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He/Him, 31, USA. BAs in Philosophy and Classics. Recovering Pokémon enthusiast; Runescape survivor. Published writer. Retired from tabletop gaming. Standard Rubik's cube in five minutes or less, or your money back.

[short-for-melancholy]

Apparently if you have the right vibes you can get stray dolls wandering around the door of your witch's tower

[persephonaae]

We really need to talk about the construction of a good wizard staff and you really can’t get a better option than madrone and manzanita wood

[persephonaae]

Really can’t be beat

[persephonaae]

[bcowlick]

Hot Take: The Iliad isn't hard to adapt. Writers nowdays are just too chicken shit to let their protagonist be pieces of shit (Every Achean king is a piece of shit in their own ways).

If you try to adapt the Iliad for a good VS evil story, you will obviously fail, dah. The Iliad is not about good VS evil. Is about the horrors of war.

[lottienats]

And if you can't save me, do what no one else will willingly do. You're the only one who will get past their feelings and do what is necessary... Destroy me. ONCE UPON A TIME, ‘The Dark Swan’

[anton--rayne]

[oneheadtoanother]

They should've name-checked 300, he's for sure seen that

[thezenzone]

[boybrdr-deactivated20230204]

sopranos episode 1

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

meeting odysseus was probably the best day of nausicaa’s life tbh like she grows up hearing songs of war hero celebrity odysseus sung in her court and then meets him irl helpless and sopping wet and he tells her she looks like a goddess. it’s straight out of a self insert teenage girl fanfiction like u know she would have loved blogging on tumblr about this this

[chuunipocalypse]

more people need to see and talk about zun's statement on being a chuunibyou

[feraligatr]

“the night is so young” i have work tomorrow. the night is kinda old actually. dilfy, in a way

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Colossi of Memnon, Theban Necropolis, by Eliot Elisofon, 1965

[default-cube]

i love this webbed site

[kaybebog]

:3

[kirsssche]

dysfunction family

[prokopetz]

Every time I post an example of play involving a d66 table I get people in the notes being weird about, like, the concept of d66 tables, which is very irritating. However, I have to remind myself that having the temerity to look at a centuries-old piece of tabletop gaming technology that you've somehow never heard of before, deciding that you can improve upon it after a whole thirty seconds of thought, proposing an alternative that's both more awkward to carry out and less functional in use, and going away satisfied that you've solved a real problem purely because you find the existing solution's conventions of notation unaesthetic does in fact speak to having the proper mindset of a tabletop game designer.

[prokopetz]

@a-random-stingray replied:

What if i make it worse on purpose, does that also speak to the mindset of a tabletop game designer? The answer's yes, isn't it? I don't know why I felt the need to ask.

I once bumped into a game with an honest-to-goodness d1212 table (yes, notated exactly like that), though for the life of me I can't bring the title to mind at the moment.

[prokopetz]

For those taking issue with the "centuries old" part, here: have a US patent application for a tabletop American baseball simulator that uses a d66 lookup table for action resolution dated August of 1887. This almost certainly isn't the oldest, as the way it's used suggests familiarity to the target audience, but it's the oldest I can find off the jump.

[stephenleasheppard]

That’s only one century!

[prokopetz]

1.4 centuries, if we're being pedantic, and employing the plural to discuss fractions greater than one but less than two is accepted usage, so technically

[prokopetz]

@pachycephalosauria replied:

For the aliens who use senary, the d66 is just called a d%

I actually have a bunch of d6s marked zero through five rather than one through six, and in two different colours (as I recall, they were produced for a now-defunct wargame called Hard Vacuum), so I could totally write a game that uses senary percentile dice if I wanted to.

Hm.

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[okthatsgreat]

dating simulator where it starts normal but it slowly becomes clear that all of the romanceable characters are attempting to cover up an extremely specific murder they committed a year ago before you arrived

[theehorsepusssy]

[ethical-tricknologist]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[laclefdescoeurs]

View Near Catskill, 1828-29, Thomas Cole