The WotC art for 2024 #DnD has a wizard that wears glasses.
The discourse around the glasses is demonstrating a lot of people I'd never want play at a table with.
If I could qualify expert, be functionally fluent in a foreign language, get combat medic training, use explosives and the much more I did in my assignment to 5th Group with glasses your D&D game of wizards and rogues and elves can have glasses.
Essentially, their tiny bug brains think the light is the sunset, so they keep turning to keep the "sun" at the same angle so they can go "straight." No matter how far they fly, they don't make any progress. They are trapped in this little hell we made just for them, not understanding why they can't get to where they are going.
Tomorrow, the best anyone can tell, is the 50th anniversary of D&D.
I'm playing with the regular group and I'm very tempted to throw in a couple iconic references to the earliest of games (a green maw on a door, a ten foot pole, experience for stealing gold),
I do have to wonder why I keep buying new versions of the same game over and over just because I like the art.
On the left "White Box - Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game" in its first edition (version 1.4) which i already had, on the right is version 2. I'm not actually sure what the difference is besides some art.
The game is your run of the mill #dnd white box #osr clone based on Swords & Wizardry. The main point is the price though, this was under 7eur on Amazon. And it's a complete game.
This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.
Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?
