An Extensive List of Weapons

And the reference lists keep coming! But if you’re anything like me, you have a bookmark folder primarily for writing references and lists such as these to perhaps you will find some use for these! Though don’t get too distracted with lists and references. Keep writing!

A

Arming Sword 

B

Bastard Sword 

Bat 

Baton 

Bazooka,  

Bladed Baton 

Bladed Boomerang 

Bladed Chakram 

Bladed Gauntlets 

Bladed Mace 

Bladed Staff 

Bladed Tonfa 

Bladed/Metal Boots 

Bola 

C

Calvary Sabre 

Chakram 

Claymore Sword 

Club 

Crossbow 

Cutlass 

D

DaDao Sword 

Dao Sword 

Darts 

Dirk (Dagger) 

Double Edged Axe 

Double Ended- Single Bladed Axe 

Double Ended-Double Bladed Axe 

Dual Pistols 

F

Fencing Sabre 

Foil Rapier 

G

Gladius Sword 

Great Cleaver Sword 

H

Halbred 

Hammer 

Hand Claws 

Hatchet  

Heater Shield 

Hunting Knife 

J

Javelin 

K

Kal 

Kama 

Katana 

Kine Shield 

Kris Dagger 

Kunai 

L

Light Mace 

Longbow 

M

Machete 

Machine Gun 

Missiles 

Morning Star 

N

Net Launcher 

Nunchucks 

P

Pike 

Pistol 

Pitchfork 

Q

Quarterstaff 

R

Rapier 

Rifle 

S

Sal 

Saptha Sword 

Scimitar 

Scythe 

Shogel 

Short Bow 

Short Sword 

Shuriken 

Sickle 

Single Bladed Axe 

Slayer Sword 

Sling & Metal Balls,  

Slingshot 

Spear 

Spiked Mace 

Staff 

Stilletto Dagger 

Stone Maul

T

Targe Shield 

Throwing Chakram 

Tonfa 

Tower Shield 

Trident 

W

Warhammer 

Whip 

An Extensive List of Medieval Jobs for your Side Characters

Another Alphabetized list for refence when creating your side characters in your medieval fantasy based story or your DnD campaign. Enjoy, writers!

A 

Actor  

Alchemist  

B 

Baker  

Bartender  

Blacksmith  

Butcher  

C 

Candlemaker 

Clerk  

Calligrapher 

Clockmaker  

Cobbler  

D 

Diplomat  

Doctor  

Drunkard  

Detective 

F 

Farmer  

Farrier 

Fisher  

Fletcher 

G 

Gardener  

Guard  

H 

Harold  

Hatmaker  

Healer  

Herbalist  

Hermit  

I 

Innkeeper  

Inventor 

J 

Jailer  

Jester   

K 

Knight  

Knitter 

L 

Leatherworker  

Librarian  

Locksmith  

M 

Mail Carrier  

Mason  

Mayor  

Midwife  

Milk Maid  

Miller  

Mortician  

Musician  

N 

Navigator 

Nun  

P 

Painter   

Perfumer  

Pick-pocket  

Playwright  

Poet  

Potter  

Priest  

R 

Ranger  

Roofer  

S 

Seamstress  

Servant  

Shepherd  

Silversmith  

Soldier  

Stable boy  

Storekeeper  

T 

Tailor  

Tax Collector 

Thief  

Toymaker  

V 

Vendor  

Vet  

Vineyard Tender  

W 

Weaver  

Woodcarver  

Woodcutter  

Woodseller  

Writer  

An Extensive List of Fantasy Classes

Hey there bloggers! Just like with my superpower masterlist (which you can find here), this is done for character creation and writer reference for whatever story you’re working on. I plan to do more lists like these in the future. I have one in the works for a list of fantasy creatures and a list of medieval/fantasy town jobs. Until then, enjoy my extensive list of fantasy classes.

