…marvel super heroes also featured a resources ability score and feats to represent financial maneuvers akin to lines of credit; it felt frustratingly abstracted as a teenager living in a discretionary cash economy, but after several decades as a real-world adult i realise that it’s an elegant abstraction for how people actually live and conduct commerce…

…i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze…

…i should clarify: upgrades from windows 7/8 were free…

…windows 10 was free to a lot of people; it’s a pretty solid OS and i’d be happy to pay a fair price for ongoing support…

…so you’ve never played waverace: that’s the look of the brightly-lit tropical island environment for the first course, which immediately shifts a hazy muted marsh on the second course, then a stormy industrial-port waterfront, then a spectacular urban night course, each presenting entirely different takes on ambient lighting, dominant environmental color pallets, and even water and atmospheric weather conditions…

“Comets are tough to predict—they’re light-years away, and therefore we know little about their composition, which affects brightness.”

…have magazines fallen so low in the age of the web?..

…likewise!..

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…hey, that’s just like my library’s old PET 2001, my first computer!..

…the essentials kit included a pair of one-page flyers: one with free DnDbeyond codes for rest of the series following icespire peak and one with a DnDbeyond discount code for the player’s handbook…

…your campaign needn’t fizzle-out after cryovain!..dragon of icespire peak is only the first part of a four module series, followed by storm lord’s wrath, sleeping dragon’s wake, and divine contention on DnDbeyond…

…the essentials kit was published as a hook to draw parties onto the digital platform, but despite being a fantastic value as a physical boxed set, they did a poor job promoting the latter 3/4 of its adventure content, which were only published digitally…

…cubicle 7’s uncharted journeys does exactly what you’re describing: it abstracts the exploration pillar into a series of encounter vignettes driven by characters assuming leader / outrider / quartermaster / sentry roles to engage the system mechanics…

…while it absolutely can be adapted to old-fashioned hex-crawl resource management, uncharted journeys is written to support exploration as a theatre-of-the-mind montage sequence, accounting for preparation + decision-making with tangible consequences upon reaching a journey’s end…

…it’s good stuff!..

…since 2001…

Secret Wars Battleworld
Secret Wars Everything Lives

Percentage Change in (Homelessness per 10,000 Residents)

100 -
{[2022 Homeless Population/(2022 Total Population/10,000)
/
1997 Homeless Population /(1997 Total Population/10,000)] *100}

…mathematically, it’s identical to the percentage change in homelessness, but published figures are usually homeless per ten thousand residents just to give a more useable number…

…child of ulster scot farmers, here: yes, we tan a bit, but working outside leaves our necks perpetually red nonetheless, even with long collars and hats…

…it’s called a farmer tan for good reason…

…i mean, let’s be fair: voyager set the bar so low the franchise nearly fizzled-out in its wake and arguably never recovered…

…it’s as substantive a revision from fifth edition as the second edition was from AD+D: id est yeah, sixth edition, but the new SRD will be labelled 5.2…

(marketing calls it D+D 50; marketing called fifth edition dungeons & dragons, no version number)

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

…inverted rolls (modifier = active DC-12) for passive checks (DC = ability modifier+10) are mathematically identical and can be rolled behind your screen all day long, with a single d20 roll serving everyone in the group to boot, so there’s no dogpiling…