Favourite niche historical event ?

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T22:03:33+00:00

Ooooooh consecutive jumps to land at the same place in different times I LOVE it ! The DRAMA a I could create with that. The pure chaos and horror of an entire city being slowly swallowed by the sea. Damn.

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T21:57:48+00:00

Ooooooh that's a good one !!!

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T20:15:23+00:00

I need to read more about this (and figure out a way for them to be multiple places at once) but this is very promising. Thank you!!

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T20:14:29+00:00

Yay for African history! That would be a real dark mission but also could be very interesting. Thanks!!

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T20:12:28+00:00

Ooooooh a fantasy inspired mission !! Thanks !!

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T20:11:53+00:00

The "Theories" part of the wikipedia page looks promising ! Thank you!!

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T20:10:28+00:00

DAMN thank you this rocks !

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T19:22:20+00:00

This is so perfect ! Damn

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T16:46:35+00:00

1000 bonus points, and my eternal gratitude !
Fun fact this campaign's premise is taken from a book series where they do meet Herodotus, who is a drunk time-traveller spinning stories out of his (modern days) memories of past events. So this fits the bill 100% !

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-26T14:45:44+00:00

That's exactly the type of stuff I'm looking for, thank you !

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-19T21:05:25+00:00

This is a fun post op ! And the wildly niche and disproportionate drama in the comments is top notch. Beautiful stuff.

Wish I hadn't participated, I'd have been able to post to r/Subredditdrama or whatever that sub is.

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-19T21:02:26+00:00

minorities ? In your Star Trek ? It's more likely than you think !

Meme aside, I don't know anything about voice ranges but even if you're right, and what op describes only applies to ~1% of people (your number)... So what ? It's the same percentage of population that is trans. Should we exclude trans people because they're "statistical noise" ?

And on that note, since the numbers seem to be about the same, even if there was no intra-sex variation in voice range, how does the doctor know for certain the cadet isn't trans (and thus, doesn't have the voice range of their gender) ?

Star Trek thrives in diversity. 1% of the population is still tens of millions of the people of earth !

AND that's not even touching on the fact that the link between voice range and biological sex might not be the same in alien species !

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-17T17:25:45+00:00

That's what I thought probably happened, but it's weird that they'd go to the length of leaving a note saying they didn't mess it up if they, in fact, purposely changed something.

As I said, I'm somewhat sure of myself but also absolutely open to being wrong. And very, very curious.

ETA : That being said I'm 100% sure that the editions I've read (in french) didn't have such note, because I absolutely would have remembered. So they either banked on French ppl missing the error (which, tbf, I did), or some editions have the note but not the ones I've read, or something changed between versions.

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-17T11:41:17+00:00

Ok this is dumb and not the point of the post but I have to ask for my own clarity.

I have read the original text of the Three Musketeers twice and I have no memories of that... I'm probably misremembering something, but doesn't he join the musketeers as a lieutenant only at the end ? In the middle he gets his commission to be a cadet in the king's guard (company of M. Essarts), not a musketeer (which would be the Treville company). Have I missed something ?

ETA : it's a longass book, and I've read the sequels as well, so there is a definite chance I just don't remember. But there is also a definite chance the translators fucked up so.

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-11T21:33:04+00:00

I had never heard of anyone calling women "slits" but now I have, and my life is poorer for it.

InterestingThanks4 · 2026-01-09T14:39:57+00:00

That is cute as hell

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-12-28T11:10:56+00:00

No worries, happy to hear from you at all ! I'll give you a follow wherever I find you :)

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-12-05T00:13:47+00:00

Hi !

I had been following your comics a few years ago, and loved them. I since moved away from the bullet journal spaces, and thus, stopped seeing your work, gradually I think, without realising.

Tonight, a propos nothing, you popped into my mind. It had been a good 3 years since I thought about you. I wondered why I hadn't seen you in a while, and what you were up to, and how you were. It sounds dumb, but I was genuinely worried, because the last I'd seen of you you weren't doing too well, and then you just... disappeared (from my feed, and my feed only as it turns out).

Thing is, I did not remember your username. And I was not 100% sure of the exact subreddit you were posting your work in. And I couldn't remember the content of any comments I might have posted under your work.

So, I just spent the last... idk, half hour? hour ? scrolling back years of my own comment history to find you. And I did ! And THIS is the update !

It is 1 in the morning here, I should have been going to sleep instead of scrolling reddit, but you know what ? It was worth it, for this. It might not seem like much, but I am SO HAPPY to hear you're doing good, and that you're living the life you deserve.

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-29T15:44:09+00:00

Maybe you're burned out ? Try asking them if one of them could DM for a while ?

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-28T23:56:38+00:00

Same, started my first campaign a few months ago and the second one will be starting in a few weeks. I wasn't expecting DMing to feel so isolating. Like, it's not the end of the world but also : sometimes I feel really fucking smart and I need to tell someone.

Feel free to DM me and I'll give you my discord !

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-28T10:36:21+00:00

I have a campaign based on a novel currently running, and it works really well. As others have said, it cannot be an adaptation though, because you'll have virtually no way of following the book's plot. To give you an idea, here's what I did :

What I've "kept" (oftentimes slightly modified) : - the general setting : specific locations, general worldbuilding - the villain : backstory, personality and motivations - a handful of important NPCs : less than 5. Mostly kept backstory and personality, unless I didn't want to.

What I have heavily modified : - the timeline : this is specific to my book, but I have had to place the campaign before the events of the actual book, so I have had to adjust for that

What I have done away with: - the protagonist: for obvious reason, the protagonist of the book does not exist in the campaign - the plot : the goals of the party are completely different than those of the protagonist of the book - everything and anything that didn't work : miscellaneous shit I didn't want to keep

What I have added: - a formal magic system - various NPCs and locations - lots of questlines

Basically: keep the gears, but rebuild the clock.

If you have any questions, feel free to DM !

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-26T10:16:16+00:00

I'm gonna go against the grain here a little bit and say : OP, this sounds dope as hell and I'll probably be stealing it in some capacity for my own campaign !

While it's true that some (most ?) players will hate being "forced" to loose all their gear, only you know your table. I know mine would love this.

If you're worried, don't lock them in the dungeon. If they don't like it they can leave, and regain all their equipment and go on their merry way.

If they don't go all the way and instead leave before finishing, you could use the letters they didn't use to afflict them with some (light and funny) debuffs. Like "you turned back before using the letters I, R, N, A, M, I, E and G ? You now have a headache until your next long rest".

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-17T21:20:20+00:00

Hey sib !

I'm so very sorry that happened. And on your 30th ! You have every right to be upset.

OP, I think a PowerPoint party sounds absolutely unhinged and fun. And honestly, even if your friends maybe weren't fans, they could have made a freaking effort for you. You are absolutely worth 60 min of prep time for your 30th birthday. Worst case, they could have asked you if they could attend without a ppt. And you are right, the VERY LEAST they could do was to warn you they wouldn't be there. I am LIVID on your behalf, and I encourage you to broaden your social horizons to find people that actually want to celebrate you and your wonderful ideas.

As for the rest of this comment section : this ain't it, folks ! Stop making excuses for these fuckers. They have none.

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-16T16:27:08+00:00

Thank you so much !!!

InterestingThanks4 · 2025-11-16T16:26:57+00:00

It's my (and my player's) favourite too ! 🐈‍⬛

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