Ned Stark is secretly Ronbledore.

Ned Stark is secretly Ronbledore.

And Jon Snow is actually Luke Skywalker

http://the-toast.net/2014/02/03/regret-pairing-ron-hermione-together-ron-time-traveling-dumbledore-jk-rowling-admits/

http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Jon-Snow-Twin-Theory-38237472

Which makes Hermione…?

http://the-toast.net/2014/02/03/regret-pairing-ron-hermione-together-ron-time-traveling-dumbledore-jk-rowling-admits//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

A #countercolonialheistcrawl bestiary (European players only).

A #countercolonialheistcrawl bestiary (European players only).

…the thing that gets me about this is that it was 1671. It’s a stretch to call these lands unknown by that date – at least, Spanish and Portuguese explorers had been working on knowing them for a good long while, and the Dutch and English had already fought two wars over who should get to wrest them away from the Iberians (and natives and whatnot, obviously).

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/arnoldus-montanus-new-and-unknown-world-1671///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Today’s Pokemon themes: discourses of slavery, patriotism and xenophobia.

Today’s Pokemon themes: discourses of slavery, patriotism and xenophobia.

…I have maybe been in America too long. I’m starting to pick up on the polite discourses around very impolitic issues and resent their polite expression. Somehow I’m turning into an obnoxious undergrad.

So who spotted the popular slave-owner’s discourse in this friendly granny’s pious protestation? Elsewhere in the same town, we hear stories about the awful things that happen to Pokemon without benevolent human attention.

Also, one can be charmingly embarrassed about having one’s home praised… as long as the praise doesn’t come from foreigners who are struggling to make themselves understood in your language.

#masterslavedialectic

Finally, The Real-ish Greg Gorgonmilk made me aware of the many faces of Captain/Ms Marvel, and thereby also of Tyger, and thus also Tyger’s tail-friendly, tooth-bedecked bikini.

Pokemon often blurs the lines between things, so you’re not quite sure what category of object you’re looking at – animal? Nightmare? Machine? Fetish object?

Before today I’ve never had to think much about whether a catwoman is a cat or a woman, but I guess if you really want to force the issue, putting a bikini on it works. But then you have the problem of bikinis not really fitting on cats. Solved!

And now I feel like a perv for studying that tail hole. Maybe that means it’s good art?

Joseph Manola I haven’t updated that Toxic Tartary page in a while – I made it when G+ Pages were a new thing, but…

Joseph Manola I haven’t updated that Toxic Tartary page in a while – I made it when G+ Pages were a new thing, but they’ve since moved to communities and collections so I post stuff just to my own feed/collections these days.

There is also a community, +Cult of the Tartary, to which Jason Kielbasa and Mateo Diaz Torres have been major contributors, with American Tartary and Pop Tartary respectively. That effort started up when we realized Tartary was being used as an adjective, so it’s a collection of links from around the web that seem Tartary to us. It’s obliquely kind of political, I suppose.

Got my Misty Isles of the Eld from Chris Kutalik and co – can’t wait until I can actually get time to read it!

Got my Misty Isles of the Eld from Chris Kutalik and co – can’t wait until I can actually get time to read it! On first flick through, I find myself simultaneously encouraged to finally write up the Tartary book and relieved of the necessity of doing so – I honestly don’t think I could do as good a job as Hydra have done here.

Here, I hope Hydra won’t mind my quoting for flavour:

A massive, shag carpet-lined, gilded sleeping egg sits here collecting dust (Zogg never sleeps due to his steady consumption of stimulant-jam).

….A massive, unattached buzzsaw blade and a pile of gears and widgets sit in the corner here. Zogg is totally going to get around to finishing it one of these days.

I kind of know how Zogg feels. If I were immortal there’s no saying how long those trap components would be left lying around.

