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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Welcome to the madhouse!
With regard to RPGs, one of these days I ought to post some version my rant about how "Continual Light" totally breaks the basic D&D setting (though they've changed the spell since I first started ranting about it; I'm mildly curious if I'm the reason). Waaaaay too many people (and yes, this does include fantasy authors) overlook or ignore the ramifications of whatever tech (scientific or magical) they introduce to their worlds..
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Yep. I try to avoid that in both my RPG campaigns, and in my writing. My favorite example of "breaking the setting" because someone didn't think things through was when I created a working nuclear bomb using cantrips in AD&D.
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And hey, at least we're all worked up about "octopi" (at least some of us are; it's my preferred plural) and not about you writing a rape/violence/beer fantasy ....
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Ahh, John Ringo's "Ghost". Something he literally wrote to just "get it out of my system", and then Jim Baen insisted on publishing it. Insisted by adding more money to the contract until no sane author would say "no".
And now it, and the associated series, makes him more money than anything else he's written, or is likely to.
I'd try something similar, except I'm INCAPABLE of writing stuff like that. My "embarrassing thing written just for me" is an Oz pastiche/homage novel called "Polychrome".