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He/Him / Occasional #TTRPG GM / I wanted to escape the angels and the damned – alone . . . as though by an oversight

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DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· 3h

I have a fondness for the forgotten John Ford explanation of Klingons using genengineering to make soldiers perfectly adapted to ruling subject species. Probably for the best that strange new worlds doesn’t care to explain things one way or another.

An illustration of three klingons from the Fasa rog sourcebook written by John Ford. It depicts the imperial race with forehead ridges snd the romulan and human fusions respectively

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· 11d

Today on the looong train ride from Toronto to NYC, I finally finished Weaveworld by Clive Barker. I beautiful, sexy, horrifying fantasy novel about surviving a genocide and preserving the magic of one’s culture. It reminds me a lot of his movie Nightbreed as well as his more towering work Imajica.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· 18d

Post a picture of yourself with sunglasses. Keeping this account pseudonymous to protect the innocent

A person with an identity obscuring flowery mask, circular blue glasses and a beige fedora.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· 24d

Reading Weaveworld

"I dreamed something..." Cal said.
"What was that?"

"I dreamed that this was real and the other wasn't."

Lemuel's smile faded. "I wish what you dreamed were true, he said.

"But the Kingdom's all too real. It's just that a thing that grows too certain

of itself becomes a kind of lie. That's what you dreamed. That the other
place is a place of lies."

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jul 15

Job interviewers want to know if I am available for weird shifts and I'm just like "please plug me back into the matrix for the love of god"

Cipher looking dubiously at his interviewer in the matrix. I'm not gonna be anyone important, like an actor.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jul 4

The art is good, but sparse. I especially like the druid, which could not be easily mistaken for a post-tsr druid.

Druid guy with a wooden shield and a sickle weapon.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jul 3

My copy of Osric and 3 adventures came in. It looks good!

Photo of a book depicting a dragon looking at a party of adventurers.

Book title reads:
OSRIC 3.0
PLAYER GUIDE
STUART MARSHALL & MATT FINCH

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jun 18

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it”

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jun 16

Haven’t finished a book in a while though I’ve started several and reread others, but I finished Amongst Our Weapons after a long hiatus 80% of the way through. Decent book, although I prefer my wizards to make less healthy life choices

Cover of Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovich

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jun 4

Relatable

Who were they all? Quentin had heard rumors about dog-and-pony shows like this before, gray-market cattle calls, work for hire, but he'd never seen one himself. He definitely never thought he'd go to one, not in a million years. He never thought it would come to that. Stuff like this was for people on the fringes of the magical world, people scrabbling to get in, or who'd lost their footing somehow and slipped out of the bright warm center of things, all the way out to the cold margins of the real world. All the way out to a strip mall in Hackensack in the rain. Things like this weren't for people like him.
Except now they were. It had come to that. He was one of them, these were his people. Six months ago he'd been a king in a magic land, another world, but that was all over. He'd been kicked out of Fillory, and he'd been kicked around a fair bit since then, and now he was just another striver, trying to scramble back in, up the slippery slope, back toward the light and the warmth.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· May 20

An extremely cursed post that is made worse by the knowledge that it would look a lot like the isekai/portal fantasy story Tolkien wrote called The Lost Road, where a modern guy reads a book and wishes he knew what Numenor were like and ends up there shortly before it sinks into the ocean.

Quote tweet of "samsorensen.bsky.social‬
imagine if tabletop RPGs had caught on a century earlier, in the 1870s instead of 1970s. we debate the Moscow School vs. the Tunisia School of designs. we have a decades-old subgenre called "verdylikes." some pith-helmeted Victorian makes a stat array using phrenology. there are modernist RPGs"

Ettin.itch.io quote tweets this saying "[whispering to self] Lord of the Rings LitRPG"

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· May 1

I'm going to guess that it's the fault of the Heritage Foundation:

"It seems to me that a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill, & for... returning the consequentiality to sex."

Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.

