You could say either, but "Die Hexe ist tot" is probably better, seeing that she was murdered and "gestorben" feels more like "passed away".

Character sheet for The Witch Is Dead. A magpie named Sassy, who has the conjure flame spell, and wants to be a dragon. She also has one (1) screw and a few twigs.

Forgot to post my character sheet earlier 😊

It was good fun! We laughed a lot, everyone playing their cooky little animals to the hilt. The rules say we can't understand other animal types, so we figured we couldn't communicate directly with each other, leading to hijinx and misunderstandings. The system is basic but did its job just fine.

The spider collected an army of (smaller) spiders, the magpie learned that breathing fire could have terrible consequences (blinding the witch Hunter's mom), and the rat determined that someone must have hexed its human form away. The witch hunter choked to death on a well-placed acorn. Good times!

Yesterday my 17yo German niece ran @gshowitt.bsky.social's The Witch Is Dead for her dad, my 22yo son, and myself. The witch's familiars were a spider with a god complex, a tiny-flame-breathing magpie that wants to be a dragon, and a human-speaking rat that thinks it actually is a human.

Lady Blacksaur. That'd be a fine hack, don't you think @johnharper.bsky.social 😁

Graph showing good thing going up over time until ronald reagan then precipitous decline Inverse line of bad thing

In the social sciences this is known as the reagan bowtie

Hungary election live: Polls in Hungary close in tightly fought election after 16 years under Viktor Orbán Prime minister has been trailing in the polls to Péter Magyar in race that could have repercussions for Europe, the US and Russia

He's out! Orban concedes.
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2x2 grid Top is GM, split into bad things are bad, and bad things are good Left is “Players” with the same split Nw quadrant is “by the book” Ne quadrant is “GM overreach” Sw quad is “disruptive player” Se quad is “dramatic sweet spot”

I mention all this to provide a bit of an alternate frame the next time you’re looking at a fiat-heavy GM or a disruptive player. Are they really trying to be jerks, or are they flailing to find something better that they lack the tools to articulate?

Adventure in the Magical Land of Yeld Episode 1 YouTube video by Controlled Chaos Gaming

I don't run live stream Yeld games that often (I'm shy), but Controlled Chaos talked me into doing a Yeld game for his youtube channel. Here's the first session!

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Why Brainstorming With a Chatbot Will Not Actually Help All That Much:

So, I saw someone point out that when you're going for ideas, the best thing to do is to throw away the first two and the third will be the/a good one. This is not entirely wrong!

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A young explorer holding a dagger and a torch.

A young explorer taking aim with a bow.

An isekai'd explorer wearing a bucket on his head and carrying a flail.

I'll mention this here, too: I'm working on a hack that mixes the mechanics of *The Wildlings* and River Horse's version of the *My Little Pony RPG*, with the fictional cartoony-ness of *Adventure Time*. It felt relevant since the official *AT* RPG will be just another rehash of *D&D 5e*.

To properly christen my new Bluesky account, I shall add ART!

Nice to see you on here!

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Some alternatives to the new HBO Harry Potter series:

- Lioness Rampant
- Percy Jackson
- A Wrinkle In Time
- Earthsea
- The Dark Is Rising
- Artemis Fowl
- His Dark Materials
- Sabriel
- Circle of Magic
- ElfQuest

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRightsAreWomensRights #ProtectTransKids

And maybe we can also take a moment, particularly with all the revelations about billionaires and abusers and chan culture, to reflect on how worrying about "cringe" got us here.

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I get the impression all of us who write/publish are feeling something similar at the moment - burnt out, exhausted, tired of trying to figure out the whims of capricious, oligarch-owned algorithms

The capture of creative work & industries by the "grindset" lot is suffocating us all

India was supposed to be a huge new market for LNG (liquefied methane). Much of it from Qatar. We were told it would replace coal. Even before Hormuz sent their LNG prices soaring, India had done the math and is moving to solar, wind and storage. Replacing coal as they go, just not with LNG.

How Organizations Lose Their Minds — From Circuit City to the 2026 AI Layoffs Four Books That Show the Companies Firing Fastest Will Die First

Good article, lots of meat.

Also, an observation: many of businesses “cautionary tales” are actually scams that eventually collapsed.

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It's wild how casually these elites can suggest that a war that was a war of choice that has not gone as planned because there was no planning now means ugly choices must be made. Since we are in a war, why not do the worst things we can?

Government scraps copyright exception as preferred option for AI training in win for creative industries The UK government has today (18th March) published a Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report outlining that it is moving away from the copyright exception for AI training widely rejected by the c...

Govt: "Any reform ... must also ensure that AI developers can access high quality content. It is clear through the consultation and our subsequent engagement that there is no consensus on how these objectives should be achieved."

Authors: Pay for work.
AI: No.
Govt: There's no consensus 🥺

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Bath
Room
Lightning
Up your butt
It electrocutes
And sets your house on fire
Says the stylist's mom
She was wrong

(To the tune of Lateralus)