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https://www.rawstory.com/amp/tucker-carlson-kremlin-spy-emails-2653707408?__twitter_impression=true Basically- - Tucker Carlson was talking to Kremlin intermediaries - NSA intercepts the emails, because, fucking obviously - NSA rep contacts TC, basically saying "we know what you were doing"...

So, a thought on guns. As I understand it, in the Victorian era, while there were of course specific guns, the firearm industry was also just, well, the wild west https://media.tenor.com/images/e8eeb8988a22de086aad87d1a2d57d49/tenor.gif thank you Which is to say, because the non-musket firearm was s...

Huh. Cool.

I barely know how to do a resume for, like, a normal job. What the hell should I do for a game design one?

So... whoever runs the Modiphus twitter invited me to send in a CVS.

Um. I have an actual game writing credit, and a ton of stuff I've done for my own purposes, but... what the fuck is a CVS/how do I make one?

Yeah, Glorantha is weird, and mostly goes all in on that "non-humans would be completely alien, so no you can't play them" thing. Glorantha is weird because the degree of immersion that is expected to engage the world requires more than a couple years of theology. Understanding stuff like...

Yeah, Glorantha is weird, and mostly goes all in on that "non-humans would be completely alien, so no you can't play them" thing. Mongoose's RQ2 books are more lenient about that, but still assume you're going to be playing humans. But then, as long as your playing a Sorcerer and have a de...

There is some, possible, connection between Bahamut and Baphomet, but nothing concrete, and it's really more Christians being dumb conspiracy theorists, so. On the subject of kobold sex- The Picks and The Veins: How to Make a Kobold Kobolds are naturally a neuter race. They have cloacas which handle...

Dragon religion is weird. As I understand it, Tiamat is the mother of dragons, but usually only tied to chromatic dragons, and Bahamut the daddy of dragons, and tied specifically to metallic. Certainly they.. could have some divine explanation for Tiamat to be only the mother of chromatic dragons, a...

To the best of my knowledge there's a vague implication that kobolds are primarily tied to chromatic dragons, but I don't really see any particular reason they couldn't have ties to all dragons in general.

Because they have no natural sex, their genders are completely unrelated to sex, and instead based on expressed dragon ancestry and the elements thereof (so, Fire gender, Acid gender, etc). I think this would definitely be interesting to focus on. If the genders here are more related to the dragon ...

Yeah, that's the issue I grabbed the origin of kobolds to expand from, here's the relevant part of the posited story, which, looking at that FR wiki page, it's definitely an adaptation of- https://i.ibb.co/m5LvxBC/Screenshot-20210629-193206-Chrome.jpg https://i.ibb.co/pfrPNFq/Screenshot-20210629-193...

I don't know anything about draconians, because the only dragonlance book I read was a standalone about actual dragon characters. Well, in Dragonlance, it's revealed during book 3 or something that: the good dragon eggs stolen and being held as hostages by the evil dragons et al were used to create...

They have the same social role/utility as genders. I mean, I'm nonbinary, my gender has more to do with ravens, demons, witchcraft and liminality than sex, so, that's informing my view on gender. Also the fact that the binary male/female genders of modern western humans have nothing to do with sex, ...

So, I'm playing a kobold in a 5e game right now and it's making me want to do more kobold worldbuilding (which I get to do, because my GM doesn't have any particular druthers about kobolds) But.... well, kobolds are weird. It's hard to worldbuild them, for a lot of reasons. Right now, I'm trying to ...

Gibbering Mouthers (who are literally insane and shouldn't be able to speak any normal language) and so on. I get what you mean , but as someone with multiple things going on with their mind and brain that would make an Iron Age culture consider them to be "completely insane" and who actu...

Also, we can see how well that worked with the "complete new free game" that did get made here...

Gibbering Mouthers (who are literally insane and shouldn't be able to speak any normal language) and so on. I get what you mean , but as someone with multiple things going on with their mind and brain that would make an Iron Age culture consider them to be "completely insane" and who actu...

I mean. I think the big deal to me is the idea that the racism is so specific, and so focused on. Like I have no problem with "we hate them cuz their god kicked our god's ass" or "well, better put my hood up so I can go into town." Even "we don't serve yer kind 'round here,&...

About a week back, there was a thread on Reddit kind of like that, where someone was saying they would rather play in a D&D game with a small number of races, where race "means something," than a game with an endless number of meaningless races. And no, they don't mean the way most of ...

I mean... a simpler rules set is easier to make cleaner (or make people think is cleaner). Hell, just think how much cleaner 3.5 would be if they had only said "grappling isn't a thing." It would be dumb, and people would make their own, but honestly, sometimes no official rules is better ...

I think there are things that could be improved in 5e, along the lines that Tome intended to improve 3.X stuff, but I think trying to do a "Tome, but for 5e" is badly missing the point of 5e. The fundamental issue with 5e is not so much bad rules, as it is a fundamentally different philoso...

...I didn't have cable in the late 90s. Hell, my parents didn't have cable until like late '06.

This is literally the first time I've heard of it, but I will now.

I haven't yet, because when I've used it, it hasn't been particularly useful to me, but also because I'm kind of still wrapping my head around what this is

As the title says, I've been idly poking at the idea of a Toy Story-alike RPG. I was actually specifically put in this mind space by some phone app, but it's easier to make a function call to Toy Story, and it's more true to what I'm thinking (sort of). So, the idea is that players take the roles of...