- Vanufas
- Void Ship Elpida
Characters:
- Desmond Tindall
- Wilda Marsden
Friday, March 27, 2020
Book of Destiny Episode 101: An Allowably Costly Bargain
Characters:
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Book of Destiny Character Profile: Desmond Tindall
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Gender: Male
Homeworld: Jixie
Desmond Tindall was a merchant prince of Jixie. He once ran a large mercantile empire that had business dealings both legal and illegal. That all changed about ten years ago when he had a change of heart. He sold off his entire mercantile empire and donated his earnings to the Church of the Creator, becoming a member of the clergy.
Book of Destiny Background: Threats of the Multiverse
The people of the multiverse face many different threats. Some
of them are normal threats that you’d be familiar with. Piracy, murderers,
gangs, resource limitations, ans so on. Others, like monster attacks, may be
more specific to the multiverse.
Here are some of the ones that might be good to be aware of
in The Book of Destiny.
Book of Destiny Background: The Magic of the Essence
Disclaimer: The following information will be established within the story of the Book of Destiny. It won't be established right away, but it's not a secret either. This preview post (and several others) are for people who want to know more and have more context before the story begins.
The worlds are made of more than just the physical material that can be felt and seen. It is made of more than just atoms and particles. Deep down, on a level parallel to the physical, is the Essence. The essence is the raw material used to create all things. It is the fabric of the multiverse.
Book of Destiny Background: Worlds of the Multiverse
There is not one world. There are many. Countless. Some think maybe even infinite.
It wasn't always this way before. The worlds were once unified together as a single dimension. Current civilizations have differing philosophies about what happened to cause the change, but all are in agreement that a horrible calamity struck the world, shattering it apart into an uncountable number of pieces.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Here we go Again: The Book of Destiny Relaunch?
Hopefully, if I can get the podcast going, it will spurn me on towards working more on writing in the second Book of the Universe as well. But...let's not get too ahead of ourselves.
I'm considering cross posting the content on both the podcast site that I had before and youtube (without video), but we'll see what happens.
I think something that deterred me before was all the work that it took to edit the podcast. In an effort to get it out so that people can hear it while still trapped inside, I'm currently planning on doing minimal editing. Sure, I'll still edit out long silences and I'll try to cut out places where I stumble over words. But I'm not going to go through and alter different character voices or add in sound effects as I was trying to before. Doing so a) takes too long for me to get it to people while the project is relevant and b) acts as an emotional and mental detriment to me working on or finishing the project.
And in the end, I believe it would be better to have a less-flashy product that exists, rather than one with all the bells and whistles that just stays in idea land.
Anyway, more to follow as I make progress on the idea. I hope you all will join me in the future of the books of the universe.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
On NaNoWriMo, Failing, Identity, and Moving Forward
It is a strange thing, realizing that I have done NaNo for almost half the years that I've been alive. In college, NaNo ended up linking me to some chaos that really disrupted my life, but also to someone who would eventually become one of my best friends. Post college, NaNo helped to connect me to a group of writers and friends that I wouldn't have met otherwise.
Nano also played a huge role in shaping me as a writer. Admittedly, a lot of what I wrote for it didn't end up going anywhere. But some of my better ideas (some of which I've written out, some of which I intend to someday) have come from NaNo. It's gotten me to write at times when I otherwise wouldn't, and that is always helpful in forming writing skill. I know that my writing style has grown over the years in large part because of NaNoWriMo. So, I know that it has critics and that it's not perfect and that it's certainly not the right path for all writers, but it has helped me specifically to grow and learn as a writer. 10,000 pounds of clay and what not.
This year, my fifteenth year, is the first year I failed to reach 50,000 words. And it was/is really hard on me. I don't think I've fully unpacked its emotional significance to me at this point.
This past year was hard, and this November had its share of obstacles. It's entirely understandable, from a life perspective, that I failed NaNo this year. But it's also a part of a bigger struggle I have been facing.
Even well before November last year, I was having trouble wrestling with my identity as a writer. Writing has gotten hard. I mean, it was always challenging for me, but it still came more easily. The challenge was one of thought, not of effort. But now it's just difficult to muster the energy to work on things. The more beneficial/significant the writing project, the more difficult it is to work on.
I have the first four books of Ruins & Robots written, but I cannot bring myself to work on finishing the edits for book 2.
And when I can work on these (or other authorish things), the experience is much slower than it's been in the past and much less fulfilling. It's always been the case with writing that I know that most of the fulfillment comes later when I can share it with someone, but I don't have much opportunity for that now anyway (something between not being able to get people to read things I've written and not having the opportunity to talk much about said things with people.)
I think partly because of the insufficient fulfillment, and partly because of the lesser emphasis on a finalized/polished product, I've focused more of the creative energy that I have on Gamemaster/RPG stuff. This is far more fulfilling and revitalizing in the present, but I'm also able to do less with this than I was before. Mostly, this is based on my own life/family/schedule/time/etc. Partly, it's based on the schedules/availability of my players. But, even scheduling stuff as frequently as I can, what I'm actually capable of running is more limited by my creative energy/capacities than I once was. That dramatically impacts which systems and the adventures that I can run.
But I am working on things, so that's good. There are two main reasons that I haven't posted about this yet, despite that it was more relevant closer to the end of November. The first is that I wrote out a different version of this note in early December and it came out way more pessimistic/down feeling than I wanted. But the second reason, which is better, is that I've been very focused on another project and haven't wanted to use my limited creative work time on typing up a note.My campaign in The Veil is still going, but I've started working on what I want to do when it's done. What I'm working on is an ambitious project that includes building a setting and world map from scratch, homebrewing up a game system that mechanically matches what I'm looking for, learning enough programming to put together a character building program, and other madness. It will be really cool if I can end up finishing it, but I'm starting to get past the "easy" part of the work, so we'll see how my focus/energy/ability to work on it goes once I'm there. Hopefully I can get it all put together, and hopefully once I do, I'll be able to share some piece of it with you people out here beyond my player group.
But more on that later. All I'll say is that right now I'm calling the campaign "For Great Magic."
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