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The DM, trying to spook us with unnatural creatures that lurk in the Wilderness: "There are... ducks that are also turtles!"

Party: "Dawww!" 🥰
DM: "... also, snakes with legs!"
Party: "So... lizards?"
DM: "Wha... no, mammal legs!"
Party: ????
DM: "And... possum-bat hybrids!"
Party: "DAWWW!" 😍😍
DM: "Imagine the weirdest possum face and bat face mixed together! They hang by their tails!"
Party: "WE'LL TAKE A DOZEN"

For many of us who started gaming in the tail end of the 1970s, The Handbook for Space Pioneers: Exoplanet Colonies (1978) by Wolfe and Wysack was basically the first space game supplement that wasn't intended for RPGs at all... and yet...

It provided fully realised worlds, maps, races, threats, economies, deckplans, personality tests, and recruitment ideas for characters.. er.. cough the readers.

Perfect for traveller or Star Trek and packed with colonial issues too.

A futuristic family home on an alien world, sketch picture
World map of the planet Wyzdom
Colonist Estate Map from the handbook for Space Colonization
Modular Starship deck map of the Crew Quarters

Feb 19 – Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does affect your creativity?

I've discussed how playing especially as a GM affected my writing by getting me in the habit of keeping multiple characters in my head, including ones that aren't currently in the forefront of the action. https://writeout.ink/@ljwrites/115703971664032084

A lot of electronic gaming has an interesting point of view when I think about it, in that I'm moving a character around and watching them on screen at the same time. I think gaming, along with other visual media, may have affected my habit of defaulting to third-person objective PoVs.

And of course, gaming as an activity can be inspiration, rest, and procrastination, and it's not always clear which is which xD

F 19: Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does gaming affect your creativity?

I make tabletop games for fun and I also DM a homebrew D&D campaign. So of course games affect my creativity!

For me, I think creativity derives from play, all the way back to make-believe as a child. Taking on other roles, building narratives, and creating structure for play (or games if you will) comes from the joy of childhood play. There’s a thread that stretches to now.

Currently reading Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss, part of Gollancz's SF Masterworks line.

It's a great setup for a megadungeon campaign: the protagonist is part of a degenerate tribe living within a massive starship where everything has gone to crap. They explore the forest of hydroponic overgrowth hunting for meat. There are countless still-sealed rooms containing advanced tech, critical supplies, useless junk, terrifying monsters.

What is the Fediverse answer to Play By Post role-playing games?

I've been in some on Discord, but expect to leave there soon.

Anyone have experience?

My first thought is just do it here with private mentions so it just shows to the other players and the GM. You've got text and pictures, no problem.

But there might be better options, anyone know?

Thanks.

help me fight ai and afford groceries by hiring me, a real life human, to make transcriptions of your videos for subtitles or to edit your podcast. still dying to work on a ttrpg actual play 👀 if you're a queer or small production, we can definitely talk lower prices and probs find something that works.