A 

Alchlemist 

Arcanist 

Archer 

Artificer  

Assassin 

B 

Baker of Enchantments 

Bandit 

Barbarian 

Bard 

Beast Master 

Beaster-Summoner 

Blacksmith of Enchantments 

Blade Singer 

Blade-master 

C 

Chameleon 

Cleric 

Conjurer 

D 

Dark Knight 

Dragon-tamer 

Dreamwalker 

Druid 

Duelist 

E 

Enchanter 

F 

Fairy-whisperer 

Fencer 

G 

Gambler 

Geomancer 

Guardian 

H 

Herbalist 

Hunter 

I 

Illusionist 

K 

Knight 

M 

Mage 

Mage 

Magic Thief 

Magician 

Martial Artist 

Mentalist 

Merchant of Enchantments 

Monk 

Mystic 

N 

Necromancer 

Ninja 

O 

Oracle 

P 

Paladin 

Pirate 

Priest 

Priestess 

Pyromancer 

R 

Ranger 

Reaper 

Ritualist 

Rogue 

S 

Sage 

Samurai 

Scout 

Seamstress of Enchantments 

Seer 

Shadowmancer 

Shaman 

Soothsayer 

Sorcerer 

Spy 

Strategist 

T 

Trapmaster 

Trickster 

W 

Warlock 

Warlord 

Warrior 

Weather-master 

Witch 

Advice On Making Superhero OC’s

A few days ago, I got together an extensive list of Super Powers to aid in people’s character creation. In a similar vein, I wanted to create a post with a few tips and tricks one might employ when making a gifted vigilante or superhero sort of character.

Though one thing to keep in mind when developing the areas below for your character, that each thing is generally connected to create a cohesive and believable MC. For example, the outfit/armor of your hero may tie into their power and/or their backstory. Or vice versa. All of the elements of a super hero character- the clothes, the powers, the backstory, everything, are generally connected in some way.

The Clothes/Suit

There are a few things to consider when creating your character’ super suit. First, how does it tie into the hero’s identity? Generally, it can tie in a few different ways…

It ties into their powers

It’s design and overall style could harken to the hero’s powers. Like Mr. Lightning bolt man having a lightning bolt on the chest of his suit. This is pretty common with most superheroes though it doesn’t have to be the case.

Another way it can tie into the character’s power can be done by functionality. Think about The Incredibles and how each person’s suit is designed to match their powers. For example, Violet’s suit disappears along with her. In general, the functionality of the armor or suit of your hero should definitely be taken into account, especially where their skills are concerned. We don’t want Inferno Man’s costume going up in flames constantly, now do we?

It ties into their backstory

Sometimes, a character’s outfit can harken back to their roots. Where they came from. Got a hero who was once a pick-pocket living on the streets? Maybe give him some slightly tattered street clothes. This can be done with many characters though generally this outfit is changed out for a new, more suitable (and generally more stylish) super suit later.

It ties into their position with a group or team

This isn’t always the case as there tend to be a lot solo heroes out there, but if you plan on putting your character on a team with other individuals, maybe consider if they have a uniform? Or a symbol of sorts that appears on all of their suits?

The Powers

Figuring out powers for you character can be the most fun part of character creation (and often is the first place I start when make super hero OC’s), BUT sometimes if I’m starting with a backstory, I can get stuck. Generally powers tie into the character’s backstory but this can also be left up to speculation.

Below are a couple things to consider when picking out your character’s power if you haven’t already done so.

A Weakness

Overall, it’s a good idea to give you character a weakness of sort or some clear limits of what they can do once you’ve picked out their power. Every well designed power should come with its own “rules”.

Their superhero name

If they have one, tying it back to their super powers is the common choice. You can get really creative here. Animals or creatures of sort are often used as names. Colors are often employed as well. Or you can just go for an alias for your OC. It’s all up to you.

The Backstory

The backstory, when done well, should cover a few elements. The origins of their powers/skills, their relationship with their support system (and often, how they lost that support system. Backstories generally involve the death or a romantic partner or family member), and what led them to the life they now lead.

