@pauldrye@spacey.space cover
@pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

pauldrye

@pauldrye@spacey.space

Software design by day, table-top RPG and science fiction/fantasy writing by night. Fascinations: Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, alternate history, Muppets, Atomic Age design, retrocomputing, languages, cartography, old cutaway diagrams. Canadian with malice aforethought. Baggage Books on DriveThruRPG.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

LeviKornelsen , to random
@LeviKornelsen@dice.camp avatar

Listen, if I was obscenely rich, I would not only rig an absurd and horrible contest that people would need to play to get my money after my death, but I would get it started before I died, so I could watch them play.

pauldrye ,
@pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

@LeviKornelsen "...and I leave my entire estate of $10 million to the people of Calgary so they can afford to move somewhere decent."

deinol , to random
@deinol@dice.camp avatar

I’m reading a book on Thebes, and in the chapter on religion I was struck by how weird d&d is. It treats a polytheistic world in a monotheistic way.

And while it’s true that high priests of a specific cult would be focused on one god, for most people you would sacrifice or worship different gods at different times, depending on your needs at the time.

pauldrye ,
@pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

@deinol I arranged the gods like this in my campaign and my players are having a hard time wrapping their heads around it.

robindlaws , to random
@robindlaws@dice.camp avatar

Celestial body sugary, scientists find

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-simulation-factors-arrokoth-red-surface.html

pauldrye ,
@pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

@robindlaws So technically it's a sugar cubewano, excellent.

robindlaws , to random
@robindlaws@dice.camp avatar

[Thread, post or comment was deleted by the author]

    •
    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @robindlaws I live on the seventh floor so normally I'd say "no"? Or are they trying to tell me something?

    LeviKornelsen , to random
    @LeviKornelsen@dice.camp avatar

    [Thread, post or comment was deleted by the author]

    •
    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @LeviKornelsen Psychological hold through religion.

    Tim_Eagon , to random
    @Tim_Eagon@dice.camp avatar

    I want to see your favorite fantasy and sci-fi cover art! Books, magazines, RPGs, comics, whatever!

    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @Tim_Eagon I've always been partial to this one of Angus McBride's, and these other two by Daniel Thorne's and Dennis Beauvais':

    image/jpeg
    image/jpeg

    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @Tim_Eagon McBride was a bit of an odd man out compared to other RPG artists at the time -- he would have been about 50 at the time, lived in South Africa as an immigrant, and had extensive experience for Osprey & various British educational magazines before working with I.C.E.

    deinol , to random
    @deinol@dice.camp avatar

    The neat thing about looking at all these [GURPS] JTAS and Challenge Magazine articles is seeing familiar names in the by-lines. There’s a ton of cool little adventure seeds by James “Grognardia” Maliszewski.

    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @deinol Hello!

    LeviKornelsen , to random
    @LeviKornelsen@dice.camp avatar

    [Thread, post or comment was deleted by the author]

    •
    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @LeviKornelsen Which, oddly enough, is what I like in a game.

    ericmpaq , to random
    @ericmpaq@dice.camp avatar

    Day 66 of : Quill remembers how to craft potions & tinctures. To help, she casts her gluph of power. She does a good job with the oak wart but had some trouble with hazel root & mud cap. Her final potency is 5 for oak wart, 2 for hazel root, & 2 for mud cap.

    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @SJohnRoss @ericmpaq It was Anthea Bell who came up with the English names.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthea_Bell

    Really, hers are often better puns: e.g., Idéfix becomes Dogmatix, Assurancetourix becomes Cacofonix. Goscinny's names are usually non sequiturs but hers riff on the characters..

    Whether or not trying to upstage the original is a cardinal sin for a translator is another question.

    mrundkvist , to random
    @mrundkvist@archaeo.social avatar

    I'm thinking of writing this retro-futuristic techno thriller where the US manages to put people on the using only 1960s technology, former Nazi rocket scientists etc.

    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @nyrath @cstross @mrundkvist When my mum and I watched the movie in the theatres she asked if it was real...then we worked out that I was three weeks old when the accident happened. She was understandably too pre-occupied at the time to have been watching the news and hear about it.

    SJohnRoss , (edited ) to random
    @SJohnRoss@dice.camp avatar

    Since this is year ending in "4," it's a big-deal decade anniversary for the RPG that got me into gaming, the first RPG I ever owned, the first RPG I ever GM'ed.

    No, not that one. 😞 THIS one:

    Forty years of MSH! May it live forever. Excelsior!

    pauldrye ,
    @pauldrye@spacey.space avatar

    @SJohnRoss Hear, hear!

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •