I started this site/playground decades ago. Originally, because I wanted a searchable database for D&D 3E monsters, but it's fun to program new stuff, so I kept adding stuff. Mostly for 3.5E.

I don't devote much time to this site so many tools are rough on the edges. The 5E spells database is still rudimentary, for example.

And many of the graphic generators are too "square", but they're the most fun to write.

Recently I've adopted Traveller (mixed with Cepheus Engine) and realized I could reuse a lot of the code already in there and made a first attempt to make a Subsector generator and later a table calculating Interplanetary travel times.

Which leads me to this shameless plug: If you're interested on a Traveller RPG community, please drop a comment on this post I created at !community_meta@ttrpg.network.

I would have liked to post a Sci-Fi micromap for the following, but I haven't drawn any.

So I'll just go ahead with the shameless plug:

If you're interested on a Traveller RPG community, please drop a comment on this post I created at !community_meta@ttrpg.network.

I must admit I'm posting this in order to gauge if there's interest on a Traveller community. If you're interested drop a comment on this post I created at !community_meta@ttrpg.network.

Back to the map: I created it over a year ago, but hadn't shared it on Lemmy. As with many Traveller maps, a square is meant to be 1.5m (close to the 5ft used in most fantasy genres).

This space station design was commissioned, to the lowest bidder, by a local planetary government much to the horror of the IISS. And it shows that is was done on a budget. Sure, the comms are prefectly suited for a relay station, but it often feels like a death-trap. Just ask any of the employees.

Made up of four general-purpose modules glued together, and then fitted to accomplish it's purpose, any outsider would think everything should work fine. However, many bottom-credit decisions were made and it might be just a matter of time until something goes wrong.

For instance, the original design had a fourth spoke for an additional docking module, but it was scraped from the implementation and now this station only has a single docking port, usually occupied by the emergency escape pod. Mind you, the pod can seat 2 sophonts and the station has 4 or 5 regular employees (though it can house up to eight at a time), so any real emergency would lead to drawing straws.

The escape pod itself is also bare-minimum, with only a 1G M-drive (and no J-drive). The two lucky survivors would arrive at the closest port after 4.5 days (just as much as the pod's life-support will last autonomously).

If that's not enough to label it a death trap, just consider that most of the life support systems are phisically located in the station's center module, but only the docking module could be properly isolated in case of a hull breach.

One game I’ve recently adopted is Traveller, but I haven’t found a lemmy community yet.

I’m trying to decide if it’s worth creating a community but I’m no expert and I don’t think I’d be able to contribute more than a couple of posts.

Sure, I’ll probably have several questions no doubt, but would there be anyone to answer them?

Anyone here would be interested?

Alternatively, is it worth creating a potential “ghost town” community?

Death is an illusion some of us may tear asunder in moments of great distress. For this KULTmas we bring you one of such stories—that of a man who has for his entire life repressed the memories of a past event, but now must face the consequences that follow them. For better or worse, he isn’t alone in this. His siblings, each of them burdened by their own dark secrets, come together to unveil the mysteries that haunt their family. Perhaps together they are able to walk past the threshold of mortality. Or it might just be that they succumb to their tormentors.

‘Til Death Do Us Part is a scenario originally written by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersen for the first edition of KULT exclusively in Swedish, but now brought to KULT: Divinity Lost in English with the help of Jens Klot (translator), Nick Rankovic (author; rules revisions, edits, and additional material), and Jacqueline Bryk (editor).

You may download this and past KULTmas releases on https://bit.ly/kultmas — and, as tradition demands, you may always listen to our friends from Red Moon playing the scenario.

Kultists, we hope all is well on your side of the veil and wish you a good end of the year. May these times be joyous and—if you run ‘Til Death Do Us Part—terrifying and enlightening!

We will take a short break in the coming days as well, but our Herald will continue to be present on Discord servers. Feel free to join him and many other stray souls there. And, if you haven’t yet done this and want to know more about the future sourcebooks, we invite you to watch the Illusion Horror Con panel where we discuss the upcoming Kickstarter.

That is all for now. See you in 2025 for another cycle of the machinery of the Illusion.

Happy holidays!

It's been almost a month, but I figured I'd create a proper post. Many lemmy clients show tiny icons, so you might have missed it.