Descriptivery

[Sarah_Kerrigan]

I have strong opinions on the matter - as I love fantasy myself. Description is what builds worlds. If you want to improve I would suggest reading select passages that Tolkien has written simply regarding how he describes his own world. He is quite wordy but if you are really interested in adding detail to your own writing - there is not a better author I can think of that created a more in depth world than he. One of my favorite scenes from Lord of the Rings is how the Barrow Downs are elaborated on when Frodo and his fellow hobbits encounter the Barrow-Wights. If you're curious I think the chapter is called Fog on the Barrow-Downs.

In roleplaying sometimes less is certainly more, but I think we can be in agreement here that you are more focused on creating a coherent story than simply playing out the life of one particular character. To do that you can't avoid being flowery. It is one thing to say Coruscant is a spiraling city comprised of many tiers. It is another entirely to describe it from the eyes of your character, or from the vantage of a specific location. My next post actually will touch upon that, handling the first impression of how it appears when someone steps through the Gate from the Nexus.