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    Semi-sensible thousand-year plans?

    I think the Long Now Foundation designed a clock that's designed to operate on a timescale of about a millennium without needing winding, charging, or repair
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    D&D General Languages suck in D&D.

    I like to lampshade it by imagining that the racial languages are hardcoded by the creator gods and that "common" isn't a single language but a set of pidgins that are mutually intelligible with each other because they're all derived from mashing up the racial languages (which is also why...
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    [Creative Exercise] Worlds in a word, planes in a paragraph

    I had an idea pop into my head this morning for a Jovian moon named Ensalada which is made of iceberg lettuce (a parody of the real jovian moon Enceladus, whose surface is a giant iceberg floating on a planetwide sea). Could work as a gag in a Toon game.
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    Any ideas what to run for the ides of March

    Two adventures, in sequence 1.) A dangerous charismatic man is gathering power to overthrow the Republic and make himself emperor. He must be stopped or the world will be plunged into 1800 years of darkness 2.) The tyrant is dead but the work is not done. In order to save the republic the...
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    [Kobold Press] State of Play: shipping changes threaten the hobby

    Are you talking about the publisher/seller storing itmor are you talking about having your personal copy in cloud storage? Because if it's the latter than the easy solution is to just store it locally. SD cards are pretty cheap nowadays
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    [Kobold Press] State of Play: shipping changes threaten the hobby

    In theory, but in practice the free exchange of information over the internet is hamstrung by IP law. To borrow something legally for free is probably going to involve some kind of DRM that doesn't work and prevents you from properly reading it at all.
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    Triple Feature (+)

    It had Nothing to do with the series *Doctor Who *Super Mario Bros (1993) *Rescue Rangers What The Hell did I just watch *Eraserhead *Naked Lunch *Let's Visit the World of the Future
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    Any ideas what to run for the ides of March

    Why are all of these suggestions pro-Caesar? Just do an adventure where you play a bunch of assassins.
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    You're approached by a Hollywood exec...

    I'd like to see some of Greg Egan's stuff made into films
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    Triple Feature (+)

    Warhammer but not *Dune *Hellraiser 2: Hellbound *Event Horizon Helpful rodents *Cinderella *Ratatouolle *Willard Surreally Sensual Horror *From Beyond *Lair of the White Worm *The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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    Triple Feature (+)

    Inspired by Ed Gein *Psycho *Texas Chainsaw Massacre *The Silence of the Lambs True Crime Comedies *Live Freaky Die Freaky *Burke & Hare (the middle slot would be better served by one that's also a musical like the other two, but I can't think of one) *Cannibal: The Musical Living Dead...
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    D&D General The Original Reason for Spell Components: Balancing Bad Jokes

    I still think the steel production explanation makes more sense
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    Triple Feature (+)

    Goofball Parofies of Paranormal Activity and of 2010's horror and suspense *Paranormal Movie *A Haunted House *30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Brooksfilm horror parodies: *Dracula Dead and Loving It *High Anxiety *Young Frankenstein...
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    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    Demon Dad - A middle aged dad is possessed and he's got a knife. He's taking everyone's noses for real this time Destination Divorce - Toon. A character in a failing marriage must take their wedding ring back to the site of their destination wedding in Hawaii and throw it into a volcano
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    Today I learned +

    I learned that Laurence Fishburne was on Peewee's Playhouse
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Marilith Is Far More Bestial In 2025

    Whiptail lizards don't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teiidae#Parthenogenesis
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    D&D General Mr. Potato Head Beholder from WizKids?

    You're right, that really does look like Steve Harvey!
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    D&D General Mr. Potato Head Beholder from WizKids?

    because potatos have "eyes"
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    How Do You Learn Boardgames?

    It helps if you have a person in the group who already knows the game, although I understand that this won't always be an option. But when it does happen it helps.
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    Simple games for commercial breaks

    I mostly play videogames during the entire show, whether or not it's a commercial
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