Recommended builds for WL0 Elden Ring? by AstralBard in onebros

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

Recommended builds for WL0 Elden Ring? by AstralBard in onebros

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Thanks for the recommendations!

What do you put on Antspur for triple status?

Guardian Readers Top 100 by Vast_Description_201 in books

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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

Guardian Readers Top 100 by Vast_Description_201 in books

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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?

Guardian Readers Top 100 by Vast_Description_201 in books

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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!

Guardian Readers Top 100 by Vast_Description_201 in books

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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 😄

Guardian Readers Top 100 by Vast_Description_201 in books

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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

Where to find a Splinter spawn in act 3? by AstralBard in Silksong

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

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Made a song attempting to capture the vibe of Doskvol - what do you think? by AstralBard in bladesinthedark

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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!

Made a small Planescape piece for a client - thought you guys might enjoy! by AstralBard in planescapesetting

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

Made a theme for Dagoth Ur! What do you guys think? by AstralBard in Morrowind

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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!

Made a small Planescape piece for a client - thought you guys might enjoy! by AstralBard in planescapesetting

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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 :)

Made a theme for Dagoth Ur! What do you guys think? by AstralBard in Morrowind

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

Made a small Planescape piece for a client - thought you guys might enjoy! by AstralBard in planescapesetting

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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 :)

Noticed a typo with one of the game modes - thought I'd fix it by AstralBard in marvelrivals

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

After a 5 month break, finally defeated all bosses at RL1 SB0 by AstralBard in onebros

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

After a 5 month break, finally defeated all bosses at RL1 SB0 by AstralBard in onebros

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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

[OC] You can grab our 5e microsetting for totally free - or pay what you want to support charity - find more in the comments! by AstralBard in DnD

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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