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46.656 Psychedelic Landscapes
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Back in 2021 when I was preparing for a
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.I "Traveller5"
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campaign I binge watched
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.I "Star Trek",
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the original series and read
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.I "Dune"
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and a couple of other novels by
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.I "Poul Anderson" ,
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.I "Jack Vance" ,
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and parts of the
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.I
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Darkover Series
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.R
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by
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.I "Marion Zimmer Bradley" .
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As to the visuals that go along with these stories, just do an image search for “science fiction landscapes” or
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“psychedelic landscape” ... see what I mean?
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I just adore those retro-futuristic, quite possibly substance induced visions of the
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future, conceived in our own 1960ies to 1980ies.
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This is Science Fantasy to me!
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To inject these awesome visuals into our gaming I came up with the following
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d66 table. My idea was to roll on this table when ever the characters would
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land on a new world. I'm not sure if I used it even once while we played, but I still like it, and I feel it's a perfect fit for this issue.
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.PP
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Interestingly back then AI generated art hadn't caught on yet. Midjourney was
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only released in 2022. But looking at the options we have today, rolling up a
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couple of descriptions might make for interesting prompts. Personally I'd much rather
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just imagine how this would lool like, or work out a shared imagination together with
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our gaming group. That's the best!
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d66 The land … The sky … Over the horizon …
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coagulated caramel
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greyish purple
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a spherical station
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spined blood colored hills
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color of thick dark blood
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a majestic dragonlike flyer
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blockish hills like colorful toffees
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a deeper blue
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the hazy view of a ringed planet
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green rolling hills
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foggy anthrazite dust
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a distant tubular structure
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lush tropical forrest
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a freakish green
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myriads of tiny insects
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endless patterns of industrial structures
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a gradient of cobalt blue to sparkling cyan
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a moon that appears too close
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endless waves of industrial waste
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the color of sulfur
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shuttles trafficking
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flat with occasional polyhedral shapes
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monotonous light blue
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a disk shaped station
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like the rendering in an 8 bit computer game
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sepia colored with feathery pink clouds
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some batlike flyers
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a rough desert
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like colored inks bleeding into each other
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foreboding dark clouds
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swampy with occasional cone shaped hills
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almost white
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the cube like silhuette of the high port
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a sea of turquois doted with myriads of steep hilled islands
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a crisp blue with floating ice crystals
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egg shaped pods traveling silently along invisible lanes
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an endless storm beaten ocean
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a cold blue mist
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a distant air ship
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a sprawling metropolis
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hazy red
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large birdlike creatures, homing in on their nests for sun down
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wavey hills of reflecting metal
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eternally black, an endless starfield
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streaks of toxic industrial smoke
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oddly peaceful rural idyll
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overcast with dense clouds
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a massive globular structure
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a maze of deep gorges and canjons
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purple with yellow clouds
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a perfect rainbow
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hills like burned sienna and a meandering river of quicksilver
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a wierd multicolored haze
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a strip of green light
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a lattice of multilayered longitudinal structures
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a perfect gradient of blues
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two disks of setting suns
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a decaying primordial forrest
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soaked with moisture
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the waning crescent of a close moon
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vast yellow steppe smelling of creosote
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a turmoil of reddish clouds and gases
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silhuettes of floating islands in the far distance
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iridescent vastness of transparent foilage
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filled with floating seeds
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the bright shining of the galactic core
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an endless plain of fine white sand
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purple and black
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a veil of rain in the distance
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hills of purple grass dotted with hulking grazers
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a canopy of stars
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colorful reflections
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rust colored steep mountains
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a foggy purple to dark blue gradient
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feathery floating particles that reflect a distant light
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towering pillars piercing through the mist
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scatterd grey clouds and beams of sun light
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a hazy premonition of what might be tomorrow
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dusty rubble and harsh craters
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a perfect gradient from dark blue to almost white
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some fog far in the distance
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dunes of colorful sands like ground marble
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a dull grey
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multicolored clouds bathed in sunlight
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a sea of white dunes
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a gradient of light blue to almost black
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the plume of a space ship, rocketing into the sky
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seemingly organic bulging formations
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a dazzling bright yellow
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looming cubic masses of floating habitats
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semi-liquid multicolored plains
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swirls of multicolored gases
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chromium reflections of a ship passing by at low altitude
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vast terrasses of grey slate
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a low haze of blue
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the notion of deep space
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floating islands of rock on a sea of lava
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a dull, monotonous light blue
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some pink reptilian flyers
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a large coastal delta, with mangroves and occasional villages
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a gradient from orange to red
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the hazy silhuette of a close by artificial world
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a semi-liquid oily surface
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a gradient from sulfuric yellow to cobalt blue
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towering stalagmites of the arcology
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monumental ice capped mountains
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criss-crossed with red stripes
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the shining swirl of the galaxy
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.TE
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.PP
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Just in case you don’t know what d66 stands for: this is a random table to be
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used with two six sided dice. Roll once for each collumn, and just roll two
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regular dice and read the first one as tens (a 5 becomes 50 for example) and
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the second die as ones (just read as is). You could use differently colored
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dice, so you can tell which one denotes the tens. I simply roll which ever two
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dice I can grab and read the one that lands more leftish of the other as tens.
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.PP
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Have fun spacing out!
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.Au lkh
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