As book reviews go, this one's mainly an exhortation to read what I see as a criminally underrated book (I think I would need at least two more readings to 'get' it enough to offer anything truly insightful). I read it back in January of this year and meant to write a review but never quite found the time. Eight months later, it still lives rent-free in my head.| Idraluna Archives
Tackling with a miscellaneous tidbit for my entry. Prompt: . The city of Xoth'umbra (28-307) in Zurth's Tetrapolis is famed for its Saurodrome, wher...| Idraluna Archives
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Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked about nearly as often: I call it the mapping game.1| Idraluna Archives
This is a WIP summary of the factions in my OD&D campaign. I have yet to implement a formal faction system, but wanted to at least map out faction relationsh...| Idraluna Archives
My campaigns are all located on a fictional far-future version of Antarctica (called Antibor), made temperate by alien geo-engineering. To lend the world map...| Idraluna Archives
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Earlier this month, my Nomic group concluded a game of Committe Nomic (explained below) after six sessions. Just as I would set down a postmortem on a comple...| Idraluna Archives
I recently threw together a simple QGIS project for making basic hexmaps. It includes a pre-generated 6-mile hexgrid and preset symbology for common terrain types & landmark icons.| Idraluna Archives
I've been re-reading the Hobbit & Lord of The Rings this year, so naturally my latest cartographic hyperfixation was to make a map of Tolkien's paracosm.| Idraluna Archives
Jumping on a blog bandwagon pitched by Weird Writer of Roll to Doubt| Idraluna Archives
In a , I used climate simulation software to model what the moon's climate would be if it had an Earth-like atmosphere (TL;DR: hot & wet). I had hoped to ...| Idraluna Archives
Got the itch to do more speculative cartography, so for the last week or two I've been simulating the weather on the Moon, if it had an earth-like atmosphere...| Idraluna Archives
Here are some posts from this year that didn't quite cross the 'blog-worthy' threshold on their own. (Check out & as well!) I was reading about the demon...| Idraluna Archives
D&D Fifth Edition turned 10 this year, and reading got me reflecting on my own experiences with the game. I've been in three 5e campaigns that were genu...| Idraluna Archives