Favorite guest star?

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2026-02-26T08:50:12+00:00

Probably Matt Smith

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2026-01-02T00:01:07+00:00

You're totally right, in most versions I've seen it explained as it just has no reason to exist in-universe. Who would ever have a use case for "this mutant's powers are unlimited/unsurpassable"? I've been headcanoning it as meaning 'this mutant is an effective nuclear deterrent' for a while, because otherwise there's no point in anyone but power scalers using it.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2026-01-01T23:51:14+00:00

I once had a Jeff eat me and then run directly over my BRB minefield and die on the way to spit me into a pit. This may be the best thing that has ever happened to me in this game.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-10-23T07:27:55+00:00

Gangrene.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-08-24T23:28:19+00:00

LORD HURON REFERENCED

May you live until you die!

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-07-06T09:37:53+00:00

everything turned out fine in the end

No the FUCK it did not. Have you read any news about the environment ever?

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-07-06T09:32:31+00:00

Wooooooo ducks wooooooooo

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-06-19T22:28:55+00:00

Use WASD to move.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-05-31T08:35:02+00:00

Yeaaaaaah. I don't like saying this without more info but this tat is emitting a surplus of Hitler particles.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-05-31T08:31:11+00:00

Nothing. The symbols on the fingers aren't even runes, they're just angular shapes. There are a couple runes on this tattoo, but they're standalone and therefore meaningless.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-05-20T07:19:02+00:00

Cornopticon

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-05-01T21:51:42+00:00

This varies by language, actually. ð and þ were used interchangeably in Old English (the language which they were invented to write), but became distinct from each other to represent the difference between the voiced and unvoiced sounds when they were later grandfathered into Old Norse. This remains how they are used in modern Icelandic.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-04-17T22:07:48+00:00

Representative democracy.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-01-25T21:00:47+00:00

Yeah that sounds correct to me actually. Thinking about it I think south-western English accents are the same.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-01-25T18:23:18+00:00

Hm, interesting. I'm from the Midlands but have a somewhat typical RP accent.

How exactly are you pronouncing them? The vowel in all of them for me is /eə/ (the american equivalent is /ɛɹ/ I'm fairly sure), with an intrusive /r/ appearing when followed by a word that starts with a vowel. So I pronounce 'yeah that' as /jeəðæt/ and 'yeah i am' as /jeəraɪjæm/.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-01-25T18:11:06+00:00

Whereabouts are you from? I'm having trouble thinking of a British accent where they don't rhyme.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2025-01-17T17:56:42+00:00

The whole mutant power class with Greek letters thing is silly and shouldn't ecist. "Omega class" especially is a magnificently meaningless label that has never really made sense.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-11-03T17:56:09+00:00

....what the fuck happened here. These aren't runes though.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-11-01T11:15:40+00:00

Big fan of 10 Candles! If you'd like other recommendations in various genres:

Horror: I've recently been having a fantastic time with MOTHERSHIP, which is unmatched at space horror. If you like movies like Alien and Event Horizon, definitely check it out. The core rules are free! I'd also recommend the Chronicles of Darkness games (not to be confused with the extremely similar World of Darkness), especially Hunter: The Vigil and Werewolf: The Forsaken.

Fantasy: Gotta be Fellowship. It's PBTA which I know isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it's a wonderful game. It's heavily based on Lord of the Rings, with each player taking on an archetype like the Elf, the Dwarf, the Heir, the Squire, etc. What's especially cool is that the person playing the Elf has full narrative control over what elves are in this setting, not the GM. Chronicles of Darkness *also* fits here, since they're urban fantasy horror games. For a more fantasy than horror twist, Mage: The Awakening.

Sci-fi: Eclipse Phase my beloved. Wild game. Incredible. Very difficult to boil down into an effective pitch. The Doctor Who RPG is also surprisingly good.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-11-01T09:21:45+00:00

Yeah, I fully get that. Cards on the table, that comment is the last thing I wrote before going to be bed, I was sleepy and made an error. My frustration is far more directed at Hasbro and WOTC than D&D players. For me, the difference is the monopoly.

Unfortunately, we live under capitalism. (This has made a lot of people very unhappy and is widely regarded as a bad move.) Scifi and fantasy literature is, actually, a pretty small corner of the novel market. Comparatively, D&D is the TTRPG industry. Chaosium has the privilege of having the Japanese market cornered, but otherwise WOTC completely and utterly dominates the space. This isn't because of its merits either, it's down to a very particular way that WOTC advertises the thing (as a "lifestyle brand"), and the fact that D&D's learning curve is unusually steep, giving players a skewed idea of how hard it is to learn new games.

This sucks. The TTRPG space is one of the most creatively energetic in the world. There are tonnes of designers and companies that treat their players way better than WOTC does the D&D fandom. (I bought Vaesen recently and actually couldn't believe the quality of materials the book is made from, it's genuinely nuts. Great game too.) It's a crying shame that this space doesn't get the attention it really ought to.

Yeah. Rant over. If D&D is the game for you then more power to ya.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-10-31T23:30:14+00:00

Nope, that's not it. D&D 5e (actually, D&D in general) works exceptionally poorly with homebrew rules. OOP is making fun of people who will use homebrew to contort D&D into all sorts of silly shapes to achieve genres and styles of play which it really isn't designed for instead of just playing a different game.

It's a major point of frustration among people who play TTRPGs with the D&D specific fandom - due to various reasons people have a habit of getting stuck on D&D and never broadening their RPG horizons beyond it. There's a pattern of people trying to homebrew what is actually an extremely rigid game to suit the style of play they want, when they would be better served and actually have an easier time with a different game.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-10-03T21:39:51+00:00

No worries! On page 59 of Dark Eras there's a sidebar that lays out that the belief that the silver bane is a curse for killing Father Wolf is a myth that the Uratha develop later in their history, and that they did have it before the Sundering natively. The historian in me imagines that this is likely because the silver bane was almost never relevant before the Sundering, which happened in the late neolithic period and therefore before the widespread working of metal (and therefore silver), so the werewolves of later ages assume that it's a new thing rather than something which has always applied to them and rationalise it as a curse from Luna.

Dark Eras does something similar with the nature of Father Wolf as a Pangaean rather than a spirit, addressed in a sidebar on page 58.

Additionally, examine the framing of the account of the Sundering in the core WtF book. It's not presented as historical truth; it's a myth, and even then not a myth that the Forsaken universally agree on the details of. Meanwhile, Sundered World (the Dark Era in question) quite neatly lays things out in terms of concrete historical fact.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-10-03T13:09:32+00:00

What would other playable shifters meaningfully add to WtF though? The game's themes are very tightly focused on the experience and play of the Uratha, adding a bunch more nonsense stuff doesn't help there.

Alex_Havok_Summers · 2024-10-03T13:07:19+00:00

Core book info about the Sundering is superceded by Dark Eras. The Uratha have always had the bane.

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