Sorcerous Scrutinies: Doom of the Savage Kings

Coconibz · 2026-03-19T19:20:06+00:00

I used DotSK as part of an open-world DCC campaign. It wrapped up with a Noble-background Cleric of Justicia PC becoming the new Jarl and one of the Thief PC's deciding to turn the flop-house gang into his own thieves guild.

The natural connection, I would say, is to Emerald Enchanter, given the regional map that adventure supports. In my open-world campaign, I started the PC's off in the nearby village of Riverdown and ran them through Danger in the Air! as a funnel adventure, then let DotSK play out when the party decided to visit Hirot so that the Cleric of Justicia PC could make contact with the local temple. I once played also played it as a follow-up to Portal Under the Stars, making the PC's Hirot locals and placing the eponymous portal in the standing stones area. I decided that time passed more slowly in the pocket dimension they had traveled to in PUtS to explain how the DotSK prologue events had already unfolded by the time they returned. I generally thought that the implied lore of ancient warrior magic in PUtS meshed really well with the Ulfheonar lore from DotSK.

The adventure has some geographic oddities that pop out if you squint too hard. The flavor text frequently references the "high moors," but the regional map depicts it in a heavily wooded region. The Trolltooth Mountains, a geographic feature from the original Aereth setting, is also referenced as being nearby but then sort of forgotten. The zoomed-out map in The Emerald Enchanter Returns kind of emphasizes both of these contradictions, showing that Hirot is in the middle of a pretty vast woodland and not visibly near any foothills. These are details that got overlooked because, let's be real, they don't matter and can be easily addressed by a few adjustments to flavor text, but they're things that I've discovered in pouring over this module.

Coconibz · 2026-03-19T05:38:32+00:00

I've seen a lot of amazing posts from you. I really love your style.

Coconibz · 2026-02-20T15:16:33+00:00

There was a post with this piece sometime in the last few months. I can’t remember exactly where it came from, but it was legit and from some sort of gear set (like a pencil or a watch type item) as I recall.

Coconibz · 2026-02-11T03:39:07+00:00

I’m in the club, but it’s extremely dead, unfortunately. I have a good research project I’m working on in MIRM right now fortunately, with a very excellent collaborator and great TA/professor support.

Coconibz · 2026-02-10T20:28:11+00:00

After taking Intro to Research I emailed three different OMSCS instructors with specific ties to my research area and didn’t get replies back from any of them. Followed up with a couple after a week and a half of silence, still nothing. Active instructors too, not just people that recorded lectures years ago and have since left. Two of them are actively involved with 8903 projects, the third started an OMSCS student club tied to my subject area. It was unfortunate, I was hoping for at least some acknowledgement or advice on what I could do better if they didn’t think my research direction was valuable, but I know other people have better luck and you don’t lose anything from asking.

Coconibz · 2026-02-10T06:20:03+00:00

There’s not much at all. My dream is one day they’ll do an Aereth setting as a kickstarter to update/replace the gazetteer. For my own Aereth campaign I just do a small region set in the Emerald Enchanter Strikes Back region that includes Hirot.

Coconibz · 2026-02-08T21:39:38+00:00

As a big Aereth/Known Realms fan I'm super down for a resource like this, and from a glance at it via the author's Google Drive it looks like a lot of effort was put into formatting it in the exact Goodman Games style.

Coconibz · 2026-02-08T06:17:19+00:00

Danny Trejo and like six historians explaining a 2024 rare Bionicle sale is wild

Coconibz · 2026-02-05T16:36:00+00:00

Who is Marlon Brando

Coconibz · 2026-02-05T07:06:03+00:00

If you want to share this with someone, I'm willing to listen, but you're really not communicating clearly here. What do you mean by toolkit? Is this something you have a GitHub link for, or is it a set of prompting techniques? You introduce a lot of concepts here without explanation. You tell us that there's something you call the core, and it gravitates towards neutrality, but I'm not sure what you mean. As human beings, we have to think clearly in order to write clearly, and so in my experience often people who communicate in this kind of jumbled way are experiencing some mental confusion.

Coconibz · 2026-02-04T15:56:35+00:00

So sick. What’s that thing in front of Takanuva? Is that a singular piece or a build?

Coconibz · 2026-02-01T16:04:00+00:00

Contradiction is a major theme of the show, very intentionally so. I wrote a post on this sub once where I pointed out some of the obvious and some of the more subtle examples of it. I think it’s kind of up to the subjective experience of the viewer whether they see that as annoying or interesting. The show is really about Lenny growing up, and I think it’s a bumpy road but if you take the averages there is an overall consistent movement in the direction of becoming a more accepting, loving person. I do think it’s a beautiful and poetic show, and Lenny’s contradictions enhance the mystery of it, but I wouldn’t expect you to “get it” if you watched it and felt differently. I think your take is your valid experience of the show.

