Recent content by Gurkhal

I imagine its a mix between wattle and logs to be honest withmaybe some fillers thrown in as well. Little of the fancy stuff to be honest. But it should be robust enough that the other team needs to burn it away, and can't just kick it away.

Here's a question with a scenario. Quick reply is appreciated. :) A bunch of guys have built a wooden barricade across a bridge using a bunch of medieval-style hovels as building material. Another bunch of guys has thrown some torches on the barricade and set it burning. The first gang of...

As said by many posters above, there's no reason to think that you need many characters to get a good story. Now I like stories with lots and lots of characters that interact with each other but there's no reason to think that having fewer won't work. What you might want to think about is that...

I'm reading a classic right now; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Here's a more expanded post from me regarding names, and in which I have illustrated with an examples in order to show how I do it. The character comes from a story translated into "the captive duke". The languaged used for the character is Occitan (can't say exactly which dialects so I think...

In itself it isn't very useful but it certainly is a good tool to get creativity a kick-start and somewhere to begin when designing a town or city. As long as you don't end with the editor then you should be fine. Or at least I am.

Re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire. Probably the best fantasy I've ever read in my entire life.

One possible solution is to let a character speak up about something they've been thinking about, and so let the scene take a new direction and which can be connected with the main story a bit ahead of where you stopped. A sort of side-plot to move the main plot, kind of things. At least...

In the scenario mentioned I'm pretty sure that Prince Sterling II would be King Sterling I since there never was a King Sterling I before him. People who never sat the throne don't count when determining the numbers for a king's title. And to my knowledge that's pretty much used across the range...

I'd pick a consistent world every day of the week. But I also understand that it depends on the kind of stories you have in mind for your world.

EDITED: Forget about it.

I usually just gives it a straight name in a language that I know from language that is associated with the type of culture I have in mind.

I would imagine the cavemen did. At the least I would think that they divided into the eras of; Before anyone can remember, What my grandparents remembered and told me, What I can remember and Present.

I would suggest you find a real world culture that correspsonds to the kind of culture you are writing about and take names from the real world, or at least use it as inspiration. That will save you lots of work and you can use reader expectations to essentially make them fill in the blanks in...

I think that using eras is a very good idea and the more important a time period is the for the story, the more sub-eras can be used to make it easier to grasp for the reader. Using eras can allow you to gradually inform your reads first about the general shape of the history and then use them...