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cant believe they hired vivziepop to write all of hal jordans dialogue in lanterns (2026)

I just don’t think y’all are around anyone who regularly swears if this is what you’re getting hung up on

Something indie tabletop RPG authors have got to accept is that random dice tables of Weird Shit cannot be brief. A haunted doll that looks like the party leader's mother as a child is creepy in isolation, but when it comes up four times in one session because the table it's on only has like twelve entries it's a running gag.

As a very general rule, a table of Oddly Specific Shit that's expected to be used more than once per session needs at least 20 entries total per roll beyond the first. There's a reason the d100 table is popular beyond pleasing symmetry; it's just the right size to be rolled on half a dozen times per session without constantly kicking out incongruous duplicates.

Yeah, the "twenty entries per roll beyond the first" guideline doesn't really scale if the expected number of rolls on the same Oddly Specific Shit table in a single session exceeds ten. You're quite right that it's often less of a concern at that scale, though; a small number of duplicate results among a large number of rolls is potentially interesting, but a large number of duplicates among a small number of rolls is rarely anything other than comical – see @healthylevelsofmagicthegathering's anecdote in the tags about playing a Lord of the Rings inspired game with a twelve-entry random encounter table and bumping into Gandalf three separate times in the course of the same journey!

Quite so. I've touched on this before, but random lookup tables that are far too small for their stated purpose are a frequent vice of indie RPGs. A table of Weird Shit that's ostensibly meant to be rolled on at least once per scene but only has a dozen total entries is just making the hypothetical GM do your work for you in a more roundabout way.

Point buy, but there's a collective pool of points and you have to play Hungry Hungry Hippos to see how many of them you get

I am sooo tempted to get Warhammer books as french translations, read them as my way to start re-learning french with a translator at one hand and a dictionary at the other, and develop zero grasp between what vocabulary is regular french and what is Warhammer, and if I ever encounter a native speaker I give them psychic damage.

I like to think there's an Ankh-Morpork show (perhaps a live stage show) that's a combination of Great British Bakeoff and Forged in Fire where they bake dwarf bread and then attack a ballistic dummy with it.

they're executing the count from sesame street for violating the masquerade

with a little help from his older brother, Hank Green has invented an absurdly enjoyable word-spelling game called smush.

sure i had to wake up at 3 am here in norway to watch the u.s. men's national team, but i 4-1 have no regrets.

God has punished me for the pun I made after the U.S. beat Paraguay.

tumblr has an understanding of paganism that may be understood as, in roman terms, interpretatio fandoma

i’m may be eaten alive for this but. most people, including and perhaps especially neopagans and reconstructionists, understand paganism as “christianity but theres lots of em”

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.