jedmc.bsky.social
Northern NJ based Product/UX Designer who likes to fiddle with TTRPGs, printing presses, cassette players and other examples of technology from the 1900s.
Author/designer of ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ป๐ป'๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ and a few other bits and bobs.
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Both are justified through some vague economic or strategic rational, but really come from their nostalgic need to have the visceral experience of managing underlings. It's just for the right, it's a longing for a whole class of American factory workers to boss around.
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If you like that, check out another Nigel Kneale's teleplay: The Stone Tape.
youtu.be/WBmDANbhKTQ?...
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Maybe that is all the Koala is doing on Lower Decks... Gently helping random people look plorth* and see the stars at the center of the universe.
*Plorth is a direction in the upper dimensions that we can't access in merely three dimensions.
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Very much this. I realized I cannot play a board game unless I have a detailed backstory for my meeple. Why is my guy wanting to trade wheat for lumber? It's all part of a complex revenge plot due to being framed for murder 7 years ago...
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When you cut, you cut deep.
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I hope there will be stretch goals involving in-universe merchandise. A "Mystery Machine Supporter" coffee mug or tote bag would be delightfully meta...
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Guillermo del Torro
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After I learned about this, I began doubting whether Buffalo is real.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...
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That appears to be an excellent piece. ;) One question: your explanation of English Prime reminds me of the Ruler of the universe in *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe*. Might Douglas Adams have in fact been riffing on D. David Bourland Jr.? Thanks.
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"By the gods, she's over 9000!"
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The Copycats of Ulthar?
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50% chance for a medicine skill roll for a Doctor in normal practice probably qualifies as malpractice. That same 50% for medicine, if it is in the backseat of a Packard, while being pursued by tentacle things from the underground ruined city of Ig, is actually quite high.
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We have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas: drunken rioting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Seems like people noticed the phenomenon that those who live in drafty houses tended to die of illness sooner, well before they understood the cause.
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Clearly this is proof of your moral character. Your dream self refused to sell your lucrative delivery route in Celephaรฏs, causing him to resort to petty banditry. I can only conclude that you would never dream of selling out...
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I think @semajmaharg.bsky.social is right, it is supposed to be Bo-Katan's ship, at least the LEGO set version which has more blue.
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AKOะฏN?
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Having read that they are very sensitive to sound, I have set up a bluetooth speaker in the attic and have been streaming music up there to encourage the squirrel to relocate.
Today's morning mix is top K-pop Dance Hits of 2018.
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I really liked his short story collection Cascade Point. Several of the stories follow the crew of a Serenity-type cargo ship with well defined setting rules.
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Just don't go overboard...
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Same ..
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Lots of piracy & smuggling, as well as espionage & political maneuvering by the regional empires... sort of like the Pacific Ocean in the 1930s. (I have been watching a bunch of Tales of the Gold Monkey episodes recently.)
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No, I'll have to check it out; you recommended The Chamax Plague, Adrift, and Horde. But really, they seem to only want space horror in small doses. So I have them taking over a tramp cargo ship out on the Trailing Frontier, just over the border in the area of minor states and independent systems.
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I had forgotten a crucial GM skill: the art of the Editing Down the Setting to just what matters to the players, and then building it up again at the table.
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So I asked my players what kind of sci-fi they wanted to play, (Expanse, cowboy bebop, firefly, starship troy) and then pitched Traveller since it's all in there somewhere.
youtu.be/2J87QekxQVI?...
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But as I worked on this, I eventually remembered that Traveller in its original edition was setting-less, and in the 47 years since it was published it had every kind of sci-fi trope bolted on to it at one time or another.
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I had figured that my group didn't want to learn a giant new setting like the Third Imperium. We had been playing Alien since they loved every part of the Alien franchise except for the H. R. Giger bits... And if you take out the Xenomorph, you are basically playing Traveller.