Now available on Drivethru (check out the samples if you haven’t already)

http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2016/01/misty-isles-sample-pages.html//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Quizzical glance

Quizzical glance

Perhaps it’s possible to make a Last Word I’ll enjoy using the canonical ratios. Meantime here’s a variant I do like:

2 gin (brokers)

1/2 lime juice

1/2 guyana rum (el dorado 12)

3/4 green chartreuse

dash of absinthe

stir, up. 

alas

alas

Originally shared by Anthony Zana

[A Willing Foe, Indeed.,That Much Less Sea to Room]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I am, of course, very sad.

The fact that it’s happening 3 years-to-the-day after the Reader shutdowns adds special pain.

I fear we are seeing the long, slow death and independent websites, outside of walled gardens and networks.

I fear long form content on the net is slowly becoming endangered and anything that doesn’t fit into a tweet, vine, listicle or animated GIF won’t be able to reach critical mass.

(To say nothing of pro-feminist content, targeted at a general audience).

I am, however very glad that the archives will exist “until the heat death of the universe”

If you haven’t followed the toast closely, you should read through them. It’s the most consistently funny (and sometimes sad, and sometimes insight) website I’ve ever followed.

I hope all of the contributors keep making awesome things that find there way to me.

I will of course, continue my syndication duties until the last moments.

Suggestions to fill the buttery, toast-shaped hole in my heart are most welcome.

http://the-toast.net/2016/05/13/we-are-closing-the-toast-july-1st//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Paolo Greco check out the comment stream here.

Paolo Greco check out the comment stream here. Dammit I think I should get my proper work done but maybe I really have to clear CORSICA out of the way, and if CORSICA is not Tiki then maybe that helps focus what it still needs.

Originally shared by Scott Martin

TIKI SEASON

Scenes from adventure module TK-2, Night Tide in the Vaults of Va-Voombis, which the files say is by Curtis Harrington and George Haas. Any more information on this one? It seems to be all about a oddly louche satanic collector network, this one chasing extremely rare sculptural mugs that “do” things.

readymade dungeon: the stony thought-forms of past tyrannies.

readymade dungeon: the stony thought-forms of past tyrannies.

I think I’d go Vancian: if East Germany has had half a dozen of these over the past 150 years, imagine what untold ages would produce. A full tarot deck of toppled murderers.

Adopting 💙Reynaldo Madriñan #oozymandias tag.

Originally shared by Andres Soolo

If you liked the story of the Hauptmann of Köpenick, you might also appreciate the story of the Haupt from Köpenick. It’s Lenin’s, and it’s hard as granite.

Just the head of East Berlin’s most controversial statue has been put on display again, but he is still the star of a challenging new exhibition in the German capital, Unveiled, that examines how political memorials from one era are dealt with in the next.

Normally such works are hidden away in art depots and other historic memory holes. But the seven ruptures in Germany history between 1871 and 1989 have ensured a rich, fascinating haul for the exhibition’s curators and for visitors to the exhibition in a historic fortress on Berlin’s western city limits.

Strolling around the show is like being a guest at an AGM of obscure, slightly vandalised Prussian dignitaries. Kaisers without noses, dukes without arms, a round table’s worth of sword-wielding knights – and no women in sight.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/hello-lenin-head-of-controversial-statue-returns-to-public-display-1.2626543//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Aspirational thoughts for Tartary’s orphaned mongrel robots

Aspirational thoughts for Tartary’s orphaned mongrel robots

Originally shared by Benjamin Baugh

Cogsworth, what am I going to do with you?

When you’re not wandering into my scope, when I’m lining up a brilliant 200 meter shot and getting a .308 up the nozzle, you’re very helpfully catching any throwables I might drop in the direction of advancing raider scum, and causing both of us to then be on fire.  And why do you hate radstags so much?  You fly off randomly, to butcher them violently while bloatflies are vomiting maggots onto my actual face . 

Your only saving graces are that you can carry a hundred pounds of random salvage, you don’t need stimpacks to get back up, and I have no emotional connection to you, so can happily send you into ghoul infested ruins to flush them out for me.  I care about you as much as I care about my blender, you ridiculous appliance. 

Maybe I need the robots DLC to make you not shit.  I don’t know. 

But right now, you’re pretty shit. 

Oh Mallory, always so good.

Oh Mallory, always so good.

