Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

apparently it's a "watch the end of The Matrix again" sort of evening

gotta say if you don't know about the trans metaphor, you might not spot it, but even without being trans per se that ending monologue is basically someone holding your shoulders and bellowing I'M QUEER! right in your face.

… but matching weapons vs armors from different periods and places wound up being arbitrary- Gygax liked “long swords” so they had huge bonuses. The chart also listed weapon speeds (f’rex a two handed sword is so slow you might attack at the end of the round even with good initiative rolls) and minimum space to use (no two handed swords in sewer fights). Only one player I know of used this chart, and even I gave up on it.

For the perplexed; 1-2e had AC opposite from now. Lower was better, so a PC might be AC 10 to 2 (then they introduced armors with even better AC). Monsters had arbitrary AC - the system didn’t really reflect armor wearing monsters. AD&D was rooted in historical wargames, so there was a chart of weapon modifiers to reflect that f’rex a bec de corbin or a falchion hit plate armor differently EXCEPT not only did AC not reflect armor type (that could be Dex, magic, arbitrary)…

May I please have another weekend entirely about masturbating and thinking about D&D (lest you wonder these things aren’t related)? Next weekend I’m already planning to do my taxes, which is only KINDA like trying to hit something in 1e.

unfortunately combining bad anxiety, hitting a weird worry, stomach upset, and possibly a front moving in, means tonight is not great on sleep.

Immigrant Song - Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross https://youtu.be/xQtXsp4tIbw via @YouTube

subtle difference between the 990s and the 1990s, compare "leaps from longship in byrnie and spangenhelm swinging a dane axe" to

"backflips in pleather coat firing twin mini uzis"

hot food take; potato salad and, to a lesser extent, mac salad, are savory equivalents to ice cream and have equal snack value

#coloring today? #drawing of a werewolf with the first attempt in a while to get back into cut-and-grad color in Clip Studio.

y’all didn’t need me here for this and I sure didn’t need me here

Shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP I DON’T GIVE A FLYING CLUSTERFUCK AND I NEVER HAVE AND I NEVER WILL

This btw goes with “78 year old disabled woman let me finish a sentence if you actually prompt me to speak challenge”

Пиздец!

“Do not tell a 78 year old woman to shut the fuck up” challenge

Ах эбаете меня. Говно!

As usual having a meal here means waiting to put stuff in the oven to wait some more. There’s some other stuff I’m cranky about, here and I’m trying not to kvetch solidify online. I just want to get out and maybe whenever it is I get out of here I’ll get the froofiest latte.

The good news is that their friend is over so I’m largely being ignored by her. At least he showed SOME interest in what didya do in Portland before just talking about his stuff. Fuuuck. I want to go read.

#drawings today. Heavily armored duergar troops push through a kobold held tunnel in the Underdark; two knights charge against each other in a field of some sort.

I live cement
I HATE THIS STREET!
Give dirt to me
I bite lament!
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent.