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Bug of the Day - Cicadapalooza!

So I went to see the Brood XIV cicada emergence on Cape Cod this week...:-D

(Art by my wife, @juniepops )

My birthday is coming around once again! I'll be turning 31 on the 12th!!

Most of my paycheck is going to bills, so it would be lovely if I could get a little cash to cover some new clothes, cover my estrogen, and maybe even go out for a little birthday dinner! (Ven @ vanyasgd // Capp $VanyaSGD // Paypl)

If you wanna do some art or something, my sona's ref is here, and my other girlies are here and here.

The rules were fairly short, only being a dozen or so pages. The main bulk of the hundred of pages long core book was information on the kingdom. And not just political information or trade, but massive charts and calendars that told you what the weather was in what area on a specific day.

You could do an entire months long campaign that chronicled a family running out of food in the winter and trying to get to the neighboring town in order to find food and shelter. Supplements (both official and fan made) added new dimensions of detail, like war breaking out between lords, or a years long winter, ect.

Since the gameplay itself was really straightforward there were barely any rules questions. Instead, the online discussions would be long stories about someone's merchant almost making it to a town before the local festival, only to be stopped by a wheel breaking, or similar such tales.

The biggest community was a "living kingdom" that were hundreds of concurrent campaigns run by a group of two dozen GMs.

Normally, this was a no brainer: Even if we took the long path, we'd make it to the city with plenty of time to sell our wares. The problem was it was the rainy season, and we risked losing a lot of time (and wagon wheels) in the muck on the long path. If we lost all that time and didn't sell enough wares AND had to repair our caravan, we might not have enough money to make it through the winter. It was almost equally as bad as getting mugged.

So we risked the short path. We laid out a map and planned our journey: Less than a week. We'd arrive way ahead of schedule. Our GM flipped back and forth between a few pages, checking where we'd be on what days, referencing that with the bandit's path that time of year. Then she announced that we'd dodged the bandits entirely. We went nuts. It was SUCH a huge deal: We'd make way more money, we could even potentially purchase bigger wagons. It was awesome.