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Post by meribson on Mar 11, 2018 5:01:37 GMT
This last Tuesday I started up a new blog called Dungeons & Destinations with the idea of taking pictures from various family vacations and using them as inspiration for world-building. Thus far I have an intro post, one with a picture that either my grandpa or grandma took looking down into the Central Valley as they were heading into the mountains, and one with two pictures that I took on separate visits to a wetland ~15 minutes from my house called Grey Lodge. My goal with this blog is to create a living, interconnected setting from pictures that I (or a family member with their permission) have taken of the real world. Additionally, for places that I have been to take the pictures, I intend to do a separate post describing the place and my impressions of it. If I'm able to monetize the blog and make enough of an income from it, I plan to go globetrotting to get pictures of different continents, structures, anything that I can use as inspiration. |
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Post by phos on Mar 19, 2018 4:34:37 GMT
Awesome! It looks great! I just responded to your other post about this, not realizing you'd already pulled the trigger on it. I'm looking forward to see this grow. (And if you get to the point where you want a guest "correspondent"...)
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Post by 00dlez on Mar 21, 2018 17:52:27 GMT
I also spotted and responded to your other post first - I will check it out
EDIT: Read the first entry and skimmed the others (will go back and actually read them soon) - very, very nice. I would suggest maybe adding just a TAD more - just an extra 2 or 3 sentence paragraph to each. Keep it up!
I'm not much of a blogger/blog reader, but is there a way to subscribe and get emails when there is new material?
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Post by meribson on Mar 22, 2018 0:52:26 GMT
First I'm glad that you enjoyed it, as to your question about subscribing, there's a button in the upper right corner that expands into a menu. Subscription signup is there.
Thank you for your interest and suggestion!
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actionman2222
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Favorite D&D Class: Druid
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Post by actionman2222 on Mar 22, 2018 9:14:04 GMT
Novel idea. I find myself wanting to see more photos of your locations though. I live not far from the Mourne Mountains and it made its way straight into my D&D world. It has an old path used by smugglers used in centuries past called the "Brandy Pad". Going right from a small natural harbour, through the mountains and back down towards the town. Bandit encounters... The mountains are also dotted with stone huts that went down into the ground, ice huts! They were stocked with ice to keep meats and other food / drinks preserved. Anyone who stocked them needed to be revived with plenty of warm brandy afterwards lol. Perhaps a wraith or wight has taken up residence in one of these huts. A chest-high stone wall also stretches right through the mountains, I guess for livestock maybe but I've no idea what it was built for. Any stories for your locations of their past will give it so much more character and bring the imagined world to life  *Subscribed |
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Post by 00dlez on Mar 22, 2018 15:44:24 GMT
*Subbed - thanks!
Looking forward to more of this
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Post by meribson on May 8, 2018 16:50:18 GMT
So two weeks ago I took a trip to the redwoods of California for 3 days to get pictures for the blog. Today I uploaded a post called Forest of Giants featuring a picture of a tree with my hat hanging on it for scale.
The party druid describes the land as ancient, and primal. The details section listed among the dangers hydras and linnorms. I have to run a game that comes to this region at some point.
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Post by meribson on May 11, 2018 3:54:23 GMT
At the end of the month I'm going to be launching a Patreon for this blog on the 12-week "anniversary" as it were.
Can I get some suggestions for various rewards, preferably ones that are free, and/or goals?
My reward tiers I'm naming things like Back-Yard Adventurer, Bus-Stop Adventurer, etc. and the goals I'm hoping to build up to the point where it allows me to go to different countries around the globe.
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