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The players were on the edge of their seats for the entire battle, and when the guy they'd just spent so much trouble rescuing was able to escape the relief was palpable.

By that time the PCs were very highly skilled, so I hope it also reminded them a bit what it's like not to be a combat monster.

they knew that because they were NPCs I wouldn't be fudging the dice. The TIEs concentrated fire on the X-Wing and it was very, very tense. Just before jumping, the three fugitives did a half-loop, fired, and that caused the Imps to break off, giving them just enough time to enter hyperspace.

Star Wars adventure called X-Wing Down - the PCs were sent to repair and retrieve it. Perfectly fine vanilla Star Wars adventure, ended with the NPC X-Wing pilot and two NPC Y-Wing pilots as escorts trying to escape to hyperspace. With four TIEs in pursuit. I let the players roll for the NPCs and

Yes, miserable bastards. I can empathise with them though, because I worked as a sysadmin for five years.

OMG are you fighting a Giant One-Nostrilled Nose? Those things are formidable

RuneQuest ? Even EarthDawn is less of a pastiche than D&D

Can this fellow whistle? If he can't, that'll clinch it

Bananas must be separated from other fruit, lest the ethene gas they they give off causes the other fruit to ripen prematurely. Kumquats must be segregated from one another because they gossip.

#dailylie

worldbuilding database. Even if they don't get reused, they add to the lore and may inspire related material. But I gotta admit the fine details very quickly get lost to time.
I have been writing up adventure recaps for my current Star Wars, and that has helped immensely with callbacks. Recommended.

capture lightning in a bottle certainly apply. My older scenarios do get broken down for parts though. While it's usually impractical to reuse the whole thing, if I can read my own writing I may capture names of NPCs, star systems, quotes and other snippets, and they add to my sprawling

There is much wisdom in what Gaz says downthread. I fully endorse all those reasons. Personally, my handwriting is so atrocious that often I can't even read my own handwriting a few hours later. Means scenarios tend to be non-reuseable anyway. And the caveats about context, players and trying to

That's a pretty good heuristic, actually

But the one who reshared this post is different

Oh, maybe the flurry of ladies who have all followed me within minutes of one another are not porn bots.

How can 40 pixels have so much personality?

Yes, he's rich, with a prostitute wife (cool if you're into that kind of thing), but the idea that he has ever once in his entire life been genuinely happy is laughable. Which means never mind humans, most higher mammals have had a richer and more emotionally fulfilling life than he's had.

His brain rotted away past the point where accountability was feasible several years ago. On the other hand, Donald Trump has served a lifetime sentence of being Donald Trump, which is a pretty harsh punishment to put on anyone. Only person I can think of who deserves it... is Donald Trump.

PNG and WEBP also don't work. Hence I suspect the image-uploading code. A one-frame GIF is treated as a trivial animation and probably uses different upload code. Because honestly, who would upload a still GIF in 2026 :-)

Yep. That's not what I uploaded. Works okay on other browsers. (This is LibreWolf)

Attempted upload of a silly image. Will probably appear as a green rectangle, but is supposed to be a hot dog with a torch and a sniper sight. A 'dog of war'. Chosen because it probably is funnier if you just imagine it :-)

I just get a fuzzy green/purple rectangle for anything I try to upload. The only thing that works is GIF!
Could it just be a browser bug? That's the problem here

Comedy: Alasdair Beckett-King, Foil Arms and Hog
Jay Foreman, the Map Men, Periodic Videos and related channels
Restoration videos - e.g. TysyTube, MW Restoration, TheFabrik, RustyShades, but you have to watch out for fake channels
Woodturning (I know nothing about woodturning)
Primitive Technology

3-5 steps seems about the right level of disassociation. I think that may be the underlying tip

have managed to get from generating an NPC reporter to naming a death metal band after the Mon Cal word for 'Quicksilver' in about 300 words.

That's how I tend to do my worldbuilding, anyway. I do find it fun that you never know where these trains of thought might lead.

#ttrpg 7/fin

mercury - seems like it could be extra harmful for them. Therefore it's likely the Mon Cal word for mercury has connotations of 'death metal', literally. And of course, just by thinking the words 'death metal' to myself, I was immediately put in mind of the music genre, at which point I

#ttrpg 6/?

'Quicksilver' or 'Hydrargyrum'? As elemental mercury is toxic, and most species are aware of this - including Twi-leks and Mon Cals - the connotations of both news and poison fit nicely. Culturally I wouldn't be surprised if the Mon Cals, as an aquatic species, are especially leery of

#ttrpg 5/?

film noirish character.)

Then, what was her name? Just as IRL some writers use pseudonyms, I decided a pseudonym would be right for this lady too, and she's a professional finder of bad news. Now, Mercury was the herald of the gods, so that's a workable start, but what about either

#ttrpg 4/?

leads that will link them into the setting.

So at that point I decided to make the reporter a female Twi-Lek with black skin colouring. (It's already established that Twi-leks come in all colours from yellow to green to pink to blue, so black seemed like a fitting choice for a

#ttrpg 3/?

into my Star Wars campaign, and I had the player roll a D36, and as a result of that roll I assigned them a Plucky Reporter as an NPC contact. In plumbing the PC in to the game, it became clear to me that their NPC contact should be an investigative type, who gave the new character the

#ttrpg 2/?

#GM tip of the day - Worldbuilding Example
(The totally logical progression from introducing a new PC to the invention of a Mon Calamari death metal band)

I don't think my worldbuilding is THAT deep, but it does add up over the years. We're just about to welcome a new Mon Calamari PC

#ttrpg 1/?