please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
Also, if Prigozhin wins, Putin will probably end up being "killed by traitors", but Prigozhin will vow to avenge him and bring all traitors to justice.
1/ Russia's security forces are reported to be in disarray following the attempted mutiny by the Wagner Group. It seems to have been perfectly timed for a moment – Friday night – when many personnel were too drunk to respond quickly, while others are refusing to fight Wagner....
The world will be in a better position because this internal conflict dramatically weakens the Russian war effort in Ukraine. Whatever faction comes out on top will be rather busy "cleaning house" for a while - giving Ukraine more space to fight this war.
Confession time: I am not overly enamored of "rules-lite" RPG systems. As long as the system is coherent and well-thought out, I prefer it when the system has rules for all sorts of things - from tactical combat to running chases to social encounters to falling damage and so forth. I like GURPS, I like D&D5E, I like Pathfinder...
Basically, in this tale a farmer's girl lost her way in the forest and stumbled across a hut inhabited by seven dwarves. She asked them for a place to stay for the night, and received it (after the dwarves argued about who would get the honor of giving up his bed for the girl)....
During my study of German folklore, I was surprised to learn that one of the most common folk tale narratives featured treasure hunters - not just "people getting rewarded treasure for a virtuous deed", but people who heard that a treasure was at a certain location, and wanted to get it. They usually failed, but hope springs...
Two years ago, I decided to make a list of all the public domain, English-language folk tale collections I could find, and deposited them at Wikisource. If you need to research the folklore of any given region, then I hope that this list has you covered!...
I mean, how do you deal with something like that? There were so many buildings of that type because cities in the 19th century were growing rapidly thanks to growing populations and industrialization, and European Colonialism exported this kind of building style to the rest of the world. This is no great mystery, and there is...
In modern media portrayals, the Devil is often portrayed as this suave mastermind who is always several steps ahead of any mortal. But in German folklore, his portrayal was rather different - quite frequently he was the butt of jokes. The following tale serves as a good example (and one which would not be out of place in an old...
Many legends and folk tales can be linked to specific real world locations. Here are my modest efforts at mapping the location of German folk tales, and I have included a few similar maps I am aware of in a links list....
Modern media portrayals of the Wild Hunt have a fairly consistent portrayal - a huntsman on his steed, surrounded by his hounds. But when you actually start looking into European folk tales of "Wild Hunt"-type phenomena, you quickly notice that the portrayal is rather more diverse than you'd think. Here is one of my favorite...
What systems and/or campaigns are you currently actually playing? I spend so much time thinking about new systems and reading old ones, and I sometimes forget that playing is actually a part of things....
So each playthrough will be different because the locations of minor settlements and facilities will be placed randomly for that playthrough? Interesting!
I greatly enjoyed the books you could find in the Elder Scrolls games, and I found I missed them in the Fallout games. They do such a great job of immersing you in the lore, folklore, and mythology of the setting, and I hope that something similar is implemented in Starfield.
If you want to check out some of the tales before buying the books, you can listen to podcast and video adaptions of them here. I encourage such adaptions by others - I release all my translations under a Creative Commons Zero license!
For me, the first thing I'd do is clear my family of all debts(or whatever financial issues) there is and then the second thing i'd do is buy a hundred Siomai for me to eat...
Mine is going to be laid back if all goes according to plan. I'm going to do some birding with a friend tomorrow morning, then I'm headed to a used bookstore to buy a copy of "the pricess bride" that I talked myself out of the other day (I've never read it). Then I'm hitting the farmers market and then relaxing at home for the...
Two TTRPG sessions (Dungeons & Dragons in person, Call of Cthulhu online), going swimming at the public pool, working some more on my translations of German folk tales.
Die Kommentare unter dem Artikel sind mal wieder unterirdisch. Ist es echt so schwer zu begreifen, daß Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland zumindest für ein paar Stunden mal Ruhe vom Bullshit der weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft haben wollen?
Ja, Rassismuserfahrungen dürften unter Schwarzen Menschen in Deutschland universell sein. Und einfach mal ein paar Stunden genießen wo man seine Ruhe davor hat ist wahrscheinlich viel wert.
Um sicher vor Rassismus zu sein reicht es, wenn man den Umgang mir Rassisten meidet.
Schaffe das mal. "Kein Rassist zu sein" ist kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess. Es reicht eben nicht sich nur "gegen Nazis" zu positionieren. Man muss auch ständig seine unterbewussten Denkmuster und Vorurteile hinterfragen, und das ist anstrengend.
In light of Nexus Mods and Mod DB banning the No Pronouns mod for Starfield, I figured I would look around for alternative sources and collect them in one place for others' convenience. This seems like a good place to put them....
MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now
please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
"Russia's security forces are reported to be in disarray following the attempted mutiny by the Wagner Group." - Long update that is bonkers inside (twitter.com)
1/ Russia's security forces are reported to be in disarray following the attempted mutiny by the Wagner Group. It seems to have been perfectly timed for a moment – Friday night – when many personnel were too drunk to respond quickly, while others are refusing to fight Wagner....
NPC Creation Complexity
Confession time: I am not overly enamored of "rules-lite" RPG systems. As long as the system is coherent and well-thought out, I prefer it when the system has rules for all sorts of things - from tactical combat to running chases to social encounters to falling damage and so forth. I like GURPS, I like D&D5E, I like Pathfinder...
TIL of a folk tale named "Death of the Seven Dwarves" (www.digitale-sammlungen.de)
Basically, in this tale a farmer's girl lost her way in the forest and stumbled across a hut inhabited by seven dwarves. She asked them for a place to stay for the night, and received it (after the dwarves argued about who would get the honor of giving up his bed for the girl)....
Treasure Folklore!
During my study of German folklore, I was surprised to learn that one of the most common folk tale narratives featured treasure hunters - not just "people getting rewarded treasure for a virtuous deed", but people who heard that a treasure was at a certain location, and wanted to get it. They usually failed, but hope springs...
Folk Tales for Gaming! (en.wikisource.org)
Two years ago, I decided to make a list of all the public domain, English-language folk tale collections I could find, and deposited them at Wikisource. If you need to research the folklore of any given region, then I hope that this list has you covered!...
TIL I learned of the "Tartarian Empire" conspiracy theory, which holds that all those large 19th century buildings were actually built by a prior global civilization that was destroyed by "mud floods". (en.wikipedia.org)
I mean, how do you deal with something like that? There were so many buildings of that type because cities in the 19th century were growing rapidly thanks to growing populations and industrialization, and European Colonialism exported this kind of building style to the rest of the world. This is no great mystery, and there is...
The Devil as a Fool
In modern media portrayals, the Devil is often portrayed as this suave mastermind who is always several steps ahead of any mortal. But in German folklore, his portrayal was rather different - quite frequently he was the butt of jokes. The following tale serves as a good example (and one which would not be out of place in an old...
Mapping Folklore (sunkencastles.com)
Many legends and folk tales can be linked to specific real world locations. Here are my modest efforts at mapping the location of German folk tales, and I have included a few similar maps I am aware of in a links list....
Frau Gauden - Leader of the Wild Hunt (commons.wikimedia.org)
Modern media portrayals of the Wild Hunt have a fairly consistent portrayal - a huntsman on his steed, surrounded by his hounds. But when you actually start looking into European folk tales of "Wild Hunt"-type phenomena, you quickly notice that the portrayal is rather more diverse than you'd think. Here is one of my favorite...
Tell us what you are playing in or running right now!
What systems and/or campaigns are you currently actually playing? I spend so much time thinking about new systems and reading old ones, and I sometimes forget that playing is actually a part of things....
Starfield's Radiant Encounter System Populates Planets with Locations & Quests
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/19061...
The Most Important Starfield Video Ever (The Jimquisition) (www.youtube.com)
Welp, that dampened my enthusiasm for the game. I won't preorder it, and maybe wait until it is on a Sale for a reduced price.
I hope we get Lore datafiles like the books in the Elder Scrolls games
I greatly enjoyed the books you could find in the Elder Scrolls games, and I found I missed them in the Fallout games. They do such a great job of immersing you in the lore, folklore, and mythology of the setting, and I hope that something similar is implemented in Starfield.
You just won One Billion Dollars, what are you buying?
For me, the first thing I'd do is clear my family of all debts(or whatever financial issues) there is and then the second thing i'd do is buy a hundred Siomai for me to eat...
it's Friday night, what's everyone doing this weekend?
Mine is going to be laid back if all goes according to plan. I'm going to do some birding with a friend tomorrow morning, then I'm headed to a used bookstore to buy a copy of "the pricess bride" that I talked myself out of the other day (I've never read it). Then I'm hitting the farmers market and then relaxing at home for the...
Räume für Rassismusbetroffene : Ein Ort ohne weiße Menschen? (www.zeit.de)
Die Kommentare unter dem Artikel sind mal wieder unterirdisch. Ist es echt so schwer zu begreifen, daß Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland zumindest für ein paar Stunden mal Ruhe vom Bullshit der weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft haben wollen?
Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield
In light of Nexus Mods and Mod DB banning the No Pronouns mod for Starfield, I figured I would look around for alternative sources and collect them in one place for others' convenience. This seems like a good place to put them....