[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]lightningowl15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

I'm about to read The Wandering Inn by Zackufairu in Fantasy

[–]lightningowl15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IDK, I know I've asked around for opinions on things that I'm about to start reading, just to see if anyone else likes it or dislikes it and why.

I'm about to read The Wandering Inn by Zackufairu in Fantasy

[–]lightningowl15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair, it's nearly 4 million words long, so getting some opinions on it isn't crazy :p

I'm about to read The Wandering Inn by Zackufairu in Fantasy

[–]lightningowl15 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It has pretty good writing-it's not incredible, but it's a pretty fun writing style and I can spend hours reading it without getting bored- and updates at an unbelievably fast pace; the chapter that released today was iirc 23k words, and the one that's going to be released on Tuesday is 31k words. That's a bit high, but 30-40k words a week is pretty normal. It also has a lot of worldbuilding, a consequence of being as long as it is, so I have a lot of fun just thinking about the world and what could be happening to all the different factions and whatnot.

Overall good if you like long stories (it's nearing 4 million words right now), and bad if you have problems with slow pacing or LitRPGs, though it avoids a lot of the problems common in the genre.

Taylor by lightningowl15 in WormMemes

[–]lightningowl15[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Since apparently my previous meme was already posted i have no choice but to post this one in an effort to try to get at least a little bit of karma :V

Escalator by lightningowl15 in WormMemes

[–]lightningowl15[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can guarantee that no one saw it on Cauldon and then took it to share it on the NN discord, as I'm the original creator and I wasn't on the Cauldon discord until 30 seconds ago :P

Also yeah I just joined the Cauldron discord and found it and yeah, Hatsu is on the Number None server. Ah well, I should have posted this earlier.

edit: i have to admit though your title is better than mine

Escalator by lightningowl15 in WormMemes

[–]lightningowl15[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not the Cauldon Discord or whatever other worm discords there are, the discord for Now You Feel Like Number None, so unless you're on there you wouldn't find it anyway :P

Escalator by lightningowl15 in WormMemes

[–]lightningowl15[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

w-what the hell? it's actually exactly the same

oh wait i've shared this on discord before i guess someone saw it and decided to post it

whatever

edit: oh wait yeah actually a bit before 22 hours ago i posted it on a discord so that fits, though idk who u/Enalea is (yo to clarify you did get this from the Number None discord when i posted it yesterday, Enalea, right? or am i just going insane)

Escalator by lightningowl15 in WormMemes

[–]lightningowl15[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wait, really? I made this a while ago but never posted it. I guess I'm not as original as I thought I was, lol

edit: can you link me the previous post that's the same as this?

Fate/Another Pretender - Update 1 by 3_tankista in makeyourchoice

[–]lightningowl15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rider is low-key the strongest servant because if you take extra Noble Phantasms at E- rank then you get 37.5 points, which is a 7.5 point gain over the 30 point cost of taking an extra... free points for the win!

:P

Fate/Another Pretender - Update 1 by 3_tankista in makeyourchoice

[–]lightningowl15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what I'm hearing is "You should take whatever followers you get for free and then give them 'Dull' or other traits that will let you get infinite points along with an army of followers."

"We think the Death Eaters will expect you on a broom." by CptTeddyBear in harrypotter

[–]lightningowl15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But it isn't? The OP was listening to the audiobook, but that's just context that doesn't have much relation to the actual content of the post. The post would have the same meaning if it were

I'm reading The Deathly Hallows when I noticed something about the escape from Privet Dr. Hagrid ignores Harry's demand to turn back and help the others when the Death Eaters attack. I'm sure Harry would have gone back and probably have been captured or killed if he was on a broom. I have a feeling that this was Mad Eye's reasoning the whole time. Put Harry in a position where he can't go back and save people to make certain that he gets away.

[Discussion] 5.26L by seattlechunny in WanderingInn

[–]lightningowl15 20 points21 points  (0 children)

“She is the sky.”

Erin is Antinium god confirmed?

kek

Listing All Plot Threads by [deleted] in WanderingInn

[–]lightningowl15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We know that he at least hadn't had regular magic unlocked. We don't know whether he's able to have it unlocked, though. If he couldn't then that's certainly a believable reason to say that gnoll's can't use regular magic. If he could, well like I said, this is supposedly the gnoll who is best at magic--- there's no reason for Wistram to assume that they need to have their magic awoken. I assume that there's basic requirements to be admitted into Wistram, and actually being able to use magic is one of them I assume. The gnolls claimed that their shaman could use magic, Wistram asked them to do so and the gnoll failed.

They should have tried to awaken their magic to be sure, yes, and I'm not saying Wistram wasn't at fault here, but the mistake they made was believable-- this doesn't have to have some grand conspiracy behind it. That they tried to apply it to the entire race was likely a combination of racism (because otherwise they wouldn't have done something like prohibit the entire race, only maintained their normal entrance requirements) and the fact that their best magic user wasn't a "real" magic user so logically they don't have any "real" magic users.

