@starkatt That is really well put. It's how I remember the earlier blogging days. Encouraging instances to develop their own idiosyncratic codes of content and anti-harassment policies seems like a perfectly reasonable way to carve out similar environments (but even better, with all the semi-permeable elements afforded by federation).
@Gargron Good morneing
@raccoon I get burned at least monthly reading spells I don't understand from real wizards' books, so…yeah.
@plsburydoughboy Putting a hot dog on a pizza turns the pizza into a hot dog bun and that turns the hot dog into a hot dog.
@tomharris That's some beautiful world.
@benhamill@witches.town @noelle Their threat forced Egypt to withdraw from its vassal city-states in the Levant, resulting there in the rise of independent nations like Moab, Ammon, Aram, Israel, and Judah.
@Efi
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
A line of code before I sleep
A line of code before I sleep
@Efi @WelshPixie *wanders into conversation* Wow, those are great. I can't stop looking at the woman with her hand in the water.
@typhlosion Related: reassuring the kid that sometimes, when they just can't understand the instructions no matter how hard they try, it's because the instructions are incoherent in some way (editing errors, poor sentences, or sometimes who the heck knows).
@Sparrow @ThatDamnCat D&D is such a wonderful rabbit hole to fall into!
The podcast "The Short Game" (about short video games) recently took a special episode to talk about veteran players' strategies for keeping D&D sessions fast-paced and less prone to drag on at points. It was interesting and I learned a lot. Here's a URL if you like:
http://www.theshortgame.net/118-dungeons-dragons/
@ThatDamnCat @Sparrow (To get down to 500 chars I cut all my "iirc" and "pretty sure" etc, so the post might look very assertive and terse! Sorry if so!)
He/him. I teach academic Hebrew-Bible studies in grad school, and like Korean martial arts & interactive fiction.
I am also @anummabrooke