Katherine Baker

@arindown

Sounds fun!

Not too much. I don’t mind if the story moves really slowly. I work full-time in a non-writing career, so I may have pockets of busyness where I can’t pop on much too. A lot of the roleplay will be explorative, so if characters pop on in and out, it shouldn’t hurt.

@erynne

Yep, that’s totally fine. Power comes in many forms, and I image some of the games will mess with various ways one can be powerful.

Or if you’re really itching to make a character, go for it!

@writergirl101

Aww, thank you! I’m glad you like them. It’s very affirming to hear that you like the names, since I can be paranoid that I didn’t put enough thought into some of these things.

@rose-colored-fancy

Thanks! That’s a great tip! I’ve already started doing that for some of the towns and villages in the story, but never thought to do it for the larger things.

@erynne

There are definitely plenty of humor, but I wouldn’t call it a humorous story. The central theme deals with atonement for mistakes and the meaning of forgiveness, so humor is not a primary goal. I struggle to be serous though, so most of the ‘downtime’ the characters have, when not spent grappling on these themes, are used for funny…[Read more]

@skylarynn

Great advice, thank you! Wow, I’m so amazed with the quality of help. Everything I’ve heard so far gives me great ideas.

The Freelands – Hmm. I might mess around with some of those names. Your country sounds awesome!

Wokenland – Great idea! I’ll look into that.

Princelandia – Both great ideas. I’ll add Barony to the list of nam…[Read more]

@erynne

Thank you so much for this! That was super helpful to see your thoughts on each thing in the list (and you did not at all sound rude!). I’ll give you a few of my thoughts on your thoughts here.

Freelands – glad to hear you like it. This is probably my favorite of the three country names.

Wokenland – Yeah, originally I gave it the name…[Read more]

@zee

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much!

Ooh! I like your options for Princlandia! I’m definitely using one of them.

As for cultural inspiration, there are actually 3. Princelandia is largely drawing inspiration from Western Europe, particularly England, and more medieval in nature. A lot more normal-fantasy. The Freelands are…[Read more]

@erynne

Yeah, I wrote this one when I was like 10. Unfortunately, I can’t find the story anywhere, but I remember having a whole series planned out. I thought these were going to make me famous!