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K.N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle@wandering.shop · last month

Having a bit of fun working up some diagrams & graphics for my #ttrpg rulebook for the Common Accord universe. Fair warning: As I've been writing this, it has turned into a universal system that can be played with any game world from #fantasy to #scifi space opera

I can't wait to get this out to players

#writers #sff #readers #bookstodon

K.N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle@wandering.shop · last month

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I've been playtesting these rules for a bit, and one of the things I love about them is that they're FAST

You make 1 roll, let's say for an attack. That roll of Xd6s (it's a dice pool system) tells you if you succeeded or not, & also what damage you did, & also resolves against armor (passive defense) & active defense (parries, dodges). With the right weapon, the defender can riposte (counter attack) & it all happens in seconds.

Really fun!

#ttrpg #fantasy #scifi #writers #sff #readers

K.N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle@wandering.shop · last month

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I can't wait to get this out to players

#writers #sff #readers #bookstodon

A screenshot of various diagrams.

Top Left: 4 positions of a "missed" throw of an object; too near, too far, wide left, wide right.

Top Center: a diagram of 6-way movement on a hex grid, with each hex representing 1 meter

Top Right: a diagram of 8-way movement on a square grid, with each square representing 1 meter

Bottom: A perspective view of a square grid with a shirt button, a game pawn, and a 4-sided die used as character markers — A screenshot of various diagrams. Top Left: 4 positions of a "missed" throw of an object; too near, too far, wide left, wide right. Top Center: a diagram of 6-way movement on a hex grid, with each hex representing 1 meter Top Right: a diagram of 8-way movement on a square grid, with each square representing 1 meter Bottom: A perspective view of a square grid with a shirt button, a game pawn, and a 4-sided die used as character markers

Dr. Artemis Ph.D. @Artemis201@mstdn.social · 2 months ago

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To all you #SciFi #writers out there,

Please please please please have an astrophysicist or aerospace engineer review your book before publishing.

I'm reading an award-winning scifi book right now and while the writing is good and the author obviously tried to get the science details down, they also obviously didn't do much more than read wikipedia. It's getting painful to read.

#Authors #bookstodon #books #writing #ScienceFiction #Space

Or M. Bialik @ombialik@mastodon.world · 4 months ago

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There is a subgenre of academic papers that could have originally started as someone’s homework for a #SciFi story or #worldbuilding exercise. This exploration of constraints on #life beyond Earth definitely fits that category.
Also, seriously, #writers , so many excellent resources now to explore and understand how life outside Earth could evolve and function… if you want to go for hard SciFi (or just get some out-of-the-box ideas), just reach out and grab them.
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477

Schematic summarizing the key similarities and differences between a habitable planet, a minimally complex extraterrestrial habitat, and a micro-organism, with a focus on their physical properties and exchange of mass and energy with their environments.

Massimo Luciani @NetMassimo@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

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#writers #ScienceFiction #scifi #fantasy #mystery #western It's writer Leigh Brackett's 109th birth anniversary https://english.netmassimo.com/2015/12/07/leigh-brackett-was-born-100-years-ago/