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I finished a novel in 2005, tried to get it picked up by an agent for a year, and nada. In hindsight, that was good. It wasn't a great story. Basically just some folks do some stuff. No real theme. Nothing stand-out. I finished a different novel in 2009, tried to get it picked up by an agent...

Not quite the same vibe, but Carpenter Brut did the soundtrack for a movie called Blood Machines, which is sort of symphonic synths, which slides into metal at some parts.

Sorry, lol. I assumed it would censor all that. Obviously I'm just playing around.

naughty word if I know, you naughty word eating ass hole bitch.

That was an issue in Game of Thrones too, because a) the world has atypical seasonal changes, and b) they had young actors so I guess they didn't want to highlight that Arya grew up a lot in what canonically was something like 18 months over 8 seasons.

A key conceit of ZEITGEIST is that, unlike your typical D&D setting, you can't just pop over to the afterlife for a spot of tea to assemble a catalog of angels and such. People have theories about the rest of the universe, but it's unreachable, except for very brief manifestations. Some...

I think he was there for like a couple months. And I think the big turn happened when he finally gets his army . . . but only because a teenager outplayed him politically. He realized that he's BAD at being a leader. Like, it's character growth, and the supernatural stuff just highlights his...

Rocky gets knocked down. He's at 0 HP. His trainer yells at him, using Healing Word. Rocky gets up and keeps fighting. Call it a knockout save or something. At 0 HP, you're incapacitated but conscious, and you're struggling to rally the energy to get back into the fight. If you fail three...

I like the show. I'm sad Zaslav or someone else at HBO forced them to shorten it to 8 episodes instead of 10, because yeah, there's probably two more eps worth of stuff to really land a great ending. But as is? Solid season, if not as great as the first.

On the flip side of first aid being too fast, so is dying. If my heart stops, and you cast cure light wounds on me in the next two or three minutes, I should be able to be stable and alive without any brain damage. Bleeding to death with a couple failed death saves is too fast. Like, losing...

That fey titan family portrait is epic.

I think I must have been watching a friend play Dynasty Warriors when I worked on this adventure. I know the rules of D&D don't really work smoothly with 4 PCs versus 400 enemies, but naughty word it, you're high level. I want some epic carnage, so I say to you, well-done for making it work.

I'd say that they're probably already skimming some of the money from the tolls, so no, a bribe wouldn't work. But if the party is successfully intimidating, maybe they grumble and let the party get its way. Otherwise, after a brief fight makes the guards realize they can't easily boss the party...

The dragon with a mask made of lich inquisitors needed more oomph? I always thought I was being too mean with that one.

Hellcat spooked by wizard's cucumber.

Traveling brothel versus cursed caravan.

Oh, I love it! A new member of the Unseen Court. Oh, and the crown matches Aodhan's! Also good to have a powerful druid in the mix.

Oh, I love it! A new member of the Unseen Court. Oh, and the crown matches Aodhan's! Also good to have a powerful druid in the mix.

Well, the space opera isn't really planned at all. I started work on Adventures in ZEITGEIST in November 2019, but then in the summer of 2020 Russ decided to gather a diverse stable of writers to create Level Up, and that idea got a lot more interest than ZEITGEIST ever did. So we finished...

The short version is that you probably don't need to change anything in Death of the Author, other than a mention of apotropaic jade (which was a superstition before, but now actually has a mechanical effect to hurt malice beasts due to Amrou). To be thorough, though, Adventures in ZEITGEIST...