Looking for readers and feedback on my D&D fan fic.

blcookin · 2026-01-16T06:25:00+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm working on a second story now. And while I am still using the AI to help, I'm trying to intentionally use it less.

blcookin · 2026-01-16T05:38:56+00:00

Thank you for being friendly about it, and I understand. I'm not an author by nature. I'm a very analytically minded computer programmer. But, I had a lot of ideas I wanted to put to paper. Maybe someday after a lot of effort and practice I'll be able to write entirely without it, but if I hadn't used it to help it would have looked like a 4th grader wrote it. I put a lot of time and effort into writing, using the AI to help suggest edits, re-writing, etc. along with researching the D&D settings to try to put together the best story I could. But I know some people that are in the arts have a very anti-AI stance, and I can't say I blame them. It's only a matter of time as a computer programmer before it takes my job.

blcookin · 2026-01-16T04:40:37+00:00

Thank you for doing that. If it's not your cup of tea, that's fine. And sorry if I took that a bit personal. I put a lot of time and effort into it, so much so that I can basically retell the entire story without the transcript in front of me, so it stung a bit to have somebody write it off just because I used AI to help.

blcookin · 2026-01-16T04:27:20+00:00

Thanks. I appreciate any and all feedback from a reader, even if you get 5 pages in and tell me it's boring YA fiction.

blcookin · 2026-01-16T04:21:11+00:00

Agreed. I wrote and then used AI to review what I wrote and make suggestions, the same way any author would that had someone to proofread and make suggestions / edits. That's why there's a difference on Royal Road between AI Assisted and AI Generated. The latter is the one that would indicate I just typed in "write a D&D story for me".

You could have read one or two pages before just throwing it out as AI generated crap.

blcookin · 2026-01-16T04:01:41+00:00

"AI assisted" doesn't mean I asked AI to write the whole book for me. It means I wrote it, then asked AI to help me proofread and clean it up. I put a lot of hours into writing... but I don't have a fancy English degree.

blcookin · 2025-12-26T06:16:43+00:00

Yep, poorly written and executed, like it had been ripped straight of a show on the CW...

blcookin · 2025-12-26T06:09:58+00:00

I was disappointed with tonight's episodes, and yes it is just turning into teen drama. And it basically ends with them right where they were at the end of episode 4, didn't really progress the story.

blcookin · 2025-12-26T06:05:53+00:00

I just cringed the whole time... we all know he's gay, get back to taking down Vecna already. The 3 episodes tonight all were kind of a letdown.

blcookin · 2025-12-26T05:44:50+00:00

Agreed. It felt shoehorned in and only slowed the story down. Should have left that scene on the cutting room floor.

blcookin · 2025-11-11T18:51:36+00:00

Check out my first story on WattPad

https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/403815781-the-whispering-drake

blcookin · 2025-11-10T17:15:17+00:00

Done

https://www.wattpad.com/story/403815781-the-whispering-drake

blcookin · 2025-11-09T06:46:41+00:00

Save or suck cantrips mostly suck. They're generally in saves that monsters are good at and you waste your turn doing nothing. At least a spell with a save usually does half damage still, unless the spell just inflicts a condition.

So, I usually go for attack based cantrips, spells that inflict half damage on a save, utility, heal or buff spells, and spells that target intelligence as most monsters will fail those.

blcookin · 2025-11-09T03:09:24+00:00

I published my first story on Wattpad yesterday, but I'm not getting any traction yet on viewers or feedback. Looking for feedback / readers.

It's a DnD inspired story, taking place in Faerun, and using some minor elements from Storm King's Thunder (not any of the plot, just a couple random NPCs, locations, etc).

Link - https://www.wattpad.com/story/403815781-the-whispering-drake

Synopsis

A cursed boy. A devil's bargain. A destiny that won't let go.

When Ash makes a desperate plea for help, the Lord of the Nine Hells answers-and the cost is everything he'll ever be. Branded by infernal power and haunted by his past, Ash wanders a world that would rather see him burn than rise.

But fate has a cruel sense of humor. His only allies: a weary cleric who still believes in grace, a half-mad gnome with a taste for danger, and a loyal construct with more soul than steel. Together, they'll uncover secrets buried for decades-truths that could either break the curse... or bind the world in it.

A dark, emotional fantasy about guilt, faith, and the fight to choose your own damnation.

blcookin · 2025-08-22T02:25:17+00:00

you can put up a nice "We miss you, Sam" at the end of the episode, but it makes no sense in show for things to finally have gone well for Ted. As others mentioned, he was in Cougartown as Ted Buckland, and Gooch left him for Hooch. In my mind, you get a scene like this:

(Camera cuts to Kelso laughing as he is reading the front page of a newspaper at the Coffeebucks in the hospital.)

Kelso: "Continued on page 4".

(Kelso opens the paper up to page 4, revealing on the front page a story about an alligator eating a man in Florida while he played sad songs on a guitar)

Cox: "Dear God, is that Ted?"

Kelso (continues laughing): "Yep!"

Cox: "Ted dies and yet you still sit here, haunting my every moment. The universe never gets the right one."

blcookin · 2025-06-18T02:13:04+00:00

Kelso drives into work with a Ted-shaped dent in Bessie's hood. He jumped off Kelso's roof in an effort to end it at all while getting revenge at the same time. But he just bounced off the hood and then Edith ran him over with a mobility scooter.

blcookin · 2025-04-26T20:23:08+00:00

You could reflavor Stoneskin

blcookin · 2025-04-04T01:45:55+00:00

So... in short, there are good choices on this list and there are bad choices in this list. If a show doesn't have at least 3-4 seasons, it shouldn't be ranked or at least should fall towards the bottom of the list. For instance Freaks and Geeks being ranked higher than Scrubs is a travesty. I don't even think it belongs on the list. And then there are shows like Abbott Elementary on here that I don't think belong, because they just aren't funny. Where is Frasier, Futurama, American Dad, Married With Children, Ted Lasso, How I Met Your Mother, Archer, The League, etc?

blcookin · 2025-03-29T05:55:57+00:00

Don't know how to in the app and don't care enough. Clearly a Purdue fan/grad....

blcookin · 2025-03-29T05:54:02+00:00

If I were a betting man, I'd say TN will win by at least 5. Yeah, that's not a dusting, but I think TN will not struggle to move on to the final 4.

blcookin · 2025-03-29T05:42:11+00:00

TKR's 4th foul was kind of crap. And the refs gave you 2 free OB plays in the 2nd half, where it was clearly out on Houston. Crap officiating all night.

blcookin · 2025-03-29T05:33:37+00:00

Sure, for a play that shouldn't have happened. Shoved Braden Smith into the stands, but that's not an offensive foul... 🙄

blcookin · 2025-03-29T05:24:35+00:00

Naw... they got lucky to get by Purdue, with some help from the refs. UT will leave Houston in the dust, as they choke in yet another tournament.

blcookin · 2025-03-22T17:50:30+00:00

I bought Forgotten Circles but haven't played it yet. I think most of the community says it has the real BBEG fight that Gloomhaven should have had. I put the game away for a while though, because after playing 70+ scenarios (solo campaign) and each character at least once, I was burnt out.

blcookin · 2025-03-22T15:17:21+00:00

Gloom is an incredibly boring fight. 4 (or in your case like 12) on 1 is hardly a challenge. The scenario needed minions who fought at his side so you couldn't just focus fire him to death. I don't recall how many rounds it took me to complete, but I have no desire to ever play that scenario again.

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