“We don’t pay taxes,” Hermione said. “Taxes are for Muggles.” She extinguished her cigarette in the last slice of cake.

“But you’re –” Harry started.

“I used to be a lot of things,” Hermione said decisively. “I have money now instead.”

Originally shared by Kristian Köhntopp

http://the-toast.net/2016/05/11/the-first-line-of-every-fan-fiction-i-have-started-writing-once-i-found-out-emma-watson-was-named-in-the-panama-papers///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Because Jensen Toperzer reminded me of the farang statues in Wat Po, Bangkok (which formed, probably, the first…

Because Jensen Toperzer reminded me of the farang statues in Wat Po, Bangkok (which formed, probably, the first stirring of a thought about Counter-colonial Heistcrawl when I saw them), here are the Cthulhu-bearded Chinese (?) guardians from the same Wat.

This is how I’ll do monster manuals from now on. You don’t need me to write any stats, do you?

this is so, so much my thing.

this is so, so much my thing.

cf. Simon Patterson’s The Great Bear:

https://georgesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/the_great_bear.jpg

….currently resisting the temptation to do ones for Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh. The displacement, it is strong.

Originally shared by Mara Mascaro (Phiria)

 NES Subway Maps project

by Matthew Stevenson

http://dcmjs.com/portfolio/gamemaps

You can buy the posters here:http://www.redbubble.com/people/dcmjs/collections/475169-nes-maps

look at that, it’s the metal cylinder the PCs found buried in the desert!

look at that, it’s the metal cylinder the PCs found buried in the desert!

They loaded it onto the back of their spidermech and drove it to a gas crater where they provoked an explosion so dramatic that for a while they thought they’d nuked themselves (actually just an FAE).

http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/fae.htm

Originally shared by Bryan Alexander

A fascinating 1970s post-apocalyptic survival game, delivered via audiotape + role-playing:

via @BernieDeKoven

http://www.aplayfulpath.com/humanus/

http://www.aplayfulpath.com/humanus//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Adam Thornton goddamn but Last Call is a hard book to read out loud.

Adam Thornton goddamn but Last Call is a hard book to read out loud. So many characters so badly damaged, needing funny voices that betray horrible strain. I’m trying to imagine who I would cast in it (I’m not always convinced Powers’s books would make good movies, but this one definitely has it). Tom Waits, natch, but not as Scott Crane – maybe as Ozzie, so that you don’t automatically trust him or his superstitions. Harry Dean Stanton as Mavranos, Geoffrey Rush as Doctor Leaky, John Noble as either Richard LeRoy or Art. Not sure who Scotto or Diana should be. 

I’m just up to the second assumption game, where Scott’s stacking the deck.

so I’m reading the Carcosa Wacky Races rules again for the first time in a few years, trying to help my son…

so I’m reading the Carcosa Wacky Races rules again for the first time in a few years, trying to help my son understand them, and noticing that yes indeed they are very far from ready for public consumption: the eulg gun (the opposite of glue – it separates things) has no mechanics written up at all. Another thing just says it “renders things explosive.”

I am also, to my shame, chuckling at my own forgotten jokes.

But I think dammit it should see the light of day. And maybe even before I get my book on ships published. Paolo, are you still up for it?

health and safety.

health and safety.

Guys, you’re on a true run, this can happen at any time. And yes, the run is the most calming of all attitudes to the wind, just pushing along happily, no leaning over, no choppy bow waves, but here’s the thing you have to watch out for. Don’t be, like, standing in the path of the boom looking away from it wondering if you can get that jenny to gull wing a bit better because for once you’re on a true run.

#asg

#countercolonialheistcrawl

Originally shared by Panah Rad

Saw this before … could have been worse 🙂

you know how it’s sometimes argued that the Hiroshima bomb might have saved lives, by forestalling a long and bloody…

you know how it’s sometimes argued that the Hiroshima bomb might have saved lives, by forestalling a long and bloody land invasion of Japan?

Has anyone ever written a science fiction story of the 20th century without nuclear weapons – like what if these things hadn’t appeared?

