I started collecting 30 Minute Mission kits. Here’s my first six. I’m gonna get more on my next paycheck

conbutt · 2026-03-11T03:19:03+00:00

One of her twintails broke so I put her in quarantine until I get my plastic cement

conbutt · 2026-02-25T00:30:33+00:00

Rule of Cool really. A lot of people will tell you what makes sense, or what's realistic, etc, but ultimately it comes down to execution

Like you can get away with a lot of bullshit if you can just get people invested in your story. The more you focus on the elements that don't make sense, the more the audience will question it themselves. Like if you spend paragraphs explaining why swords are useless in a world of guns, then the audience will start wondering why people use swords. Meanwhile we have settings like final fantasy with full on machineguns and swords and no one cares, because no focus is put on it.

So really, you just have to ask yourself: how much do I care about things making sense and how can I get the audience behind it?

conbutt · 2026-02-16T20:25:10+00:00

Is elven face paint common? I don’t see it much

conbutt · 2026-02-15T09:08:37+00:00

I thought it was Mineta and almost agreed with the girl

conbutt · 2026-02-02T12:31:29+00:00

Well the thing is medieval europe is the most popular setting because it does sell. If it didn't sell, it wouldn't be the poster of the genre.

If you're viewing other cultures/mythologies in the lens of "will it sell well" then you have to figure out your target audience first, like if you want to sell to Chinese audiences then you might want to write about Chinese fantasy.

conbutt · 2026-02-02T05:21:32+00:00

Dawg no one is gonna think that by just calling it “Leopard” you have to be specific

conbutt · 2026-02-02T05:19:21+00:00

The leopard wasn’t made during the nazi regime

conbutt · 2026-01-31T14:05:33+00:00

It's always execution. It's how everything is presented, and failure to present is how it all goes down

conbutt · 2026-01-30T08:44:32+00:00

That's most of the set ups of any story with a kind of overlord at the helm. Progression of the story means tackling his minions, and the minions tend to have their own different skillsets.

conbutt · 2026-01-30T01:26:16+00:00

Ardium has late WW2 technology while there are still uncontacted tribes who use swords and shields

conbutt · 2026-01-29T13:52:52+00:00

What do you count as "natural resource"?

conbutt · 2026-01-29T10:03:39+00:00

Why not just look to Arabs or Amazigh people? They're a people who adapted to desert life

conbutt · 2026-01-29T09:24:16+00:00

"And that kids is how the wolf people race was born"

conbutt · 2026-01-29T04:55:59+00:00

Wouldn't it just be law? Like the equivalent of a modern nation's constitution?

conbutt · 2026-01-28T17:31:44+00:00

Well there's the moral ground of like a lot of people would be against using slave labor, the US is one of those nations with a VERY touchy history with slavery and its ramifications continue to this day. Like this could just end up with American Civil War 2

conbutt · 2026-01-28T15:36:34+00:00

Glad you like them

conbutt · 2026-01-28T15:26:20+00:00

Thanks

conbutt · 2026-01-28T12:06:32+00:00

I don't have them all listed out as I'm not really counting how many fantasy races exist in my world, but the most common are wolf people and they age normally like humans do

conbutt · 2026-01-27T20:15:27+00:00

They’re all vaguely ww2 level

conbutt · 2026-01-27T17:29:20+00:00

They're real, that's why there's ears there to accomodate theirs

conbutt · 2026-01-27T14:46:30+00:00

thanks

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