Quadrophenia

I do believe you and I will get along famously!

I once made a character who was basically "What if Conan the Barbarian possessed Korra's body?" Answer: sexy pirate warrior woman of the high seas who wielded a massive sword made of ridged whalebone. Like a boss.

... Believe it or not, I've, uh... been there.

Fair fair, heh.

My friends and I are currently working on setting it up. We've made our characters, we have a story (it's modelled loosely after Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, because I'm a massive film nerd), we have planned boss fights... We just don't have a good schedule yet. You should see some of the characters we've come up with! An exiled Air Nomad who walks the earth as a sort of... "Air Ronin," if you will, with his glider carved into a bokken as a sign of his shame and exile. A Water Tribe Man with No Name type known as "The Fastest Waterslinger of the East." A firebending version of Mugen from Samurai Champloo. An old fat war vet, an archer, who rides an Ostrich Horse as his main mount. Two Earthbending travelling martial artists and showmen modelled loosely after Ryu & Ken of Street Fighter. And the main antagonists? ... A renegade faction of Air Nomads known as the Wardens of The Thousand Tempests, led by an enigmatic figure known only as the Prophet of Storms. They've kept an isolated village in the Earth Kingdom hostage for sinister purposes, two young boys had escaped to find help from heroes or soldiers or mercenaries (again, much like in the film Seven Samurai... or Magnificent Seven, either or)... Oh, it'll be a blast! When it gets off the ground.

Heh, thanks! I got a real course in fashion back in college. Plus, when some of your best friends drag you to fashion shows, you tend to pick up a few things. Incidentally, it has been immensely education in coming up with practical or fashionable character design.

Remember, a fedora is meant to be part of a specific ensemble- the reason why it's now a subject of mockery is that some are wearing fedoras with outfits they were never meant to be paired with, i.e. blue jeans, flannel- They were accoutrements for three-piece suits. There's a reason a fedora looks better on Humphrey Bogart instead of, say, the average hipster. This goes for hats in general, really. You have to know how to wear them, you have to know what specifically compliments a fedora and what doesn't and how it affects the ensemble.

S'all good, friend! Hey, can I get your two cents on something? How would you stat... a Chasmfiend? And are they not _fantastic_ boss material?

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." Lovecraft---massive racist though he was---is still my jam. Lovecraftian horror in general, really, is one of my favourite kinds of horror.

Also, I'm throwing this out there... But one of my greatest motivations to create a Stormlight d20... is so I can fight a Chasmfiend. Look at those things; how they not boss monster material?

I think that quote's misattributed. I've been playing D&D for the last two or three years, Bleeder said that. But yeah, I do think it's feasible to crossover the other magic systems. Technically speaking, they're all based in the same sort of... let's call it... "Sandersonian Physics" of the Cosmere, Investiture. There are all sorts of different schools of magic in Pathfinder and D&D proper, after all.

Huh. Well, I'll be.

Xanadu's a colour?

That's exactly my problem!

Did you say... Xanadu? ... A place where everybody dared to go, a love that we came to know~ They call it Xanadu~

Sure! Already met nice people who've been he,ping me with my big, ambitious, homebrew Stormlight Archive tabletop RPG d20 game.

Yesterday. New as you.

Absolutely!

S'all good. Thanks!

It might. I am working on four novels at once (or trying to), and they're all variations on fantasy sub-genres. I have a dark fantasy/horror book in the vein of Mistborn, Berserk and The Dresden Files. I have a 'weird' one in the vein of China Miéville. I have a more whimsical Studio Ghibli-inspired monster fest. Finally, last but not least, I have a spaghetti western set in a high fantasy world. It's a lot of different tones to juggle with... which, I realize now with the benefit of hindsight, may be contributing to my writer's block.

It's wonderful! Once you get in the right mindset for it, it can be a very engaging experience. d20's my main too. Only other game systems I'm familiar with are, respectively, Call of Cthulhu and the officially licensed RPG of Mistborn.

Sorry about that, good fellow, I had crashed and forgotten to sign out of the site prior. Did not mean to stand you up like that. These are all wonderful ideas, must say. So, essentially, you'd have a sort of... "Worldhopping Expansion Pack?"

I don't think it would be controversial to say Star Wars are more high fantasy wearing the coat of science fiction than pure SF at all. So yeah, totally counts! And that movie had Robert De Niro as a crossdressing pirate, how is that not endearing? Fun fact, whenever I need a romantic scene for any of my RP's, I always play the love theme from The Princess Bride. Don't forget the awesome soundtrack!

Ha, indeed!

Oh, it's wonderful. The lads and I sprang a trap on Snow White's Evil Queen and shanked her like a fellow inmate in the prison yard. No joke!