Off the top of my head it seems like the 2 superpower thing would’ve been more contested (even by WW2’s exhausted survivors) and therefore more unstable. I’m trying to imagine what the partition of India would’ve been like. Would we have had an inevitable WW3 by the 70s?

Anyone have any links/thoughts?

“If this vision is realized, a visit to the family doctor in a decade’s time might end with a prescription for a…

“If this vision is realized, a visit to the family doctor in a decade’s time might end with a prescription for a tasty Nestlé shake for heart trouble or a recommendation for an FDA-approved tea to strengthen aging joints. The company would expand from the vending machine and supermarket to the pharmacy, doctor’s office, and hospital.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-05/nestl-s-sugar-empire-is-on-a-health-kick//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Things that are sort of creepy about Pokemon HeartGold or maybe I’m the creepy one I can’t even tell:

Things that are sort of creepy about Pokemon HeartGold or maybe I’m the creepy one I can’t even tell:

The biggest challenge in the whole first half of the game is a female Pokemon that renders your male Pokemons useless by using Attract on them. Attract causes Infatuation, which means the target Pokemon is “immobilized by love.”

The mesmerizingly attractive Pokemon is a cow, or in Pokespeak a Miltank. That is its name and its primary out-of-battle function – it provides moomoo milk.

……so all your male Pokemon are so distracted by the appearance of milk tanks that they cannot defend themselves.

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/1/13/241Miltank.png/250px-241Miltank.png//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

The Pokeguru Turban is an item of almost unbearable majesty and weight.

The Pokeguru Turban is an item of almost unbearable majesty and weight. Not only does it keep Pokemon up to lvl. 70 cowed and intimidated, it can act as a roosting platform for flying and bug types.

When found, it contains 1d20 dormant Pokemon, lodged deep within its folds. Each can be tapped for its powers, so that the turban can be used as something like a Wand of Wonder, but each time a power is used the Pokemon in question has a 50% chance of breaking free. If it can be befriended, it will follow and serve the turban’s wearer. Only one Pokemon may follow at a time. If another is released, the two mystical creatures must battle to the death before the newcomer can decide if it wants to follow.

Chixi’lu the Melter, multi-coloured Carcosan sorcerer

Chixi’lu the Melter, multi-coloured Carcosan sorcerer,

https://lurkerablog.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/carcosan-racing-hazards-1/

was able to take out people’s essences and whip them into frothy glass towers in the desert. He used to work for the Mad Archmage of Ashgabat who, like all the other Tartary sorcerers, is intent on getting into space where he knows the real action is.

He was trying to use the soulglass towers as a kind of propellant, sitting his throne on top and sacrificing his victims from cages below, but his experiments were strictly limited by the number of bodies he had to carry with him, in order to keep making his towers higher.

Out in the wastes of Otrar, he hit on a new idea and went independent with it: he could use women’s unfertilized eggs to radically increase the essence output (and anger American political theologians). So when the racers passed through, he was using his yellow belts of Choison to attract and command all the women of the area. He performed hysterectomies on them, de-souled the women themselves, and removing a hand or foot to mark them as processed (his own ability to recognize whether a body contains a soul having been, by this time, badly eroded).

That was the reason the racers kept running across floods of L(obotomized) A(mputee) Women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskztPPSJwY

Yellow Belts of Choison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvdO3l4_P8

https://lurkerablog.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/yellow-belts-of-choisen/

If anyone had explored those glass towers out in the desert they could have encountered him and potentially got both his throne (a decent CWR vehicle in its own right) and his spellbook. As it was, I think the players were sufficiently creeped out and focused on getting ahead of each other that they just tried to avoid him. When he finally showed up at the end the collective fusillade they turned on him was enough to vaporise the man, his chariot and his empty-eyed harem. Only the Belts survived, minus the rituals that boosted them into broadcast mode.

https://lurkerablog.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/red-figure_original_large.jpg//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

So my eldest is planning to run Carcosa Wacky Races for his schoolmates.

So my eldest is planning to run Carcosa Wacky Races for his schoolmates. He’s got 5 players so far, currently undecided on running the original course or some new variant. I really want to know how it turns out.

