Researching Your Fantasy World

Tantz_Aerine at 5:42AM, July 29, 2017



Goodness, I'm so late posting this, my apologies…

So you have answered your main worldbuilding question, you’ve gone ahead and created your rigging and you’re all set! Now you get to research for your world- you are about to sink your teeth in the juicy, succulent meat ...



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The Murky Middle

Banes at 12:00AM, July 27, 2017

Thursdays with Banes - The Murky Middle

A good way to put together a story is to figure out some essentials, first - Elements of Character, Plot and Theme, and Building some World and all that. We've talked about these things around here a lot, and we'll prolly continue to ...

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Sword of Kings Reaches 50 pages and Mafia is Back in the Forums

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 24, 2017



MILESTONE
Bravo's increasingly unepic fantasy Sword of Kings reaches 50 pages of story Monday, July 24. That's 52 total pages total though as there are two pages of behind the scenes about casting and map making.

And coincidently the page views have also dwindled to around 50 per ...




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Awards Business and Quackup #2 Alternate Ending

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 17, 2017



Niccea would like to get this news cycled around:

From the desk of Niccea:

This year's Drunk Duck Awards needs some help. With a newborn in the house, I don't have the time for a full commitment. At the minimum, I would like someone to manage volunteer recruitment ...





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Creating the Fantasy World you Need

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 15, 2017


image by me

There are many ways to create a fantasy world. Sometimes you need something very elaborate and thought out in the minutest detail and sometimes you need just enough to sketch out a minimal stage for your story to work.

So the first thing to do when deciding ...




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Drawing Attention #2

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 14, 2017
tags: Nepath, newspost



Continuing to expand my knowledge and discover comics on The Duck that I had previously let slip by me, last week I found something amazing. A comic that seems low down in the ranking of it's genre. A comic that has only 10 Likes (including me) at time of ...

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Drunk Duck Awards 2017 - Volunteer Sign Ups

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 10, 2017
tags: DD Awards, niccea


Written by Niccea

At this time we need volunteers to start stepping forward to help get this inebriated mallard into the sky.  Here are the two most common positions, what they entail, and how to sign up (different rules for each one.) You can take an as many volunteering duties ...


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Fantasy Is Hard Work

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 8, 2017


art by yours truly

It is no secret that as an artist, it is prose that I’m professional at rather than painting/drawing. And historical fiction aside, what I’m told I write quite well is fantasy. So, for a long time I have wanted to talk about writing ...


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Drawing Attention

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 30, 2017



I am going to be writing an article bi-monthly for The Duck until I either run out of things to say, or more likely, they tell me to stop. I decided that i wanted to focus on comics on the site that in my opinion deserve a little more limelight ...

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Vote for Your Favorite DD Award Trophy Design!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 12, 2017
tags: 14th, Ends, June, Voting



Voting is now open. You can vote publicly on this thread or via a PQ to Niccea. Please see below for the selection letters. Note: Trophies A and C have color variants shown in the original submission posts. I only put up the image that was displayed first, but both ...

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