Ramblings of General Geekery

Homer: “As he spoke, Patroclus put on his armour. Achilles ran his fingers across Patroclus’ queer ass.”

English translators: “CUIRASS! Achilles ran his fingers across Patroclus’ CUIRASS!”


“Call of Cthulhu has too many skills!”

Me: OK, sure, thankfully there are also minimal #TTRPG systems out there

“Mothership is a great simple system!”

Me:


Every time you go to sleep, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard releases a couple of new albums. At this point I’ve lost track of which ones I’ve listened to or not…


Oh I hadn’t noticed that Sithu Aye had released Senpai 3 a couple years ago… their music can get too easily repetitive but the Senpai theme always makes me happy!

A screenshot of Plexamp playing Senpai 3

Not only was The Mysterious Benedict Society cancelled after season 2, but now it’s been removed from Disney+ to “cut costs” (i.e. not pay royalties) At this point why not cancel all my streaming subscriptions and pirate everything? The user experience would be much better.

The poster for the Mysterious Benedict Society poster

Heh, I offered my #TTRPG players a few options for an interlude before we start Band of Blades, and of course they piled onto the one option that lets them play #GURPS again! 😅

A picture of the Dungeon Fantasy boxed set, a dungeon crawling game powered by GURPS 4th edition

An interesting take on #TTRPG skilled vs unskilled rolls from The Fantasy Trip:

Extract from The Fantasy Trip:
Players may ask, for instance, “Why can’t I try to climb that tree without the Climbing talent? Everybody can climb!”
The answer is “Easy trees require no roll, harder trees might just require a DX or ST roll. The Climbing talent is for things that everybody can’t climb.”