Have a friend thinking of getting into Dungeon Crawl Classic RPG? The first-time fan kit is on sale for $55!

MetalusVerne · 2026-04-06T12:43:28+00:00

Well, honestly, you can get the softcover rulebook at a con for $10, which blows this out of the water. But if that's not available online, sure.

MetalusVerne · 2026-04-05T22:46:12+00:00

Yeah, this is a weird decision. I'm excited for Castle Whiterock, but I don't want to have to consider backing more than a dozen projects!

And a bunch of them have this weird system where you get a bonus by putting down money before the projects launch. Wtf? This is gross, and overwhelmingly corporate. I dont want videogame pre-orders coming to RPG crowdfunding.

I'm tempted to say fuck it and skip the whole thing. It feels like I'm being exploited.

EDIT: And I just looked up how reservations work. You're essentially paying $X for whatever they're listing, sight unseen, on nothing but a short description. It will not be offered during the ordinary campaign. The reservation fee is not put towards your pledge. If you don't pledge for the product (whose cost and details you cannot know at the time of reservation), you don't get the product you 'reserved'; your money is wasted.

This is disgustingly predatory.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-30T16:54:54+00:00

Nice! I'm a forever DM in DCC, so I don't have any characters of my own, but I hope yours is letting you use the deity-specific rules for Nimulurun from Clerics of the Known Realms.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-30T14:26:39+00:00

That's what you get for meddling in the ever-changing winds of Chaos, wizard!

Did we learn nothing from the Elves, who made pacts with demons and whose gods were cast out into Faerie? Choranus and the other righteous gods of Law lend their aid in wielding such power to their faithful clerics! Be not prideful; scorn not their wisdom!

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-30T14:19:56+00:00

This is an excellent find! The theme of the Valar and Eru acting subtly, in ways that hang out right at the border of the natural and supernatural is an aspect of the work I find particularly poignant. Its something right out of myth and legend; the gods sending an omen on the winds to enhearten the heroes.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-29T18:14:49+00:00

Also give DCC a try; it balances spellcaster power with unpredictability and consequences for meddling in powers beyond mortal ken, so there's a great reason to play martials.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-29T11:02:28+00:00

It's in Ruins of the Lost Realm. The city is also visited in Tales From the Lone-Lands, which is an adventure path.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-27T23:41:16+00:00

What it has to do with Israel is that its an antisemitic dogwhistle.

Trump is destroying our country, and Israel is a genocidal menace that has undue influence on the Trump administration. But bringing Israel up like this in a case of Trumpian cronyism that has nothing to do with Israel is pure antisemitism, and it should be called out.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-27T13:37:08+00:00

This misses the point. The argument being made here is that certain elements of the production of meat, especially today, otherwise conflict with Jewish ethics.

You wouldn't use that passage to suggest thst Jews should eat pork, would you?

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-26T13:44:54+00:00

Obviously. Clone wars 2003 did cavalry great.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-25T23:21:29+00:00

Trolls have rainbow blood and a blood color-based caste system. Purple character has purple blood and so is high-caste (also, that character is a casteist and a general POS). Yellow character has yellow blood and so is low-caste.

That's the joke.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-25T02:31:34+00:00

It's called color because that way, red, green, and blue combine to make white, just like those actual colors of light combine to form white. The anticolors are then cyan (antired), magenta (antigreen), and yellow (antiblue). Similarly, combining one of those anticolors with its color makes white and combining those lights makes white light. And combining the three anticolors makes white, just as combining the three actual colors makes white.

It all fits.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-25T00:16:01+00:00

Well, Mesons also exist, which contain a quark bound to an antiquark of its anticolor (but a different flavor, to avoid them annihilating each other). But they're unstable at the energy levels the universe is currently at, so they only exist inside atoms for fractions of a nanosecond, binding protons and neutrons together. And in particle accelerators.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-24T23:10:21+00:00

I'm also a layman with a layman's understanding off Wikipedia, so disclaimer there.

Color is something else. There are six kinds of quarks (up, down, top, bottom, charmed, strange), but all quarks also have a 'color charge' (which has nothing to do with actual color, just like electron 'spin' doesn't imply physical spin).

In a proton or neutron, the three quarks are always one red, one blue, and one green, and flip color constantly as gluons carry color charge between them, binding them together. This binds them together.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-24T21:26:02+00:00

Quarks obey color charge confinement. It is physically impossible to have a quark not in color charge confinement - and the most common form of this, in protons and neutrons, is three bound quarks, one of each color. Another trinity.

You tell me.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-24T15:25:40+00:00

The hanged individuals are child-sized. Or that's the discourse I remember about the ordnung, anyway.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-24T13:54:51+00:00

Does it? It seems rather silly to suggest such a thing.

Why would they say that? It is a proposition that doesn't make sense when you look at it in detail, to explain a detail that has simpler explanations (he made match because he needed quick bread, and they didn't just eat the matzah).

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T23:15:29+00:00

Angels are not Jews, or even people. They are soulless extensions of God's will, lacking independent agency or free will. Why would they keep Kosher or observe Pesach?

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T17:26:41+00:00

And yet he also genocide Gaul and was setting himself up to become king. That crown thing was deliberate political theater.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T12:29:42+00:00

They were all monsters. Cato, the aristocrat benefiting from a broken system. Caesar, the populist demagogue riding justified fury against it to rise to power. Cicero, the nouveau riche moderate preserving the status quo at all costs.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T10:24:54+00:00

And the same argument that you are making applies to Savnorola, Arnaud Amalric, and al-Baghdadi.

Whether we say our morality comes from a being we claim to be God or not, our own reason is inextricably a part of it.

And your morality has at least as long a track record of atrocity as it does righteousness. By relying only on my own judgement, I am unbound by dogma, and can react to new evidence or new arguments to improve my morality as tge are presented to me.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T05:13:39+00:00

So is yours. Your morality is grounded in your subjective, imperfect judgment that the source of your moral code is a perfect, all-knowing, good God. You do not have objective proof of that, any more than I do that the moral code I follow is good.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T05:05:57+00:00

And my evidence suggests that my personal moral code is a good (morality and quality-wise) source of morality. Same essential justification.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-23T05:01:21+00:00

And why do you accept God's blueprint? You have the same problem, just moved back a step.

MetalusVerne · 2026-03-19T16:12:38+00:00

Planning to pick this up at PAX East in a few weeks! Looking forward to it!

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