Hello. C J here. I’ve finally documented the full list of things I’m trying to fit into the Astral setting. The list is as follows. Real life mythology, lucid dreaming, matter generation with rules, real life magic practice and summoning magic. That’s it. That’s the list of what the Astral was built on. Now I think I’ll start mentioning the specifics.
I’m working on a personal project right now. You will likely never see it. It’s not in the core game engine and it’s not proofread for compatibility with the setting. I’m making things up. This is how the job is done. It often requires several personal projects in full that I complete to inspire one final for sale game mechanic. Sometimes it’s several full books worth of text that I don’t publish per each page of the more complex games I have.
These projects always start out as experimental. I don’t have a dice engine for this one yet but whatever I get out of it will be useful to the card game in the future and maybe a novel or two. I’m fitting magic subjects from my research into it with no care for whether they fit well or are comprehensible to a player. The player is me so it will work fine.
This book seems to want to draw from my experience with the spiritual science of pathworking. Pathworking is the idea that a person can close their eyes, visualize a series of scenes and encounters that are written for them in advance and work magic or gain wisdom by doing so. I’ve done a few. Normally they are a scripted journey through a wilderness location where you encounter spiritual beings who will give you advice, offer you magic secrets, or lend you some of their power.
This sounds a lot like lucid dreaming but done while awake. Wherever it is we dream I’m sure is in us at all times and to me this looks like a way of using some of that inner power while in the waking world. You can write your own pathworking journeys. I don’t know what pathworking as a science does but the book I’m writing seems to want to figure it out for me. Whatever I learn will be worth learning.
C J Mcpherson
Hello. C J here. I've got four new recipes for everyone here. We have everything from Chinese chicken to homemade hot apple cider. Enjoy. The Emperor’s Potatoes Here we have the first food item I ever finished designing for Food of the World – Carthia. I tried three combinations of traditional Asian ingredients and pasta under the assumption that I was doing Italian-Chinese food for the book. I could not for the life of me get any of them to be exciting. They were fine. I don’t eat fine. I got bored of the pasta thing and then thought to myself, ‘what happens if I swap the pasta for another starch? What about a potato?’ It worked. Really well. It worked so well I named them The Emperor’s Potatoes. They’re mashed potatoes and I left the skins on because I like vitamins and then that got me thinking about the traditional medicinal food of Ancient China, ginger. Could I put ginger in a potato dish and have it work? Yes. I can. That surprised me. Be warned, these are almost dangerousl...
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