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History geek, RPG and miniature wargaming fan, GM for hire, parent. GNU Terry Pratchett
Let's talk nerdy, history, horror, movies, gaming and myth.
Happy to run a session for you. https://startplaying.games/gm/skuliver
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We used the pregens in our first play through of the campaign. They are a great place to start and ours all really took off and established their own character. Hardly remembered them as pregens after a bit.
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54mm plastic toy soldiers are not anywhere near the clean sculpts of most 28mm modern plastics. The proportions and anatomy of the ones I'm working on from BMC tend to make up for that. 28-32 mm tends to feature big heads and chonky fists. It takes a little getting used more proportioned models.
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TBH, history books. The Achaemenid Persian dynasty makes Game of Thrones look tame. It happened, it was not forever. New people both awful and good enter and exit the stage.
Also, painting toy soldiers. USMC WWII camo has a zen to it. I can't paint and freak out at the same time.
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Now wealthy sociopaths can learn the value of empathy when they are out numbered and their money is not going to save them. Gold only buys obedience, not loyalty, faith, honor or any worthy thing.
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Exactly 100% this. I let people know that I need to hear the how of the what before they roll the dice. I modify targets and results based on approach.
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You know, I get it now.
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Hey cool. Ravensburger has a lot of my favorite Washington grown gamer crafters. You got a nice ship to board there. Congrats.
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My Brother in Trek, will you be doing Deep Space 9. Because whoooo boy, does that show remain relevant to a lot we have going on just now.
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Shadowdark, Dragonbane and Dungeon Crawl Classics. All easy to learn, dynamic and roll to cast for magic.
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Great list.
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Zelinsky is more of a statesman than both these rubes combined. Trump looks lost and Vance is like a B movie day player.
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You don't have to be a better solution when you are the only solution. This was why we had anti-monopoly laws and lane dividers. Capitalism was supposed to be based on market choice. Freedom and Choice were supposed to be what made us better than the USSR.
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I don't often get to wargame, for that reason, I'm glad to play weird little indy things or "dead" games. I don't chase tournament meta in costly games which discourage tinkering and have reboots every 3 years. It's nice. Historicals are too. I mean, WW2 marines are not going to get retconned away.
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Would you consider adding postcards to your store? I do Postcrossing and would love to send some. I would also love it if you did Cryptid merch.
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There are Kiva user groups who coordinate to pick loans in need of direct mass support and together, the members help individuals and collectives to get over the line and on with their dreams which would be unreachable without this goodwill. There are days where that keeps me going.
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Not only empowering to those in need. Expressing agency through compassion is empowering for the lender. I am not alone. Scores of other people helped those in need pay medical bills, start businesses and rebuild after disaster and war. As loans are repaid, the funds go back out to do good work.
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Sometimes, what you can do to help in your own part of the world seems futile. You can't fund everyone. You are barely making it yourself. With interest free micro lending to other parts of the world, you can be part of transformative funding to those who have no other access to loans.
#Empowering.
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Later on, as the City Watch evolves, Ankh Morpork is better for the idealism of Reg and Carrot as well as the two sides of the bastard coin that is Vimes and Vetinari. A mixture of revolutionaries, idealists, cynics and ruthless practicality somehow all in the service of keeping the city going.