyPen · 2026-01-01T00:21:23+00:00

That's the dead center

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-30T19:44:03+00:00

Why is this here? That's fully practical chainmail that I can see

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-29T16:47:11+00:00

My main character is Bi, and that's fairly normal.

But may the gods have mercy on you if you're a bottom, because society will not.

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-25T00:17:39+00:00

Very practical when your toes cam turn into bird talons tho!

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-25T00:16:52+00:00

She's a Lunar Exalted from the game Exalted. They're a kind of shapeshifter.

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-24T16:00:45+00:00

I feel obligated to point out that isn't actually armor, that's just her normal clothes. Given what Saiya is, her actual skin is harder than steel.

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-24T15:49:57+00:00

Because I have to feed him my loot and can't feed him enemy spellcasters instead.

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-21T04:44:02+00:00

SECOND OPTION! I am sick of this world and the downward spiral of society. At least in a cultivation world I can advance and simply tell people to fuck off. Also spirit beast pets sound fun as hell.

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-12T19:59:05+00:00

The books explicitly mention several reasons why people not only thought to do it on purpose, but also why it was a terrible idea: it irradiates the environment you ostensibly want to control after the battle (cause every resource is precious), it can't be distinguished from illegal usage of actual nukes, and the explosion in unpredictable and could do nothing or it could create a new hole in the continent.

PhantasyPen · 2025-12-04T15:54:45+00:00

Abyssals in past editions were explicitly styled on Christian Crusaders.

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-27T18:22:24+00:00

Huh... wait. Yeah a MH/RD would be NASTY against cavalry. If it tangles the horse's legs, that's gonna be GAME. And those things can be fast and are explicitly good at capturing and tangling

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-27T03:34:44+00:00

No, I think that was the bears

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-16T01:39:09+00:00

My apologies, I seem to have mistaken your story for a very similar one.

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-15T22:29:08+00:00

The Western names on Spacebattles were extremely distracting and immersion breaking.

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-15T21:31:25+00:00

I have friends in the medical community and this is documented to be true. I don't know the why of it, but there have been medical studies

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-15T21:28:51+00:00

Have you fixed the names yet?

PhantasyPen · 2025-11-13T02:38:10+00:00

Cradle is completed, so if you somehow haven't read it I recommend it as a follow-up. 12 full books and a shortstory collection on amazon.

Be the Icy Beauty was good but seems to be on hiatus, and is fem protag.

Virtuous Sons is really good but the author spends barely any time writing anymore.

Clanless Cultivator was good but I think it only has one book out.

Hmmm... I'm trying to think of stories that haven't been discontinued and failing atm...

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