I might edit out the L(obotomized) A(mputee) Women, though. Not school appropriate, I think.

….in fact now I come to think of it… I should take a long hard look at the whole thing…

https://lurkerablog.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/carcosa-wacky-races-signup///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

James Raggi described As Above, So Below as “an unabashed freakout of a dungeoncrawl with rather abnormal…

Originally shared by Martin Ralya

James Raggi described As Above, So Below as “an unabashed freakout of a dungeoncrawl with rather abnormal dungeoncrawlers (including one that goes by the name Siouxsie the Banshee). Total LotFP movie.” And he was totally right! Thanks, James.

If weird-ass, claustrophobic dungeon-crawling horror is your jam, this is good stuff. In some ways it also reminded me of a DCC funnel.

weirdly they all find themselves irresistibly drawn to Antarctica

weirdly they all find themselves irresistibly drawn to Antarctica

Originally shared by Chris McClelland

Because of course there’s no way this could possibly go horribly, horribly wrong.

I think I’ll just go and check on my zombie-apocalypse survival-kit…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/03/dead-could-be-brought-back-to-life-in-groundbreaking-project/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/03/dead-could-be-brought-back-to-life-in-groundbreaking-project//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

How did I not know about this? An early printed book in which:

How did I not know about this? An early printed book in which:

1. our hero has to go on a pointcrawl through the dreamlands chasing (what else) his lady love

2. the lady love gives us a critique of the hero’s lunacy and shortcomings, making her a dream protagonist who is aware of things the dreamer himself is not

3. all that is solid melts into air. In 1499. English translation by Joscelyn Godwin, from whom one can still occasionally get lectures on Atlantis myths.

h/t Scott Martin 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

#trumppredictions

#trumppredictions

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger

As of today, the second seal has been broken and a rider on a red horse has come forth Donald Trump is essentially the guaranteed Republican nominee for president. Let me give some predictions of what’s going to happen next:

(1) People will start to argue harder and harder that Trump isn’t really that bad, and he doesn’t actually mean all the things that he says. Even while you’ll never hear this from his campaign, it’ll be a major theme among commentators, especially those tied to the Republican establishment. 

The main thing driving this will be cognitive dissonance: if you believed that the American public had just nominated a not-particularly-crypto-Nazi, then you would have to conclude that the people around you are either evil or fools, and that’s not something nice to think about. But if he’s not really that bad, then it’s OK. The second thing driving this will be the underlying urge of many disaffected (white, working or middle class) people to support him and the things he actually says; if you’ve got a narrative where it’s not really that bad, it’s fine to vote for this, then you can feel more comfortable considering it. And the third thing (affecting mostly professional politicians and media heads) will be simple professional party loyalty; the cost of defection away from a nominated candidate, in terms of career and so on, is just too high.

(2) You will hear a strong campaign from the Republican establishment (not Trump) that Clinton is the Devil and must be beaten. They won’t be able to put together a clear story of why; to be honest, almost nobody ever has been able to. It’s become so reflexive to see her this way that people have forgotten where it started. (That’s not to say that Clinton isn’t deeply flawed, but none of those flaws have anything to do with the weird conspiracy theories that will be circulating) 

This is mostly a way for the people in the establishment, the ones with the most dissonance to deal with, to focus themselves on saying “not Clinton” so they don’t have to spend too much time saying “yes Trump.”

It’s going to be an incredibly nasty campaign, but that shouldn’t surprise anyone.

(Yes, Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee. I know Sanderistas can come up with arguments until the cows come home about how it’s still perfectly statistically possible for him to win 64% of the remaining pledged delegates or somehow convince all the superdelegates to join him but… no. There is no way that actually works. Sanders gets to shift the party platform but he has no serious chance of being the nominee)

And if, God forbid, Trump were to be elected? I suspect that we would find that he is quite an honest man after all, at least insofar as he has no incentive to lie. I suspect that his promises about immigrants will quickly become a priority for him, with a certain amount of reality gating. Things we’d actually see:

(1) Punitive taxes and/or seizure of remittances abroad. This would cause massive economic disruptions all over the world (about $125B per year, most of it going to poor communities) and would probably ultimately be moderated in some way, but not before causing tremendous pain and chaos.

