Walking

I have been sick more or less since late October. This means that I haven’t been able to run like I wanted to, but I have had the ability to go for some nice walks around where I live.

Climate change has meant that we don’t get the same winters around here, like we used to. This means that whenever we do get snow, I have to go for a long walk and enjoy what could be the last snow I will ever experience.

Yesterday we got some snow. Not a lot, but enough to merit a nice walk. I took some photos to preserve the memory.

Wassup with 2025?

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

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

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

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

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.

Christmas Jazz

Because the this will be the last Christmas before the apocalypse, we will start a little early.

Heroes of Might and Magic tabletop announced

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.