u/Elias_Rabe

[This post has been edited. I’m not sure what triggered the auto-moderator, so some terms have been adjusted. Please bear with me.]

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Hello

I’m still very new to writing, so please bear with me.

I’d like to ask for your advice on how to write a [love triangle] where all three characters are in romantic relationships, so not an ‘equiangular triangle’ but an ‘equilateral’ one?
In my draft, the situation is that the man, a nobleman, has to marry a second wife for [the support for a neighbouring country], and over time the two women become increasingly close (the relationship was never cold, and the [first] wife is rational about why her husband has a [second love], even though she was not thrilled about it.)
From my point of view, my story isn’t really a [love] novel, but I’d still like to make the relationships easy to understand.

I’ve tried searching for similar topics, but I get the impression I’m in an unusual situation.

Yours sincerely,

A Newbie

Hello

I’m still very new to writing, so please bear with me.

I’d like to ask for your advice on how to write a ménage à trois where all three characters are in romantic relationships, so not an ‘equiangular triangle’ but an ‘equilateral’ one?
In my draft, the situation is that the man, a nobleman, has to marry a second wife for political reasons, and over time the two women become increasingly close (the relationship was never cold, and the ‘primary’ wife is rational about why her husband has a ‘mistress’, even though she was not thrilled about it.)
From my point of view, my story isn’t really a romance novel, but I’d still like to make the relationships easy to understand.

I’ve tried searching for similar topics, but I get the impression I’m in an unusual situation.

Oh, and it’s set in a fantasy/pseudo-historical world, so I thought I’d ask here (yes, I know that fact has hardly anything to do with my question, but you never know.)

Yours sincerely,

A Newbie

I'm back with another idea I had yesterday, and I have a lot of things I need to keep in mind. Don't worry, this should be my last post for a while.

Summary:

>After defeating the Chosen One, the Demon Queen uses the hero’s magical potential to transport herself, her minions and domain, and the party members who defected to her side to another reality.
Upon arriving there, the inhabitants of Europe noticed that a new island had appeared off the coast of their continent that morning, inhabited by a handful of strange humanoids. Let’s hope that diplomatic negotiations go well and that the rest of the world can accept that the EU is gaining a new member who can cast spells.
The world into which the domain was transported isn't exactly the same as ours either, which is why the title mentions “Alternate History.” That's not just there to make it a little more exciting, but also so I can cover up a few plot holes.

Questions wanted:

• The Island's Culture
• The Island's Inhabitants
• Differences from the Real World
• Magic in a World Without Magic
• Simple World Politics — (I probably won't go into great detail, since I'm not entirely confident that I've thought everything through, as long as the nation doesn't interact directly with the island)

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Note: I have no idea what effect a new island would have on the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. I would try to smooth over any major changes by explaining that the island sucked in the surrounding seabed and created new oceanic trenches, so that, theoretically, no water would have been displaced. Still, the Netherlands and Belgium wouldn’t be particularly thrilled.

This is my second post on this forum, so I might make a few mistakes. After I started listening to “No Epic Loot, Just Puns”, I thought I’d have a go at the genre myself. It’s got nothing to do with the other post, apart from the genre.

Summary:

>One day, the protagonist wakes up in a network of tunnels with almost no memories, except that she used to be a Dungeon Core. Delighted at the prospect of seeing the outside world for once, [Klara] sets off on her journey. To earn a bit of money, the eccentric protagonist ‘visits’ other dungeons and rates them purely for fun, unwittingly causing chaos in the process.
Incidentally, in this world, DCs are actually quite rare, and there’s a theory that they’re actually parasites and/or the larval stage of something.

Questions wanted:

• Dungeon Core Lore
• The ‘world outside the gates’
• Unusual questions

First of all, hello everyone. 👋😃
This is my first post on this forum, so I might make a few mistakes. But I’d like to try my hand at world-building and I’ve hardly any experience. I’d like to give the Q&A game here a go to see if it helps me figure out how to structure a plot.

Summary:

>When a new Dungeon Core was being set up, the Core wished it could be implanted into a machine. As the gods happen to be bored at the moment, they thought to themselves, ‘Why not, actually?’ [Yes, brilliant argument, I still need to iron that out …]
And so, based on the Core’s designs, the first high-speed train in this fantasy world came into being. For obvious reasons, the plot revolves around the adventurers’ reaction to this mobile dungeon and the peculiarities of the five Cores who, due to a screw-up, are controlling the locomotive.

Questions wanted:

• world
• characters
• structure of the train
• inhabitants of the train
• the soft magic system
• consequences of introducing the express train

Hello everyone.

I’m currently expanding my high fantasy world and suddenly found myself wondering whether there are many authors who include hobbits or a similar folk in their worlds?

I have kobolds/goblins, whom I see as the equivalent of hobbits and who, in purely physical terms, resemble the halflings – « Half-foots » – from Delicious in Dungeon.

If anyone’s curious, here’s my take on them:

As I said before, my ‘hobbits’ look like short people at first glance. I actually drew more inspiration from the original mythology of kobolds, which is why I’ve tended to call them kobolds. As I like the idea of there being a related peoples, there are also goblins that look almost identical to kobolds.

The main difference between a kobold and a goblin is the fact that kobolds have small, goat-like horns (which they share with my elves, who, however, have significantly larger ones and, in some cases, antlers), whilst goblins have sharp teeth – something I’ve borrowed from Pathfinder.

By the way, kobolds and goblins have an interesting origin story, in which their creator deities fell out, resulting in the existence of two distinct communities.

I don’t have much else that’s set in stone at the moment.