(2) Laws demanding strong proof of citizenship to work, and enforcing severe penalties against employers who violate them. These would cause a different kind of chaos, because a good quarter of citizens don’t actually have such strong proof. Presumably offices would be set up to help people get that, and deployment of the law would be staged — but that assistance would be sharply canted towards white communities. The intent, and effect, of the law would be to cause mass unemployment among Latino and Black communities. This would, indeed, cause many to flee the country, but even more to be dropped into extremely dire straits. I have no idea how this would play out.

(3) Laws enforcing Draconian penalties against anyone who helps people without knowing their immigration status. This would run into actual trouble for Trump once it started to affect better-organized churches; the Vatican may actually end up being a major counterforce, and this might have long-term consequences.

(4) Laws restricting employment of legal immigrants in various ways. Not in service industries, but in places where a demonstration of nativism will be politically useful. This will often be used as a negotiating tactic against businesses.

(5) Actual wall-building might start in a symbolic fashion, but the absurd logistics of it would prevent anything other than a flashy display.

Of course, none of this even starts to deal with his plans to institute trade wars with both China and Mexico (two of our three largest trading partners), or the effects that would happen when the leaders of politically savvy rival countries (e.g., China) realize that he can easily be goaded into foolish moves. Or what might happen if someone else (e.g., Kim Jong Un) tried to rattle sabers; I doubt that he has any deep understanding of just why the US hasn’t tried to blow up North Korea in the past. (Answer: we could do it, but in the process South Korea would be turned into rubble, and Japan would probably lose a city or two. And it might escalate into a full regional war.)

So even though I anticipate several months of people telling me how he really isn’t that bad, and of the curious experience of seeing a politician’s supporters get exasperated and angry (“you’re not repeating that old lie again!”) when I suggest that their candidate might be honest, I don’t think that just because he’s the nominee, he’s suddenly going to change his white sheets stripes.

here’s the place nobody goes in science fiction movies: zero anonymity means that anyone sufficiently morivated can…

here’s the place nobody goes in science fiction movies: zero anonymity means that anyone sufficiently morivated can find you at any time.

Government officials are never the most motivated. Police departments neverr have enough resources, but stalkers are famously focused and determined.

Originally shared by Kristian Köhntopp

From the “Naked Security? I see what you did there”-Dept: »Jetzt wissen wir, wieso der Typ eine Maske auf hatte! Aber wieso lag da Stroh?«

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/02/facial-recognition-used-to-strip-sex-workers-of-anonymity///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Have been thinking of writing a satirical post about how we, as Nice and Tolerant gamers, must tear the heads off…

Have been thinking of writing a satirical post about how we, as Nice and Tolerant gamers, must tear the heads off the Intolerant Asshole gamers and shit down their necks, but

a) anti-meme promotion is still meme promotion

b) the rhetoric flying around is such that I’m not sure I can write it strongly enough for it to be obvious that it’s satire.

In particular, directing people to Himmler’s One Good Jew speech will probably be misinterpreted.

encumbrance solved

encumbrance solved

If you say something like “I get out my 30′ drain probe” and everyone around the table goes “oh come on” then your movement rate is cut in half. If you argue about it and say “no look it’s right here on the character sheet” your movement rate is halved again.

