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It depends a lot on the plot and where the characters are, but I’ve found a few rules of thumb help. Ask these questions - 1. Is the environment interesting in some way? This may be regular phenomena, or an ice worlder seeing rain rather than snow for the first time. How does your character...

Make it somewhere that could actually plausibly exist. I recommend looking up things like "fantasy town map" and examining some of the maps that fiction cartographers have produced. They usually put in a lot of detail on things like local geography and buildings, and occasionally label...

When in doubt, research, research, research. Pick up some Deadpool comics from your local comic store, or find them online. No better way to mimic than to know the source material.

Manga/anime face claims making up the bulk of the characters bugs the shit out of me, if the RP isn't expressly anime/manga themed. I don't mind a few, but it does send me running when I look at a character thread and more than 50% use it. Just my personal experience - I rarely, if ever, have...

As a person who has been under 18 and also over 18, and has been in this business for a significant amount of time, I’m totally on board for the age limit. 1: Doesn’t come up in my cases because I explicitly do not do romantic roleplays, but that would be weird as far as a minor and an 18+...

As someone who likes to crank out a ton of detailed lore at the beginning of roleplays, I absolutely limit player choice. The presence of another humanoid species in any setting is literally world-changing, and carries a whole bunch of information. What's their culture? How do they feel about...

Early settlements also provide better setting material, I think. Ancient civilization ruins are bound to be used by somebody to do something that fundamentally alters the setting in absurd ways, because thats what forerunner ruins do. Given the thematic setup, I think the point is sort of...

Brief input:  On board with not delving into forerunner race material too much. Its usually used pretty poorly.  That said, ancient mage towers and forts from the initial settlement ought to fulfill much the same function. 

I'll try to hop in if I see a small thing I can tackle, but I don't have the energy or time to jump at a bestiary or other large project. Can't wait to see how this all pans out! 

Well, my laptop I was doing all this work on fried, and I didn't have the file backed up anytime recently. What was running on ten pages is now reduced to this. I'm gonna admit defeat, and overwhelming schedule. So... yeah. I lost everything that hasn't been on this page, basically. I'd love to...

Whoops. Misread the author.  Well, its sort of different than breaking the fourth wall in its common sense - usually breaking the fourth is something a character does (i.e. Deadpool addressing the audience). Author intrusion is usually when the author him/her/self directly addresses the...

Well, in the literary sense, author intrusion is when the author steps away from the story and speaks directly to the reader. So.. I'm not sure what geeking out is referring to about grammar. 

Development is slow, I have ideas but not yet on paper, and my schedule is so unpredictable day to day that I can't give much of an estimate. I'll post something incomplete this weekend. 

Yeah thats a weird one. I totally understand only taking pictures of real people (one of my personal peeves is anime characters, honestly) but not allowing heavy description instead just seems silly. 

I'll set about rewriting what I've got to fit the flavor, then. 

Had something similar in mind. I'll probably end up making slight alterations to my own to distinguish them more, and include both.  One thing I was considering - would you like the bestiary compiled as it it were a book? Written by _____ the Magicko-Zoologist, sort of written in a...

Welp, time to get drunk and Hemingway this. 

To the audience: I'm gonna return my attention to the bestiary after tonight. Any sort of ideas / inspirations / "I want a wyvern, but not a wyvern" type things to say? 

Perhaps instead of making it a mandatory punishment, it could be an optional sentence?  "You have been found guilty of murder. Your sentence is ten years imprisonment and labor, or four years among the Slayers. Your choice, convict?" 

Went with elementalist as it was the first word to come to mind, but based on the earlier description of magic, Caster is what I intended, conceptually. Warmage / Tempest / Archmage all work in my book.