I am a small irish devil who makes poor art with my stubby hopeless fingers. I also like RPGs that don't exist.
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Last Notes npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/851/306/640/913/339/original/5fa5a5583704883a.png npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock The number of places salivating about dynamic pricing is really quite scary. So many supermarkets are thrilled with the idea of it. Every time I'm in ASDA recently they are pushing "why don't you use your phone to shop" while making noises like a mantis clicking. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock That will be "the lying" kicking in there then early. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Even if it is illegal they'll just whinge till it's allowed because "everyone else does it and we're at a competitive disadvantage, won't you think of the shareholders" npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock You would imagine there would some sort of silo-extension that could be specifically written to circumvent this. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock "someone's brother has died" is going to be my next collection of scenarios which players will refuse to commit to the bit in. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I feel you could get away with Victor in almost all Classic Dr Who as a serious character. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Irish Americans weird me out. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I just thought it was on reflection rather funny to have my DMs guide denounced as a material artefact, and not for instance my even then quite capacious library of occult works npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock On the topic of demonizing things, my headmaster in the 80s, banished cards and RPGs, calling them the devil's picture books. Which is a lot more demony than most of our criticism npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I think the problem comes extra-group were you have no social contract npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I'm pretty sure RPGs were a placeholder game for a lot of people till the surge of boardgames, LAN games, MMOs, and CCGs npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock The number of people who just went "but why should we ever learn another rule set, we know D20" drove me out of the clubs. I could see the issues with monocrop so far off, and it was just.. disheartening. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I think the personality of gamers is involved too, even if it was exploited. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Half of my old club group evaporated to play CCGs when they arrived because they loved having something to spend their money on as "young professionals" that they felt gave them an advantage in games, and once you entrench that personality RPGs are just ... lost to them npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I think it was a perfect storm of things, rather than just any specific one event. Which is why people end up getting tangled in knots arguing about how to improve the current situation. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock CCGs wrecked the club landscape npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock That's the exact silo I find chatting about games at the local shop. You get so far with people and then.. 5e just is the cognitive block. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock The whole combat effectiveness type approach to gaming is why I find it hard to chat to local gamers, in a gaming shop, who are gaming. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock "Changes to Rangers" is the sort of thing that youtubers thrive on, and that feeds back into the problem with the hobby. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I've seen that dynamic and it lead to a group split, with the experimentalists on one side and a "we play DnD, and CoC" on the other. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I have that exact same mental block too, which is one of the reason I can do designy things, but very rarely create anything. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Isn't this just the "wealthy people don't like paying tax" thing? And they will literally wallow with anyone who supports lower taxes, and that is the only justification they need for their choices. They just don't like paying taxes. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock But the bit with the gargoyle turning the soldiers into orange smoke is still in the Greek... Right... Right? npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Losing freelancing is also reducing economic mobility and flexibility. Once well paid part time/freelance work disappears there's less opportunity to be a work from home parent, and you get into the cycle of child care costs and latchkey children growing up without parents. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock The whole design culture is going to be subsumed into "Sure it'll do" aesthetic to save money. Every little flyer will be a canva template. Photolayouts on magazine covers will be increasingly composed by ai design from available stock libraries that have sold out to the monkey. None of it will look as good as before, but "sure it'll do" because you've saved on the price to pay a freelance. And wow you didn't even need to get the materials ready till the night before press. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock All the "Just in time" people like me you call at the absolute last minute, but local photographers, local designers, anyone in the middle space has just lost all their clients. Artists can always create, but tradefolk are getting hit hard and instantly. What do you even re-train as when adobe sold your workflows to a cymbal clapping monkey and its venture capital burning plagiarism engine. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I'm already seeing that at a freelancer level. Everyone has gone. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Someone threw out all their Unsolved Case files games in the rain - because the stupid Red Cross won't take book like things anymore. It was very sad seeing all these boxes of mysteries getting destroyed by Storm Bram. Sitting outside in the street dissolving. I took one soaking box home and to my delight found the game inside sealed in its plastic presentation folder. Immaculate. Kicking myself for not getting the others now though. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I think that's something all fans of long(er?) running shows get eventually. The feeling that they are in love with a remnant of what they remember npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock My daughters both loved Holes and abandoned the Rowling stuff instantly, they couldn't stomach the Hogwarts thing at all. Holes though? They adored it. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock There's a lot of "exploit socials for citation improvement" and always has been npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Deeply dubious that anyone is considered suitable for determining what a starter kit should be or consist of at all. It seems to go against the "slow fungal growth" approach of mastodon. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock #doctorwho npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock If the Avengers: Doomsday isn't about Blackbeard's Treasure the world is a farce and a sham. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Other villain people dream of world conquest and dominion over the powers of reality itself, but not Doom. Doom wants a foxy box full of saucy pirate loot from the 1700s. AND HE BUILDS A TIME MACHINE TO GET IT npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Doctor Doom has never improved on this plan and it is the best time travel plot ever. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Omega hates the internet these days npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock The teenage years in northern ireland had plenty of other things going on to keep me "amused" than worrying about rope bridges :) npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Noooo it was terrifying. It looked like something made by salmon fishermen in 1752... and then.. left to rot. Scared the wits out of a teenage me npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I first crossed Carrick-a-Rede on a school Geography field trip in the 80s in the cold, windy & wet, and all the bravos bounced on it and it was completely terrifying and I have been unduly worried about it ever since. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock This is rendered from the original document and leaves out a lot of the expected elements like the fruit and cheese/dessert wines and then the coffee-cigars-and iceberg. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Being me of course I was looking at the 1st class menu of the Titanic and acquired a nice little volume on preparing it for a dinner party, so going by the suggested timings for readiness if you were to serve the 13+ course meal as table litter while gaming you only need to start the Consommé Olga three days before your players arrive. Obviously I can make this up as a spreadsheet for the GM. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock @npub19lu…scpa and I were discussing odd cthulhu type plots on the Titanic, and I've finally found the Ushabti figures that were carried on the "largely unsinkable" ship from some Belfast joint. As @npub18lm…m79z 's magnificence "The Purloined Handmaiden" is about the use of Ushabti, it would make sense to use the Titanic as a teaser piece for that longer campaign. I think would be rather jolly to literally sink the Titanic in your opener. (1/2) npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock You would think given how the political class in the UK all do classics or PPE at Oxbridge they'd be sufficiently aware of how fickle rich tyrants are and you are never anything other than convenient for them. They all seem willfully blind. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock You're worrying about the Blue Woman (the weird mystery is she isn't blue: Solved) and not about what Doctor Satan's degree is in? npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I feel there are health and safety issues here. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock I grow venus fly traps and they are bloody fidgety and what I've discovered over the years is they are very social plants, you need lots of them in one place (I presume to generate enough scent to entice) but it does feel like they get lonely. This has very little to do with the cover and everything to do with the fact I don't get to talk about venus fly traps very often. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock In Immanuel Kant's philosophy, a noumenon is a thing as it is in itself, while a phenomenon is a thing as it appears to an observer. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Tesla's self driving disks were a big success. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock "Ah Gee another football, another rocket, and all I really wanted for christmas was corrective rhinoplasty" npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Rovers from the Prisoner at school. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock She looked over with sultry eyes and then narrowed them "Did you put the bins out" npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock The Skull (1965) is a perfect example of what I'd imagine Bookhounds of London should be like. npub17hy0djr9echxmh0fh6t0tkr3x00nchc9xpfyh7v6gxqzjq9de8tqpyfr90 Charnock Given the very coherent plots in Warren Magazines, that is probably "The True Meaning of Christmas"
