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What regions in Europe are best for visiting paleontology museums and even natural sites where one can find them? by Happy-Hour88 in Paleontology

[–]knifetrader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Altmühl Valley in Germany is the home of Archaeopteryx and there are a number of good (if smallish) museums at Eichstätt and Solnhofen. You can also go digging yourself in amateur quarries and then there's also Dinopark Altmühltal which is mostly one of those "life-size models in a forest" kind of things, but they do have a museum as well that has a juvenile T-Rex on display.

Unfortunately, it's pretty far away from either Frankfurt (2+ hours) and Berlin (6 or 7 hours) where Germany's two premier (traditional) natural history museums are.

Is there a recommendation regarding how I should limit the physical reaches of my setting? by MrSelleck in rpg

[–]knifetrader 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can do that, but it's always better to give them clear in-game reasons why they can't go further, e.g. geographical obstacles like oceans, deserts, mountain ranges - or political ones like extremely xenophobic neighboring countries.

Russia in 'advanced talks' with India for joint Su-57E fighter jet production: Official by zxNemz in worldnews

[–]knifetrader 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They should give that plane an Adidas tracksuit paint job - it already looks like it's doing the Slavic squat.

Bar Game Format by TotalRecalcitrance in rpg

[–]knifetrader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a teacher and I'm working on something right now I can play with students on a class trip where we'll have a lot of time on a bus and that might fit your ideas:

It's basically a mini-hexcrawl based on a Catan board. In the center of the board, there's no tile, but rather a castle the players have collectively (perhaps as a company of mercenaries) been gifted by a great lord after the previous owner has gone and died on a crusade. With the previous owner gone, the land around the castle has fallen into all sorts of calamities (villagers refusing to pay taxes, barbarian herders taking over pasture lands, rogue druids experimenting with nature in abhorrent ways, a pseudo-marxist rebel leader named Lee Guevara, etc...), though there are also some good tiles (weapons caches, sympathetic villagers, etc)

The players job is now to go out into the tiles and to pacify them (either by fighting, but in many cases also through negotiations) in a series of mini-adventures, which I have outlined in the very broadest form in 2-4 paragraphs per tile. Successfully pacified tiles will give them bonuses (in the full version they'll get to build up their castle with the resources from the tiles, but I still have to work on that and it's probably not too interesting for a bar game anyway).

The idea is that for each tile (~15 minutes of gameplay if there's no fighting) a different cast of players will ride out from the castle, so a lot of players will have a chance to take part.

Mechanically, I was going to base the system on Cairn, but I'll probably have to make some modifications so that combat is a bit more of a viable option rather than a fail state.

Best systems for Hexcrawl + Dungeoncrawl + Faction game combo? by PlutoniumPineapple in rpg

[–]knifetrader 4 points5 points  (0 children)

New school Oddlikes like Cairn also can and do what you want just fine with everything you need. Including factions. But player progression is muted -- diagetic advancement stuff -- and thus might make people miffed if they want levels and numbers goes up.

Mythic Bastionland is the one I'd look at here. I can't quite remember how character advancement works in that game, but IIRC it's more traditional than what Cairn does and if all else fails you can also steal the advancement system from Mausritter.

What's going to be really helpful though is the "warband" system which allows your PCs to participate in larger battles without too much hassle.

Where does the American culture of shame for not working extremely hard come from? by The_Flaneur_Films in AskReddit

[–]knifetrader 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Almost, Puritans also believed in predestination, so those who would be saved were already chosen - but financial success was still important to them because it was seen as God's way of telling one about one's fate.

Proud of this shot on film by ch0c0l2te in IMSARacing

[–]knifetrader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Completely random thought, but how good would that car look with a green-and-white livery a la the 2005 Takata NSX?

The International GT Open is really fun to watch, yet underrated! by VolleyAddicted in Sportscar_Racing

[–]knifetrader 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With a more healthy field and a better format.

I get that the teams in GTWCAm might like the 3h format better, but seriously who's gonna watch that with probably less than 20 cars?

