#taleofdoom

You know, I'd like to point out that #TaleOfDoom had dragon power weilding fantasy female Hitler way before #GameofThrones Season 8 did. She's actually the focus of the new book. M.C. Shepard Posted from

I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but if anybody's sending me e-mails at my @GaminGHDinfo or #taleofdoom address, they're not coming through, Raul forgot to pay for the server hosting and

#TaleOfDoom fun fact #20? At one point, it was going to turn into Resident Evil. I think you know the point. M.C. Shepard Posted from Twitter via Share2Steem

#TaleOfDoom Fact 17: Although it only raised 14$ on @Indiegogo , the book is finished, complete and available to all, unlike the multi-million dollar scams that have been endorsed by that platform and

#TaleOfDoom fact 15: In the initial versions of the book, Gwen was part of a long line of storm demigods, and she would be known as the Tempest. Yes, it was a ripoff of Ultima 8. The capsized boat she

#TaleOfDoom fact 15: The Oblivion mentioned in the book wasn't inspired by the Elder Scrolls one. It's ripped off from Slayers. M.C. Shepard Posted from Twitter via Share2Steem

#TaleOfDoom Fact 14: There are still plenty of spelling errors in the final version of the book. M.C. Shepard Posted from Twitter via Share2Steem

*Sets new password for thing *Instantly forgets it *Logs out of the thing *Tweets about it expecting that that would somehow fix it *Realizes this is pointless *Goes back to work *Reminds people that

#TaleOfDoom fact 13: Part of it was written on a phone. Another part woula have been written on a tablet, but it borked itself and somehow deleted hours worth of work in a Google doc. Working on the cloud

#TaleOfDoom fact 12: I really, really wanted to rip off the scene in Excalibur where Uriens fights Arthur, but I didn't have the heart to do it. So I ripped off the one at the standing stones instead.

#TaleOfDoom fact #11: In the first version of the book, Will talked like a pirate and had a peg leg. Why? What do you mean why? He runs a tavern that's an upside down boat. But that didn't really fit with

#TaleOfDoom Fact #10: The hell-rift mentioned at two points in the book will routinely spew out a demon. The barbarian clans hunt them for sport. They were supposed to be in the book, but I cut them since

#TaleOfDoom fact #9: One of the first versions of the book didn't have a party of just three core characters, but an entire cast of different classes and species, like orcs, dwarves, elves, and so on.

#TaleOfDoom Fact #8: There are, for the most part, no clocks in the book. As in, they're not something people use. And since it's told from the perspective of someone in that world, I can't really use

#TaleOfDoom Fact #7: Last fact for the day. The random Romanian words inserted into the book are there to highlight that anything foreign sounding name inserted into English will sound cool. Actually,

#TaleOfDoom Fact #6: Book 3 was going to be set in the far future of outer space. Not sure about it anymore. It may still happen, either on its own, or as part of another book in the series. It's a bit

#TaleOfDoom fact #4: The second book in the series was entitled Brain Melting things, and was supposed to be a collections of stories about the Whispers, told by Will to Gwen, with all the carnage re-imagined

Fun fact about #TaleOfDoom: The cover sucks. I made it myself and I know it. It's supposed to be Gwen and the marks on her arms, and they've both got some shading to them to look like they're dug into

Fun fact about #TaleOfDoom: The catapult was put in because at one point there was teleportation magic in the book, but that just brought up too many questions about why doesn't everyone use it non-stop.

Fun fact about #TaleOfDoom: Most of the characters are taken from the adventuring parties I made in old games of Might and Magic and Icewind Dale. Mirriam was a default name I forgot to change in Might