The Team

This is an optional element, but deciding whether your hero works solo or with a group is vital to the story. If you do choose to drop your hero into a group, you need to develop the other characters and figure out whether they’re other fighters like your MC or if they’re more of a support crew. You also need to consider whether or not they work under an umbrella organization or if they operate under their own terms.

The Tech

Technology in super hero media and stories tend to be a little more advanced or bizarre than that of the real world. It’s a good idea to flesh out exactly where technology is at in your story and time period as this often plays a role in the storyline of most super hero tales.

The Villain

And finally, we get to the second most important element of the story. There are tons of different avenues you can take with the Villain. You can make him sympathetic, have personal ties with the hero or another “good” character to complicate things, give him all sorts of cool gear…the possibilities are endless. But, in all this fun, don’t forget the MAIN AND IMPORTANT THING TO DO WHEN MAKING A VILLAIN FOR YOUR STORY-

Make it make sense as to why your hero is opposing the villain. Hero development and Villain development are tightly linked as this is where you should start considering MOTIVES. And motives, are often what give SPICE to a hero’s tale. Because these motives can be shockingly different or similar in some cases. But at some point, the villain and hero are going to need to butt heads. And it needs to make sense to the reader as to WHY.

And I think that’ll do it! There’s much more to say on this topic but there’s a brief overview of what I personally find important when developing a Super Hero OC. Good luck on creating your supers!

An Extensive List of Super Powers

Hello there! Brooke here with a gigantic list of super powers to aid in character creation. Just thought it might be nice to have an organized super power list on hand for future reference. If you noticed I missed anything or have any suggestions, feel free to comment down below!

I have the powers separated into a few main sections- physical powers, nature powers, biological control, knowledge/skills, magic, mind powers, and a miscellaneous category for good measure.

PHYSICAL

Superstrength

Speed

Durability

Agility/reflexes

Healing/regeneration

Enhanced Sight

Infrared Vision 

Microscopic Vision

Night Vision 

Telescopic Vision

Thermal Vision

Cryo Vision

Heat Vision

X-ray Vision

Enhanced Hearing

Enhanced Smelling

Enhanced Touch

Enhanced Taste

Sensing danger

Sensing  types of events (dishonesty, murder, etc.)

The ability to remove senses (like inflicting blindness, etc.)

Longevity/immortality

Look Alternation

Transportation

Climbing/wall-crawling

Swimming/water-breathing

Flight

Teleportation

Exceptional leaping

Phasing/intangibility

SPACE & TIME

Temporal manipulation (like The Matrix)

Time Travel

Prophecy

Time Speed Manipulation

Space Manipulation

Void/Black Hole Manipulation

Duplication

Pocket space (the ability to hold and remove objects so that only the user can retrieve them.)

NATURE

Element Manipulation

Water Manipulation

Ice Manipulation

Earth Manipulation

Fire Manipulation

Air Manipulation

Electricity Manipulation

Light Manipulation

Darkness and/or shadow Manipulation

Gravity Manipulation

Magnetic force Manipulation

Radiation Manipulation

Energy Manipulation

Sound Manipulation

Nature Manipulation

Metal Manipulation

Toxic/Poison Manipulation

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Extensive Science knowledge

Extensive Mechanical  knowledge

Extensive Computer/Electronics knowledge

Extensive Weapons-handling knowledge

Extensive Military knowledge

Extensive Occult/Magical knowledge

Super-intelligence

Resourcefulness

MIND

Telekinesis (moving objects mentally)

Telepathy (reading minds)

Mind-to-mind communication

Mind-control

Possession (total mental control)

Memory manipulation (may include creation/alteration/deletion)

Mentally generated weaponry/objects

Mindblast

Being able to find someone mentally.

Navigation

Forcefields

Psychometry (the ability to learn things about the past or future of an object by touching it)

 BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Acid/poison

Controlling plants and/or animals

Shapeshifting (animals).