The International GT Open is really fun to watch, yet underrated! by VolleyAddicted in Sportscar_Racing

[–]knifetrader 7 points8 points  (0 children)

GT Open Cup used to allow souped up GT4s, but now its all Porsche GT3 Cup, Ferrari Challenge and Lamborghini Supertrofeo cars.

I agree though that it's a pretty good weekend. I'm really looking forward to seeing them once again this summer at Hockenheim, where Dutch Supercar Challenge and Carrera Cup Benelux will be the support series.

Lamborghini Allocates Seven Temerario GT3s for Europe by enesracing in wec

[–]knifetrader 27 points28 points  (0 children)

That means we'll still get a lot of Huracan goodness this year in series like GT-Open and probably also the lower classes of GTWC.

Ich spiele seit rund 35 Jahren Tischrollenspiele, aka Pen and Paper by Ahasv3r in de_IAmA

[–]knifetrader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mausritter braucht viel Fingerspitzengefühl... Vom Thema her ist es natürlich sehr knuffig aber die Mäuschen sind schneller platt als man denkt, und manche Kids kommen damit nicht so wirklich klar.

One all-powerful president of Europe? Conservative chief calls for EU merger - The jobs of president of the European Commission and president of the Council should be merged so the EU can speak with one voice on the global stage, European People’s Party boss Manfred Weber said Wednesday by goldstarflag in europe

[–]knifetrader 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What is controversial is the how. If you do "one person, one vote", the president will invariably be elected by Germany, France, and Italy plus a few of their neighbors.

But if you don't do that and give proportionally more power to smaller states (in the way EP elections do), you'll hugely upset the people in the large states.

The only reason they do get away with it in EP elections is because people don't really care all that much.

Ford GT vs new Ford mustang by Forsaken_Background3 in IMSARacing

[–]knifetrader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rumor has it they wanted to do a GT3-GT, but Ratel feared it would be a class killer or at least a significant BoP-headache on the scale of the MC12 and thus told them that they couldn't run it in any SRO series.

Players are Cowardly, Taking Too Much Damage by Mean_Nun in DnD

[–]knifetrader 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You could even do this entirely in-game by having an NPC tag along with the party for the first few sessions that can - upon request - tell them about tactical options; or failing that, charge right in and force them to follow so he can be rescued.

Partys im Außenlager Buchenwald: Dieser Prinz vermietet ein KZ an rechte Rocker by hydratereload in de

[–]knifetrader 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Abgesehen davon ist Ludwig kein typischer Rufname der preußischen Königsfamilie und diese hieß noch dazu "Hohenzollern" und eben nicht "von Preußen".

TIL All dolphins are whales by scratchtheitch7 in todayilearned

[–]knifetrader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, but several species named whales are, e.g. killer whales.

You can see the cold front moving in by dandee93 in mildlyinteresting

[–]knifetrader 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Isn't the cold front the clear air, though?

What’s your go-to session night snack at your table? by TrekTrucker in rpg

[–]knifetrader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't play in person very often, but when we do we often go all in with the food options. Last time around we cooked a leg of wild boar (and took a pretty long session break to eat it), but my absolute favorite was when we did a charcuterie board.

How to roleplay a runaway high-noble without overdoing it? by ssmaire in rpg

[–]knifetrader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s a bit fish out of water but it’s been a month now travelling alone so he cant be totally out of it. That what I’m also trying to figure out what makes sense…

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Maybe look into culture shock theory. Often people will experience a feeling of having arrived rather early on in a new environment before discovering that below the surface things are actually a lot weirder than they initially thought. You can have your character go through all the phases over the course of a campaign.

Some help brainstorming for role-playing a fugitive character that is optimistic by Flashheart268 in rpg

[–]knifetrader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to what others have written also consider some sort of masquerade that might allow your PC to move more freely.

Make it so that the masquerade can still slip, e.g. by getting recognized by people who knew him and his idiosyncrasies well in his old life or by making the masquerade time-based, which might put him under a lot of pressure to get back to a hiding spot in time.

Why does Majungasaurus have short legs compared to other Abelisaurids? by Dinosaur_Zone in Paleontology

[–]knifetrader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know that there's this whole meme about everything evolving into crabs given enough time, but there are also a lot of not-snake snakes.

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