Evennia is great. I've been a user & supporter for a couple of years now. I highly recommend taking a look at it to anyone interested in MUDs. One day, I'll actually finish my CircleMUD conversion...
I love me some Evennia; a Djano/python-based MUD framework. Saved me the trouble of rebuilding a well-crafted wheel & have been loyal supporter for years now.
https://www.evennia.com/
This article sums up precisely why I don't mind being a "forever GM".
I'm constantly researching new things to flesh out game ideas for my groups to add flavor, immersion & a sense of "reality" to my players' worlds & I love doing it. It almost makes running the actual games for them, an afterthought to tide me over to the new thing to learn about & implement. Great article!
I was literally building my own version of this with madness this morning to go from Obsidian to web in my workflow. Thanks for speeding things up for me. Great work!
This is great. Created a character generator & editor for my TTRPG group in about 5 minutes. Haven't dug too deep yet, but it created a working baseline that I was hoping for. Thanks! Will definitely be an eye on this. Keep up the good work!
The Foxfire books ever since I was little. It's a series of books documenting traditional skills like crop growing, fiddle making, blacksmithing, plumbing, foraging, cooking, etc. as done by rural people in Appalachia. They contain all kinds of valuable information in them as well as a good source of life skills & fun hobbies. I recommend them to everyone.
Such a great series, and so well-done. I grew up in the heart of Appalachia and am forever grateful to the authors and editors for capturing/preserving so much content and knowledge that would otherwise be lost over generations.
I've been harvesting these in the wild for years. They are pretty difficult to describe in flavor (banana/mango/tropical being a good approximation), as the flavor isn't consistent even between close patches. They have about a 3 week ripe window mid-to-end August (depending on the shade) in my area when they should be harvested. I typically just push on the slender tree & if any fall; they're ripe. It's best to harvest them, halve them, scoop them into a freezer bag, and use when desired. It's the only way I've found to be able to preserve them & the delicate flavor some of them tend to have.
I've always been curious, but based on your description I need to try them! I know of a large tree on a trail I hike, but the only way I'll get one from there is by them falling on their own. They are always really squishy when I do come across one, so I've never been brave enough to take a taste. How do you know they are good or ripe?
The softer they are, the more ripe they are. Outwards, they may have a spot of browning towards the overripe end like a banana. The ones that I usually go for are green with a slight give.
I'm central Ohio and only heard of pawpaw fruit a couple times as a tiny child. Totally forgot they existed. Most of Dad's foraging was a different season (morels). How would one go about trying to find (relatively) local to try pawpaw when they're in season?
