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He “adventured” around the village with an 8-year-old girl whose mom had taught her one magic spell. (IIRC, “Light.”)
If you’re thinking that’s not very D&D, it wasn’t. It was a sorta freeform PbeM storygame set in a D&D world. Didn’t last long, but was a great time. I feel like there’s a LOT of systems to choose from if someone wanted to try a game in that mode or style today. And that’s a great thing!
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One of my favorite characters I’ve played in an RPG was a goblin who believed he was an Archmage, and that his magic was powered by turnips. (He had no magic abilities at all, but he believed so hard that nobody could convince him otherwise.) He also had a piece of paper that he was convinced was the title deed to a nearby magical forest. He couldn’t read, but proudly showed everyone he met.
(The document actually urged people to scam him or trick him into servitude, since he was “a gullible, useless moron.”)
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@GeekinKorea This is very, very #ElectricBastionland, at least the way I ran it.
(And there are more copies at Kiosk #472524, which is in the Student Hall, but when you arrive you find a note that the kiosk has been moved to the 5th floor of Building 85, which is… “The Pestilentarium.”) @GeekinKorea (And the pamphlet has, on the front, “AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, UNNECESSARY TRIPS TO THE PESTILENTARIUM.”) 😉
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“Full steam ahead!” declares the Captain.
“With all these icebergs around?” murmur the passengers. “Isn’t the ship still at risk?”
“Eh, most of you have lifejackets now.”
“Our kids don’t. And you can still freeze to death in a lifejacket!”
The Captain shrugs. “Let’s see.”
🙄 (Note: I’m in a place where the *vast* majority of people are not so moronic as to categorically refuse lifejackets. The lurch shamble toward premature renormalization is still terrifying, so I can’t imagine how it feels over in Antivaxlandia.) -
I updated this monster illustration for fun the other night while my son was watching Dino Dana. Still rough and not great, but it’s an improvement on the original rough sketch. Yes, that’s a flying bug w/a drill ringed by “hands”: product of a random creature-generating table. twitter.com/GeekinKorea/st…
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📹 Damn, this song is pretty astonishing: it’s from the POV of a whale being hunted. (And yeah, the sea shanty’s had a mini-renaissance during the pandemic, which is… interesting.) https://t.co/aPgKYvFdoX I’m sure there’s some Red Pill morons trying to claim the sea shanty as MANLY MUSIC or something. This song puts the lie to that. The songs were often about loneliness and sorrow and keeping on anyway. That’s why they hit a chord during the pandemic.
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@ImpChan @gideonstrauss @DorsaAmir If you’re outside Korea, this guy might be an easier source, I dunno:
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@ImpChan @gideonstrauss @DorsaAmir There are blanks available online, if you know how to use a Korean shopping site, like here:
https://t.co/AZJDy2cC1S
I’ve searched for years for actual dice with the markings on them, but can’t find them. (I hear there are some sold in Gyeongju, but haven’t seen them.) @ImpChan @gideonstrauss @DorsaAmir There are also lots of cheapo paper ones for folding and gluing together, mostly for kids math studies. But I linked a proper wooden one. (Not small, from what I can tell.) -
Why do Korean institutions so often make public announcements with screenshots of text instead of posting user-accessible text? Often the text isn’t ornamented or stylized or anything, it’s just a screenshot of text in some normal word processor font. Seriously, why do this? I assume nobody realizes (or cares) that this makes the announcement less accessible to a whole lot of people: blind/visually impaired people, people who need to put it through an autotranslator, even people reading it on a smaller screen & need the text to reflow. Why do this?
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Hm, trying to get my my audio interface set up with my desktop Mac… borked my entire audio system and I had to reboot and redo settings. I… guess I’ll wait till winter holiday and then put in a few days to really get a solid, multi-use setup in place. (I don’t want to have my audio setup unstable and depending on reboots and constant settings-fiddling, or fall apart since that’s sort of a core tool for work *and* socializing these days.)
