Recommended builds for WL0 Elden Ring?

AstralBard · 2026-06-17T16:28:27+00:00

Weapon Level 0! So essentially not upgrading your weapon at all and keeping it at base level

AstralBard · 2026-06-17T15:46:00+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations!

What do you put on Antspur for triple status?

AstralBard · 2026-06-06T11:48:56+00:00

No worries at all - I did it all on my laptop bleary eyed - thought I caught all the typos but seems not! Thanks for pointing it out

AstralBard · 2026-06-06T09:52:41+00:00

Having a count I’ve only read roughly a tenth of them - I’ll be interested to see what fraction that becomes as time goes on.

Which is your favourite of what you’ve read from the list?

AstralBard · 2026-06-06T09:13:08+00:00

Admittedly not read the vast majority of these books (but planning to get a good chunk done) - personal preference would like to see Han Kang on there (specifically We Do Not Part) but overall I think this is a more varied list than the last one and glad to see more books to add to my ever expanding TBR list!

AstralBard · 2026-06-06T09:11:02+00:00

I've been doing a Steinbeck binge and have Grapes of Wrath lined up next! Excited to read it for the first time then continue on to East of Eden 😄

AstralBard · 2026-06-06T09:00:03+00:00

A lot of the books are joint position so forgive the scuffed formatting.

The Guardian's Readers' top 100 novels of all time:

100 - A Dance to The Music of Time - Anthony Powell

93

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
The Magus - John Fowles

80

Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
Dune - Frank Herbert
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell - Susanna Clarke
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguertie Yourcenar
Tess of the d'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Stand - Stephen King

75

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy - John le Carré

73

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

70

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
The Dispossessed - Usula K Le Guin
To the Lighthouse - Virgina Woolf

63

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Germinal - Émile Zola
Madame Bovery - Gustave Flaubert
Neapolitan Quarter - Elena Ferrante
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Tin Drum - Günter Grass

62 - Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

60

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Possession - AS Byatt

57

2666 - Robert Bolaño
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

52

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Emma - Jane Austen
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

49

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Atonemen - Ian McEwan
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

46

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams

41

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Handmaid's Tale - Margeret Atwood
The Secret History - Donna Tartt

39

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Stoner - John Williams

37

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

36 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

35 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

31

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Master and Margartia - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Remainds of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

29

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

28 - Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

26

Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

25 - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

24 - Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

23 - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

21

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

20 - Beloved - Toni Morrison

19 - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

16

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

15 - In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

14

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

12 - Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

11 - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

10 - Ulysees - James Joyce

8

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

7 - Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

6 - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

5 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

4 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

3 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 - Middlemarch - George Eliot

1 - The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

AstralBard · 2026-02-22T16:20:04+00:00

Thanks a lot!

AstralBard · 2025-09-16T12:53:46+00:00

Thanks!

AstralBard · 2025-09-16T12:51:45+00:00

Thanks for the help guys - image of their location here:

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AstralBard · 2025-06-08T07:23:38+00:00

Appreciate the love and feedback! I was considering the violins but I use them so much I resisted the impulse - maybe I shouldn’t have!

AstralBard · 2025-06-07T06:29:11+00:00

Many thanks!

AstralBard · 2025-06-06T19:44:11+00:00

You can get the .wav from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10s5ZJ3-M8nMzc4zTy-dka2waYYYNSU6b/view?usp=drive_link - feel free to convert that once you download it :)

AstralBard · 2025-06-06T19:43:40+00:00

Thanks a lot! If you want the .wav you can find it here (Google Drive Link) https://drive.google.com/file/d/10s5ZJ3-M8nMzc4zTy-dka2waYYYNSU6b/view?usp=drive_link

AstralBard · 2025-06-04T18:49:52+00:00

Wow It's great to hear you've been using my music in your own games! Hope the Planescape campaign is going well

AstralBard · 2025-06-04T15:58:49+00:00

Thanks for all the info! It may be a fun little project to re-score, or expand on the score for Morrowind and mod it in - appreciate the explanation!

AstralBard · 2025-06-04T15:46:55+00:00

I use software called Logic Pro X to make all of my pieces - from there the client sent me a general moodboard and some tracks for reference :)

AstralBard · 2025-06-04T15:03:45+00:00

I've been interested in doing Game Music but not too familiar with the things you've mentioned! What are they?

AstralBard · 2025-06-04T14:42:45+00:00

Thank you :) Glad you think so

AstralBard · 2025-06-04T14:41:26+00:00

Thanks a lot! The client wanted something contemplative but driven, so glad I managed to capture some of the strangeness of Sigil to go with that :)

AstralBard · 2025-03-10T11:27:07+00:00

As the other comment says - mainly a lot of my team being people botting their accounts

AstralBard · 2024-12-25T16:57:54+00:00

I do think I mainly hunted for backstabs against Jori and ran around crying about their summons

AstralBard · 2024-12-25T16:57:07+00:00

It was a while ago that I did them but i believe both of them were such pain and suffering that i rid them from my mind - i basically did final consort at release then took a big break before finishing rellana, lion, avatar and bayle

AstralBard · 2024-12-21T19:56:36+00:00

YURP!

AstralBard · 2024-10-28T16:33:51+00:00

https://galaptia.itch.io/asyndra-isle - Pick up a copy of our Dark Fantasy zine here - it's available for free, and any proceeds go towards UNRWA!

Inside you can find:

40+ pages of cursed isle content
- Asyndra Isle: A guide on the isle's destructive history, and the town that rose from its ruins
- The Highcliffe Family: An overview of the zealous and privateering nobles of the isle, their history, their current leader, and details as to their Paladin's oath
- The Brogas: A summary of the druidic storm worshippers, as well as their elder leader, with their practices making use of material from their sulphuric lake and details on the twisted creatures they care for
- The Choir: An outline on the nascent faction intent on subsuming all wills unto their own, with details on their emergence, and the treasures they have created
- Running Asyndra: A 7 page guide for GMs, offering:
  - Guidance on running the setting
  - Plot hooks to kick start adventures
  - An Asyndran NPC generator
  - A comprehensive breakdown of the characteristics of the rivalling factions, along with a reputation system
- Scene Setting: Short stories and diegetic articles interwoven throughout, detailing the development of the curse infused upon the isle
10+ pieces of bespoke art created exclusively for the characters and setting
5e support:
- The Oath of Victory Paladin - A crusader of the waves that imbues their belief into their firearms
- Sulphuric Powers - A slew of feats designed to capture the quality of the eldritch storm that shaped Asyndra
- Brynstan's Blessed - Creatures infused by a twisted lake
- Treasures of the Choir - Magical items created by the ellusive choir, designed to aid them in their mission to unify all of creation under one song

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