#ockhamsheartbreaker

Quite a resume

Quite a resume

Originally shared by Alex Scrivener

I almost forgot it is the feast of Saint George! Patron Saint of: agricultural workers; Amersfoort, Netherlands; Aragon; archers; armourers; Bavaria, Germany; Beirut, Lebanon; Bulgaria; Bulgarian Army; Cappadocia; Catalonia; cavalry; chivalry; Constantinople; Corinthians (Brazilian football team); Crusaders; England; equestrians; Ethiopia; farmers; Ferrara; field workers; Freiburg, Germany; Genoa; Georgia; Gozo; Greece; Haldern, Germany; Heide; horsemen; horses; knights; lepers and leprosy; Lithuania; Lod; London; Malta; Modica, Sicily; Montenegro; Moscow; Order of the Garter; Palestine; Palestinian Christians; Piran; Portugal; Portuguese Army; Portuguese Navy; Ptuj; Reggio Calabria; riders; Romani people; saddle makers; Serbia; Scouts; sheep; shepherds; skin diseases; Slovenia; soldiers; and Teutonic Knights

So, I’ve been a big Prince fan – had all his records up through Lovesexy, even liked some stuff on For You, bootlegs…

So, I’ve been a big Prince fan – had all his records up through Lovesexy, even liked some stuff on For You, bootlegs of Minneapolis Genius etc etc.

But. He goes into an elevator alive. Doors open: dead.

I see a GURPS Time Travel/Alternate Earths adventure, at least. Possible Time Lord involvement? Multiple Prince coccoons? Did we let our subscription lapse?

So very very #gameable guys.

A lethal drug-mixing operation called “The Apothecary Shoppe” which also might be the name of a novelty ice cream…

A lethal drug-mixing operation called “The Apothecary Shoppe” which also might be the name of a novelty ice cream store at Disney World. Bonus Tartary points because

-they were illegally selling testosterone

-they were keeping drugs in a blue Igloo cooler instead of a freezer

-other states are trying to keep their drug compounding firms a secret

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismcdaniel/pharmacy-that-mixed-execution-drugs-is-being-sold-after-disc#.stAG9rW48//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

I think one of the best fallout things is random radio comments.

I think one of the best fallout things is random radio comments. I think sex advice columnist would be a great ad to AM Tart.

Sub table of whether his advice and columns were true would be great.

Another table for rumors for PCs to interact with this. 

Text box titillation that the people in the game followed would be a fun thing.

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soliciting names

soliciting names

1 lemon (yellow)

1 LS navy rum

1 LS Polynesian rum

1/2 chartreuse

1/2 falernum (Taylor’s Velvet)

hard shake, up.

6 drops absinthe; watch the lemon scurry!

#illadvisedcocktails

also on the docket tonight: Imperial V

2 Uncle Val’s gin

1 lemon

1 aperol

dash of maraschino

“To reminisce, digress or inform?

“To reminisce, digress or inform? To reveal, portray or exonerate? For whom and for why? Sleeve-notists often make this query in the form of rampant bollo. Others have written two lines of six words each nicely spaced without punctuation.”

Ian Dury, sleevenote to his greatest hits, 1999.

Probably of no use but maybe some consolation to James Raggi

Easter Wings

Originally shared by Evey Lockhart

Easter Wings

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BY GEORGE HERBERT

Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, 

      Though foolishly he lost the same, 

            Decaying more and more, 

                  Till he became 

                        Most poore: 

                        With thee 

                  O let me rise 

            As larks, harmoniously, 

      And sing this day thy victories: 

Then shall the fall further the flight in me. 

My tender age in sorrow did beginne 

      And still with sicknesses and shame. 

            Thou didst so punish sinne, 

                  That I became 

                        Most thinne. 

                        With thee 

                  Let me combine, 

            And feel thy victorie: 

         For, if I imp my wing on thine, 

Affliction shall advance the flight in me. 

I am not religious, but that’s a good fucking poem.

Also, I wrote a poem.

James Smith is asking about character classes, reminding me how ignorant I am of dnd’s later history.

James Smith is asking about character classes, reminding me how ignorant I am of dnd’s later history. I played bx and 1e when I started, then a lot of other games – CoC, Gurps, James Bond, Ars Magica. I never went back to dnd until this OSR business, which has been bx clones plus some crazy house rules.

…so these days I mostly ask fighter or magic user? And everything else is being tricksy in one way or another – sneaking or trick shots or mountaineering.

The other classes I’m interested in are methods for breaking the game one way or another – shoggoths, pokemon charmers, blue mages. Not gradations between F and MU.

Is anyone else in the same boat? Is this a common OSR attitude?