Shapeshifting (people)–mainly useful for disguises/stealth. 

Elasticity

Self-destruction

Self-liquification

Gaseous form

Growth/shrinking

Self-duplication

Invisibility

MAGIC

Luck manipulation (good luck for hero and/or bad luck for enemies)

Illusions

Magic Manipulation

Alchemy

OTHER

Density Control

Absorbing someone else’s powers

Negating someone else’s powers

Tips on Creating ARMOR for your character

Its no secret that armor in the fictional world has often been butchered for the sake of sex-appeal or just general “coolness” or “aesthetic”. But what can you do to avoid this trope in your armor design? Well, here are a few things to consider to avoid such pitfalls.

What time period is this? What time period did your character come from?

★What state should this armor be in? (Has been taken care of? Will it need repairing? You can’t just grab armor off of an age old skeleton and expect it to be in prime condition).

★Consider the coloring of your armor that would make sense for the culture that it is from.

★Overall, just do you research.

★ When making modifications or your own armor, do such changes make sense? What are the reasons for these changes? Do they serve as advantages?

★Does the society or culture that the armor is from have male and female versions of their armor? (Most of this time, the answer is a “no” as not dying is gender neutral. If your character is female, she may have to make certain modifications if she gets her hands on predominately male armor by making it lighter, fitting it better to her body, etc.)

★Consider mobility of said armor.

★Consider the level of defense this armor will serve and whether or not this makes sense for the type of weaponry the wearer’s are supposed to be up against.

★For real, this could all be summarized as do your research. So please, if it important to you to have accurate and sensible armor, do your research.

Character Development Questions

Hey all! Back with some Quarantine writing content! Describe each thing about your character on the following list to get a better idea of who they are and what they’re like! Kay, bye!

~disintegrates back into the void~

Describe…

1: their voice
2: their smile
3: their greatest achievement
4: their insecurities
5: their shortcomings
6: how they deal with grief
7: how they like to dress
8: what they like to eat
9: their theme
10: their fashion sense
11: their family life
12: their romantic life
13: their embarrassing memory from years ago
14: how they react to burning their tongue on food
15: how they react to a brainfreeze
16: their dreams
17: their ambitions
18: how they sleep
19: their reaction to betrayal
20: their reaction to a mystery love letter
21: how they react to pain
22: what they’re like on two hours of sleep
23: how they act when they’re sick
24: what motivates them
25: why you enjoy them

Try write about a paragraph on each item to further understand your character.

Book Character M*A*S*H

Long time no see, huh? 2020 has been a ride, but I don’t need to tell any of you that. If you are a living breathing human being that inhabits earth, you probably know all too well!

Anyways, enough excuses-

I just wanted to share real quick a little game me and my writing friends would play at sleep overs and hang outs where you create a character based on your current circumstance. It’s a fun time waster and produces some fun results. Enjoy!

Inspired by the original game of mash, now you can make a completely randomized character based on these questions. Have fun!

1. What was the gender of the last person you talked to?

A) Female (Male character)

B) Male (Female character)

2. What meal did you just have?

A) Breakfast (black hair)

B) Snack (blonde or dirty-blonde hair)

C) Lunch (red or orange hair)

D) Snack (black hair)

E) Dinner (brown hair)

F) Dessert (any NOT NATURAL color hair)

G) Midnight snack (dark brown hair)

3. What place did you just go to?

A) School (red or blue eyes irises)

B) Religious Building (blue, brown, or orange eyes irises)

C) Park (green eyes irises)

D) Beach (eyes irises of any NATURAL color)

E) Concert (dark eyes irises of any color)

F) Mall (any color eyes irises)

G) Department store (deep blue eyes irises)

4. What sport have you watched most recently?

A) American football (British or mostly British)

B) Baseball (Asian or mostly Asian [can be from any Asian country])

C) Soccer (Spanish or mostly Spanish)

D) Video gaming (African or mostly African)

F) Basketball (American or mostly American)

E) None of the above (anything not already mentioned)

