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This seems problematic. The gods’ outer realms have been mentioned to be anchored to the various material planes of their worshipers implying that their polarization is the same as their worshippers’ worlds. Or are they neutral like the Abyss?
If the outer realm is polarized then are the gods as well with only demons being truly neutral? Or perhaps, does the outer realm neutralize this and the gods can worshippers from both realms? Or do they pay for two realms with each having a specific polarization?
So Tizzy, would you be willing to be [s]bribed[/s] thanked [i]generously[/i] for providing a snippet of Book 4 Chapter 1? Say with some demon cookies or Scooby-snacks?
[quote=Tizzy;7502][quote=Centurion0507;7501]This is a very true point indeed, except for those rare instances where work is in fact a good place to be. At least mine is on certain days, where I get to go out and play with incredibly destructive devices.[/quote]
IDD’s? Now that sounds like a great perk! What demon doesn’t love destroying things? I bet you’d have no trouble hiring in the Abyss.
The D’Orcs certainly love IDD’s. As do orcs…
Although, to be honest, D’Orcs are sort IDD’s themselves, Incredibly Destructive D’Orcs![/quote]
So, we should defer to the desire for demonstratively destructive D’orcs to defile and debase those damned elvish demesnes in a way most diabolical with devices of devastation?
I use Joomla3 for work and I’d say… be careful. It’ll nickel & dime on the extensions and themes. It has some power, but it takes a while to get used to things (took me a couple of weeks of 8-5 research and practice before I figured most of it out). Admittedly once it is up and running it looks and works beautifully. That initial setup and learning is a killer though.
Speaking of gods remaking themselves…
1. Demiurge was once El / Elohim (sound familiar?)
2. El was a storm god who is suspiciously similar to Zeus.
3. El was the Ba’al of Storms, leader of his pantheon, and was once married to a fertility goddess named Asherah, but they broke up. He had her followers eliminated too in an attempt to seize control of all of the pantheon’s worshipers.
4. El, Ba’al of Storms, was once cuckolded by the Ba’al of the River and Seas.
5. El was one of the Ba’al, but a bit of religious fevor and some mortal male egos converted all other Ba’al’s into demons and stopped calling El the Ba’al of Storms. This happened after a female worshiper of a third Ba’al caused a bit of a problem with the local clergy.* Ba’al just means Lord, but the Demiurge used his ancient title to demonize the competition?
I’m trying to imagine a dwarven smith naming each every nail, every hinge, every non-weapon or armor item that is forged.
“Yes, as I have said a couple of times,” Chancellor Alighieri replied sternly. I have triple-checked the coordinates against every tool I have. Nysegard, being in our own localverse, is not that difficult to identify. It’s not like he was wandering around a random [color=red]Earth[/color] or something.”
Well, prior to Doom uniting the orcs they probably all had different standards of time and measurement. Once they were united would they have been put on a standard system for all works regardless of plane and planet?
If yes, then shouldn’t it be based on some measure of time and space in the Abyss?
Finished Ancient Ruins. Much better than the usual dungeon stories — of which there are few good ones. This story didn’t get bogged down in game mechanics and instead incorporated the dungeon into the world’s setting in a much more natural way. I found that refreshing rather than seeing YET ANOTHER rehash of a game’s mechanics with a clumsy exposition.
I wonder sometimes at the similarity and differences between litRPG and superhero novels.
Both feature powerful characters who luck into powers that raise them above the common rabble. Often this is power is not earned but given through plot. If a curse it is turned into a strength. They have adventures and the behaviors/attitudes of the characters between the two genres are often alike.
Now, there are some things that are unique to each. I do not see an overlap in the settings and each has its own tropes, such as many LitRPG have a swords and sorcery setting and superhero does not, but I think someone that likes well-written superhero tales will probably enjoy well-written litRPG. Of course there seems to be a lot of poorly written litRPG vs. superhero, but the superhero genre is more mature so I am not surprised.
As such I’d recommended to any LitRPG readers the following superhero tales:
– Confessions of a D-List Supervillain
– In Hero Years I’m Dead
– Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Supervillain
– Sensation (Kid Sensation)
– Velveteen Vs.[quote=Gelcube;6593]
I looked at The Contractor, but the blurb didn’t hook me. I’ll check it out. Thank The Slimy One I have Kindle Unlimited. At current book prices, my book budget would equal my food budget…and I have three cube-lets at home![/quote]Contractor was a book that was so predictable that I could play Cliché Bingo using it and win before I finished. Not that it was “bad” writing.
About a decade ago Baen offered CD bound in copies of their hardback books. You buy the hardback and the CD contains a collection of FREE, COMPLETE novels — often related to the author whose book you bought.
Also, Baen encouraged people to distribute the CD’s. Not the individual books mind you, but the entire CD or ISO was free to distribute.
I mention this because at several points David Weber released books and his hardbacks had the entire Honorverse collection to to that point.
You can still grab the ISO at http://ebooks.thefifthimperium.com/ with Baen’s permission. Just don’t redistribute individual books after you download the ISO.
