Wassup with 2025?

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So, it is that time of year. Or maybe not anymore since we have passed New year’s Eve, but I can still ramble a little bit about what I hope to do this year.

In terms of D&D I don’t think there’s a lot to look forward to. WotC does not seem to be ready to release something awesome, so I guess they won’t be a candidate for my hard earned cash. I would rather spend it on fan based work such as some of all the great Greyhawk stuff being published at the moment.

As for novels, I have no idea what is coming. Most likely nothing at all. I will probably start reading some Warhammer 40K. Right now, I have Eisenhorn in my shoppingcart, so hopefully that will be a good read.

I hope to start DMing a bit this year. I am working on a Baltron’s Beacon conversion as well as a Dragonlance campaign that might be ready in 2045.

Anyway, short but pointless post, but at least I wrote something.

2024 according to Goodreads

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I feel like I have cheated since there are some comic books on the list. However, the Cleric Quintet counts as one book even though it is five, so I do feel a little vindicated.

Getting my writing on

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A couple of weeks ago, I dropped off the face of the social media earth. I finally kicked the habit of endless doom scrolling, which killed my ability to think fairly straight.

A benefit has been that I have started writing my Fistandantilus campaign again. So far, I have covered Skullcap and I have started on Ulgaard. Hopefully, I will be able to run this in my gaming group at one point in a not too distant future.

I am giving a slight 5E flavor, not beacuse Wizards of the Coast are worth supporting, but simply because it is the system we use in our group. If I end up putting it online, I will probably remove any 5E references so people can use whatever system they like.

More from the machine god

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I use the free version of ChatGPT, so I get a limited amount of queries, which prevents me from making the desired changes to my images. I am not super happy with the results here, but as I get better at prompting I hope to make them more to my liking.

Does this make me an artist? By no stretch of the imagination! I have zero talent, I just know how to query an application. In a way, it’s pretty sad.

AI generated pictures

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I was messing around with ChatGPT because I needed som epictures for a moduæe I am writing. Instead of stealing the usual art works from internet, I figured I would see what AI could do for me.

Now, I use the free version, so I don’t get a lot quesries, but I think if I could ask the AI to make specific changes, such as skin color, facial hair etc it could generate some pretty good content.

Here are the images the AI generated. I think they are ok, but I would have liked to be able to modify them quite a bit, so they would better represent the intenden charaters.

Heroes of Might and Magic tabletop announced

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Some time ago the Heroes of Might and Magic tabletop game was announced, and now it looks like there will be a role playing game as well. As every right thinking individual knows, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 is the greatest computer game ever made. So, it is a little exciting, that there will now be both a board game and a tabe top role playing game.

I am not sure my group will ever try this game out, but I will definitely take a look at it and see if it is worh spending time on.

New books day

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Actually, it is old books day, because we are talking about used books here.

I was playing D&D last night and my DM had some old Forgotten Realms books that he didn’t want anymore. And what do you know he gave them to me.

Of course, they are not in the best condition, considering they are old an used, but I still think they will make a nice addition to my ever growing library. The two books I got was The Cleric Quintet, collectors edition and Death of the Dragon. I do have a couple of books I have read before I start these, but with a little luck they will be my Fall 2024 project.