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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Cyril & Methodius Day 2024

« on: February 14, 2024, 10:46:21 AM »

Oh how fun!

I'm writing today and hopefully doing a bit of reading, too. That's not particularly special as I do that nearly every day, but I feel I'll enjoy it more knowing it's part of an Exilian tradition today!

Happy Cyril and Methodius Day, Exilianfolk!

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Stories and AARs / Re: Life, Unbidden

« on: November 29, 2023, 12:41:55 PM »

I'm sure it won't surprise you that I was drawn to read this. I loved it. A wight-witch is a delightful concept, and I adored that she wasn't an evil being so much as extremely removed from mortality and its demands. The twist at the end, that the directions had been mixed up, was absolutely perfect.

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: The Old Goat and the Alien: A Slice-of-Life Space Fantasy Kickstarter

« on: November 02, 2023, 04:34:34 PM »

It is very okay, and I have just duly backed it Look forward to reading the results!

(And this goat only has two eyes, which given what we know happened to the three-eyed ones is comforting...)

Yes, two eyes. Just a normal goat. Just a normal sentient bear-sized sparkly space goat. 

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / The Old Goat and the Alien: A Slice-of-Life Space Fantasy Kickstarter

« on: November 02, 2023, 01:29:41 PM »

Hi lovely Exilian folk,

I hope it's okay to share my latest Kickstarter?

I've written a cosy, slice-of-life space fantasy featuring, among other things, a non-capitalist society of bear-sized space animals. Maybe you'd like it, or you know someone who would?



The Old Goat and the Alien is a story of family and friendship set on the binary planets of Geminus in a far-off star system.

The main character, Avari, is a goat-shape cosmoran tasked against their will with helping a lost human immigrant settle.

Features:
🏳️‍🌈 all-queer cast
🐐 sparkly space animals
👽 humans from a new perspective
✨ non-capitalist society
🎲 picnics and board games!

It's a story of family and friendship, written with warmth and weirdness.

Please do check it out on Kickstarter!

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Crowdfunding my new novel, THE BEAUTIFUL DECAY!

« on: April 20, 2023, 11:08:10 AM »

^_^

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Crowdfunding my new novel, THE BEAUTIFUL DECAY!

« on: April 17, 2023, 03:52:02 PM »

Just wanted to say the Kickstarter is almost ending now and has done better than I expected. Thanks for the encouragement!

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Crowdfunding my new novel, THE BEAUTIFUL DECAY!

« on: March 30, 2023, 01:14:24 PM »

Well this made the reminder-stream go into reverse and reminded me to actually back the KS, which I have now done. I haven't (embarrassing admission) read the first book either so I'm taking the chance to get both. I'm looking forward to reading them!

Thank you for posting this, too I very much get the fear of self promotion and have exactly the same problem, but also I like people sharing exciting things they're making and I hope this space gets the balance right of being able to go "look I did a thing!" without it becoming a Scary Advertising Job too much.

It's not an embarassing admission at all! Thank you so much!

Yeah self-promo is *miserable* but I really appreciate being encouraged to do it somewhere new. I know it needs to be done it's just every time I need to do it I seem to find myself crawling under a blanket and hiding instead ... XD I really like that Exilian is so supportive of people sharing and talking about their projects!

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Crowdfunding my new novel, THE BEAUTIFUL DECAY!

« on: March 28, 2023, 02:54:32 PM »

This looks a great book.

Really well written ks page too I'll be having a more thorough read through!

Well done on exceeding your goal by so much already!!

Thank you! I worked really hard on the page so I'm glad it comes across well. ^_^

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Crowdfunding my new novel, THE BEAUTIFUL DECAY!

« on: March 28, 2023, 09:03:32 AM »

Hello!

I've been wary of posting this because self-promotion is very uncomfortable, but with some prodding I'm finally here.



I'm crowdfunding my new novel, THE BEAUTIFUL DECAY, on Kickstarter. It became 100% funded in less than 24 hours so it will certainly be published (hurray!) but until it hits the first stretch goal, my costs won't all be covered which ... would be very, very helpful!

What do the dead have to fear? A town of necromancers faces its biggest challenge yet: strange red fungi and the paladins they attract.

A queer fantasy with a dark aesthetic and a kind heart.

Contains:
🧟 pet zombies
🐈 a very good cat
📚 secret libraries
🍄 fungal horror
💜 light queer romance
👨‍👩‍👦 found family
💀 a community of outcasts

I would really appreciate it if you took a look and shared it with anyone who might be interested!

For the video, description, and rewards, check out the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/381351683/the-beautiful-decay

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Snowstorm Creative Competition - The Showcase!

« on: February 17, 2023, 05:27:05 PM »

Absolutely amazing entries. I love how varied this competition is!

Thank you so much to the judges. This was a lovely surprise. ^_^

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Tabletop Design - The Senet House / How much is a ttrpg mechanics and how much is it setting?

« on: February 13, 2023, 08:48:40 AM »

I know there's huge variation but I've been pondering it nonetheless trying to decide what the level is I enjoy.

A lot of the larger TTRPGs I've enjoyed have both very in-depth and crunchy rules and large amounts of setting and lore.

But then it's also true that the biggest players in the game often have setting and lorebooks completely separate from the mechanics. 5e for example has little lore in it now beyond what is needed to create a character.

I've been thinking a bit on games that use other systems to create them (eg games that use Fate) but there I feel like is often a lot of setting missing from those -- the worldbuilding is in the flavour of how they describe the mechanics.

How much should a ttrpg include setting? How essential is it to the success of a TTRPG?

When I made KIN, it included a light amount of worldbuilding -- enough, I hoped to enable people to homebrew their own stories.

I'm making a new ttrpg now and I think there are more pages on setting and lore than on mechanics, because it is a very simple game and the setting is very unusual and therefore harder to homebrew games for without more info.

I'm just curious where you would like the balance to be, I suppose, or is more better regardless?

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: *peeks out from behind a wall* hi

« on: February 08, 2023, 07:41:47 PM »

hissssssssss

*caws politely*

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Hello!

« on: February 08, 2023, 07:40:52 PM »

Brynn!

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: *peeks out from behind a wall* hi

« on: February 05, 2023, 05:33:03 PM »

Oo, also, I would be remiss not to try and give a bit of the tourist info:

The Storyteller's Hall is somewhere you should definitely visit, given your craft, and very much please do post about your writing stuff in there sometime if you have the time to!

If you want to share anything about your streams, then The Arcade would be a good place. It's probably implicitly a gaming arcade, but I think I imagine it as also an architectural arcade.

If you want to dive into the depths of Exilianite silliness then The Boozer and especially The Beer Cellar are the enclaves for such things. The Boozer feels rather aggressively named for what's really just the off-topic forum and more usually resembles a quiet cafe at its most hectic. Maybe we should just rename it to The Tavern or similar, it's just been called the Boozer since 2008 I guess so I hadn't thought about it before writing this. The Beer Cellar contains Exilian: A Choose Your Own Adventure and the Riddle Thread and Prove Up Is Down and things like that.

Also, within reason, never worry about posting in the wrong place. Everyone new seems to worry about this, but it is very easy for me to move a post if I decide it is better somewhere else and we'd always much rather actually hear from people than lose their nice thinkthinks into the bureaucratic fear maelstrom.

Ohh thank you for the tourist advice! I have definitely been unsure where to go and nervous about posting in the wrong place so this helps.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: 2022-23 Creative Competition: SNOWSTORM

« on: February 05, 2023, 12:38:47 PM »

I have submitted a second entry!