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Hello all, thank you for the advice and replies! I think I might look into a system other than D&D, to better suit the storytelling style because I don't think there is going to be a lot of action/combat (most of D&D, or at least the campaigns I played, tend to lean heavily into that - which is fantastic but also quite different). Vampire: The Masquerade is a great place to begin with, and I gathered that some of the elements are kind of inspired slightly by Anne Rice's vampires. I like the clan system that they have running through the games, and maybe I can try and tap into that. Revolutionary France (and slightly earlier) is always a fun historical place to begin with, and perhaps I will do as advised - to check out moments from other stories set in the era and pick out moments where storytelling can leap from to begin. All of this sounds terribly exciting and I will keep you updated on this  :bard:

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Hey friends! I figured I could put my questions here to the geniuses among you who are already working on or have worked on TTRPGs before. As some may know, I am very into the Vampire Chronicles and for the use of my own friends, I was thinking of coming up with a TTRPG based off one of the novels. It's set in the late 1700s in France, both in the countryside (Auvergne) and then Paris. The characters are humans who then become vampires. Of course I don't expect to follow the story in its entirety, but what sort of encounters and side quests do you think would be best to include in this sort of setting?

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Today was relatively mild, a vegetarian South Indian meal with lentil soup, and a variety of cooked vegetables, all to go down with a type of pepper-herb soup (which is called rasam in Tamil).

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Poetry and Artistic Writing / Re: Jubal's poems
« on: September 27, 2022, 11:46:14 AM »
The largest of moos, I can attest!

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Ahhh, this dearly beloved topic that I have been coming into contact with in varying levels of frequency over the past few months. I liked the points you brought up, particularly about the guest-rights during the TTRPGs that you run and the quirkiness of medievalism that needs to be urgently brought back into the picture. I do agree with you that a lot of the race-related issues we are facing comes from an increased attention given to grimdark fantasy, as opposed to the 'silly' kind of fantasy that we used to have some years back. Remember The Dark Crystal or The Neverending Story? And since you did mention non-Eurocentric romances, I am now obliged to share with you a few Tamil language movies from the 60s and 70s, which I realised retrospectively, having studied medieval romances, were actually playing with quite a lot of these romance and fantasy tropes. For instance, the 1965 film Aayirathil Oruvan (A Man Among a Thousand) features pirates and a maiden island, not far away from quirky fantasy movies, methinks. There is another movie, and a lesser known one, from 1967 called Mayamothiram (Magic Ring) is, as the title suggests, about a magical ring, and a witch and a curse that turns a lady into a man-eating werewolf, and there is a very fun little deus-ex-machina-esque ending to this. Perhaps if I find copies of these films with English subtitles, I will share them with you!

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A very welcome read for my mind and body recovering from two separate illnesses, surely! I could see, feel and smell everything you described, and Slovenia is surely added to my list of "must see countries". I too, am surprised that Maribor did not seem to capitalise much on The Witcher, but I wonder if it has got anything to do with maybe Sapowski not giving them permission? He can be quite a bit like Tolkien when it comes to being possessive of his world, and maybe he doesn't want people to be thinking about the game when they make associations to his books, or something else along those lines. But perhaps, as the Netflix series gains more ground and more fans, we may perhaps see something in the coming years?

And that is a curious observation about the tea. You can have one bad experience with tea, but twice seems a little too much for just Maribor. Hmm.

And yes to all the lovely creatures! I remember the gossanders and the swallowtail when you shared them with me!

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Oh no he got shot!!! :') Anyway so far, I'm liking the fourth wall breaking aspect of this. Will continue reading!  :pangolin:

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This was such a joy to read, and it really felt as though some astral projection of my self was taking a stroll along Venice as I read. I particularly enjoyed the little snippets of birdwatching, with the unexpected inclusion of... uhm... seagull violence. I am all the more intrigued by Venice now than I had previously, having only been familiar with the glassmakers and the Carnevale, and some smatterings of history here and there and so, this was a very well written and eye-opening read for me, which I am sure to consult again should I drop by Venice some day in the future.

Thank you for this!  :pangolin:

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Thank you very much for all the beta-reading offers! I will surely come back again once I have the draft ready!

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: March 01, 2022, 08:29:26 AM »
Teeth

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Yay! I found this post! I got a couple of great reads this year that I'd recommend but given the state of affairs all over the planet, I think we would all do good with some lovely cozy fantasy. My copy of Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes just arrived today and I have yet to read it but from the blurb and the prologue I've looked at so far, it feels like a nice cup of coffee and cookies in the breezy summer with the smell of fresh pastries in the air and birds singing in trees... You know, that sort of comfort that we all deserve?

The premise is this: set in a D&D-esque world, an orc barbarian retires from a life of adventure and battles to open a coffeeshop, and meets love and friends along the way. :)

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I am thrilled that my entry has been chosen as a winner... To be very honest, I just sent it in because I wanted my stories and characters to reach more people and what better community is there on the net than you kind and lovely souls?  :-* I hope that you enjoyed reading about Azerlathes and Venmaros, as much as I enjoyed writing about them.

I've read and looked through all the other entries, and it makes me so happy to see how the theme had been played with in all these different ways (tesswatty's dice entry made me gawk and I am now reminded that I would most certainly need to expand my own dice collection and soon). I am also very, very intrigued by Spritelady's winning entry, and it made me a little sad as well. I wonder if the Khionaskadi and Azerlathes may find companionship in each other, given how humans just make them... sad. Both also make me wonder if there are truly immortals out there, watching us and being... just very sad about our tired (and also happy) little lives... :( But the melancholy from Spritelady's and my pieces were very nicely met with Trickthegiant's cute little piece on Amelie and her sunset dresses, how I wish we could all just wear sunsets too...  :D

Meanwhile I hope that Tusky's cartoon is assured that I (and I am sure Spritelady, too) will take very good care of our prizes and value and love them very much! And Jubal's sunset photos just make me want to go sky gazing again...

Thank you to everyone for organising this contest, and more importantly, I am ever so grateful for being here!  :pangolin:


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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Hello it's me medievalfantasyqueen
« on: February 01, 2022, 03:09:02 PM »
Hello! It's a personal testament, I suppose, to the things I've grown to love over the years. To summarise, it's epic fantasy set in a world inspired by medieval India and Persia, and also with a mix of medieval Southeast Asia, though all the worlds are my own - and it follows the story of several individuals coming from different circumstances, navigating their way through life, having to face small, personal problems and larger scale, political ones. I am hoping the theme of storytelling, history making, legend making etc gets through when I do my redrafting. :)

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Hello it's me medievalfantasyqueen
« on: January 30, 2022, 01:15:53 PM »
Hello. :) I am very in love with this dear little pangolin  :pangolin:

I was introduced here by Jubal :)

Glad to meet you all, and hopefully I can navigate my way around here better soon.

I mostly do writing (working on a novel at present) and I play games, read books, watch a good many things...

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I have successfully sent the message containing my entry to Jubal  :pangolin:

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