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  1. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    Some time ago A Name in the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons OSR community created The Gygax 75 Challenge, in which you, using quotes from and light supplementary to an old Gygax letter/article, create...

    Some time ago A Name in the tabletop Dungeons & Dragons OSR community created The Gygax 75 Challenge, in which you, using quotes from and light supplementary to an old Gygax letter/article, create everything necessary to kick off a D&D campaign in the style of Gary Gygax in 1975.

    I’ve been working on this off-and-on for months. I’m at what is arguably the most difficult part - creating and stocking the initial dungeon - and it’s taken most of these months to progress. I’m not near done or anything, but I am excited about the world still.

    It’s heavily inspired by M. John Harrison’s Viriconium stories and other pulpy, dark adventure science-fantasy, so lots of moody, dark pastel deserts, “devolved” protomen, sorcerers, flesh-eating lizard people, and invaders from out of our dimension through the lens of a vaguely 1600s European mode living in the ruins of a greater time.

    Don’t know when I’ll finish it, but I’m still enjoying the process and letting the ideas knock around.

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  2. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    That’s awesome! Are you intending to eventually take it to Kickstarter or anything? This might sound silly, but I’m a wallet… collector? That sounds wrong, but I’m not sure what would be right....

    That’s awesome! Are you intending to eventually take it to Kickstarter or anything? This might sound silly, but I’m a wallet… collector? That sounds wrong, but I’m not sure what would be right. I’ve backed several wallets in crowdsourcing platforms lol

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  3. Comment on What's your favorite theme on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Totally agree. I’ve found myself gravitating towards Dracula or similar across most apps that offer that degree of “theming“. The only app I find myself not using it on is Obsidian.md - it’s just...

    Totally agree. I’ve found myself gravitating towards Dracula or similar across most apps that offer that degree of “theming“.

    The only app I find myself not using it on is Obsidian.md - it’s just different enough that it’s distracting.