Elaine

joined 2 years ago
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Sega Bodega - Deer Teeth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My cat will beg for a little taste of refried beans when I have them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I love frijoles negros 🖤

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Astropical - Bomba Estéreo + Rawayana. Every song on the album is good and will make you wish you were on a beach.

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Broke up with a really cute, fun person because they didn’t take care of themselves and I couldn’t see that going well in the future. They died of a stroke a couple years later.

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Four. Sign language, Mandarin + Mandarin hand signs, Spanish, English - and yes, I do use the other languages to entertain myself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Early aughts in international relations class they were still teaching students about China being a “sleeping giant” just beginning to come into its own economically speaking. At the time it was emphasized that they had a huge army but it was not well trained in combat. Tianamen and the transition of HK were in the very recent past so it seemed China was more interested in managing internal divisions than challenges on the international front.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This happened last game sesh! I was ready for them to be confronted by my badass NPC only to be reminded they had already befriended him several months ago.

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Cheech Marin at an art show/book signing. He was every bit as affable as I had hoped.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So it wasn’t just my mom.

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About six months ago I talked to @[email protected] about home brewing games set in Ancient China. Last night I finally debuted my game - The Scroll of Hengdian. If you like CDramas the name may be familiar as Hengdian Studios is where many series are filmed. My game is based on the Castles and Crusades game system so I could leverage the Codex Sinarum. The codex goes deeper into the actual history of China than my game does, but it is still very useful for this setting.

My TTRPG is xianxia-based so I created a new 'cultivator' class for all of my players. The differentiation really comes with the clan and domain choices that give access to magic based on elemental aspects and creature choices.

I borrowed heavily from the Codex Sinarum to develop the Qi abilities for my characters since that was the heaviest lift for me in terms of developing a new class that is a blending of fighter + wizard/cleric/illusionist. My players chose a blend of human and spirit based cultivators which gives me plenty of nuggets to develop additional qigong abilities.

In terms of content, my players are starting as young cultivators who have met at a sect that has invited them to cultivate and achieve their first level. I also took a random suggestion I saw a while back about creating a Star Trek TNG "Q" type dragon character (Die Lan Zi - iykyk) that occasionally comes around to mess with the party.

 
 

My old buddy enjoying snack time.

 
 
 

He’s here to ask for a bite of my sammich.

 
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