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[Shadowhawke]

Unfortunately, Balathustrious, his post also contained what might be deemed as offensive language. If he wishes to make a serious contribution to the Community fanfic, he is more than welcome.

Edited by Shadowhawke, 24 April 2006 - 08:47 PM.

[WeeRLegion]

Ack, lost a longer rambling, so i'll just ask quickly; is there any kind of betareading stuff going on around these parts these days?
(Anymore, err, i mean, the last time the stuff was mentioned was back in 04... i wonder if i should have tried to pm Mor.Glor. first... Should not make assumptions so quick... oh well, here went nothing...)

Edited by WeeRLegion, 04 May 2006 - 02:07 PM.

[Shadowhawke]

Certainly, we did have a betareading system on offer in '04, but I'm not sure if many of them are still around. Still, betareading is often a much-employed tactic to improve one's own writing, so I'm sure there may be people interested. We might see if we can revive this system.

[Shining Light]

Beta Reading? I'm in. As a Beta Reader that is.

[Shadowhawke]

Sure. . If you want, you can PM me about any specialties.

[minotaur_in_maze]

(Sorry. I TRIED to post this under "Got A Question" and somehow I screwed up. Please more if ya like)


Hi all.

For three yrs or so I stuggled to mod my own NPC. Then in a fit of wisdom I gave up. Modding is beyond me and at my age I am just to thick to learn computing. Fair enough.

After a bit of discussion with SHED, among others, I decided to take my dialog and quests and what not that I had written up for my mod and convert/change it to a BG2 FanFic story. I was/am much happier with things now. (Though I am still looking for someone to put the mod together for me - I AM a fool to dream)

Anyway....

I am about 70 pages into a pretty good retelling of BG2 following CHARNAME and Co, but...

Here is the thing, in my fanfic, the tale Does NOT start in Irenicus's little playpen. Rather I start with my modded folk in a prolog and then begin the actual BG2 story in the first dungeon as Chapter 1. (After the into things go along more or less "in order" and my other stuff doesn't appear again for a time)

I am just wondering if this is allowed, here, or if I should find another place to post.

Please let me know.

Ever,

Minotaur

Edited by minotaur_in_maze, 18 August 2006 - 09:04 AM.

[DalreïDal]

I don't really know what's your ff background, but I can tell you that many people who've been reading ff for a while are sick of simple run-through-the-game fanfictions. So if you have innovative stuff to propose, by all means go ahead!!! I'm pretty sure you can post just about anything in here, as long as it's related to games that are modded around here. (See, I wrote things that start after the end of the game, so beginning before the game starts shouldn't be forbideen )

Btw, I don't mean to be too harsh with this post... run-through-the-game can be good, but it has to make an effort on originality, otherwise it loses its interest.

So, minotaur, what I meant to say is, go ahead. I'm not a moderator but I'm pretty sure it's not forbidden.

[minotaur_in_maze]

THANKS!

I was not sure what was okay and what was not.

In any event, I will post the prologue and chapter one in the next day or three.

Thanks again and sorry to step on any toes with this post placement. It was an accident.

We MINOTAUR's are computer brain dead.

[Shadowhawke]

hello, minotaur, I hope we see your work soon, because it *definitely* is not forbidden to play around with the storyline! . As DalreiDal has mentioned, conventionally following the game can sometimes have its pitfalls, and most of the fanfic writers add new twists and ingenious ideas into their retellings. So by all means, post away. . We look forwards to it.