The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I should be more like Conan when I read articles about regurgitative AI and other stupid new tech trends.

An excerpt from a Conan The Barbarian story: "Murilo realized that the priest must be centuries ahead of his generation, to perfect such an invention; but Conan put it down to witchcraft and troubled his head no more about it."

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The MacBook Neo is interesting because it’s named like something from, I don’t know, the ASUS marketing department or something. Usually Apple uses common nouns/adjectives for its products: Shuffle, Magic, Pro, Air, Mini, etc.

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“This is Free Trader Beowulf” by Shannon Appelcline is to Traveller what the “Meints Index to Glorantha” is to, well, Glorantha. We need more books like these! It’s so interesting to read about the history of classic #TTRPG games.

The coffee-table-sized "This is Free Trader Beowulf", described as "A System History of Traveller". It talks about the history of the game, the people behind it, the various publications, editions, publishers, and more.
The book includes "collector checklists" which is actually quite useful when you're a collector! :)
This is the kind of content you'll find in there, some interesting stories, some fun pictures, and some very nerdy-looking people with 1970s hair styles.
The book even has maps! Woohoooo!

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A couple weeks ago, the good fluffy boy and I went over to Burnaby mountain! Nice view and crisp, fresh air as always.

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And that’s it for our Dragonbane campaign, after ~27 sessions! Azrael Koth lies impaled on a demon statue after being blasted by a Critical Thunderbolt spell worth 46 points of damage! Everybody rejoice! That game was great, and super easy to run.

The end of the last combat in Foundry. Of the four heroic player characters, two were down at zero HP, one was very low on HP and WP, and the final Thunderbolt spell was cast by trading HP for WP, a desperate attempt to finish off the big bad guy before he could wipe out the party!

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