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REALITY.SYS corrupt. reboot Universe? [Y/N/Q]

Over here, I'm mostly here for ttrpg things (thus on TableToot!), but if I get myself together and can branch out, there will be archaeology and nature and various dead/fossil things. Also videogames, but those might just be me grumping, lol.

Definitely tabletop stuff, though. "OSR", 2e AD&D, the "basic" D&Ds, and my own ramblings, mostly, but I'll poke everything from Cairn to Exalted to Traveller.

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taichara , to random
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Success!!

32-page minizine -- 60 critters (the ones recently posted on Lone Knight) and 60 short NPC descriptions (or character inspirations or whatever) --

My stapling job is laughably off-centre and I should probably have tried to fix it before taking pictures but oh well, lol

I'll try to post up the pdf(s) some time today or tonight, I need to go yell about some things atm (nothing bad) --

a view of two pages of the mini zine, showing the header "Roll Call" and short (two or so sentences) descriptions of non-player characters
holding up a one-eighth-size mini zine; titled Wandering Wayfarers, it has a silhouette-style art of a hound and some strange creatures on the cover, and the subtitle "beasts and benedictions, friends and foes"

taichara , to random
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And here are the dragons --

https://loneknight.dreamwidth.org/65612.html

taichara , to random
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My pointless personal enduring #D&D (esque) nitpicking issue rears its head once more, as I tick through the hours at work poking around listings of fantasy coins and rules reference cards and other such little props:

takes a deep breath

ELECTRUM IS NOT STEEL GREY

ELECTRUM IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT GODDAMN /BLUE/

deep breath

This has /annoyed the fuck out of me/ in the Realms since day one and its spread through later editions in general is just agsahdshfjjl

Yes it's petty.

Don't care.

chgowiz ,
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@taichara TIL...

taichara OP ,
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@chgowiz It's a natural alloy! D: and varies from virtually silver through a nice grey-gold to a soft pale gold --

I knew it via dynastic Egypt/Bronze Age interests in general before I ever made it to D&D, but I'm also pretty sure the /blue/ thing came from 1e/2e FR specifically and only infected D&D-at-large around 3e D&D+ ...

It's really nice imo and deserves better than weird blue colours >.>;;

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

taichara , to random
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As evidence that everything and anything will be turned against you in the end, I present this:

Creative Commons has declared that feeding everything to an AI to train it is "fair use".

I wish to /fuck/ I knew this before releasing any of my stuff CC instead of, oh, making up my own license or something.

God fucking dammit.

https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/

chgowiz ,
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@taichara

" Mother... shitter... Son of an... ass. I just... " - Samir

Animated GIF showing a scene from the movie Office Space. The character Samir is in his car and he is stuck in traffic. The GIF shows him shaking the wheel and convulsing, while cursing.

taichara OP ,
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@chgowiz Yeeeeeeeeep. That. -_-

taichara , to random
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Well I did it -- Lindwyrm, my crack at putting an "D&D" onto a sheet of paper.

(I mean it's in minizine format -- but one sheet of paper!)

I put the plaintext on a small nexus (my wordpress can just sit there for now while I decide what to do), and there's a link there to download the pdf also.

The last week and a half has been outdoing the weeks before it, but I still made a thing. That's not nothing.

https://taichara.smol.pub/ttrpg-lindwyrm

gemini://taichara.smol.pub/ttrpg-lindwyrm

A look inside the zine at the first pages, which are character creation. Black text on white paper.

taichara , to random
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I pulled together the shorter set of Swordtember entries into a zine ...

https://taichara.itch.io/a-gathering-of-blades

taichara , to random
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I've been slowing down on my acquisitions lately (there's probably several reasons why, if I'm honest, and they aren't even terrible ones really), but this looks interesting --

Leading units and squads? Inspired by stuff /and/ -- more importantly -- Fire Emblem and Langrisser and Tactics Ogre?

And there's solo rules?

Fuck yes, sign me up yo

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775185920/over-war-the-night-comes-down-monarch-edition

bwebster ,
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@taichara I love seeing more games blending war games with TTRPGs like this! It’s a cool concept that I haven’t seen out there much beyond my own work (but maybe I just haven’t heard of more of these titles?)

taichara , to random
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In what has to be an all-new hilarious level of "I will never find that again now and more importantly how the hell would I ever start looking", I have been reminded -- somehow -- of a singular book from way back when but nothing useful like, oh, a /title/.

And even though I think~ I could describe it, I certainly can't in any way useful for a websearch ... and the odds of just stumbling across one specific book online is zero.

But it was a fun book D: Damnit, nostalgia!

chgowiz ,
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@taichara There are a ton of pages. Maybe doing an image search with anything you can remember about the book? I don't like to search Google much, but their "like this" link on images has helped me to find minis pictures when I couldn't remember the exact one, but found similar...

Good luck! Those memories and that book sounds awesome

taichara OP ,
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@chgowiz Another kind soul also gave me links to different collections, and it was in there! I instantly recognized the cover 83 lol

It's also on the Internet Archive so I can show you -- it's Rodnay Zaks' Your First BASIC Program ~

https://archive.org/details/sybex-your-first-basic-program/page/n19/mode/2up

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