Greetings from Wildspace
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:54 pm
Hi,
Looking around the other introductions threads, I see people from Canada, Germany and Poland...
...but I am an illithid from wildspace! RARW!
Just kidding. My name is David, and I am a big big fan of the Spelljammer Campaign Setting, but I do use an illithid as my forum avatar (whenever I can). It is one of the three figures from the front of the AD&D Adventures in Space boxed set. (I actually bought a print of the boxed set painting from Jeff Easley.)
I've been interested in Spelljammer since back when it was published (in the AD&D 2nd Edition era). I'm fairly active in the Spelljammer community and am hoping to make fan material that can be used both by myself and other Spelljammer fans.
Sadly, there is a bit of a problem with Spelljammer. There is a lot of stuff that does not have a lot of detail (so new information needs to be "written between the lines" to make the various worlds of Spelljammer more interesting). And the setting has a lot of celestial bodies (planets, moons, asteroids, etc) that have never been mapped. So I need to read the descriptions of various planets and make maps for them.
So I'm hoping that Other World Mapper can help me here. I am hoping that OWM can help me translate the sort of ideas I have in my head into maps that are good enough for other people to understand.
I have accounts (usually as "Big Mac") on many RPG forums, but the place you will see most of me is a campaign setting forum, called The Piazza. The Piazza was set up just over six years ago and I've had so much fun talking to people there that I have a crazy-high post count there*. I mostly talk about Spelljammer and the various other D&D worlds that have a direct link to Spelljammer, but I'm also interested in various other fantasy worlds (partly, so I can find out if I can put them into the Spelljammer universe).
* = I later became one of the moderators of the Spelljammer forum and eventually a junior admin for The Piazza.
I live in London, in the UK. My gaming group (Virtual Eclipse) is not currently active. I do meet people that are playing, but a lot of the people I talk to, want to play things other than D&D.
Looking around the other introductions threads, I see people from Canada, Germany and Poland...
...but I am an illithid from wildspace! RARW!
Just kidding. My name is David, and I am a big big fan of the Spelljammer Campaign Setting, but I do use an illithid as my forum avatar (whenever I can). It is one of the three figures from the front of the AD&D Adventures in Space boxed set. (I actually bought a print of the boxed set painting from Jeff Easley.)
I've been interested in Spelljammer since back when it was published (in the AD&D 2nd Edition era). I'm fairly active in the Spelljammer community and am hoping to make fan material that can be used both by myself and other Spelljammer fans.
Sadly, there is a bit of a problem with Spelljammer. There is a lot of stuff that does not have a lot of detail (so new information needs to be "written between the lines" to make the various worlds of Spelljammer more interesting). And the setting has a lot of celestial bodies (planets, moons, asteroids, etc) that have never been mapped. So I need to read the descriptions of various planets and make maps for them.
So I'm hoping that Other World Mapper can help me here. I am hoping that OWM can help me translate the sort of ideas I have in my head into maps that are good enough for other people to understand.
I have accounts (usually as "Big Mac") on many RPG forums, but the place you will see most of me is a campaign setting forum, called The Piazza. The Piazza was set up just over six years ago and I've had so much fun talking to people there that I have a crazy-high post count there*. I mostly talk about Spelljammer and the various other D&D worlds that have a direct link to Spelljammer, but I'm also interested in various other fantasy worlds (partly, so I can find out if I can put them into the Spelljammer universe).
* = I later became one of the moderators of the Spelljammer forum and eventually a junior admin for The Piazza.
I live in London, in the UK. My gaming group (Virtual Eclipse) is not currently active. I do meet people that are playing, but a lot of the people I talk to, want to play things other than D&D.