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epicanis

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I am an Internationally Known[1], Award-Winning[2] fantasy-author[3], TTRPG-enjoyer, Creative Commons enthusiast, and general nerd. I'm friendly and play well with others.

Currently self-indulgently authoring and shamelessly presenting in public the following works:

Empirical Gnollage - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/76288/empirical-gnollage

Mighty Shangrook's Troubleslayers - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/79738/mighty-shangrooks-troubleslayers

Please read and enjoy. I insist.

[1] Among my nearly dozens of readers, I have at least one reader in the United States and at least one in Germany. That's international by definition.
[2] "Perfect Attendance", 2015 (yes, really)
[3] In fact, I'm probably fantasizing about being an author right now!

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bedirthan , to random
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Do characters in your world drink coffee?

epicanis ,
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@bedirthan @Xenograg Accurate, though to me it still feels anachronistic just because of how prominent coffee is in modern real-world cultures. I think chocolate has a similar problem with having been "modernized" despite being quite old in South America.

epicanis ,
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@Xenograg @bedirthan The trick is to always drink from the near side of the cup, because if you drink from the other side it gets all over your shirt.

(Strangely enough, I've never developed a taste for coffee either.)

LeviKornelsen , to random
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It's been a minute; let's do this again:

If you are a Tabletop RPG nerd and have less than, say, 500 followers (or think you have less than 500 that are actually active):

  1. Write a post to introduce yourself and your particular nerdery, if you haven't already got one pinned.

  2. Reply in the comments with a link to or copy of that post.

  3. Share, check back to find people you want to follow, all that.

epicanis ,
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@LeviKornelsen
Well, I don't really have a self-introduction post up anywhere yet, so this will have to serve. Perhaps I should add a link to my profile on the site where my experimental project is being published. I am, after all, an Internationally-known, Award-winning Fantasy-author.

I'm doing what I think is a fun TTRPG experiment that nearly dozens of people are following along with right now. I suspect there are others out there who might enjoy it. I'm writing and publishing (online, freely readable, CC-BY-SA licensed - republish, reuse, and remix if you want!) a serial fantasy-adventure story.
Empirical Gnollage follows a naive but motivated group of your usual mix of weirdos setting out to make a living "adventuring". It's a mostly light-hearted (not outright comedic, but there is intentional humor) fantasy-adventure where the protagonists are forced to deal with the practical realities of "adventuring" besides just fighting things and collecting wealth.

It's "secretly" a simulated D&D 5e SRD-based sandbox campaign. My goal is that the narrative reads like an actual story rather than a "real play" session, but the events and possibilities are actually constrained by 5e rules as I would expect to implement them if I were running a live campaign. Rules-interpretations that explain why and how things happen in the story the way they do are "hidden" as hovertext.

I still need to set up a separate site for the supplemental materials (custom backgrounds, subclasses, creatures, etc) for people who want to use them in their own games, but if any experienced DMs and/or players would like to take a look and critique my rules interpretations, I'd welcome it!

I hope to keep it going for a long, long time. There's already a small novel's worth (in small easy-to-read installments) and the characters are just getting started on their accomplishments. More to come!

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