Chapter 78 Chat with you
Chapter 78 Chat with you
Let me chat with you guys.
First of all, it should be on the shelves the day after tomorrow.
In fact, it could have been put on the shelves after it was removed from the new book list last week, but I still decided to add an extra free section, so there are more than 20,000 free chapters.
Regarding the updates of the release, it is still twice a day. I will try to see if I can update it on the first day, but because I really need to take care of patients recently, I can't guarantee it. I will try my best. If I can update it, I will shamelessly ask for monthly tickets.
I really like themes about the I Am the Only One in the World, and DND is a system that I like very much, so I have always wanted to write a I Am the Only One in the World novel that includes the DND setting.
In fact, the creator of DND's "I Am The Only One" is Zhiniaocun. I think "I Am The Only One" he wrote back then is still the best work in this field.
But under today's censorship, it is impossible to write a work like "The Only One" that focuses on the career line. I don't need to explain the reason, but I think everyone understands it.
Later, I read a lot of online articles that included dnd settings, and I found that none of the articles related to dnd were very popular or well-written.
DND is a very strict set of settings. I initially thought that this set of settings should be the best in the fantasy world. There is no need for online writers to come up with any settings of their own. They can just copy the settings of DND.
So, at that time, I really didn’t understand why the works set by dnd were far less successful than those of the K series.
It wasn't until half a month before I started writing that I found the answer.
Because the author who wrote dnd is too polarizing.
Either they have no knowledge of dnd and start writing after knowing a few terms, or they are too devout to dnd and write completely according to the core gameplay of dnd's dice-rolling damage formula and spell coordination.
In fact, neither of these two writing methods is suitable for online articles.
The former finds it difficult to capture the essence of the DND setting, while the latter will fall into the incompatibility between the game setting and the novel world.
DND is essentially a game mechanism. The purpose of establishing this game mechanism is to simulate the real situation in the game as much as possible, whether it is the d20 dice or the existence of various adjustment values.
If we apply this mechanism back to reality, a considerable part of it is similar to continuous machine translation, just like saying a sentence in Chinese, then the machine automatically translates it into English, and then let the machine translate it back from English into Chinese.
No matter how good the translation is, it is not as good as the original Chinese version.
If online novels want to solve this problem, I can only think of two ways: 1. System flow, turning dnd into a system, so that even if there are dnd elements such as damage calculation, it will not be inconsistent. 2. Only borrow some settings from dnd, and write the rest in fiction or even not write them. Zhiniao Village is taking this path. And I am actually taking the third path now, which is to retain as many dnd elements as possible through the second setting, but make them exist in reality without being inconsistent.
The content published in the previous chapter is actually part of the second setting.
In the Age of the Great Arcane, there were no other extraordinary professions at all, only arcane mages of various schools.
Later, the whole world encountered a catastrophe. In desperation, the legendary arcane mages could only reincarnate as high-level creatures in the astral plane. To do this, they needed an anchor point with the main plane. Without an anchor point, even legendary mages would be assimilated by the astral plane.
Therefore, the legendary arcane wizards became the gods of the new world, controlling the nodes of the magic network through the astral plane and exerting influence on the main plane.
This also explains the origin of the spell slot. Otherwise, it would not be easy to integrate a spell slot into the plot reasonably and make it understandable to readers who have not been exposed to DND.
At the same time, with the existence of gods, different gods divided their forces and each mastered the authority of a part of the magic network nodes, thus different priesthoods appeared. Believers anchored the gods through their spiritual power and obtained the magic arts and power bestowed by the gods, thus different extraordinary professions appeared.
In fact, I know that writing like this is not a good idea, because online articles nowadays all emphasize a fast pace, and system articles and sign-in articles are representative of them. If the secondary setting is too complicated, it will undoubtedly slow down the pace.
But there is no way. Like most dnd fans, I firmly believe that DND is the greatest setting, and I really hope to incorporate more and more reasonable DND elements into the world I create.
In addition, this book was published in an urban setting. However, when it was written about an urban setting, readers who liked stories about otherworldly worlds were not satisfied. And when it was written about otherworldly worlds, urban readers were not satisfied.
I don’t know what you guys think, but for me, what I want to write is a story about an urban youth who gets a golden finger and can travel to other worlds at will, learn spells, obtain materials, and pretend to be cool and pick up girls in the city.
There will be plenty of otherworldly plots and plenty of urban plots. In fact, if readers have complaints in this regard, in most cases it is not the readers' problem, but my problem as the author.
It is actually the author's problem that he failed to write both the urban and otherworldly plots in an interesting way that readers can accept.
In this regard, I am still exploring and learning, and I hope to make this novel more exciting.
Finally, I hope everyone can support the first order, so that the author will have the confidence to complete this work.
Many thanks!
PS. The second update will be posted soon
Br painting Tai Sui
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