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Pirate Campaign Compendium is another gaming resource but this time to the dangers of traveling on the high seas in a fantasy setting. This is just another book in my vast collection that I can reference for those "at sea" stories in the queue. The artwork is also nice. Cheers to world building, and ahoy matey!
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Rest In Peace Kevin Conroy. Iconic voice of Batman in Batman the Animated Series as well as Batman Arkham Game Trilogy.
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Another gaming book that I use as inspiration is Remarkable Cults and Their Followers by LoreSmyth's JVC Parry, Jeff Lee, and RP Davis. Every fantasy world needs a bad guy and every bad guy needs a cult. This is a great inspiration for different ways you can put things together. More fodder for world builders.
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Another gaming-related book in my library that I also supported on Kickstarter when it was running. This is a handy tool for world building and setting up underlying rules of how things work... even if you aren't talking about it. It makes your created work function in a consistent way. This makes it believable in your writing bubble. This helps immersion in the story world. I find this worth it, but only for really big world builders.
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Never mind weight and maneuvering.
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Two personal favorites I have in my collection. (Towering Inferno especially... I was obsessed with skycrapers when I was a youngster.) Spoiler, the moon is a spaceship, not a moon. Ergo, it was under power, not falling. So, they used a figleaf of science. it 'made sense' in the context of the crazy world.
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I'm not going to complain about a movie with Tom Holland... This movie is entertaining as a stand alone thing. I've only played the game a little bit, so I'm not as married to the source material. That said, it is a rip-off of Lara Croft's Tomb Raider which is itself a rip off of Indiana Jones. I'm sure there is a deeper dive there too. To be fair, I like all the franchises and pretty much most things that fit in this sort of genre. (Don't get me started on National Treasure ) Enjoyable flick. Don't think too hard on the physics.
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My buddy and and I both comment to each other about such things even in movies we really like.
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Moonfall is another movie from groaner disaster movie guru Roland Emmerich. This movie is one of those -turn your brain off completely sort of movies. If you are familair with physics, turn that off. the laws of physics are even more optional in this movie than in 2012, which features a limo doing jumps under a subway train... the groan are more than that. The special effects are pretty good though. Interesting sci-fi story but we're not talking Arthur C. Clarke here either... If you like non-serious disaster movies where the actors earnestly try... this is one of those.
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I've got so many books, that I need to keep them organized or I'd never find them when I need them. That is the closest book storage location to my usual writing spot...
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They do a little. One of the shelves in my home office...
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Just remember that having them on the shelf just makes them available to use when you need them. To get results, they need to be more than colorful decoration
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The Positive Trait Thesaurus: a Writer's Guide to Character Attributes by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi. As you might guess, Positive Traits is the opposite of yesterday's Negative Traits. Like yesterday's book, this should be in your library too. Also with yesterday, this helps you fill out your character and make them more well-rounded.
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The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi is another great book in the Thesaurus series. As the subtitle tells you, this book focuses on character flaws. Like the other books in the series, the book gives a lot of details around different flaws and common interactions and conflicts that result from those flaws. This book is very helpful for adding depth to characters you are writing. Another one to have in your library if you are interested in growing your writing skills.
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The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: a Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi is another book in the Thesaurus series that helps writers round out their writing. This one is focused on traumatizing your characters and giving you all the dirt on what that causes. This gives you plenty of drama related to the trauma, what results from it, how to overcome it and the traits and behaviors a character would have when they suffer from it. Strongly recommended for authors that want to add depth to their characters.
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