5. What animal did you last see?

A) Dog (4-8 yrs. old)

B) Cat (8-12 yrs. old)

C) Bird (12-16 yrs. old)

D) Fish (16-20 yrs. old)

E) Reptile (20-24 yrs. old)

F) Amphibian (24-28 yrs. old)

G) None of the above (28+ yrs. old)

6. What color shirt are you wearing?

A) Red (average person)

B) Orange (fantasy or sci-fi warrior)

C) Yellow (misunderstood outcast)

D) Green (medieval royalty)

E) Blue (time-traveler)

F) Indigo (elemental warrior)

G) Violet (DNA experiment gone wrong, animal/human hybrid)

H) Pink (popular celebrity)

I) Black, white, gray or brown (Spy)

J) Other (anything not already mentioned)

7. What letter does your name, or the name of a friend, start with?

A) A (Character’s first name starts with Z)

B) B (Character’s first name starts with Y)

C) C (Character’s first name starts with X)

D) D (Character’s first name starts with W)

E) E (Character’s first name starts with V)

F) F (Character’s first name starts with U)

G) G (Character’s first name starts with T)

H) H (Character’s first name starts with S)

I) I (Character’s first name starts with R)

J) J (Character’s first name starts with Q)

K) K (Character’s first name starts with P)

L) L (Character’s first name starts with O)

M) M (Character’s first name starts with N)

N) N (Character’s first name starts with M)

O) O (Character’s first name starts with L)

P) P (Character’s first name starts with K)

Q) Q (Character’s first name starts with J)

R) R (Character’s first name starts with I)

S) S (Character’s first name starts with H)

T) T (Character’s first name starts with G)

U) U (Character’s first name starts with F)

V) V (Character’s first name starts with E)

W) W (Character’s first name starts with D)

X) X (Character’s first name starts with C)

Y) Y (Character’s first name starts with B)

Z) Z (Character’s first name starts with A)

How old is your best friend?

7) (Character’s pet is a cat)

8) (Character’s pet is a dog)

9) (Character’s pet is a bird of some kind)

10) (Character’s pet is a lizard)

11) (Character has no pet)

12) (Character’s pet is something wild such as a tiger or wolf)

13 or older) (Character’s pet is something totally unreal)

What color are the eyes of the last person you talked to?

Blue) (Character’s weapon is a scyth or a spear)

Brown) (Character’s weapon is a sword or katana)

Hazel) (Character’s weapon is a bow and quiver of arrows or a gun)

Green) (Your character has no weapon except themself)

What color is the walls of the room you’re in right now?

Grey) (You character is on the run)

Yellow) (Your character is or is training to be a warrior for the leader of their world)

Pink) (Your character lives in the wild with animals or other made up beasts)

Blue) (Your character is part of a rebellion)

Red) (Your character is on a quest)

Orange) (Your character is off to save a family member)

White) (Your character led a normal life before the villian came and kidnapped their family but the character got away)

Green) (Your character goes to a type of magic or combat training school)

Purple) (Your character stumbles upon another magical realm)

None, I’m outside) (Your characters poses as royalty to be a decoy)

What kind of flooring does the room you’re in have?

Carpet) (Your character has a girlfriend/boyfriend)

Wood/Tile) (Your character is single)

It’s grass, I’m outside) (Your character is part of a love triangle) (and how are you taking this then?)

What kind of chair are you sitting on?

Wooden) (Your character has a human girlfriend/boyfriend/crush)

Coach/Sofa/stuffed chair) (Your character has a hybrid as a girlfriend/boyfriend/crush)

None, I’m sitting in the floor) (Your character has a werewolf or a vampire for a girlfriend/boyfriend/crush)

Desk Chair) (Your character has a elvin/dwarven/pixie girlfriend/boyfriend/crush)

None, I’m standing) (Your character has a assassin/spy girlfriend/boyfriend/crush)

Other) (Your character has a human girlfriend/boyfriend/crush)