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If I was drinking with the girls and someone threw a dog-bitten rock near me, I would ask the caster what's up. Why we throwing dog rocks?

my pride month article on 4th Edition D&D is about Corellon Larethian, the Anti-Grungler, chucking a baby down a well

Great sentence, Talen

that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.

Wild that this kinda spawned a bit of a cottage industry for that specific thing O_o

This one's actually kind of tame. Third-party publishers gambling that they can capitalise on plugging a specific gap in D&D's gameplay loop has spawned much weirder trends.

Ghosts are not real. If you want to believe in ghosts, you should contemplate why. It is important to understand how history moves through you, because history is very real.

The funniest thing you can add to any piece of media is a boy detective. Breaking Bad needed a 13 year old child who goes around looking for clues to the caper and whatnot.

Hank

band on the run

you hear the sound of a baby crying, with the doppler effect, and then it's gone. you whip your head around, searching, confused, but you're alone at home at night. it never happens again.

A famous baseball player has just made millions, but can they live with their decision?

@snoozysniff