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Dear Reddit: am I the asshole? I jumped into a conversation on the OSR discord about how people often write TTRPG adventures (or texts more broadly, I think) with such a...Linked by the ring
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The story continues—sort of! More-or-less new characters across the board, but we’re moving on with the thing because I had already prepped this shit and didn’t want to do...
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There was a Reddit user named Kubular who happened upon a novel way to determine damage in D&D combat when their friend had assumed that it was just the difference of their D20...
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Basically: I was inspired by Dwiz’s post about how ‘the maze game’ of charting sites was central to early D&D in contrast to later approaches which abstract or give knowledge...
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I had started writing the below with high hopes, before I got kind of stuck thinking how awkward it would be for everyone to be a farmer and how difficult it would be to find a...
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Sorry to keep Cinco!-posting, but Alex from To Distant Lands wrote a really fun addition to magic which I wanted to share and also slightly refactor: Metamagic When you work...
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Alex from To Distant Lands had been considering Cinco! to play his Gran Carcosium setting (which I had played in a little bit ago!), and he asked me where I was at with feats...Linked by the ring
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I really like Eldritch Fields’ table for encounter activities, but I wanted to simplify it so that I don’t need an entirely different set of indices for sentient vs...Linked by the ring
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Jesus Christ. Am I some sort of influencer or thought leader that others both really follow my words and hold me responsible to their idea of them? I got a comment a few days...
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Alright, my babies. We’ve heard from the ‘orthodox’ Marxists from the DSA. We’ve heard from the crypto Marxist-Leninist party. Now let’s hear from the Maoist-tendency...
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A lot of people who are culturally Christian are often surprised, I’ve noticed, to learn that the so-called “seven deadly sins” do not originate from the Bible. Certain...
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I wanted to have a pseudo-lifepath thing in the appendices for Cinco! to help players conceptualize characters if they’re at a loss with where to get started. Below is what...Linked by the ring
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New cookie recipe! Wanted to simplify things and use more unit measurements. Ingredients 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt ½ cup butter (whole stick) 1 cup sugar (½...
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The Lord of the Rings is strange. This is not going to be particularly insightful or thoughtful. I hadn’t seen the movies since over a decade ago, and I think my mom was...Linked by the ring
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I’d like to be so bold as to suggest that we have a problem. Trans-females are obviously having a moment in political discourse, and their characterization has shifted in...
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Sorry, I just need to exorcise a thought real quick to convince myself why it’s a bad idea. The impulse is I realized that Cinco! doesn’t have swords +1 and I was like, oh, how...Linked by the ring
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Swear to Gxd I was working on this before the previous post. I just waited to post until it seemed less topically timely because it was a genuine effort and something I had...Linked by the ring
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There’s a professor at my partner’s graduate school who’s very eager to catch students in the act of academic dishonesty. The class is split up into small groups to write and...
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I’ve been making changes to my homebrew heartbreaker Cinco! based on my most recent play-sessions. These aren’t published yet because I have some new empty space I’d like to...Linked by the ring
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There’s an idiom by which evangelicals refer to the Bible, namely the “Word of Gxd”, and they will read bits of the Bible referring to the Logos as being self-referential...
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With help from James Bishop’s blog, I’ve compiled quotations from Paul which elaborate upon his understanding of Jesus’ life (a sort of mini-gospel): But when the fullness of...
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I had a dream a few nights ago. Maybe you can help me. I was taking someone to a childhood favorite bakery of mine—not a real place, just in the dream—and I was very excited....
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Previously, I submitted a working definition for gnosticism, an infamously vague category which typically serves to mark various doctrines as heterodox. These still have in my...
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Back from wherever I was! First, I’d like to call attention and give thanks to those of you who have submitted projects to the Icon0clasm Ball (extended to end of the year for...Linked by the ring
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Try to guess context from this bit from a conversation I had with my friend Ènziramire: when they figure out womb transplants we’ll be back to square 1 gonna be the first...
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I was at brunch with my two of my girl friends (this was on a weekday; we call it our Networking & Collaboration Lunch) and it had just been National Boyfriend Day. I was...
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There’s a funny chapter in Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians, which I’m going to share at length because I don’t believe in slicing ‘verses’ out of a text: Pursue love...
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"You can't just ask people why they're white!"I was with my gay friends at brunch (where else?), and they asked me a question I've been itching to answer for someone. My mom's...
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When you meet a Puerto Rican, the first thing they tell you is that they're Puerto Rican. The second thing they tell you is that they're an American citizen by birth. Even...
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New build available on Itch! :) I know it’s been a while, but I’d been doing shit the whole time: New resource system: Goods listed in the top-left are consumed by needs from...