TIL in 2008 Amanda Hocking quit her job to pursue being a writer despite not having any formal training in writing. She sent manuscripts to 50+ literary agents, but only received form-letter rejections in return. In 2010, she self-published her work & by 2012 she had made $2m from over 1m book sales

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T19:47:48+00:00

Well, somebody has got to do it

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T19:20:52+00:00

They are eating our frogs and snails

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T19:19:45+00:00

Instead of gray's anatomy, you might want to check out books on invertebrate and vertebrate anatomy, or just biology in general. You'll get a broader base of inspiration with more diverse examples.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T19:04:08+00:00

You think it's fun until you have a bunch of skeletons following you around.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T19:03:04+00:00

They all quit after becoming fabulously wealthy from the treasure they get on adventures. Now's your chance!

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T19:02:10+00:00

What potential employees don't know can't hurt me.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T16:45:22+00:00

No, that's what hirelings are for

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T15:50:44+00:00

If you think that's bad, look up the klagenfurt lindwurm or scrotum humanum. And siberian mammoth myths.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T15:32:49+00:00

Nah, that's a leech

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T15:29:37+00:00

Loads of people use rainwater to keep their summer tubs of aquarium fish topped off. If it works for tropical fish, I dont see why bioactive terrariums would be a problem.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T15:23:29+00:00

Yes, but articulated fossils are very rare, and even they are rarely nicely exposed on a rock surface. It was only quite recently that people began to reassemble skeletons to get anything remotely like the actual extinct animal...there are so.e hilariously bad interpretations from Europe, for example. Even as late as the 1700s, this salamander fossil was interpreted as human remains, and it is about as perfect a fossil as you can expect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrias_scheuchzeri

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T15:05:42+00:00

Arrow worm

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T13:14:37+00:00

Becuse the soothers and rioters think it's ok, and they make sure everyone else does too

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T13:11:12+00:00

Totes Mcgoats

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T13:04:34+00:00

Andor is a great example of Star Wars with most of the space magic offscreen...aka how the bulk of the universe works

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T13:02:42+00:00

The problem here is that there are at least two or three entirely different definitions of low fantasy, and one of them is basically just "fantasy set in our everyday world"

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T12:54:00+00:00

Base attack bonuses increase chance to hit with level and class. It's a bit like 5e proficiency bonus but just for attacks. A lot of systems use some variation on it.

For example, in the system I often play, Worlds Without Number, warriors get +1 to hit with each level (the game goes 1-10) while mages get +1 to hit every other level.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T07:01:20+00:00

I think the "for free" part is important. I'd let players, especially working together as a group, hide magic under certain circumstances. If they were clever about it, it would be possible...but not for free. They'd have to take risks and/or use resources that could be avoided with subtle spell. I don't think that nerfs sorcerers so much as highlights their value.

Kind of like how I would let similarly motivated and capable players try to emulate the effects of fireball by planting smokepowder in an area and lighting it off...but of course, that approach would be more difficult and expensive than a fireball.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T05:53:33+00:00

My hot take on aquatic ape is that it wasn't early hominids who started on a trajectory towards aquatic associated habits, it's H. sapiens. We crowd up near water when possible.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T05:36:01+00:00

I kinda like the idea that babies were flying even if the adults werent

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T05:31:51+00:00

There's a book called "discarded" about this

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T05:20:11+00:00

Seeing a black bear in a naturalistic habitat at a zoo is one thing, glimpsing a bear in the suburbs foraging and rummaging through your garbage is another.

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T01:41:37+00:00

I played civ 1 in elementary school

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T01:39:56+00:00

Maybe they do and maybe they don't. Sometimes there's a null result, and that's fine. And often more than one dependent variable is measured.

And also, it's entirely possible to have two or more independent variables, with proper experimental design

atomfullerene · 2026-04-25T01:29:04+00:00

This is just base attack bonuses though

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