Gareth Hanrahan

Barely after the cocktails

Birthday dinner, rounds 1-3

Setup for my Q&A in Cork City library. The number of chairs was, alas, over-ambitious, but I really loved the slideshow of covers and internal images.

"Everyone is 12" theory going strong

‘DIE: Metadungeon’ is the End-All, Be-All of Roleplaying Games This TTRPG ABOUT TTRPGs might trigger apocalyptic “discourse”

"Megadungeons are more of a fantasy thing, so I don’t mess with them often. They also sound exceedingly boring. But a METAdungeon — a dungeon about the history of roleplaying games — is definitely my brand."

#Medium #GiftArticle

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Trump and Farage

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

This metaphor has ruined my day by being so accurate

HiRISE 10K: Bright and Dark Terrain in Noctis Labyrinthus

This image shows the transitional terrain where the linear troughs and rounded pits of Noctis Labyrinthus merge with the larger chasmata of Valles Marineris.

Full cutout on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2rYJ9Ac

#Mars #NASA #science

Common Peephole     She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it.   That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston

Pulp poetry.

"Oh, you're talking about THE PLOT?"
"Yes, PLOT. Here's the THING you need to know."
"Oh, FORESHADOWING. Now I know the THING, I can move onto the next chapter, the bit with the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT."
"The writer will make all this more natural in the next draft, right?"
"TKTKTK"

A screenshot of a notepad app with the entry: "Gandalf trying to shower/shit/shave in a hobbit-sized bathroom"

The accommodation is really firing up my creative juices. The ideas just keep coming.

thank you!

I vividly remember going "Sol Ring? it's just mana. I'll trade you for that Wooden Sphere" sometime in 1995.

I think Treebeard's word choice when he updates the List of Living Creatures is so important.
> and hungry as hunters, the Hobbit children,
> the laughing-folk, the little people
The LAUGHING-FOLK. I love that. I love thinking that Merry and Pippin were laughing the whole time they were in Fangorn.

I'm told there will be and I assume there will be (but it hasn't been recorded yet)

Apparently all the signs on the ship are in Esperanto in the first season, but they stopped doing in later seasons.

Maybe it was more in the novels. I definitely remember it somewhere.

To google!

I wasn't involved in the starter set, but yeah, I assume so.

There's a great bit in LETTERS where Tolkien rants about how stupid one would have to be to name your bicycle company "Ixion Cycles" - Ixion, who was condemned to be bound to a fiery wheel.

I shall stop reposting this at some point.

This is not that point. The point has not been reached. The point in our collective future. You must have faith in the existence of the point. One day, if we stick together, we will reach that point.

But not yet. Not today.

Red Dwarf did the same thing, I believe, at the very start.

The Riders of Rohan.

It made sense in my D&D brain! Of course hobbits have a high DEX, and there'd been tightrope walking only a chapter ago!

It's no exaggeration to say that this, the news that stinkbug eggs look exactly like a hape of creamy pints, is one of the most impactful things that's ever happened in the history of Irish posting. A dazzling event. A nuclear level revelation.

Instructional Design For Tabletop Roleplaying by Levi Kornelsen A primer on applying Instructional Design to Tabletop RPGs

It's up! It's short! It's free!

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I used to think Sam's uncle Andy was a circus performer until I learned what a rope-walk actually was.

Do it as a sort of triathlon? Cycle/Canoe/Ring Toss

I can't ride your bike, Mr. Frodo, but I can... wait, no, delete tweet delete tweet

Google has just made me so.