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Rishi Sunak wades into debate over trans people, declaring no one can change sex in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So transphobes can just ignore gender as a concept and treat sex as all there is and you can't call them out because they are "technically correct"?

California workers will get five sick days instead of three under law signed by Gov. Newsom in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a post on some "ask"-community a couple of days ago with a question like "If you could live in a socialist country, would you?". And I think the implied socialism is something like this?

Mazes & Minotaurs reimagines Dungeons & Dragons with Greek mythology rather than Tolkienesque fantasy as its key inspiration. Free PDF downloads of rules, supplements, and adventures. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hahahaha lol. I don't fall often for that kind of thing, but they really got me. Thanks for the heads up.

Mazes & Minotaurs reimagines Dungeons & Dragons with Greek mythology rather than Tolkienesque fantasy as its key inspiration. Free PDF downloads of rules, supplements, and adventures. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't Mazes & Minotaurs the first ttrpg ever and therefore even older than OD&D?

Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well it must be true because the author is an expert of the topic! That and Yeezys I guess (https://fortune.com/author/david-mchugh/)?

Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh yeah, the "greentards" in form of a goverment consisting of CDU/CSU and FDP in the year 2011.

Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, einfach mal Fresse halten.

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"7 Maxims of the OSR" by Gus L. - All Dead Generations (alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com)
 

These days it feels like the Post OSR spends a lot of time reinventing things that people wrote on blogs in 2010, or stumbling into the same well known solutions and declaring they have "fixed" the play style.

Gus L. shares his thoughts around "7 Maxims of the OSR":

There's little help for this, and as much as introductions to OSR theory like Philotomy’s Musings, Matt Finch’s Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, or Milton, Lumpkin and Perry’s Principia Apocrypha are useful documents and helpful introductions, the majority of OSR wisdom exists as scattered blog posts and in the minds of people who have engaged with the play style over the past 20 or so years. People don't read blogs anymore, but even if they did ... these bloggers, designers, referees, and players have a tendency to fall back on maxims when asked to explain elements of the play style, and it’s not the most efficient way of communicating craft and knowledge.

Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I am sure it won't take long and then it will be available elsewhere.

Women in China are telling each other to bring their boyfriends to see 'Barbie' — and to use it as a litmus test for their thoughts on feminism and patriarchy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I think that analogy doesn't work a 100 %. But I guess you could say that the film explores something like that.

But go ahead and watch the film. I enjoyed it very much.

[The Gamer] Hey Hasbro, Please Don't Ruin Dungeons & Dragons With AI in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, I understand, that could be problem.

But they didn't produce a lot of content for Eberron and Spelljammer for quiet some time, did they? One could say, that that part of their IP has been shitty for some time already.

I just hope the hobby as whole grows and at the same time more people learn about other ttrpg stuff out there. That new Eberrons and new Spelljammers come to be.

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Between Two Cairns: Kavlov's Sanctuary (www.buzzsprout.com)
 

The "Between Two Cairns" podcast by Yochai Gal & Brad Kerr celebrates its one-year-anniversary. I've personally binged all of the episodes recently

This week they review "Kavlov's Sanctuary" by Jean Luc Lariviere-Lacombe, which might be interesting for @[email protected], who is working on an OSE conversion (more infos under https://hexed.press/posts/kavlovs-sanctuary-ose-kickstarter-announcement).

[The Gamer] Hey Hasbro, Please Don't Ruin Dungeons & Dragons With AI in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As with everything produced and brought to market by a (huge) company: the will ruin their product in the end (and might have done so already).

But that's not so terrible. 5e is pretty much an open game with a free license and there is a bunch of Indie RPGs out there and people are still playing (clones of) older editions of DND (I woupd advise anyone who hasn't heard about that to find out about it).

Useful android apps you are using? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sunshine is amazing. I can vouch for it. It's in active development and works really well.

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Mimics - Vaults of Vaarn (vaultsofvaarn.com)
 

New blog post by Leo Hunt on the Vaults of Vaarn blog:

I run a bi-monthly feature on the Vaarn Patreon called Monster Monday, where patrons get the chance to vote on spark words, which I then use as inspiration for new Vaarn monsters. A recent vote resulted in a tie between the spark words ‘echopraxia’ and ‘pareidolia’. These mean ‘an involuntary imitation or repetition of someone else’s actions’ and ‘the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern.’ For reasons I trust are obvious, these prompts got me thinking about mimics, creatures that copy something or someone else. What follows is part of the post I created for Patreon, a variety of riffs on the idea of a mimic.

You Can't Buy Physical-Only D&D Books From WotC Anymore in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I think after the original scare a lot of people want to be as independent and free from WotC as possible.

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