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my shop update is live and these sardine earrings are available! ✨🐟 made with vintage and salvaged beads

etsy

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so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

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Bright Morning - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -

Oil on canvas

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i started watching the x files

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Why You Should Try Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Part 6: PCs Are Not Just Mystery-Solving Automatons

This is part 6 of a multi-part series of posts about the awesome features of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, in no particular order.

Find the earlier parts here:

Part 1 Link: We Worked Hard on It!

Part 2 Link: It's Easy to Learn!

Part 3 Link: It's Easy to GM!

Part 4 Link: It's Easy to GM and Supports Narrative and Roleplay!

Part 5 Link: It Revolutionizes Investigation and Mystery Solving in TTRPGs

In earlier parts of this series, I talked about how Eureka guides and supports roleplaying. The investigation mechanics mentioned in the previous part are no more or less “roleplaying mechanics” than what I’m about to talk about, they encourage you to have your investigators investigate in an investigation RPG, but they aren’t supposed to be just mystery-solving automatons, they’re fleshed out people with lives, and the Composure mechanic is one of many mechanics that helps make them so.

“Composure” is a stat that every Eureka PC has. You can think of it as kind of an “emotional HP,” though it is not a “sanity” meter.

Every PC has a unique spread of Fears ranked on their “Tiers of Fear,” which is something you will get more into in character creation, and encountering these Fears can cause them to lose some of their Composure, with a higher chance of losing Composure the higher the Fear is on their Tiers of Fear. These are not always literal terror, it basically just describes how susceptible they are to certain stressors.

Deciding what they’re more or less scared of is great for fleshing out your PC’s backstory and personality, but Fears are not the only thing that makes them lose Composure. Going without food and sleep makes them lose Composure too, but getting food and sleep, as well as comradery, brings it back.

The lower a PC’s Composure, obviously the more agitated they will be, which helps with portraying them, but also has mechanical effects (which further help with portraying them). Under most circumstances, modifier for a skill roll can never be higher than their current Composure level, making them less effective at doing things as their hands start to shake and stress clouds their mind.

This further encourages you to have your PCs act like regular people, stopping to eat every once in a while and go home to get some sleep before continuing the investigation in the morning. It also means that, when the time pressure is on, they may run themselves ragged skipping meals and losing sleep to keep pushing the case.

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One of the reasons the walrus-versus-fairy thing was so contentious is that not only did the person who originally posed the question strongly believe the correct answer was obviously the fairy, their reasoning for why the fairy was obviously more surprising was that seeing a fairy would instantly refute the validity of human reason as a tool for understanding the universe and bring your entire worldview crashing down. The sensible response is, of course, to point out that people don't work like that, and realistically nobody is going to see something mildly inexplicable and fall to their knees wailing in existential despair unless we're living in an H P Lovecraft novel, but I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably pay money to read a story about a dude having a full on Lovecraft protagonist breakdown in response to seeing Tinkerbell.

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actually the show is called "House" because they break into every patient's house

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Shits so rough they're drawing and pennying me to save money on my execution

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Illustration from King Grimalkum and Pussyanita or, the Cats’ Arabian Nights. Written by Abby Morton Diaz - there are five illustrators listed and I don’t know who did this one. Palmer Cox, J. G. Francis, Lizzie Lawson, Morgan Sweeney, and Harrison Weir. 1881. Source.

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“Alexandria’s Genesis, a.k.a violet eyes (a genetic mutation).

When someone is born with Alexandria’s Genesis, their eyes are blue or gray at birth. After six months, the eyes begin to change from their original color to purple, and this process lasts six months. During puberty, the color deepens to dark purple, a deep purple, a royal purple, or a violet-blue color and remains that way. It does not affect the person’s eyesight. Those who have this mutation will never grow any facial, body, pubic, or anal hair (not including hair on their head, on their ears, noses, eyebrows and eyelashes). Women also do not menstruate, but are fertile”

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I love my Seikret and my Palico

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Botanical [ 8 colors ]

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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Because a post recently went viral on this topic, what determines the difference between a "burger" and a "sandwich"?

Is it the bread that determines a burger vs a sandwich, burgers have round buns while sandwiches have flat bread slices or long rolls?

Or is it the protein that determines a burger vs a sandwich, burgers have ground meat/veggie patties while sandwiches have the protein in literally any other form factor?

Also, I'm curious if this opinion is affected by regional differences:

Bread, North America

Bread, South America

Bread, Europe

Bread, Asia

Bread, Africa

Bread, Oceania/Antarctica

Meat, North America

Meat, South America

Meat, Europe

Meat, Asia

Meat, Africa

Meat, Oceania/Antarctica

No "other" or "results" button. Take a side. If you think bread or meat affects the definition in some other way than I described above, vote that side and then put it in the comments. If you think it's some other factor that determines "burger" vs "sandwich", pick whichever side you think is more valid, then put your alternative in the comments.

No "other" or "results" button. Take a side. If you think bread or meat affects the definition in some other way than I described above, vote that side and then put it in the comments. If you think it's some other factor that determines "burger" vs "sandwich", pick whichever side you think is more valid, then put your alternative in the comments.

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Is and continues to be my favorite dance video. Dude’s so unexpectedly fluid.

> High score! What happened? Did i break it?

> You don’t see too many YouTube videos from 2005..

Weird to think that was almost a 10 years ago.

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hatsune miku (real) (not clickbait) (at 3AM) (gone wrong)