hello I bought the Ice wind dale first novel and I was planning to start it , but today a freind of mine invited me to play the dnd Campaign with their group (they started the game two months ago, but I can't join till next month) so i was wondering, will reading the first novel or the full trilogy ruin or reveal some details from the game ? I tend to hold myself from metagaming and I don't think it will effect me if the details where minor or in the start of the game
I recently finished the anime and it was amazing!!! I would like to read the light novels but sadly the most recent adaptation for it is where the season ends :( So I'm thinking about reading the web novel, but is it worth reading or is the web novel not worth reading? I am also under the assumption that the best place to read the web novel is on witch cult translations.
EDIT: Thank you everyone! I'm going to start reading it now :)
Hi all, just wanted to make a request: I’m looking for books that feature characters discovering and struggling to make sense of a lost civilization, or abandoned planet, or something similar—preferably, a non-human one. (The more nightmarish and strange it is, the more I’ll love it.) Similar titles might include H.P. Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains of Madness,” or video games like Myst or The Outer Wilds.
I want to try to create a similar “discovery and exploration” sort of narrative, and would love to find sources of inspiration. If you know of anything, I’d be so grateful if you recommended it to me.
I know this is kinda specific and I'm not sure there's any good options in this category, but I still wanna try my luck here. Title pretty much says it all.
I am very close (tonight with any inspiration) to finishing the first draft of my first novel. It ends with an epilog twenty-five years in the future. I have a very loose concept for a sequel if its well received that will bridge the gap to that point. I'm totally conflicted because as a reader I'm usually not as motivated to get through to the end if I know what the end will be. BUT there have been books I've devoured to find out how they got to the end. Looking for other perspectives or personal experiences with this in your own writing. Thanks!
I read an excerpt of this book on Amazon a several years ago, and this is my second or third time posting about it here (yes, I've also posted to LibraryThing).
I recall (in what I believe to be the first chapter) the main character climbing over cars and other things floating or half submerged in an abandoned parking-lot or street. He had a younger companion with him, and I gathered that the companion had only joined him recently, and he was reluctant to have his company because he preferred to be alone (I don't know if he thought he'd be slowed down, or didn't want to watch out for anyone's neck but his own).
The part I remember most vividly was the younger guy jumping from the hood of one car onto the back of another (or maybe simply another large, buoyant piece of rubbish), and almost falling into the water.
The water was murky, but had a strange glow to it, and rippled with rainbow colours which the writer compared to oil on water (I remember that specifically).
The younger man got distracted, and started leaning towards the water, hypnotised, and the older man grabbed him, and told him not to touch the water; I think it whispered to you inside your head if you got close enough.
The older man explained that the colours were part of the water's trap, and that it fed off of anything it can lure in, and when the young man asked what it was that had started the apocalypse, I think the man said that the world never saw it coming, and "they came in the rain" or something like that.
I also vaguely recall that a huge wall had been built to keep out mutated animals from the forest near the city, and this older man had lived beyond the wall, which made people distrust him, but also ask him for advice a lot. [Note: This memory may be from a different book. I was really sick at the time and keeping myself entertained by reading and looking up books. Sorry if this muddles anything for you!]
And I think that the weather was weird in this post-apocalyptic world...like you could see mini thunderstorms over the flooded parking-lot/street they were crossing, and the lightning was a strange colour, and then there were other spots that seemed to be lit up by their own little suns...
Oh, and the main character was described as looking old, but he was quite strong and moved quickly, so there was some question about him being old or simply looking old because of what he'd been through/seen on the other side of the wall.
I want to say that the setting was Manhatta
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey folks, just sharing another Dissecting Dynamic Encounter video.
This is another encounter with "Tines", a canine collective mind pack-race from Vernor Vinge's novel Fire Upon the Deep. Instead of dogs I combined the aspects of gnolls and kobolds into a modular pack entity that you can send multiple combinations after any level party for varrying levels of difficulty.
