Rhaelicca isn't exactly a lady of chivalry and has no qualms about stabbing bandits in the back.
"Duck!" Rhaelicca shouts at Morwenna before completing the necessisary steps to fire the gout of flames from the rune.
Quickly, Rhaelicca draws a Rune of Fire in the air pointed at the Axeman. Once the motion is done, the rune bursts into hot flames and etches...
It's an important point to make to be sure. How much power you want the reader to have is an important decision to make. However, I don't think...
Ultimately it's a difference of opinion. I don't think either of us is truly right from a factual sense. We just have a difference of opinion on...
There's a difference between giving the reader the power to interact with a story and giving the reader full narrative power over the story.
A story doesn't need any of that. You're the one who keeps bringing up RPG's, so I gave an example of how fundamentally an RPG and a story can be...
So what determines the personality of your characters? Just arbitrary decisions? It sounds less like writing a story and more like a power...
A character without a history isn't a character. I don't know why you keep bringing up games, but if you want to go that way we can. Fundamentally...
Why would they expect the character to be different? Because they're different branches of the same story? That's not really a reason all on its...
Of course there's a point to branches. Well written choices give multiple options and ways that a character can approach a scenario while staying...
"Aye, I don't need a translator to know what he wants." Rhaelicca slides off her horse and walks between the horse and the bandit leader. She...
Any story can work from any POV. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't be better or easier to do in a different one. It's like @insertnamehere said....
"Well then, away we go then." Rhaelicca bumps the flank of her horse to begin walking down the road at a steady pace.
Pretty much all RPG's in existence are effectively interactive stories. Strip out the visuals, music, graphics, etc and what you're left with is...
A pickaxe and a shovel are both tools used for digging. That doesn't mean that I would use a shovel to dig through rock, or a pickaxe to dig...
She leads Morwenna out to her horse and helps her charge up onto it before climbing up behind her. Rhaelicca then makes sure that she's nice and...
"Well I have a horse. We may both fit on him, but if we don't want to take two weeks and a day...we best get moving "
"I can vouch for meself and prove my own worth, but I appreciate the sentiment. I don't know how far we're traveling, but maybe we'll be able to...
"Ah I see, now I get it. This was all a clever ploy to lure me in to being your bodyguard without pay...Well, without pay in the standard sense."...
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