#queue am i?

[physicist-pi]

I caved and got the Starfinder 2E Player Core because I wanted fun energy weapons to throw at my players in Iron Gods when I eventually restart it.

And I just love that one of the core gods for the setting is just:

God of internet meme culture...

[physicist-pi]

Finally getting round to reading things with term over and very much enjoying the top of my tbr pile.

I am definitely enjoying more Jewish fantasy and it's been interesting reading it after reading The Familiar.

I am curious about fey myths of Iberia actually, as a lot of fairy myths are so heavily weighted towards Celtic folklore I feel it ends up in other stories.

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Birthday book tokens went to getting these beautiful copies of the Queen's Thief series and I have basically been devouring them at a book a day (3 hours of commuting time on public transport helps), and it's been so fun going back to reread when I know the plot.

Already lent out The Thief hoping to find someone to scream about Gen with.

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I've been listening to a series of audio books through the library, found the next title in the series on Spotify and it's a different narrator (British Vs American) and it just... Doesn't feel right.

Like the narrator is good and all, I just miss Steve West...

So now I'm trying to find a version of the audiobook in the voice I was used to.

[physicist-pi]

I know I'm way behind but I started listening to Old Gods of Appalachia and I'm only just finished 4.5 but damn I am enjoying trying to work out what the hell is going on.

[physicist-pi]

Getting to have fun with my Pathfinder campaign where the players realise the dungeon boss is basically in an abusive relationship with her god and decide to immediately try and talk her down from blowing up the town as collateral damage in her quest to empower her god.

She's currently in the basement of one of the party members having being cut off from her god due to failure and is basically having a shutdown.

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Something I love about RPGs is that you can usually find a way to spin unplanned events in a way to still give your players an emotional gut punch.

Take my Iron Gods group. In the 2 years and a system change between me floating the concept and actually playing session 1 (pandemic + player in the group becoming a mum), a player had a character concept (twin brother of another PC), spent 2 years theorycrafting, changed the overall concept a few times and even played in a level 0 prequel session, then decided "actually, I think I need to scrap my character and play a different one."

And thus the dynamic between the twins of one having helped save the life of the other with technology (or at least thinking he had), instead became "my brother died in front of me and I was powerless to stop it".

The grief ended up helping shape a lot of the early PC interactions, and then when attending an NPC funeral, the bereaved twin says he wants to give a little sermon. Critical success. I pause. And then I deliver the line...

"You give the sermon. It is a beautiful sermon. It is poetic and full of feeling and reassurances. It is everything you couldn't say at Wilfred's."

Bam. Instant emotional gut punch which lead to the PCs getting wasted, and ambushed by a skeevy merchant.

TTRPGs man!

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University Alumni Fund has a whole thing of diversifying the library collection and this was one of the options and I did just submit my assignment and have two weeks of more chill classes, so figured I'd get the classic lesbian cartoons I've been meaning to read for like 3 years...