mytholder.bsky.social
He/Him. Novel THE SWORD TRIUMPHANT out May '25. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, A Different Unannounced Novel, Shires Out, Terraforming Mars rpg, other stuff.
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It's not pasta sauce. It's red chilli paste. He basically put one thing in a bowl, added sugar, and panicked.
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Fintan O’Toole’s WE DON’T KNOW OURSELVES, about Ireland in the 20th century?
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Was quite fiddly at times, some people didn't like that degree of success was independent of skill, and it couldn't handle large numbers of combatants.
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There was a thing where you rolled 2d6+skill+stat to see if you succeeded, but then picked one of the 2d6 as the effect of the success/failure, and the other as your speed. It worked really well at the table in small-scale encounters and embedded an interesting decision in each roll, but...
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I had a similar experience when I was doing the new version of Traveller for Mongoose, and yeah, it's fraught even when the feedback's positive. (In MGT's case, the final product got dragged back from my wildest design ambitions, but still ended up at a good point between innovation and tradition).
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YE OLDE LIVELIEST AWFULNESS
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It's called OF THE GREAT CHAIN BEING
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"In this next DELTA GREEN campaign, you're up against Yog-Sothoth, who's manifested as a finely interlinked mesh of rings that drives you mad if you look at it for too long"
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Ooh, nice.
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I assume they pilot giant robots codenamed ACUTE, OBTUSE, REFLEX and so on.
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Ooh that's fun.
And brings back memories of the BSG remake where they cut all the corners off paper.
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"What makes this basement sci-fi?"
"Goes beep-boop every so often."
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I love the idea of a sci-fi *basement*. It conjures up images of some poor BBC set dresser in the 1970s being told to make a brick tunnel under Broadcasting House "more spaceship-y", and him frantically tacking up corrugated pipes and tin foil.
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I assume it's like the A-Team only...
Actually I assume it's pretty much exactly like the A-Team.
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Strong Craft Sequence vibes
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If I draw a line between you and Kieron, that line is an isomichael.
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Could probably buy D&D from WotC, though, the way they’re treating it….
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Changing my name to Stretch McGoal.
Actually, no. That sounds weird.
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W/S theory is the new hot discourse.
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Roleplaying is playing the officers and burgomasters of a small European town under siege, anything else is a deviation from the form.
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THE ELUSIVE SHIFT or, HEY, I REMEMBER THESE ARGUMENTS FROM THE DRAGON MAGAZINE FORUM THEN USENET THEN THE FORGE THEN G+... AND NOW APPARENTLY FROM BEFORE I WAS BORN.
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That beautiful land with commanding views, the seas punctuated with little islands like dots, the piltcrows in flight until the heart can take no more and yells STET
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It would not.
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I don’t think I know that one
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CELEBORN SITS DOWN AND STARTS COMPLAINING ABOUT FOOD.
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Write "Mortage Payment due on the 15th" and send the note to one's muse.
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1) the cosmic horror is the wash. I am behind on laundry
2) You think I don't have an emergency tea supply?
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"One non-euclidian hypersolid or two? Actually, wait, they're uncountable, so your options are 'maybe none, we hope' or 'possibly infinite'.
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I suppose I could rephrase as "the mob gets tea and can then, if it wishes and probably will, ask for some cosmic horror on the side, like sugar."
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Hmm. Thing is, they don't want just tea, it's tea and cosmic horror. And while yes, tea gets offered as a matter of course, cosmic horror does not. It'd just be awkward if I did.
"Hello, aunt, cup of tea? Oh, and THE YAWNING VOID BETWEEN THE STARS SWALLOWS ALL HUMAN ENDEAVOUR AND LEAVES NO TRACE."
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LIVE
LAUGH
LOVE
SURVIVE
SCREAM
SPITE
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Not quite as pithy, I admit.
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“Do what you love and you’ll be locked in a weird co-dependent guilt spiral where you know you’re technically doing something you’d do as a hobby but gah now you’ve got to actually make it commercially viable and people tell you how wonderful and affirming it must be and you want to scream at them”