#ringworld

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Artist: Steven Vincent Johnson Ringworld (Larry Niven) From Future Life magazine 1979

[retroscifiart]

Ringworld art by Dean Ellis, Eddie Jones, Paul Lehr, Don Davis, Steven Vincent Johnson

[comicaurora]

now that the comic is on a brief pause I can unwind by (checks notes) more drawing

[thedivergentrealities]

Ringworld - Larry Niven (1970)

[70sscifiart]

Uncredited art for Larry Niven's The Ringworld Engineers

[grayrazor]

I remember a lot of people making fun of the TNG-era phaser designs, but I think (intentionally or not) they kind of betray the Federation in that era having a similar mindset as the Pierson’s Puppeteers from Larry Niven’s Ringworld.

“Oh no, we have no weapons. Just multi-function tools that *could* be used as weapons. In an emergency.”

Roddenberry’s aversion to TNG Starfleet being “too military” but wanting to keep it an action show kind of laid the groundwork for the way DS9 showed that other factions in the Alpha Quadrant find the UFP very suspicious.

[syppys-den]

I haven’t gotten the chance to be a Dungeon Master yet, but when I do, I want my big homebrew campaign to feel like this

[arconinternet]

Return to Ringworld (DOS, Tsunami Media, 1994)

Download it here, or download it packaged with DOSBox for Windows (along with the manual, which the first game needed for a puzzle so this one might too) here.

You can find my post about the first game here.