Lots of the stuff in this thread is crazy impressive and nuts, but man, @DeForrestation, the pics on yours really jst take it to another level. That is incredible!!
However, your pool story has me snickering in my office, @Tin_Wisdom :-D
Like @Fishbreath above, I’m working on a tabletop RPG system. It’s a hack of the Fate Core ruleset set in a near-future scifi/comedy setting with some loving homages to Star Control, Mass Effect, and Star Trek thrown in for good measure.
After running a home game campaign for 3.5 years, I turned it into a larger public campaign, modeled off the D&D Adventurer’s League style of interconnected public gaming, something that our local RPG collective, RTR does routinely (we have other “Semi Organized Play” campaigns in Call of Cthulhu, Chronicles of Darkness, Exalted, and Mutants & Masterminds 3E, all running for three-month long seasons once a year).
So I blew about $650 commissioning art and logos from people for the races and game itself. I still need to commission some spacescapes, ship art, space station art, and NPCs, but that comes later. For now, we’re just focused on finishing Season 1 (Session 3 of 6 is this coming Sunday; so far, 16 players are RSVPed for our three tables!).
https://seekthestars.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page
It’s a long and involved endeavor, and I have no idea if I’ll ever monetize it or not, but sharing the crazy, wacky stories this universe/game makes possible with a bunch of good friends and more-or-less strangers here in Raleigh is insanely awesome. . . nevermind the hundreds of hours I’ve dumped into the process ;-)