Spare Sidekick (They/Them)

I am hard same on this point and am doubling down on it.

Sheep thief and people smuggler

I mean that's kinda like therapy/ self improvement

Yeah fam whatever suits your groove. It's just a shortcut for me in a .... Morass of shortcuts. In Nintya, elves were Japanese (& insects) dwarves were Russians (in love with stars) and humans were Nepalese. Once that sticks in your head, it shaies how you describe Dwarven ruins, or elven music etc

I usually pick a common language and do a google translate, then approximate the sounds. I literally found a player hear a word and say "oh that's dwarvish" because he recognised that all Dwarven words had the same sounds going on (Russian)

It's where the zipper on his skin suit is attached

I got a group to play test a game once, but that was just a pretense.. their characters has been knocked out the previous session and the "playtest" was just Thier matrix experience

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

It's the truth. You gotta shame the botlickers!

Literally will Include a druid named, um, "Goldblum" in honour

The actual explanation is that natural magic is fey in nature, or at least springs from that same source. When Erika the Enchantress squeezes out the magic she needs for her cloak of many pockets, the leftover magic residue is fertiliser for one very resilient weed with a unique adaptation

Yes but only arcane magic. Druids and witches don't seem to provoke it. The harsh grip of the magician alone does it. Something about forcing magic to obey has that side effect.

In Bryznia, the false peony is a dark to light purple flower that is little more than a weed, but it only grows where artificial magic dwells. It grows over the homes of wizards, in the gutters of magic stores, and wherever an old magic sword lies in the woods

Yeah they got me with. When they asked to take my picture I used a picture of Santa Claus

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that.

Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened.

A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee."

I only just made it out.

Spoof version of the Alien film poster featuring an Allen wrench/key. Text reads: ALLEN

At Ikea no one can hear you scream.

I start with a lord of the rings/Conan cross in my head, and then ask my players what Thier favourite movie is. That, and a few follow up questions shapes my words

I game out at some middling Sydney suburb on Mondays and the return trip at around 2130hrs has me sitting in the same kinda liminal space.

No people. Only vibes.

Like nearly half the group?. That's an epic fight. There's a good chance the players are invested. A little one shot instead to smooth the night out and see them all next session

Slay

From 5th to 3.5. I'd be happy even to drop back to 1st if I could cha-cha slide into some retroclone.

But 5e has just been weak tea all around

The edition

the people are starving and old plagues have sprung up again, so the people are getting a little rebelly. The country's allies are pausing trade, while the Herpexi run around in human skin just ...profiting on it all.

it's year 4 of the Baronical takeover of Bryznia and...it's not looking well. The Barons are shitty governors, and they executed or exiled all the good ones. None of the rewards have appeared so they are skirmishing with each other for scraps. The Church is split - the new Vox Dei wildly unpopular

in Bryznia the newly reformed church has outlawed witchcraft - a time honoured tradition of many of the people, one that has co-existed with the church since the church was formed. In Prospero - in the kingdom of Albion, any magic that took away your mind was forbidden, as high as any assault

In Nintya the three 'Wicked' Magics were Geomancy (Changing the Magical qualities of the ground) Harvestry (Borrowing the traits of living things) and Primordialism (Exchanging mass and energy between the six outer realms.

Mostly banned because their use almost always became problematic

Thai food place ordering kiosk after hours, the screen saver showing Andrew Mountbatten-windsor in close up as he is arrested

Passed my local Thai place after hours and this was left up and all I can say is....bravo

and also. bloat. i think bloat is what gets me the most. I'm fine with throwing a hundy across a table for a game that looks interesting, but in my heart i'm putting a price value on the fluff text and pictures and eventually I'm wondering if the splash page in the middle should have been a game map

so pork is readily available now to the common people - and the sauces and cooking techniques still got used, so the soft, buttery, fatty slab of sauced pork in a bun is sold with the corners turned up...to look like cat ears.