Chapter 78 Chat with everyone
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 chapter, so there are more than 20,000 words of free chapters.
Regarding the update of the release, it is still twice a day. I will try my best to see if I can update it quickly on the first day, but because I really need to take care of a patient recently, I can't guarantee it. I will try my best. If I can update it quickly, I will ask for monthly tickets at that time.
I really like themes related to the "I Am the Only One" genre, and DND is a system that I like very much, so I have always wanted to write a "I Am the Only One" novel that includes the DND setting.
In fact, the founder of DND's "I Am the Only One" is Zhiniaocun. I think the "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 everyone should understand 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, nor were they 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 themselves. 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 styles 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 mechanic. The purpose of establishing this game mechanic is to simulate real-world situations as closely as possible in the game, whether it's 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 the machine translates 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-based approach, turning DND into a system, so that even if DND elements such as damage calculation appear, it will not be inconsistent. 2. Only borrow some settings from DND, and write the rest fictitious or even not include them. Zhiniao Village took this approach.
As for me, I am actually taking the third approach, which is to retain as many dnd elements as possible through secondary settings, while making 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, various gods divided their power and each controlled a portion of the magic network nodes, resulting in the emergence of different priesthoods. Believers anchored their minds to the gods, gaining divine arts and power bestowed by the gods, thus giving rise to different extraordinary professions.
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 representatives of this. If the secondary settings are 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 the city, but when it was written in the city, readers who like stories about otherworldly worlds were not satisfied, and when it was written about otherworldly worlds, readers in the city were not satisfied either.
I don’t know what you all 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 show off and pick up girls in the city.
There are plenty of otherworldly plots and urban plots. In fact, if readers have complaints about this, in most cases, it is not the readers' problem, but my problem as the author.
It is actually the author's problem that he did not write the plots of both the urban and otherworldly worlds in an interesting way so that readers can accept them.
In this regard, I am still exploring and learning, and 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.
Thank you very much!
PS. The second update will be posted soon
Br drawing Tai Sui
(End of this chapter)
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