Locuas

I know this is due to my particular constellation of interests, but for me the funniest thing about the "everything in a given century happened simultaneously" view of history being applied to the 1900s is bumping into increasing numbers of people who are genuinely unclear on whether Dungeons & Dragons pre-dates or post-dates The Lord of the Rings.

tolkien had to call them hobbits to avoid running afoul of Hasbro's trademark of the word 'halfling'

It was TSR's trademark of the word 'halfling', Hasbro didn't get control of D&D until after the end of WW2.

It's interesting how some of those fake mobile game ads seem to be backpedalling on the openly misogynistic framing and making an effort to appeal to female players instead, but whoever's making the ads clearly hasn't the slightest idea how to aim for that audience. All "ladies are into cleaning shit and bossing men around, right? How do we gamify that?"

Sea Hawk and Bow

Tabletop RPG where taking damage in combat is represented by physically setting the target's character sheet on fire. Different damage types specify different parts of the sheet where the fire must be set (e.g., top-right corner, etc.), and the amount of damage is the number of seconds the player has to wait before stamping it out. Any physically destroyed traits are disabled until they fill out a new sheet.

Multi-classing into wizard not for the magic, but because many damage types prioritize the spells sheet first.

I'm turning 43 on Sunday.

Wait why are you skipping 7 years?