Posts belonging to Category Cliche

Iron Chef World-Builder: A Creation Process

Posted by Ravyn on August 13, 2008

I begin with the music. I flashed on the idea a few weeks ago, when leftbower first mentioned dwarven aesthetics in a comment here: dwarven gamelan music. I’d originally suggested it just as an exercise in “Nobody’s done this before”, because I felt that the primary dwarven art form would be auditory in nature, but [...]

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Iron Chef World-Builder: Subverting Cliche

Posted by Ravyn on August 12, 2008

There are no new stories, they tell us. And most of us nod and try to at least put a different spin on old ones. Coming up with something new and different, or at least new and interesting, is a hobby for many of us. And then we hit the book or the table with [...]

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