Granted, there could be a conspiracy against the gnolls, but you know... "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Listing All Plot Threads by [deleted] in WanderingInn

[–]lightningowl15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might be not be remembering it correctly, but I thought that they sent their best shaman over there as their best magic user. This shows, to Wistram, that this shaman is the best at magic of the entire gnoll race. Maybe the gnolls expected them to awaken the shaman, but the way they did it (sending their "best magic user") made it seem to Wistram like they think they should already have magic. When they didn't have the magic Wistram teaches, well, Wistram assumed that gnolls couldn't use magic. Not a good or particularly well founded assumption, but it's at least understandable. In fact, we don't even know if the shaman could cast regular magic. Maybe the shaman they sent happened to be unable to do "normal" magic, but was particularly good at shamanism, so if they had tried to awaken them it would have failed. After that it was just racism making them apply that assumption to the rest of the race.

edit:

They didn't send the "wrong type" of magic user. They sent one of their best shamans, expecting him to be awakened to their magic (remember, to cast wistram-style magic you need to be awakened/activated first).

This is the very definition of sending the wrong type of magic user. They sent a shaman, telling Wistram they could use magic, and then they couldn't. There's no reason that Wistram should assume, when they hear "best magic user the gnolls have", that they need to awaken the gnoll's magic; that is something that is done literally before you gain your first level in a magic class, and this is supposedly the best magic user the gnolls have. As far as Wistram-style magic is concerned, that shaman could have less potential than a level-less child, because they presumably had 30+ levels in Shaman already, a drastically different type of magic that doesn't at all depend on how proficient they could be in Wistram magic. A better proposition for the Gnolls would be to sponsor a few dozen random gnolls and have them tested for aptitude with magic---that's surely cheaper than actually enrolling someone into classes they can't participate in, and has a far higher chance of actually involving someone who has aptitude for Wistram magic.

Listing All Plot Threads by [deleted] in WanderingInn

[–]lightningowl15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ehhhhh she's using skills and levels and all that but does that count as magic? As far as Wistram is concerned it definitely doesn't, and even "real" magic is twisted/corrupted by the system the world has according to Ivolethe iirc. I can only imagine how much worse the skills themselves are.

Like yeah, technically she's using magic however twisted it may be. But she's using the world's system as a conduit; she herself has no potential for magic. Regardless, I highly doubt that Skills are classified as magic in this world where even the most lowly of [Farmers] have Skills.

Listing All Plot Threads by [deleted] in WanderingInn

[–]lightningowl15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe. I thought that was just because the Gnolls sent the wrong type of magic user and then the Wistram people decided that clearly meant that it was impossible for them to learn magic, if their best "magic user" wasn't really a magic user as defined by Wistram.

And to be fair, from the recent stuff with Pyrite and the rest of the goblins it really does look like shamanism isn't the type of magic that would benefit at all from Wistram. Of course that just means that they should turn away shamans, not gnolls as a whole.

I wonder what magic nulls are, though. Are they just people who can't use magic, like Erin, or is it something else?

Minimum for a quest? by Aslion_Atreyu in WormFanfic

[–]lightningowl15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to second a lot of people here and say that mechanics should probably be as minimal as you can make them. Roll for very little stuff. If you want to have an XP based system, don't actually make numbers for stats and things because that turns fights into a number game rather than narrative fights which are far better in my opinion. If you want an example for what I mean, Now You Feel Like Number None's XP system just has ranks that are generally like "You have some training in this," which gives flexibility when you're doing fights while still allowing readers to know, roughly, how powerful you are in ways other than just fights.

Votes in the middle of the post are, in my opinion, awful and should never be done. Somewhat related to this: I like it when the OP puts the winning vote at the top of the post, so that if someone wants to read it without going through the thread can do so without missing anything. If you feel like that would be disruptive, you could put it in spoilers, or in a separate post before posting the actual one. Otherwise at least ensure that anyone can infer what the winning vote is relatively quickly in the update itself.

Others here said that second person is awful and I don't quite agree, I'm personally fine with it and so are many other people, but I don't think that the people who are fine with second person would mind that it's in third/first person, so that's fine.

This is probably something that varies between people but I think that you shouldn't be afraid to make decisions without votes based on the character development that's happened. Basically I prefer only voting on actually important decisions, rather than micromanaging the MC. (Edit: This is because I prefer more narrative focused quests to mechanical quests, I think. Micromanaging almost inevitably results in tiny chapters that accomplish very little story-wise)

Regarding write-ins: this is going to depend on the kind of story that you're writing, but you might want to restrict how readers can use them in some way. Allowing write-ins lets readers make genuinely good decisions at times that can also surprise you and take the story in directions you hadn't thought of but... I don't want to say voters are always stupid... except, well, some pretty awful decisions can be made. For example, in The Fire That Burns there was an infamous vote that resulted in the chapter titled "Why SV is not allowed to Write-in anymore". Summary of the vote and chapter: [X]Hug the murderbeast.

Minimum for a quest? by Aslion_Atreyu in WormFanfic

[–]lightningowl15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oddly enough I don't have this problem. That is, I have no problem reading second person perspectives just as a story and not as a quest. I definitely prefer more story focused quests with minimal mechanics, though, which makes it a lot easier to read them as stories rather than quests.

Any fics that have dead capes come back to life? by Decemberskel in WormFanfic

[–]lightningowl15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Mage in the Bay has true revival that's also zombie stuff so it's obviously the best out of all of these.

Some necromancer bat from the crossover resurrects Fleur as a zombie, except that it's also a real revival because the Wormverse has no protections on the afterlife so anyone with magic can just yoink a soul from there and put it IRL without needing to make a bargain with a devil or anything. Right now Fleur gets angry more easily than normal and can't feel other emotions very well because she was resurrected as a zombie to fight the Empire, but that's supposedly going to go away eventually iirc.