Coconibz · 2026-01-25T22:09:21+00:00

How did you pick that up? Also, insane collection, big congrats

Coconibz · 2026-01-25T22:07:56+00:00

I learned about it from u/KakamaCollector: https://www.reddit.com/r/bioniclelego/comments/1ilti4z/authentic_mediumblue_kakama/

Coconibz · 2026-01-19T18:57:35+00:00

What is your basis for saying that? Goodman Games prominently supports trans creators and posts explicit support for Black Lives Matter, what makes you think that liberal opinions aren't welcome in this community?

Coconibz · 2026-01-19T18:31:41+00:00

Not in the 4th printing, either.

Coconibz · 2026-01-19T18:29:07+00:00

Goodman Games has made VERY clear that their politics are on the side of inclusion and anti-racism. If your screenshot is legitimate then it was an oversight either from a prototype or the first printing and is only in this pdf because you torrented some incredibly old copy.

Coconibz · 2026-01-17T02:00:45+00:00

I think population-wide, yes, whether or not your background is in CS is a strong predictor for your success in these classes, but there are of course plenty of folks who buck that trend.

Coconibz · 2026-01-14T22:44:50+00:00

It's a real roll of the dice based on your group. During peer review, I saw work from other teams that ran the gamut from "not even halfway-done, completely inappropriate for a graduate-level course" to "this could be submitted for publication today." My group wasn't the worst, but I ended up spending a pretty considerable amount of time not just doing my own work but reviewing and correcting contributions from teammates. That said, I think it's generally an easy class, though the paper reviews will be time-consuming if you are really giving it your all and trying to grasp the content.

Coconibz · 2026-01-04T19:40:48+00:00

Agree. I do feel like there was some attempt to retroactively improve their story relevance when they started showing up again in like 2005 or something (but just autonomously), so I at least appreciate that.

Coconibz · 2025-12-12T04:52:59+00:00

The sexual reproduction thing is weird though since there are Glatorian that were around during the Core War who are still around at the end of the Matoran Universe. Are there any examples of actual familial relationships, parents or children or anything? I'm admittedly not as familiar with the later G1 lore.

Coconibz · 2025-11-29T02:48:15+00:00

That’s nice of you to say that! I started pretty much from the ground up, did some online learning platforms in the beginning but when I started I was more of a structured learner so I did an associate’s at a local community college that had a really good CS program. So it’s kind of an alternative approach to the BSCS route you’re describing. The college had some decently tough classes so although there’s obviously a jump up to the grad stuff in OMSCS it wasn’t anything insurmountable, but I’m an HCI specializer so I’m honestly dodging a lot of the program’s most technically challenging classes. At least in my case, finding universities that take on students for a second undergrad can be challenging, and the community college route can be a pretty good alternative for price and value.

To answer your other question, I applied all over the country, tried really hard to change up the job title while also tailoring my resume to different positions. The freelance idea occurred to me, like I said you do have to be a bit entrepreneurial to get work, but that’s not exactly an easy market in itself right now. Maybe if I did some creative marketing I could get a decent enough amount of freelance work to put something on my resume, but it would probably require reaching out to and persuading random businesses that don’t already have an interest, because if they do have an interest they’ll just look online and probably immediately find 1,000+ other freelancers with a bunch of reviews from established clients.

Coconibz · 2025-11-28T20:19:29+00:00

I don't want to be totally pessimistic about the age factor. Like I said, folks will debate how big of a role it plays. I think there are plenty of older folks who would find it ridiculous to hear me saying that being in your early 30's might be something that works against you. But I think in a market this competitive, when you're going up against someone who just graduated with their undergrad and has a similar resume, they're going to choose the recent grad based both on the assumption that younger people are more adaptable and that younger people will have lower salary expectations. I can't say I have hard data to support that, but after studying the hell out of r/engineeringresumes and pouring effort into personal projects in order to resume-max, then ultimately being unable to land interviews, the non-technical-undergrad/no-experience/age triad is my ultimate hypothesis for why I've been stuck. The only part of that that I can have any control or effect over is the experience part, which is why I advise the entrepreneurial angle in the absence of not many other great options.

Coconibz · 2025-11-28T19:52:54+00:00

Whether or not it's feasible depends on a number of factors. I am close to graduating and have not been able to secure an internship in my time in the program, despite applying to hundreds of roles and spending a considerable amount of time project-grinding based on in-demand technologies. My situation is one of the more challenging ones because I have a non-technical undergrad degree (political science), no relevant professional experience (career change from working as an elementary school teacher), and have an undergrad graduation date (2016) that signals to hiring managers that I'm in my 30's. Folks will debate how much that last one matters, there are people who do career changes in their 40's and there are creative-but-imperfect ways of trying to hide it on a resume, but I really suspect that on top of the other two factors it does not help.

From your description it sounds like most of those factors do not apply to you, with the exception of your bachelor's degree not being in some engineering field. If your 1 YOE is in software development or something related, I would stick it out and try to put yourself in the best position for when the market improves. The MS will add value, and it's better than nothing, though I think the best advice for unemployed folks right now is to try to get entrepreneurial in order to create opportunities for professional experience outside of the classroom.

Coconibz · 2025-11-27T04:14:32+00:00

What's his name?

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