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False Histories And Further Confusions In Time (2018, oil on canvas) by Stephen Thorpe

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When you open a door and a pile of treasure is simply sitting there, what could go wrong? (J Wallace Jones full page illustration for "Treasures More Real" by Scott Williams, an article advocating for more goods and less coin in monster hoards, balancing the availability of valuables in the local economy, Dragon 168, April 1991)

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Wasn't there a tortoise/hare race at some point, where the son(s?) close to Istanbul tarried to celebrate or possibly fight, and in the meantime the son far away rode like hell and got there first and wore the sword of Osman and well, all hail the new Sultan, I guess. Did that happen or did I make it up?

I'm very bad at history.

you’re just jealous because dad posted me to a province right next to the capital so I can be the first to claim his throne when he dies, while your province is hundreds of miles away and all but guaranteed to lose to me in the oncoming civil war

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George Percy Jacomb-Hood - Under Lamplight, violinist performing in the street (1914)

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Dragon by Holly Lucero

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I love the in-universe myth that vulcans don’t lie. vulcans love lying. tuvok was literally a spy and spock kept every single detail of his personal life secret from his best friend for like a decade. vulcans love lying and they are so good at it

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You know that thing where you hear a word or phrase and your brain immediately catapults you into a song with similar words or phrases?

Every time I read or type the words 'Blades in the Dark', as I'm having fun with my new ttrpg book, my brain immediately starts playing Valjean's Soliloquy from Les Miserables:

Because of the line 'the cries in the dark that nobody hears, here where I stand at the turning of the years'.

Which is ... an interesting song to come up, when I'm reading a heist game. A song about a man who was imprisoned for 20 years for stealing bread to feed his family, and who has recently been let out and promptly robbed a priest, and was then spared by said priest and is now having a vicious moral breakdown over it.

Meanwhile over in Blades in the Dark, if you're having a moral breakdown over robbing a priest, you ... Okay. You're not necessarily in the wrong business/game, you're allowed to have your peccadillos over the choice of targets, but get it together, man!

Lets just say Les Mis and Blades are following two different trajectories regarding a life of crime. Heh.

(At least regarding Valjean. Thenadier would fit in just fine).

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long ago you summoned what was coming / it was creeping on a come up / now it's right up in your face / face it

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The trick to understanding tabletop RPGs which pride themselves on simulating reality rather than emulating genre tropes is that their designers' notion of "realism" is typically informed by popular fiction which bills itself as "realistic" – which is, itself, a genre with a discernible body of tropes.

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When you get to the station and the tram immediately appears this is a sign of favor from the genius loci of the city. You are advantaged today. You will not get caught if you perform minor crimes, etc. Behave accordingly

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guys this one was really hard everywhere in wales sounds so charming. please clap & reblog for reach!!!!