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“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me” Carmilla, 1872.

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"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

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Today's aesthetic: when a cartoon does a flashback where the hero and villain are friends, except the villain already has their sinister skulls-and-spikes aesthetic before the Tragedy That Drove Them to Evil™, implying that those two things are unrelated and they just never outgrew their high school goth phase.

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I love chain lightening what a classic spell. fuck you and you and you and you and you and

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I've found myself quite drawn to the aesthetic of modern military urban fantasy shenanigans like you see in Tactical Breach Wizards, where plate carriers have runic protections and wizard staves are built into rifle frames, and I'm looking for an RPG that lends itself well to tactical military gameplay with a hard-flavored magic system.

At the moment I'm looking at cooking something up with Savage Worlds, but do you have a better idea?

I'm not sure if it's a better idea, but if you're feeling particularly old school, the exact intersection of sword-and-sorcery fantasy and military science fiction is squarely the comfort zone of GURPS.

(Indeed, much of GURPS' putative universality stems from the fact that a great many things people want to do with tabletop RPGs can be approximated as a reskin of sword-and-sorcery fantasy meets military science fiction. Not nearly all, but enough!)

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Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man

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I like Elden Ring's version of neoplatonism. The One can't just emmanate into reality, it actually has to embody the emanation and physically launch it from the firmament at the earth. That's awesome.

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Be honest, are you a bad person in any kind of way? I've been finding out about gross stuff that a bunch of blogs I really liked did and I feel icky :(

yeah in most ways. Good luck out there

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Running a one-shot adventure with pregenerated PCs, asking players to choose their characters based purely on prose descriptions without first seeing their stats, and waiting to see how long it takes for them to notice that everybody has been given the exact same character sheet.

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Curse of the Forever DM

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of course you have an eidolon. and the favour of aphrodite

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Downside of reading TTRPGs is running across TTRPGs I know I'd have more fun playing than running

I guess I should tool around making characters a little bit

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time to save the kingdom by spawning the bed during the boss battle to take a quick nap or whatever

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*hampster noises*

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The phrase "to put [someone] through the wringer" is, of course, referring to a laundry wringer, a formerly popular but now little-used home appliance that looks like this:

It's easy to understand why being put through one would be an ordeal!

So here's the question I have: for the folks who just found out from this post what a laundry wringer is, and have been spelling it "through the ringer" all this time, what were you picturing when you said "ringer"?

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Todays izutsumi: Covid struggles