Eccentric interests and nonsense

Adhd Autistic with Bipolar. Personal side blog 🖤🩶💜🤍D&d | 30s | Weird hobbies | Paladin stuff | Likes dogs

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[gilgalahad]

1st level fighter. 0xp.

[stealingpotatoes]

Tucker isn't a fan of thunderstorms.

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Welcome to my escapism era ⚔️🔮🍺

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Paladin: Who's the Leader here, me or you?

Paladin: Wait, it's me?

Paladin: Shit.

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I recently watched Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and it's got me thinking about the potential for an rpg system that simulates its plot.

To clarify, I'm not talking about an rpg or adventure inspired by 1600-1800s Japan. I'm talking about a system that literally drops players in the plot of seven samurai with the following features:

1. A village building tool, which the Players use at the beginning of the game to detail the geography, important buildings, important community members, and culture they will be protecting

2. A preparation arc, where the Players must gain trust with the villagers, teach them how to defend themselves and organize, and build fortifications against the coming assault. Drama between the villagers and players (samurai) is also developed.

3. A siege arc, where several skirmishes occur over the course of multiple days. Players must discover the capabilities of the raiders (how many are there, how many horses or muskets do they have, etc.), and then coordinate fights to minimize loses to the village and it's people. Drama between the villagers and samurai come to a head in between the skirmishes.

I think creating a seven samurai simulator with these features in mind might be my next major project after my wild west horror game is ready. I seriously believe the above play structure is really exciting and can lead to lots of amazing narratives.

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Stills from Seven Samurai (1954, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

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[sartoriusoftheabyss]

I am the DM for both of these paladins, watching them fight it out and genuinely (and in-lore) supporting both of their theological cases.

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[calirph]

𝐅𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐋 as 𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S02E04, Dance of Dragons.

[dogfancier]

Bally Shannon, irish wolfhound originally training as a police dog in Dublin, but was brought to the trenches of WW1 for the Red Cross. He was injured, the hospital ship he returned to Britain on torpedoed, but he was eventually brought to New York for recovery. Published 1918

Walter A. Dyer, author and Country Life editor, recounted a meeting with him:

"When I visited the dog he was nearly well, though his master, alas, had succumbed to his wounds and the exposure. I spoke his name, but not in the tone with which one addresses a spaniel. He came to the edge of the enclosure and raised himself to his full height, resting his forepaws on the top of the fence. His head was level with mine. I thought I had never seen so magnificent an animal. All sinew and brawn, powerful, built on lines of speed, he stood there and received my homage. I placed my hand reverently on his broad, shaggy head and let it slide down his muzzle. He took it for an instant in his mouth with the utmost gentleness. I was a stranger to Bally Shannon, but he was the friend of man."

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[this-is-where-i-hide-my-bullshit]

I know it's not people's faults for not knowing, but I still get extremely annoyed at people saying stuff like "why are ghosts always represented by sheets? I guess people used to just be scared of sheets."

They aren't ghosts because they're covered in a sheet, they're covered in a sheet because back in the day, they wrapped dead bodies in sheets when they buried them. The ghosts are wrapped in burial shrouds because that's what they were buried in.

People weren't scared of sheets, they were scared of the corpse UNDER the sheet.