Have you ever heard the saying “it takes a village to raise a child?” Well, where I live, most people do not know the name of their next door neighbor. This isolation can cause loneliness, but it is more than that.
Having a community is helping people do jobs they can’t, it is lending tools, it is teaching someone to do a job their parents never taught them, and more.
Luckily, there is a solution that is becoming common in co-housing and eco-villages around the world.
So what do they do different? They utilize common areas or community centers, as well as outdoor spaces(such as courtyards or rooftop gardens). While you still have your private home with your own kitchen, you also have these spaces which are open to everyone.
Here are some ideas you might see in these common spaces:
Indoor play area. In some, the retired senior citizens who like to keep busy volunteer to watch children in these areas while parents are at work.
Dining room big enough to fit every person who lives there and guests.
Community Kitchen. People take turns cooking, or they have occasional dinners together.
Private office spaces (for work-from-home workers who still want to be around people).
Tiny libraries.
Outdoor play area.
Outdoor sitting spaces.
Community gardens and/or a greenhouse.
For your solarpunk stories, this actually could come in handy. Having these common areas give you more of a excuse for your characters to interact.
Your character can’t avoid a certain someone because it is their day to help cook, or perhaps they are helping in the garden. Whatever the reason, it could be a handy way to force character interaction.
¡Ay caramba! Am I actually going to have to start posting on Tumblr again? It’s been so many years. But if Twitter’s in its death throes, well… Perhaps it’s healthier this way.
Diana’s soles crunched on gravel as she landed, and she quickly surveyed her new surroundings within the castle walls. Satisfied that she had not yet been detected, she whipped at her rope to unhook it and quickly coiled it around her forearm and elbow before returning it to her pack.
I have an early draft of one of the JBOO7 clones, or “distills,” as it describes itself, DoubleZero. I was looking through it and noted that it describes Rookie characters as being “with no experience or adventures under their belts,” recommended for “very gritty campaigns, [and] games where characters are teenaged or college-aged.” This isn’t a description that’s…
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service includes its own system and tools for running the included scenarios solo. This involves two decks of cards (the Action Deck and the NPC Deck), a number of chits or counters involving range, cover, and wound levels; and a playmat. Because I have the capacity to hyperfocus on projects like this, I put the pages from the PDF through Photoshop and made my own digital…
It’s been a while, and the solo gaming itch has returned to me. Lately I’ve been listening to the podcast “Kill James Bond!” by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abi Thorn (whom you may recognize from Philosophy Tube) and Devon. While they are approaching the Bond movie series from a position of (justly-deserved) criticism and dislike, it’s also serving to remind me of the nostalgic role those films played…
I saw this thread on twitter yesterday, so mad. It doesn’t seem that…hard…to…market???
All you really had to tell me was that Gugu Mbatha-Raw was in it and I was sold.
Excuse me????
It looks like was released in April 2019, but it’s not showing at any of my local theaters. And this is the first I’ve even heard of it. Why even make something if you’re not going to bother promoting it?
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First of a series of cards I started drawing for an unnecessarily elaborate player handout. I wanted to make a single sheet that would show the different Base Character Class options players would have in a D&D 5e game set in Doug Anderson’s Northern Crown setting, published by Atlas Games. I thought it would be cool to have a spread of Tarot cards, each representing one of the classes. Then I thought I’d make them based on the Deck of Many Things, since it was specifically for a D&D game. The design is visually based on the Marseilles Tarot deck. This card represents the Agent, which is one of the two replacement classes for the standard Rogue in Northern Crown.
Whether I actually continue with it and make all 14 cards depends on my interest in it. I’m also working on other projects, but this sounded like fun.
Drawn in Paint Tool SAI v1, completed in Photoshop CS6. Fonts used are 1550 and Dominican Small Caps. The weathered cardstock texture is from iStock.
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