jonklement.bsky.social
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Mine is half-waray on her father's side. The Waray are a Filipino tribe historically known as a fierce warrior tribe. My amazonian warrior queen is snoozing.
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I was flowing with your metaphor until you mentioned fire. My mom started reading to me on her lap the day that I came home from the hospital as a baby. Been a book lover for 53 years and my mind recoils at the idea of books and fire together in the same thought. Books are precious.
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Does getting very comfortable with making things up as you go count as confidence? :)
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Since the 1990s, I have used the strategy of growing the group intentionally to more seats than is actually needed to have a survivable party. I like to have between 4 and 6 people, but I intentionally recruit the table up to 7 to 9. That way, up to half the group could be absent.
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My players would LOVE #Blindor. Last night, they visited an ancient, forgotten library that hadn't been entered for thousands of years. There were signs everywhere saying "QUIET: Don't disturb the librarian." The librarian is a penangedusa. She sleeps with her head attached until someone makes noise
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Leave it to a hobbit to find a food-related analogy to explain his feelings. :)
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When I was a teen, one of my high school teachers used to say "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." I used to hate that back in the day. I thought it was preachy. Now, I find myself thinking it and quoting it a lot. This post reminds me of that idea.
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If he's dragging them by their ears, they must be a barbaribunny.
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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That's awesome! I will use (at least) one in the next session of my table's 1e/2e D&D game in which the players go to any kind of swampy place. I work in Black Pudding stuff whenever possible. Recently, a PC acquired a Gretch as a familiar.
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This critter needs a stat block in Black Pudding.
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Accountability is an end, an end to corruption.
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"I got your description right here..." LOL
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I think your posts are the bee's knees, Daddy-O.
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As a DM, you just have to accept that players gonna player.
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To me, Black Pudding recaptures the feel of 80s D&D, when it could be silly and fun for the sake of silliness and fun.
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Too late, apparently.
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I've been doing the social media thing since the 2000's and the MySpace days. The thing that I've seen that holds social media back from being the kind of powerful discussion that you'd like to see is that sooner or later, discussion threads, no matter how well-intentioned, get infested with trolls.
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! Because in 2024, half of all Americans are "hateful, unrepentant racists". Half. 50%. 1 out of 2. The estimated population of the United States according to the 2020 Census was 331,449,281. So, over 160 MILLION "hateful, unrepentant racists" in America in 2024. Sure. Right