I supporter this one on Kickstarter as I have an interest in the mythologies associated with Britain and Ireland. (Scotland too). This is another RPG, of course. I'm using as an inspiration for more Irish/British mythology monsters. This is an interesting book with some cool artwork.
worth checking out if you deep diving into different world building inspiration or gaming.
I strongly suspect this game will be driving my interest desire to write sci-fi. It was originally supposed to launch on 11/11/22. They missed.
Of course, I'll have to beat the game first. And yes, I suspect a Bethesda game to have some bugs. You saw some really big bugs in the trailer, though they looked like the variety that are supposed to be there as alien creatures.
Anyone else looking forward to this game?
Hogwarts Legacy is coming in Feb 2023. I can't of a game I am more interested in right now except, maybe, Starfield.
It looks like you'll really be able to customize your look in the game. This video has only increased my interest.
Pirate Campaign Compendium is another gaming resource but this time to the dangers of traveling on the high seas in a fantasy setting. This is just another book in my vast collection that I can reference for those "at sea" stories in the queue. The artwork is also nice.
Cheers to world building, and ahoy matey!
Another gaming book that I use as inspiration is Remarkable Cults and Their Followers by LoreSmyth's JVC Parry, Jeff Lee, and RP Davis.
Every fantasy world needs a bad guy and every bad guy needs a cult. This is a great inspiration for different ways you can put things together. More fodder for world builders.
Another gaming-related book in my library that I also supported on Kickstarter when it was running. This is a handy tool for world building and setting up underlying rules of how things work... even if you aren't talking about it. It makes your created work function in a consistent way. This makes it believable in your writing bubble. This helps immersion in the story world. I find this worth it, but only for really big world builders.
This is a cute little game. fun to play as light entertainment. It is also not expensive or free with Xbox Game Pass, if you are on that. I tried it because you needed to play one of the top ten games on game pass for the reward points. more than worth it and I wouldn't have checked this out if hadn't been for Game Pass and the reward. But I tried it out on Cloud gaming and liked it so I installed it and spent a couple hours unwinding with it.
Two personal favorites I have in my collection. (Towering Inferno especially... I was obsessed with skycrapers when I was a youngster.)
Spoiler, the moon is a spaceship, not a moon. Ergo, it was under power, not falling. So, they used a figleaf of science. it 'made sense' in the context of the crazy world.
I'm not going to complain about a movie with Tom Holland...
This movie is entertaining as a stand alone thing. I've only played the game a little bit, so I'm not as married to the source material. That said, it is a rip-off of Lara Croft's Tomb Raider which is itself a rip off of Indiana Jones. I'm sure there is a deeper dive there too. To be fair, I like all the franchises and pretty much most things that fit in this sort of genre. (Don't get me started on National Treasure )
Enjoyable flick. Don't think too hard on the physics.
Moonfall is another movie from groaner disaster movie guru Roland Emmerich. This movie is one of those -turn your brain off completely sort of movies. If you are familair with physics, turn that off. the laws of physics are even more optional in this movie than in 2012, which features a limo doing jumps under a subway train... the groan are more than that.
The special effects are pretty good though. Interesting sci-fi story but we're not talking Arthur C. Clarke here either...
If you like non-serious disaster movies where the actors earnestly try... this is one of those.
I've got so many books, that I need to keep them organized or I'd never find them when I need them. That is the closest book storage location to my usual writing spot...