AMPERSAND

Something has to come between dungeons, dragons.

[mrdestructicity]

Putting this here so it gets a bit of love outside the usual circles...

On February 8 I will be presenting the story of the Electrolytic Marine Salts Company of Lubec, ME at Intelligent Speech 2025. That's only two weeks away!

David White - Intelligent Speech Conference

It's a fascinating story, but there's only two ways to hear it:

1) Get cornered by me at a party and hear the whole story, which will take hours once you include all the weird digressions and side stories, and guarantees you will have a spectacularly dull night where you talk to no one else.

2) Register for the conference (using the code JACKALOPE to take 10% off) and get the digest-sized version, and do whatever you want with the remaining 95% of your day.

I know which option I'd chose!

And bear in mind if you don't buy a ticket, I will make it my mission in life to find you at your next party. Believe me, you don't want that.

[sofiaebby]

Ogerpon loves...

[sticksandsharks]

the dogs have their own place to relax but they want to hang out with their favorite lord

(characters/designs from my WIP graphic novel, Wildercourt)

[orderjackalope]

Everybody always asks, "If this is the future, where's my jetpack?" but only Richard Timewell was bold enough to do something about it. And by "do something" I mean "sell jetpacks through the mail."

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/your-eyebrows-will-grow-back/

Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans): Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.

Key sources for this episode include contemporary newspaper reports, with some added material from the Secret Projects forum.

This week we're promoting our friends Imperfect Men, the show about the heroes, legends, and sometimes utter goobers who actually founded America. Join Steve and Cody every other week as they figure out who's a Founding Father and who's a Floundering Father. https://shows.acast.com/imperfect-men

I'll be presenting at the Intelligent Speech conference on February 8, 2025! Register now at https://intelligentspeechonline.com/ and get 10% off with the promo code JACKALOPE!

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!

[orderjackalope]

For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age… How old is Charo, really?

Key sources for this episode include Wikipedia and contemporary newspaper reports.

A special thanks to everyone who helped us reach this amazing milestone, including: A.J. Sutton, Alex Baumans, Charlotte Lochinski, Chris White, David Blomenberg, David L. White, Dorothy White, Eric Leslie, Fearful Jesuit, Greg Armstrong, Jenn Voss, Jim Munizza, Kieran Davy, Kristen Harkness, Liz Roberts, Michael Finney, Richard Le Poidevin, Rob Brunksill, Robert B. White III, Robert Sibole, Rod Miller, Sam Link, Steven White, Tom Hand, Zane C. Weber… and you, our wonderful listeners.

After this episode we're going on hiatus for a few months. We'll be back in mid-August with a fresh series of all-new episodes!

Nothing But A Number

For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age... How old is Charo, really?

[thechurchofsplatterdaysaints]

[oldschoolfrp]

The Silvanesti elves isolate themselves from the world and dismiss most outsiders as inferior (George Barr, AD&D supplement Dragonlance Adventures, TSR, 1987)

[mrdestructicity]

I totally don't get the folks who build elaborate computer maps and computerized setups for their tabletop games. It seems like a lot of work to put into something the players will inevitably find a way to skip anyway. Who has twenty extra hours to put into game prep for every seasion? Just use dry-erase maps and a handful of Cheetos for minis. It's less "immersive" but it leaves room to go wherever you need it to go.

[mrdestructicity]

Goblins who live in dungeons often have to make do with scavenged equipment... Even if it's not properly sized.

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The House Goblins of the Thurii Imperial Court are ideal soldiers and servants: numerous, easily replaceable, clever enough to train, dumb enough to not get ideas, and so powerless they are beneath notice and utterly apolitical. Or maybe that's just what they want the Thurii to think...

[mrdestructicity]

Goblin Week 2024, Day 3: goblin gobblers have been cursed by Skoraeus, god of scavengers, with an eternal hunger.... and blessed with the ability to digest anything.

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Goblin Week 2024, Day 2: Kurla Skull-Cleaver, goblin mercenary. Maybe a bit cute, definitely a bit blood-thirsty, and surprisingly loyal (as long as your coin is good).

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Happy Goblin Week! Is Goblin Week still a thing? Either way, here's Bonebiter VIII, King of the Goblins. Long may he reign.

[mrdestructicity]

Well, well, well. Looks like Appendix T finally has some competition... @catshavenolord

[mrdestructicity]

Well, sucks to be the players in my next game!

[mrdestructicity]

I got these monster, treasure, and trap dice from Viridian Gaming last year and while they don't get used in actual play much they do get used to get my creative juices pumping during prep. For instance:

Item of Legend - Glyph Trap - Elemental

The Fateblade is a legendary weapon which appears once a generation, wielded by a great hero in their hour of need but which vanishes as soon as their fate has been realized.

What most people don't know is that it bears a terrible curse; when you use it to strike someone down you are swapping your fate for theirs. Strike down a tyrant and you are destined to become a tyrant who will be struck down in turn.

It's last wielder, Hogga the Clever, figured out why by unwrapping the hilt: the Fateblade is not a blade, but a giant crochet hook with its handle sharpened to a keen edge. It is, in fact, the very hook used by the true Fate to weave the cloth of reality itself before they buggered off and left the maintenance duties to their three feckless children. In the wrong hands it could be used to make terrible changes to the world; fortunately all mortals can do is use it to make crude patches and repairs to the skein of fate.

Clever as he was Hogga could not figure out how to escape his destiny so he did the next best thing: he trapped it to make things as hard as possible on the next guy. In this case, a glyph trap that temporarily unbinds the magic that created the Fateblade, which reverts to the four gods of primordial chaos who were used to forge it in a world a'borning. They won't be around for very long... But they will be very angry while they are

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Generally I don't promote my podcast on this account, because it rarely touches on related topics... but today it does.

Armor Class 4 [banded mail]

An instructive tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-