Tough one as I love many different kinds, but to pick just one: Pizza on the Amalfi Coast made with mozzarella di bufala and crisped prosciutto. Second best is Uncle Joe's in Centereach, Long Island.
Session 3 of my #TheOneRing #proactive #ttrpg had more low-stakes fun at the Northhills Games, a few times interrupted by a growing sense that something strange is going on in the waters of Nenuial, and there is a presence there. But there's still time for Hobbits to decisively win eating contests!
A gigantic billboard beside a road shows (at life-size) an enormous, grand building. Text beside it reads: "Foundation For Astonishingly Extravagant Gestures" a sticker below adds "Coming Soon" Dwarfed by the billboard is a shabby little building with a sign reading "Institute of Pragmatic Solutions"
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
This strip seems a lot more and a lot less relevant now than it did in 2016.
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...?
It's one of the published ones in _Strange New Worlds_ - I have not been writing my own for this group since it's Open Table and I wouldn't know who I am writing it for so there's been no reason to put in the time/spoons.
Finished another #StarTrekAdventures #ttrpg session at @rbccvt.org #RPGNight, with our heroes failing to save an insane computer consciousness but saving the mind of one lone boy who learned to transcend it. Next week RPG Night will move to some #StarWars with someone else GMing for a while.
Most recent one: the dastardly Dwarf that sold out a family to trolls for treasure and tried to do the same to the heroes. Was supposed to step out of the story, but the players would not settle for that. He ended up a complex moral dilemma which led to one hero going over to the shadow for revenge.
This is a weird time to ask this question if there are trans and queer folks in the sample set, especially in the USA. Very different results from, say, two years ago. But then that's data too, isn't it?
TTRPG about me
First game: red box D&D
Last game: Star Trek Adventures
Longest game: Prism (homebrew)
Favorite game: The One Ring 2e
Favorite mechanics: TOR's dice pool/magical success
Favorite art: (assuming RPG-related) TOR's cloth maps, but the cover of STA's 23rd Century Sourcebook is close
I've heard your story about that first game in a library a few times, and trying to figure out later what it was; but I don't think I ever got to the final answer before now. Wow, that's a deep first dive. I did a ton of Rolemaster back in the day, still have it on the shelf, but as a first game!?!
With active admins that animate NPCs and interact with and react to player actions, you have a chance to not only make an impact on the world, but even initiate something that makes an impact on the world. Try that in a graphical MMO.
Finished the main part of the #model at #CraftClub at @rbccvt.org. The predecessor after which my #StarTrekAdventures #ttrpg ship is named (in #RPGNight). There is still the rocket boosters and crawler to finish.
Just so we're aware of who planned this.
So far #ACityOnMars is not making me not want to play the #TerraformingMars RPG when it comes out - just to make sure I do an even better job of it!
(Sadly I don't seem to be sparking any interest in my local group. Fortunately these days it might be possible to get into a game online.)
Finished #TheSwordTriumphant last night - it kept me awake and did not let me sleep until I got there. Posted a review on it - more a review of the series - at www.goodreads.com/review/show/... .
Next up is #ACityOnMars, now on Kindle. Will it make me want to reread Red Mars (et al.) more, or less?
(As a child I decided 8192 was my favorite number, because one day raking leaves and bored and doing math to keep myself busy, it was the highest power of two I could calculate in my head. (No, it's not my banking PIN, though I considered it!))
Followup question: in book 3 the number cited is 8192 (which is a power of two). I kept wondering if the other 33 elves would turn out to be a key point. But it didn't come up. Just another mystery? Plot thread that got cut? Just remembered wrong?
Thank you for following this riveting saga of Freesia being dumb. If you've enjoyed this story, don't forget to hit like and subscribe!
I mean, really... why did I post all this here? At first I thought someone might be familiar with the book and be able to advise, and then, I was too far in...
I guess I can - through an Amazon return. Book is untouched condition so hopefully this isn't going to cost the author anything, just Amazon. Have ordered the Kindle edition. Probably will finish #TheSwordTriumphant within a few days and jump into this.
So I've gotten the print copy and... I'm regretting it. There's certainly illustrations, but nothing that looks like it wouldn't work on a Kindle. Wishing I'd gotten the Kindle edition instead. Or there was a way to trade it in or something.
Explanation - I have to hot tub for sciatica and leg pains or I can't sleep, so it's 30 minutes a day already set aside. A waterproof Kindle set to big font is ideal; no worry of it being ruined by water, no need for glasses. I get so much reading done this way, I rarely set aside other time for it.
Going with print. Gonna have to make time to read it, instead of using the time that's already free for it. _Atlas of Middle-earth_ has been sitting on my desk for two months in that pile, so I will have to make it happen.
Weird question. I mostly read on a Kindle with a big font in the hot tub. Works great. #ACityOnMars by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social is lots of color and illustrations so won't work that way. My page-size color eInk isn't waterproof. So I guess print is best? I get far less reading time for print.
Hit send too early - I was gonna say:
A quick read swords-and-sorcery novella about the power of hope and despair, and things not being what they seem. So far the few sales I've had have paid for donated copies to a queer library; further sales will go to my queer community center charity.
But I did get to have one of the subparties get trapped on a (space) elevator listening to corporate muzak while the adventure kept happening without them... muhahahah.
#StarTrekAdventures #ttrpg at #RPGNight at @rbccvt.org - A Cure Worse Than The Disease. I knew my players would really get into a bit of anti-capitalism! And set a new record for 'how many ways can we split the party' - five players burned through all 4 crew support forming subparties of subparties.
No surprises here really, but it's interesting to see how being #genderfluid influences advertisers. In-game ads may show hands with or without nail polish, depending on the identity they're tied to. On the streets of Nassau, people selling scarves call me ma'am, people selling cigars call me sir.
Found the same thing in the #ttrpg world - for instance, when playing #TheOneRing, if you give people glass beads representing Hope, they are far more likely to spend them, and get more excited doing so. Doubly so in my Open Table game at @rbccvt.org getting newbie players to jump right in.
