Dicey wildcards. tabletop game players and makers

[rovingjack]

started 24Worlds subreddit for people who wanna make 24 worlds in 2024 to practice world building for games and/or fiction. or just fun.

I'm on the 3rd day of questmas, I've random generated 3 cities, 4 magic spells, and 3 world maps.

The towns of: Dunno, Knot Shore, and Imblankin. the spells are basically inspired by pokemon 'moves' for various types. and I'm fairly impressed by some of the random town and world map generators. I'll be shifting over to making my own soon with craft supplies lol.

there's a lot left to do still.

[rovingjack]

Adding 12 days of Questmas to my hobby challenges.

Anyone wanna have a bit of fun? Wanna try a 12 days of questmas challenge?
1 a one parchment city (a 1 page city)
2 magic spells (2 new spells)
3 setting maps (cast your dice or rice on a page and make some overland maps)
4 calling quests (quest hooks)
5 magic things (magic items)
6 npcs
7 traps a-tripping (make some traps)
8 monsters wandering (create some new monster descriptions)
9 treasures gleaming (random generation of treasures)
10 dungeons delving (simple one page dungeons)
11 puzzles puzzling (riddles, cyphers, etc)
12 domains delighting/ of dreading (one paragraph pitches for domains of delight or dread)
reskins, random tables and online random generators encouraged.

I done did it. Now I have 364 creations that I'm thinking of turning into a blog. a daily entry for a year might be cool but a bit much to take on. maybe a few daily for a short bit and then a weekly or something. we'll see.

but for now, I've got til chinese new year to finish off some of the year long projects I started, and the new ones start then.

as well as starting my 24 worlds in 2024.

[rovingjack]

"It is said that everyone has two ends that await them: The first is when their body dies; and the second when the memory of them dies. But there is a place between these ends, where legends reside; endlessly maintained by the storytelling. Where tales of woe/wonder gain new life, by perching in the memories of those drawn into -the Curio Realms of Woe/wonder." rough draft of the back cover of C.R.o.W. zine idea

[rovingjack]

waiting on the approval of my zinequest attempt for Curio Realms of Woe. (diigital only)

trying to keep being excited instead of anxious self doubting.

It might not fund but that's okay, it's really just trying a new thing, and as long as I learn something in the process, and it's not costing me anything, it's still a victory.

[rovingjack]

I'm pretty sure it won't fund, which is fine, this is more of a kickstarter practice round just to test everything and see how it all works. http://kck.st/4bojlDQ

I'll likely produce the digital zines anyway, and maybe see about small batch printing. I intend there to be 2+ years of this zine, an equal number of it's sister curio realms of wonder, Maybe running in parallel with the Spelljammer homage, and eventually the planescape homage.for the C.R.O.W.,STAR, DREAM trilogy. otherwise I cannot imagine doing zines for all of this for a decade lol.

[rovingjack]

figured out My symbol for DREAM (Divine/Demonic Realms Eternal And Miraculous/Malevolent) My reinterpretation of the Astral, Outlands and outer planes in D&D. Inspired by the Svefnthorn which is said to be the gates to the dream world where contact with gods may be found... looks a lot like keys to me, so If I use 5 instead of 4, swap the tops for Futhark that kind of represent DREAM the meanings can be interpreted as "radiant journey connecting Divinity and self/people" and can be kind of symmetrical looking lit a gate made of keys.

Combining that with CROW and STAR. I think I can imagine a combined graphic logo for my Realms series.

Meanwhile. I'm thinking of ways in which I might connect my homebrew setting of worlds which have 6 divine first mothers in a world that is the world within a 7th. forming a 'flower of life' grid where each first mother contains a world with 6 first mothers.

the DND connection would be The Lady of Pain, The raven Queen, and the lady of Stars as 3 of them. I will likely have a far realm Mother of Aberration, I'm also thinking of the Nick of Time prison and the Spider Queen who comes into being in that storyline as becoming a 5th. But I'm still trying to figure out number 6 (possibly magic itself)... and then imagine up something that can be the embodiment of the Goddess of D&D.

something to keep my mind busy with and enjoy playing around with.

[rovingjack]

August had some game jams that I participated in.
For the 1 page rpg I made a Kawaii superhero going into a villains secret lair, facing traps, puzzles, minions, goons and ultimately facing the villain.

then there was the ShadowDark adventure creation challenge that randomly picked 3 covers from old Weird Tales. And I didn't finish in time but it really inspired some ideas that my worldbuilding brain ran away with.

as for my 6 fold world build model of the D&D multiverse, I think I've settled on 1) the weaver of time, 2) the Lady of Ravens, 3) the Lady of Stars, 4) the Lady of Doors, 5) the queen of madness (a variant of Pale Night, mother of demons) 6) the Lady of magic... all present within the convolutions of the Dungeon Muse.

I think I'll have to construct the equivalent of the curio realms of woe&wonder, for Time, the far realms of madness, and realms of magic... with suitable symbols and acronym.