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by Sirlaughalot
Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:44 am
Forum: Garth Nix
Topic: Garth Nix at the Sydney Writer's Festival 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 881

Re: Garth Nix at the Sydney Writer's Festival 2024

Thanks for the writeup. I'm pretty far from Sydney and unfortunately was traveling the last time Nix was in my area.

I'll have to give Newt's Emerald a read as I have yet to get to it.
by Sirlaughalot
Tue May 28, 2024 11:44 pm
Forum: Site Announcements
Topic: Userlist Maintenance
Replies: 0
Views: 1032

Userlist Maintenance

I'm putting in a bit of work on pruning the bots that have signed up over the past year. I have also changed the captcha (I haven't set up recaptcha) to a very basic question. We'll see if that stops the bot accounts from registering. If you have registered prior to today (2024-5-28) and haven't act...
by Sirlaughalot
Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:23 am
Forum: Short Stories
Topic: Garbeliad
Replies: 0
Views: 1227

Garbeliad

Nix had this posted to his website at some point and the link broke at some point in the last few years. It's a short story posted in Across The Wall that I was able to find posted to Goodreads. Note that it's a tongue-in-cheek story about fantasy in general. MY NEW REALLY EPIC FANTASY SERIES by Gar...
by Sirlaughalot
Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:55 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hello!
Replies: 4
Views: 2035

Re: Hello!

I found that through following Nix's facebook account, some subreddits, and our discord that most international events are circulated enough to catch.
by Sirlaughalot
Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:34 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hello!
Replies: 4
Views: 2035

Re: Hello!

Hi CuriousInsanity! Welcome to the forum :) Love the introduction. I know Garth is into D&D and has talked about role playing at various points. I think the closest we'll get for the foreseeable future is just adapting his settings to existing TTRPG systems...of which there are a lot of good one...
by Sirlaughalot
Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: Short Stories
Topic: Recommended Reading?
Replies: 0
Views: 3478

Recommended Reading?

I've embarrassingly only read a couple of Nix's short stories and know he has a huge list out there primarily published on Tor. If I were to start working my way through them, are there any that folks recommend reading first?
by Sirlaughalot
Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:37 pm
Forum: Clayr's Art Gallery
Topic: Art Across the Internet
Replies: 5
Views: 14095

Re: Art Across the Internet

Katie Conrad has another art concept here for the bells. I like the inscribed faces and her descriptions on why each one depicts who it does.
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by Sirlaughalot
Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:24 pm
Forum: Role-Playing
Topic: D&D 5e Bells as Magic Items
Replies: 1
Views: 5940

Re: D&D 5e Bells as Magic Items

Added Saraneth to my first post.
by Sirlaughalot
Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:05 am
Forum: Role-Playing
Topic: Forgotten Realms Dieties and The Old Kingdom's Creation Story
Replies: 0
Views: 2070

Forgotten Realms Dieties and The Old Kingdom's Creation Story

12 beings created the planet and filled it with oceans, mountains, and trees. These beings were: 1. Moradin, dwarf god of creation 2. Myrkul, god of death, created realm of Astarael 3. Lliira, goddess of joy (sister to Loviatar) 4. Loviatar, goddess of pain (sister to Lliira) 5. Savras, god/goddess ...
by Sirlaughalot
Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:58 pm
Forum: Clayr's Art Gallery
Topic: Art Across the Internet
Replies: 5
Views: 14095

Re: Art Across the Internet

Found Lil Chan here with some neat bell concept art:
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