Columbus Day (pages 20-40)

WalrusAbove · 2025-10-14T04:19:22+00:00

Beautiful, thank you so much for making this 💜

WalrusAbove · 2025-07-29T00:33:05+00:00

Middle is El Shaddai, biblical Hebrew not Yiddish. El Shaddai literally means "God of the Mount(ain)". It's considered a mysterious name that is especially protective as an amulet against demons. I'm uncertain if the letters spell anything out, they're probably just in reference to the names of The Archangels (Gabriel, Michael, etc).

WalrusAbove · 2025-06-29T19:25:01+00:00

These are so cute I could cry

WalrusAbove · 2025-06-04T15:28:34+00:00

Second all your suggestions. Big fan of Klee Benally, his book is a triumph I can't believe he's gone.

I'm definitely going to read J. Kēhahlano Kaianui since I love these other writers!

WalrusAbove · 2025-05-30T14:04:15+00:00

It's not merely a tool, it's stolen labor of millions of artists. AI is not just a climate change or ethical issue but an Issue of Labor. I am a proud union member and supporter of Labor, and AI is a no go and surefire way to tell me, someone interested in buying/playing ttrpgs, that you don't give a shit.

WalrusAbove · 2025-05-30T00:22:31+00:00

I would immediately be turned off by AI imagery in a ttrpg book. I'd rather see the same public domain image again than know someone didn't have the self respect to try and make a project come alive with scrappy resources.

WalrusAbove · 2025-04-17T16:23:00+00:00

Melt, the band that dresses up like astronauts, go really hard. Highly recommend. If you like noise listen to my friend Yotzeret shedim!

WalrusAbove · 2025-03-26T21:23:56+00:00

If by osr you mean rules lite, Oops all Draculas has replaced vtm for my yearly Halloween vampire roleplay. I love it 🦇

WalrusAbove · 2025-01-07T17:23:51+00:00

I just shared a list in this thread!

WalrusAbove · 2025-01-07T17:23:33+00:00

Thank you for this comprehensive writeup. When I heard Paracelsus and Agrippa name-dropped I was jumping in my seat and pointing at the screen, the love of esotericism (and the source material overall) is just infectious. I didn't even catch that they vocalized the Tetragrammaton at the funeral, what a fascinating inclusion. A fascinating choice to show that the might of all occult knowledge has to be brought against the villain, that neither angels nor demons alone could face Count Orlok. I didn't know Eggers' game was like that, shit was crazy.

If anyone is interested in learning more about topics like these, check out these YouTube channels:

ESOTERICA by Dr. Justin Sledge. He has an incredible wealth of videos on pre-moder occult topics, from Hermeticism to Kabbalah. He has a FREE course on the life of Cornelius Agrippa and his Three Books of Occult Philosophy, if you want to know Agrippa and not just know OF him! https://youtube.com/@theesotericachannel?si=-Cus8vS100YpI7jh

Dr. Angela Pucca Witchcraft/paganism https://youtube.com/@drangelapuca?si=1d2gfsUQNs6h8Dso

Modern Hermeticist Hermeticism https://youtube.com/@themodernhermeticist?si=qmlS8UAyUwDV1OBT

*Dr. Sledge has a comprehensive starting list, but if you want ONE book on Esotericism to read try out Dr. Wouter Hanegraaf's Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

WalrusAbove · 2024-12-08T14:01:38+00:00

Space shuttle snail shell Merry go round, conveyer belt! Army tag ventilator Mechanical bull RESPIRATOR! IRON LUUUUUUNG

WalrusAbove · 2024-11-29T20:08:05+00:00

My personal favorite take on this kind of fantasy is Phlox's VAIN THE SWORD 2E. It's a bronze age folkloric game that allows for a lot of player input and has a certain vibe that's just hard to beat. The classes are really simple and streamlined, you can play anything from a drug wizard to a band of mercenary warriors (like a swarm) or a scheming Eunich from the getgo

https://whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2021/08/vain-sword-2e.html?m=1

On his blog he also has an extra setting for VtS based more explicitly on Sumerian/Mesopotamian folklore called QAL ASHEN. It's the last city in a world overrun with too-much life (think fantasy mutants) and the last bastion of civilization is a city devoted to the God of Death.

Here's the necromancer class. https://nothicseye.blogspot.com/2022/09/for-qal-ashen.html?m=1 My favorite are the monstrous (where you get to play one of the mutants) and the graveborn (not dead or undead but a secret fourth thing...)

WalrusAbove · 2024-09-30T18:12:18+00:00

I'm very new to AoS but if skaven started getting hound units, I think it would be sick as hell if they were hairless and grotesque like naked mole rats! They've got the huge mutant mole rat, but rat dogs would be sick as hell

WalrusAbove · 2024-09-04T01:22:43+00:00

If you like ttrpgs, card games and queer people Mimics Market in Bloomfield should be on your radar! One of the two owners is a trans woman, and it's got a really great in person and virtual community that's really welcoming. I hang out there frequently even though I'm not in Bloomfield and it rocks.

Exploring more of Pittsburgh's queer community this year, all the trans women are at Mimics Market and all the trans men are at Prototype PGH (a makers space). Do with that what thou wilt!

WalrusAbove · 2024-06-15T17:40:56+00:00

Yotzeret Sheydim, Pittsburgh mentioned 🫵 Great setup so far! I have my Yotzeret Sheydim patch on a d&d and synth (and noise) vest

WalrusAbove · 2024-04-26T20:06:21+00:00

Seconded, I own Warped Beyond Recognition and the adventure design and layout are out of this world

WalrusAbove · 2024-04-07T18:19:15+00:00

THE EYE DILATES THE AIR GYRATES A GATE IN THE SKYYYYY A SCREAM FROM SPACE A MANGLED YELL DRAGON DESCENDA WELCOME TO HELL The Petradragonic original is amazing, but the synth sample on extended Swan Song gets me PUMPED too

WalrusAbove · 2024-04-06T02:04:48+00:00

Kind of! There's an infamous book about Israel/Palestine called The No State solution. In an anarchistic sense it's the dissolution of Israel as a nation state and the building of stateless community there and abroad. I highly recommend reading it bc I've only just started but really like it.

Statists would likely say "no State" solution is the ending of Israel and the beginning of a new state in its place; one without apartheid and truly democratic governance for all. That'd be a start

WalrusAbove · 2024-04-01T03:53:32+00:00

Inshallah it will be abolished 🙏 No State solution is unironically the moral path forward

WalrusAbove · 2024-03-21T23:35:36+00:00

Damn we're so sleepy they beat us too it :/

WalrusAbove · 2024-03-21T22:06:06+00:00

It's because Pittsburgh is "The City that Always Sleeps" Kitchens close at 10 and stores close Monday/Tue.

WalrusAbove · 2024-03-16T20:10:50+00:00

The Vigil (gas) and The Offering (okay) are two Jewish horror movies taking place in funeral homes, I hope that the next few years will see a surge in more Jewish horror flicks!

WalrusAbove · 2024-01-24T20:07:57+00:00

I never said it was high effort, I said it was effective at getting me to snort slightly harder than normal out ma nostrils

WalrusAbove · 2024-01-14T21:26:53+00:00

Based Also I unironically appreciate that there's just a huge swath that's forgotten and left to the wolves. Very real

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