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Book 48: Into the Aether by Richard A. Lupoff It’s a rollicking, absurdly creative proto-steampunk novel from 1974, written in what sounds like Mark Twain’s style. Unfortunately, immediate, overt racism of the characters and narrator made it almost unreadable (for me, anyway). https://t.co/X7CDPRpVtQ Book 49: The Starry Wisdom Library: The Catalogue of the Greatest Occult Book Auction of All Time edited by Nate Pederson is a great idea—the detailed catalogue from an auction of fictional Lovecraftian grimoires—but I’m enjoying it snippets, as suits the format.
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Book 46: Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber. Finally back to reading Fafhrd & Gray Mouser after many years. “The Cloud of Hate” makes it easy to see how Leiber inspired D&D, and “Adept’s Gambit” was interesting, but I best liked “Lean Times in Lankhmar.” https://t.co/ZqzvCGaBj5 Book 47: Scurry 3: The Shadow’s Curse by Mac Smith. This was a solid conclusion to this posatpocalyptic mouse adventure series, which ends with a promise of future adventures. I got it for my wife, who likes stories featuring small, cute creatures.
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Book 44: External Containment Agency written by Eric Brunsell and Michael Elliot. An odd-duck crowdfunded FitD game zine designed for playing games of paranormal investigation & bureaucracy. (Feels incomplete, has some odd rules.) https://t.co/ScyuPTnRJq https://t.co/ykuTlzIbBQ Book 45: The Nightless City: Geisha and Courtesan Life in Old Tokyo by J.E. de Becker. This (v. late 19th century) book started out vaguely interesting with (fair) scoldings of hypocritical Western moralists, but soon descends into lists and lists and lists plus minutiae.
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I… have no words.
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Wow, the setup for chords here is pretty cool, if a bit daunting…
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Somehow not reassuring, but also not surprising. I do wonder if, when he specifies, “foreign passengers,” that means Koreans aren’t scanned. Which… 🙄 twitter.com/maxsoeunkim/st…
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I am happy to see that my favorite restaurant in the country (which specializes in this dish, and is down in Jeonju) still uses the old name. It was run by a bunch of older women who clearly didn’t take nobody’s guff.
https://t.co/H9sR508VPh (That was a once-or-twice-a-year place to visit for a meal, at least till the pandemic. I highly recommend it, when the time comes, if the place is still around. I sure hope it is.)
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I remember when it was just called 닭도리탕 and angry nationalist dudes were the only ones who called it weird, made-up names like 닭볶음탕 or 닭매운탕.
Said angry, nationalist dudes sometimes shouted at anyone who used the word. Even me, when I was just reading it off a menu. (Their shoutiness led me to suspect that it probably was just folk etymology, like some people said. People with solid proof don’t usually shout and insult… they don’t have to.)
But they won that culture battle and now my students all seem to call it 닭볶음탕…
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@marc_laidlaw @flightofsand Yeah, honestly the subtitling was fine, it’s a hard job, it should pay better.
I also found this interesting—a take by someone who claims (believably) to be a foreign actor in Korea:
I’ve heard similar (and worse) from others over the years.
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@tweetsbymoi She’s doing more photography than creating, for now, but you never know…
Between her and the *real* nature books, and our son and the speculative biology picture books… there’s a lot of animal and plant imagery around the house. 🙂 @tweetsbymoi Oops, I mean more photography than drawing. (I was gonna say “more consuming than creating” but actually she’s been photographing a LOT of stuff lately on the mountain where our son goes to school.)
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@tweetsbymoi My wife has gotten very interested in nature illustration and photography and got a really beautiful book set including a whole volume on fungi, and they definitely that. @tweetsbymoi The Animal and Vegetable books got translated, but the Fungus one hasn’t yet, and she suspects it won’t, so she got the English volume for that one. They’re purdy.
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I mean, *of course* the (so-called) People’s Party of Canada is racist, but here’s some receipts.