It’s probably a good idea, for situations like this, to post both sides. Here’s the statement from Munkao.

I mentioned archive.org on my reply in the forum. I’ve never tried saving something to the archive. Does it handle threaded forum style discussions well? That might be one complication for saving at least some sorts of things.

I’m curious as to their procedure. Was it:

1. Use crystal ball to see a safe location
2. Jump to that location
3. Rinse and repeat?

What makes these folk a faction is less about what powers they have and more about their active role in the world: what are they trying to accomplish and why?

It’s totally fine for these hermits to just be an interesting feature of that particular area— without any influence on the outside world— but, if you want to factionalize them, they need goals and motivations.

I like the concept. They sound like adherents to a god of lightning or storms. What might such a god ask of their followers?

I’ve said that as well… the dice are not your friend!

It’s been a long time since I’ve read it and I only read this first adventure but I always was impressed with it.

No idea. I hope all is well with him personally.

Someone post a Borg, Resistance is Futile, meme in here, stat!

I think there’s a “safe spaces” element as well. It’s not just the system-- the system becomes a shorthand for a whole host of philosophies and genre conventions. Ideally, there’d be all sorts of communities at an atomic level and through federation (or something similar) we would join all the ones that interested us and crosspost things that extend over boundaries or confound the boundaries that we’ve drawn. That’s some of the promise of a Lemmy (or Reddit) but the reality is when end up in walled off silos instead of interconnected gardens.

Sly Flourish also updated their blog roll.