3:00 PM · May 27, 2023

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Apr 22

Hahahaha, my butlerian jihad credentials are unimpeachable

They guy running the big anti-anti-ai list has me on it

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Apr 20

An example monster reaction table:

Table: Monster
Reaction Roll 2d6 Result
2 or less Attacks
3–5 Hostile, may attack
6–8 Uncertain, confused
9–11 Indifferent, may negotiate
12 or more Eager, friendly

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Apr 17

"25A medicalization" is a truly cursed turn of phrase.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 22

Some clarification on no green screens in PHM

Christopher Miller
@chrizmillr
Some clarification here: "no green screen" doesn't mean "no VEX".
There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!)
Green screen is sometimes used in lieu of building sets or figuring out locations/lighting in advance, which can be noticeable if not done carefully, and is something we didn't want to do. We built the entire interior of the Hail Mary ship - but within the ship, there were still wire and puppeteer removals and ceiling replacements, etc. When Ryan is outside on the hull of the ship, we shot him in front of a black background for space and a shifting hue background when he was up against the aurora of a planet which allowed for truer interactive light on him than a green screen would. The wide space exteriors and spaceship shots were entirely digital and beautifully done by ILM. Rocky was a seamless blend of puppetry and animation from Framestore. And other great work from many more. It really does take a village and we had the best of the best on our side.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 21

Played what I thought was my last computer game: Dune 2000

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 20

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Here are my #LastFourWatched

Four movies: Nadja, Excalibur, Hundreds of Beavers, and Captain America (the one from the 90s)

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 18

I really hope they hurry and pull horizon worlds out of the oculus quest and give us back our old virtual spaces. I miss my stupid cyberpunk apartment I used to escape to during the pandemic

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 14

I have an obscure text that does try to depict aliens conquered in klingon space: the Star Fleet Universe Role-Playing Game

A two page spread showing an assortment of aliens the klingons have conquered.

An image of a softcover book called Prime Directive: the Star fleet universe role-playing game. The art shows federation crews shooting phasers at a flying alien.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 9

My four favorite Star Trek captains

Sisko, his hands folded as he contemplates action on the USS Defiant.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 4

Okay tuvix is a funny example, but the best example of Lower Decks poking at previous Trek's moral choices was this incredible mural:

A mural showing from left to right, the enterprise leaving as hands outstretch toward it, followed by increasingly deranged depictions of civil conflict, followed by heroic athletic figures.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 4

"Let's look up how Janeway dealt with Tuvix!"

Three panels. The first has a transporter blended character saying, "I love being alive", the second has Captain Freeman saying "Well, I'm sure that Janeway had a solution to this." The third shows her with a historical database on her PADD while she exclaims "SHE STRAIGHT UP MURDERED HIM!!!"

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 2

Imo, the only good game based portal fantasy is DIE by Gillen and Hans. cdn.imagecomics.com/assets/i/fea...

Comic teaser with text:

IN 1991, SIX TEENAGERS SAT DOWN TO PLAY A ROLE-PLAYING GAME.

(A boy holds a d20 walk talking to his friends and says) “I made this just for us.
This is fantasy for grown-ups.
Let's play.”

THEY DISAPPEARED WITHOUT EXPLANATION
THERE WERE NO CLUES. THEY HAD VANISHED.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Mar 2

It’s frustrating because this inability to write doesn’t come from the genre. If you go back far enough, there’s a better portal fantasy manga genre with works like Twelve Kingdoms and Escalflowne. I don’t know why the genre has been such a haven for slop. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

A girl in a school dress holds what looks like a straight chinese sword with a red tassel on the hilt.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Feb 19

That is a damn neolithic behelit.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Feb 3

Tonight, I finished Ethan of Athos, another Vorkosigan adventure minus any Vorkosigan characters. Instead, the protagonist is a gay obstetrician from a planet devoid of women. He’s in search of ovarian tissue cultures so he can create the next generation of sons. Really good pulpy feminist sci-fi

Book cover showing mercenary Ellie Quinn protecting the title character.

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jan 23

Bought myself the dolmenwood players guide as a citizenship day present. Man am I happy I don’t have to deal with immigration paperwork for the foreseeable future

A two page spread describing fairy magic with art showing mischievous pixies

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jan 21

Some animal part of my mind just marvels at seeing this evil old monster just sitting there vomiting bile and stupidity while the rich and powerful people he's bullying don't rush the stage to

DeadGodsBook@deadgodsbook· Jan 19

I finished Barrayar, a sword and planet novel about the mother of the protagonist of the rest of the series. This was a fantastic sequel to the star trek-like Shards of Honor and it's rife with intrigue, sexist in-laws, and cloak and dagger heroics.