Submitted by Meredith Bell on Tue, 02/17/2004 - 12:19
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This is the thread where you can post any websites or other sources that might be of use to other players writing for Fantastic Legends. Just remember to try to make them USEFUL, not just amusing guys ;)
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Combat Resources - This is a collection of websites I've used to help me writing for Sydney in a combat situation, moves, weapons etc.
This is the IFA website for Kickboxing, it's good in that it describes basic and more complex moves executed in kickboxing from punches to kicks. Quite useful for writing those all important fight scenes!
http://www.ifafitness.com/kickbox/m-kickbox.htm
This one is much the same only it lists practically every martial arts move you can think of, from Judo to Karate.
http://www.neokarate.net/lingo/
This next site is one that Adam led me to, it's basically a military dictionary of various terms and abbreviations used in the miliatry. It might sound a bit useless, but if your character has a background in military training it might add a bit more verisamilitude to have them speak some of the same terminology.
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/usmilbrats/glossary/
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Texts - This is probably what I use most, when looking for a nifty quote or when writing a spell, (LABN)
Bartleby.com is fantastic if you want to look for a particular literature quote or a poem even. The site has literarly hundreds of free texts for you to peruse including volumes of poetry and the collected plays of Shakespeare. Not only that but it has a great 'famous quote' section too.
http://www.bartleby.com/
I couldn't live without the Word2Word site, basically you choose what language you want and it will provide you with a site that will offer you a free translation service.
http://www.word2word.com/
If you don't want to use a foreign translation such as latin for spells (see above) then this online Rhyming Dictionary will become your best friend, especially when you're trying to find a word to rhyme with 'orange' at 3am!
http://www.rhymer.com/
Another great Dictionary/Thesaurus resource.
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Resource Sites
An outstanding resource of data about nations all over the world. With statistics on industry, population, sex, religion, and politics. Heck they even have stats and graph of taxation.
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
This is cross-posted with LABN
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For all the conspiracy theorists out there, check this out. The mere existence of something like this could prvide fodder for a storyline.
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65698,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2