is really a simple thing

One must honestly leave the topic at a "CLIFF HANGER" -

And then figure it out later.

Consider how most of the ERB stories are written - they were made to leave the reader breathless, and waiting for the rest of the story!

Such is also the essence of the Robert E. Howard tales of Conan -

You cannot help but follow them, in order to see how the rest of the story comes out!

Even if they shamelessly take advantage of the things we (as common day individuals) are thinking.

And this I think is key to adventure story writing - you can't help but to go there, even if the story is kind of stupid.

Clive Cussler uses the same lure,and throws in the dangled essence of new technology. As the old time science fantasy writers once did - Clive C. tosses in the lure of technologies we have never seen or heard of. And this is the making of wonderful worlds, the like of which we have never seen before...

Just as Edgar Rice Burroughs imaginings of "BARSOOM" once did,we follow these worlds with avid curiousity - to see where they might lead

OF SUCH is TAMRIEL made, a world of imagination - and that is why I love these games so much

~Greywolf

Don't forget you also need to come across as a flaming male chauvinist. ERB loved women, but they were always weak and needed to be protected/rescued.

I don't hold that against him. He was just a creature of his time. I own most of his books, and enjoyed them.

Can it be held against me that i love women?

(especially redheads)

Flaming emerald were her eyes, and hair like flame itself

I imagined myself with her, but then corrected myself

ANSKA!

Never explaining herself...

What could I do but help her out?

And then she left, as we went out

ANSKA! The mysterious lady that

Had left me with her scroll and gone...

~ From an adventurers notes

Writing that way was not a bad thing. I hate modern stories where men and women are exactly the same. It's boring. I like older stories and movies where men were men and women were women.

That's why I like old black and white movies, ERB novels and Robert E. Howard.

In SciFI, that would be E.E. "Doc" Smith.

The Lensman series!!!!! Hell yeah!