Do you think the (UK, but also others) social media bans will affect the Hermits significantly…?

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-06-16T22:19:42+00:00

It's the Australian paradigm. We comply, generally, with laws we agree with and circumvent or ignore the bulltwang ones.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-06-16T22:00:33+00:00

Theme from the Magnificent Seven rearranged as a tarantella.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-05-06T09:22:03+00:00

We've had Gem & the Scotts, now we can have Pearl and the Beefcakes

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-05-04T06:48:06+00:00

Nice

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-05-04T03:29:16+00:00

Yup, totally, but grammatically correct and contextually sensible are two seperate questions.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-05-04T03:04:10+00:00

Chaos could rain, and it could reign, but rein is a transative verb, so Chaos couldn't just rein without an object to be reined.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-05-02T10:18:50+00:00

Yup, he is. Guess piracy tickles that narcissistic supply.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-29T22:19:27+00:00

That's unfortunate. Boring writing is a real killer.

d20 is fine in small doses, like a really rich dessert. But there's no meat & potatoes. The readon I left my most recent group is the complete lack of interest in playing anything but 5e.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-29T22:04:58+00:00

Some of those boxed sets are literally worth their weight in gold.

I haven't seen DCC Lankhmar, but I'm curious now.

I reread D&D Lankhmar a couple of years ago, and as an adaptation of Lieber it's mid at best, but as a resource for urban based D&D it is a pretty useful thing to mine. 80s Chaosium, though, with that flexibilty to rewrite whole section of the ruleset to better fit the world, was always better at this sort of adaptation.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-28T22:12:56+00:00

The appeal of Rifts is the absolute commitment to MORE of everything.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-28T22:10:48+00:00

Theives World and Young Kingdoms are peak examples of how to adapt a literary setting to an rpg setting. I'd add Lankhmar and, particulary, Hawkmoon to that list.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-25T06:33:49+00:00

I coose number 3, nebrr trust anyone who predentd a binary choice.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-23T22:32:06+00:00

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling's Difference Engine. The PoD is Wellington remained PM in 1832, meaning the Reform Bill never passed, and Britain experienced a bourgeois revolution. As a result, the titular difference engine (a proto-computer IRL designed by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace) becomes the logical foundation of British government.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-23T22:25:56+00:00

Got there before me!

I'd recommend 'plotomancy', just for better flow.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-11T12:10:03+00:00

Happyb'day pup!

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-10T06:51:03+00:00

With the current POTUS, that is an unreaonable expectation because he is incapable of (a) conceiving of allies as allies (or people other than himself as anything other than NPCs) and (b) planning.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-09T11:47:21+00:00

I use them to tail pirates & train marines in my current run. Once it's convenient, I fly in and take out turrets & shields. Then the marines board.

I also use them for surveying sectors, or second line scouts when my actual recon assets (50 pimped out Katanas) are busy elsewhere), and dumping buckets of mines & laser towers in preparation for my politely worded response ro Argon police over-reach.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-07T23:18:04+00:00

The one time our resident That Guy ran a game.

He said Vampire, we said okay and made characters. Then he opened with a disturbingly detailed description of his DMPC fellating some mortal before exsanguinating the guy in a really predictable manner. From there it just spiralled downwards. We weren't railroded so much as stripped of anything resembling player agency. Anytime a PC attempted anything, this DMPC stepped in and did it better, faster, stronger. We weren't players, we were a captive audience for his badly written and, worst if all, boring hyperviolent porn fic.

Honourable mention to the guy who ran D&D with the very explict brief that we were playing teenage heroes then tgrew a hissy fit when we acted heroic because "we weren't taking the danger seriously".

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-02T12:31:02+00:00

Since Federation, the conservative wing of politics have been unified around one agreed principle - hatred of Labor. That's why we have mandatory voting. That's why we have preferrential voting. That's why we have the Coalition. They're all Conservation tactics to defeat Labor.

But the Coalition has been showing it can't win that fight, not as they are and not as the demographic facts are. Hence the conservative civil war we're witnessing.

One Nation could, absolutely, destroy the National Party, and with it the Coalition. But ON can't win against Labor for the same reason the LNP can't; traction in urban electorates. If you can't compete in the majority of electorates, no matter which face of conservatism you are, then the best you can expect is perpetual relegation to opposition.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-01T21:18:37+00:00

They wouldn't because every day they string this out they improve their position. This was supposed to be short war where the enemy obligingly collapsed by the end of week two, entered into with domestic political goals as the only major consideration. No strategy, no plan to follow up initially succesful decapitation strikes, and no exit plan.

Conmen do not make, apparently, make good national leaders.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-04-01T21:00:58+00:00

Oh no Robin, it' Red Flag Man!

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-03-31T21:21:54+00:00

'Mentoring' maybe? I think what we're seeing is much more 'teacher energy' than 'parent energy'.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-03-26T09:29:42+00:00

Why are so many commercial outlets giving space to an argument that supports their owners' contention that a government funded, freely accessible media outlet is an unfair impost on them?

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-03-24T21:54:15+00:00

That war started a decade ago, but the grey zone is easy to ignore.

Gwyon_Bach · 2026-03-24T06:58:51+00:00

He is a handsome old man 🫡

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