"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience." - Gary Gygax
03.02.2026 18:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@pulpherb.bsky.social
Writer, gamer, model railroader, rail fan. In general I like cats more than people. I post writing, cat memes, and general shenanigans. Stories: https://books2read.com/ap/nA70Ay/Herbert-Nowell
"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience." - Gary Gygax
03.02.2026 18:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
02.02.2026 17:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish." - Richard Feynman
01.02.2026 19:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Whatever the reason, running a role-playing game by the numbers is a crime akin to serving chips without salsa: Violators should be taken out and shot." - Alexander Macris
31.01.2026 18:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"In the end, what have we to exchange that matters, except stories of grace and courage, laughter and love?" - Brian Doyle
30.01.2026 18:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Rewriting is what happens when you return to a book after your creative process has run its course." - J. Daniel Sawyer
29.01.2026 17:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โWhat I care about is this: Stories change us. They create communities of people with shared memories.โ โ Orson Scott Card
28.01.2026 16:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This week Diversity & Dragons did an excellent overview. If you haven't seen the film I suspect you will want to after this.
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My mother's sister became bitter towards the end of her life which opened a space between her and my mother and myself to be honest.
I have many happy memories of times with her. Perhaps the best was the night she took me to see what remains one of my favorite films, Excalibur.
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โI believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. I want to always be a writer.โ โ Dean Wesley Smith
27.01.2026 18:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"I write this not for the many, but for you: each of us is enough of an audience for the other."
- Epicurus
"So we pray. Fame will come to some. Honor will come to all who work."
- Julia Cameron
"Scars remind us where we've been. They don't have to dictate where we're going."
- David Rossi in "Criminal Minds"
"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
- Abu Bakr
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."
- George Orwell
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
- Michael LeBouef
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else."
- Donald Knuth
"Validation is for parking."
- Austin Kleon
"Complain about the way other people make software by making software."
- Andre Torrez
"Find the most talented person the room, and if it is not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful."
- Harold Ramis
"If youโre the GM, itโs not your job to make sure people have fun."
- Alexander Macris
"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"For artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed."
- Honorรฉ de Balzac
โThe greatest wars are not fought with swords, but with choices.โ
- Dmytro Zyma
โPromiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature.โ
- John Milton
"We want to be reading stuff we can discuss with other people. The loneliest reading experience is to be in love with a new book and have no one to discuss it with."
- M. C. A. Hogarth
"Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement."
- Winfield Scott
โA motion to adjourn is always in order.โ
- Robert Heinlein
"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
- G. K. Chesterton
"Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca