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    D&D 5E (2014) What is your favorite part of playing D&D?

    I picked "other", as I only run games and don't play, and all the other options are player options - I have no player options as the DM, as I never play DMPCs. I played the first 20 years of my gaming, and have run games in the next 20 years. I've tried a one-off as a player a couple times...
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    Is Immersion Important to You as a Player?

    Yes, but having been the DM for most of the last 30 years, I know immersion is important for me as a DM, and though it was important for me as a player, long ago, I haven't been a player in like forever, so cannot claim to know what players prefer - to be honest.
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    How big are the biggest cities in your campaign world?

    Well I have one ecumenopolis (planet city), though it's entirely underground called New Dublin with 1.4 trillion population, mix of humans and dozens of alien species, the most populous location of Colonial Space, it's the military capital, with the largest orbiting naval yard in this sector...
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    Where do publishers get maps? And more map questions!

    I wouldn't do that to a client. I recently created a custom Spelljammer deck plan as a private commission for a regular client, who suggested I publish a book of my own Spelljammer deck plans. I decided to do that, and asked his permission to use his recent commission in the book I'm creating...
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    D&D General Surrealism in D&D

    I may include surrealistic environments, and oddness in general, but I never go fully surreal, beyond the environment. I go for the unexpected, never the wahoo.
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    Where do publishers get maps? And more map questions!

    First, I'm not available for commissions at the moment, as I have my own publishing gig I'm working on. Unlike most publishers, I began in the industry as a cartographer, and have since become a publisher - most publishers begin as author/game designers, not artists, so I defied that standard...
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    Worlds of Design: Modern vs. Medieval Maps

    First you have to consider that even in my earliest days playing the game (late 70's), because I was an artist, I was always the party mapper, and our particular DM at the time, called out exact distances. Now I'm a pro game cartographer and author/publisher. That makes me a corner case, unique...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Discussing Worldbuilding: Why Don't The Mages Take Over The World?

    WIthout having read any of the previous posts, just responding to the title alone. Wizards tend to be megalomaniacs, each one believes they are the Dark Lord or the Great Savior (or one in training) - they don't work well with others, especially other wizards. If they joined in consensus they...
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    Spelljammer Working on a Collection of Custom Spelljammer Ships

    Decided I'm doing one Wild Space System, and calling it the Phoenix Nebula System which has the Peregrine Binary star system inside it. I've created both the Phoenix Nebula illustration, which works for now, unless I can figure out a better way to create it. Phoenix once was the third star of a...
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    Spelljammer Working on a Collection of Custom Spelljammer Ships

    Only mentioning that the Sahuagin with the Deep Space Angler and Astral Pirahna ships are from an ocean planet, no surface land. Only land ever revealed during high seas where the nearest surfaces break the water for moments at a time. But still felt compelled to create something for them...
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    Spelljammer Working on a Collection of Custom Spelljammer Ships

    Xalapa is the capital and planet of the Olmec Confederacy, a mountainous jungle world with extensive underground river systems throughout reaching the seas. The Olmec were among the first Spelljamming cultures, just shortly after the Egyptian introduction. They have since returned to the Earth...
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    Spelljammer Working on a Collection of Custom Spelljammer Ships

    SInce several, multiple ships follow a similiar theme, in some cases, I decided to create chapters (each 5 - 10 pages long) to focus on specific ships, cultures, regions of Spelljammer space these ships originate. I'm thinking a star system with multiple inhabitable worlds - planets and moons...
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