In this encounter I fielded 27 pack members vs my party, but only had to logistically run 5 creatures in combat.
Hope it helps inspire some ideas for your own games. Now up to 24 encounter videos on the channel.
Just got a message on my iphone about my Clean Base needing an update...should I set fire to my roomba, house, and myself now...or just do nothing and write an entire novel's worth of complaints on reddit about how the upgrade has ruined my life? So many choices...
Do we know yet if there is going to be another trilogy of comics?
Hello r/suggestmeabook! I'm in the mood for a horror novel with some spooky ruins. An abandoned laboratory, an ancient temple, a mausoleum spaceship, really I'd just like it to be a big spooky mystery with lots of gory tableaus where the main characters have to figure out what terrible experiment/ritual/warp jump went wrong and caused some disaster. Is there anything out there along those lines?
Thanks!
In the time it’s taken me to come up with a title for this post Tucker has defended Gaetz by saying Republicans haven’t stood by him because of the “stigma” leftover from allegations and investigations involving sex-trafficking and asked “who exactly did Matt Gaetz sex traffick? Why isn’t he being charged As if that disregards the investigation into him as a whole. He has brought up Hunter Biden’s laptop about every other sentence. Then compared something to the person who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole her laptop; and is now in federal custody as they’re facing federal charges—but “they didn’t riot and burn anything down,” according to Tucker. I’m not sure if he’s implying that’s an unfair punishment for the crime, alluding to someone potentially stealing Hunter Biden’s laptop, or—honestly who fucking knows? Main takeaway though is that he very brazenly downplayed the action of stealing the Speaker of the House’s laptop from her very office in the Capitol. He said something else wild and outlandish but I honest to God forgot while I was typing this out, especially since I’m still overhearing him from the living room.
My purpose for this post was to vent but he just kept getting more and more irritating and I couldn’t tack my frustration down to just one thing he said because it is non-fucking stop out of his mouth. The man literally doesn’t breathe while he spews his shit.
Edit: it’s 7am and one bit has unfortunately/fortunately come back to me and I’m pretty positive it’s the thing that initially set me off. Amidst the tirade about Hunter Biden’s laptop-Russia hoax-the Radical Left’s ongoing witch-hunt of Trump; he made mention of Michael Cohen and what happened to him? And then something along the lines of “Bill Barr is a Republican and worked for the president” which goes without saying to anyone who had been f*cking paying attention to Barr’s dismantling of the DOJ— but he said this as if to disregard/discredit AG Merrick Garland, any of the DOJ’s investigations, and anything of the intelligence community by essentially painting any activity as democrat overreach. While then pivoting into the feds raiding Giuliani’s home AND office earlier in the day which then pivoted to the time the FBI raided Roger Stone’s home before daybreak and the supposed tip off from the feds to CNN prior to so they could catch it all live, as opposed to, you know, solid journalism & the ability to put 2 + 2 together. I remember thinking t
... keep reading on reddit ➡hello I bought the Ice wind dale first novel and I was planning to start it , but today a freind of mine invited me to play the dnd Campaign with their group (they started the game two months ago, but I can't join till next month) so i was wondering, will reading the first novel or the full trilogy ruin or reveal some details from the game ? I tend to hold myself from metagaming and I don't think it will effect me if the details where minor or in the start of the game
Edit, I found the answer (someone answered me on another subreddit) aparentlly the dnd game taks place along time after the novels
Hey folks, just sharing another Diseccting Dynamic Encounter video. This is another encounter with "Tines", a canine collective mind pack-race from Vernor Vinge's novel Fire Upon the Deep. Instead of dogs I combined the aspects of gnolls and kobolds into a modular pack entity that you can send multiple combinations after any level party. In this encounter I fielded 27 pack members vs my party, but only had to logistically run 5 creatures in combat.
Hope it helps inspire some ideas for your own games. Now up to 24 encounter videos on the channel with more on the way.
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