Hacker News with Generative AI: Fantasy

The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (ingebrigtsen.no)
I discovered that they’d published a complete, illustrated version of the Earthsea cycle a couple weeks ago.

Fantasy, Literature, Books, Illustrated Editions

117 points by Tomte 11 days ago | 48 comments

You are the heir to something greater than Empire (noahpinion.blog)
“The blood of Numenor is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten” — Elrond

Fantasy, Literature, History

6 points by codingmoh 15 days ago | 1 comments

Veloren – Voxel action-adventure role-playing (veloren.net)
Veloren is an action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world.

Video Games, Role-Playing Games, Fantasy

340 points by tete 41 days ago | 91 comments

Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy (nmn.gl)
Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack.

Software Development, Security, Fantasy, Trends

11 points by namanyayg 49 days ago | 0 comments

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece (gizmodo.com)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is one of the greatest fantasy adventures of all time. An absolute masterpiece.

Fantasy, Television, Reviews

205 points by adrian_mrd 56 days ago | 116 comments

Discworld Rules (venkateshrao.com)
The Lord of the Rings is a great story, but I have to say, I’ve never understood the strange hold it seems to have on the imagination of a particular breed of technologists.

Fantasy, Literature, Technology

277 points by jger15 62 days ago | 324 comments

Infinite Realms turns fantasy books into MMOs through procgen/LLM (venturebeat.com)
Infinite Realms wants to turn beloved fantasy books with big followings into living, breathing game worlds.

Video Games, Fantasy, Artificial Intelligence, Procedural Generation

8 points by SLHamlet 63 days ago | 0 comments

The Annotated Lord of the Rings (2004) (archive.org)
While The Annotated LOTR is a work in progress, in order to assist more efficient reference and annotation, an Index for the Annotation Threads has been created.

Books, Fantasy, Reference Materials

7 points by lelandfe 66 days ago | 0 comments

The Timeless Lessons of "The Lord of the Rings" (historica.world)

Literature, Fantasy, Philosophy

6 points by BerislavLopac 93 days ago | 0 comments

The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012) (zompist.com)
This set of webpages (what’s a set of webpages? a webchapter?) is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages— for a fantasy or an alien world, as a hobby, as an interlanguage. It presents linguistically sound methods for creating naturalistic languages— which can be reversed to create non-naturalistic languages. It suggests further reading for those who want to know more, and shortcuts for those who want to know less.

Language Construction, Artificial Languages, Linguistics, Fantasy, Hobby

118 points by pzrsa 95 days ago | 15 comments

Rogule: A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away (rogule.com)
A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away.

Games, Programming, Fantasy

11 points by lnyan 121 days ago | 2 comments

Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy 'Gold' (acoup.blog)
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what could you buy with how much) and then second how often were people likely to use physical currency at all?

Fantasy, History, Currency, Roleplaying Games

21 points by JumpCrisscross 122 days ago | 4 comments

Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy 'Gold' (acoup.blog)
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what could you buy with how much) and then second how often were people likely to use physical currency at all?

History, Fantasy, Gaming, Currency

31 points by baud147258 123 days ago | 7 comments

Show HN: A tool to generate dragon names (dragonnamegenerator.net)
Generate unique dragon names tailored for D&D, Skyrim, WoW, House of the Dragon, and more!

Creative Projects, Entertainment, Gaming, Fantasy

8 points by codyspark 127 days ago | 15 comments

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com)
Once upon a time, the planet was tyrannized by a giant dragon.

Fantasy, Storytelling, Dragons

12 points by Levitating 132 days ago | 9 comments

The Oblivion Mod Terry Pratchett Worked On (eurogamer.net)
In his Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy, the late Sir Terry Pratchett writes, "Imagination, not intelligence, made us human."

Gaming, Fantasy, Literature, Terry Pratchett

66 points by raidicy 202 days ago | 3 comments

The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due (theconversation.com)

Fantasy, Literature, Recognition, Genre

37 points by bookofjoe 209 days ago | 1 comments

Convince Frodo to give you the ring (darkfrodo.com)

Creative Projects, Games, Fantasy

21 points by fir3dvst 221 days ago | 21 comments

The True Weight of Medieval Weapons – Fact and Fiction (wordpress.com)
Fantasy and medieval fiction often represent medieval weapons as being crude, heavy and unwieldy things.

History, Weapons, Medieval Times, Fantasy

81 points by BerislavLopac 221 days ago | 80 comments

Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy (theguardian.com)
In 2004, Fable was as famous for what it didn’t deliver as for what it did. But this Python-esque fantasy game deserves to be remembered for more than that

Video Games, Legacy, British Culture, Fantasy

227 points by n1b0m 233 days ago | 130 comments

What Were the Powers of the Great Rings? (xenite.org)
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote very little about the specific powers of the Great Rings, but he did provide some details. And yet fans disagree about the actual powers of the Rings. Here is what we know.

Fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien

8 points by BerislavLopac 235 days ago | 0 comments

Vampires and Arithmomania (oddathenaeum.com)

Vampires, Literature, Fantasy, Horror

36 points by signa11 249 days ago | 25 comments

Fallen London TTRPG scheduled for 2025 (failbettergames.com)

Tabletop RPGs, Games, Fantasy, London, 2025

12 points by Pamar 259 days ago | 0 comments

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Announced for 2025 (ubisoft.com)

Video Games, Strategy Games, Fantasy, Annoucement, 2025

67 points by NKosmatos 259 days ago | 64 comments

Fantastical Creatures (semiengineering.com)