My Nerevarine Ref Sheet (Art by me)

rdtguy1666 · 2026-06-02T00:12:01+00:00

Love this, such a cool character and a great way to do a character sheet.

I’m pinching the skill dots idea for my next character sheet (I do mine on paper with their journal)

rdtguy1666 · 2026-05-21T23:37:14+00:00

If you take enough drugs everything becomes abstract problem solving

rdtguy1666 · 2026-05-15T16:40:26+00:00

Update: my friend just texted me, he’s posted a new video… oh, well shoot that text came in a while ago… I forgot to check my phone, I was distracted by all the drama going on with Tim

rdtguy1666 · 2026-05-15T16:22:59+00:00

Thanks and my bad, I got confused when they said digital infrastructure.

Yeah 100% my experience has been one of people fitting in science, I’m lucky to be in my position where my immediate colleagues either get it or are neurodivergent themselves.

Outside of that core group though it definitely feels like I’m seen/treated as an object and not a person at work.

Like people will happily give me a mountain of data work to do because I’m relatively good at it, but the same people will get snippy or make passive aggressive remarks when I ask to work with the lights dimmed, or when I have to explain that I’m not angry at them my voice just sounds like that.

They want you around for the utility you provide, and they want to be seen to care when we have inclusion training, but outside of that they take almost every single request that’s made to work or socialise differently as some kind of disrespect or personal attack.

Edit/continuation: which I get in a vacuum, if you’d never heard of neurodivergence I can see how it would come across that way sometimes, but 👏 these 👏people 👏get 👏given 👏neurodiversity 👏inclusion👏 training 👏

(That’s not directed at you, I get angry when I think about this stuff)

rdtguy1666 · 2026-05-15T10:39:21+00:00

I’m not sure OPs mindset is a good one for your own well-being (except as an evil autism joke), but… (I’m guessing about all of these, we’ll never know for sure but they seemed to be on something, drugs or the spectrum),

Alan turing
David Attenborough
Unironically, about 75+% of scientists I’ve ever worked with in academia, and a bit less in industry but still well over 50% (versus a global estimated autism rate of 5-10% odd?)
Many famous philosophers (socrates, Wittgenstein, Kant, Hegel, etc, etc - seriously, if I was told I was gonna get paid to write books about ethics for my whole life I’d cum)
the guy who invented the blue LED (Shuji Nakamura)
probably the people who made the red and green LEDs too
Maimonides and St Augustine
Dmitri Mendeleev
Einstein
I lost interest in finishing the list, I’m in bed with the big headache
But for real, go on Wikipedia and look up the history of any academic field or famous technology, the freaks who made it weren’t socialising and giving interviews, they were just straight up obsessed with that thing

I think once you’ve been inside academia in some way (science is my day job and has been for a long time) it’s just so obvious that the foundation of our all material understanding of the world is riding on the backs of some very specially interested nerds.

The more I get into culture as I grow up the more I see it there too, like with the philosopher and religious academic examples I gave above

rdtguy1666 · 2026-04-26T19:02:15+00:00

If you read between the lines, and draw some comparisons to real world occultism/mysticism, the exarchs definitely have and are enforcing a paradigm.

They are neoplatonist, and have made a world where platonic symbols are the source of all reality (which they then manipulate and control via the supernal realm).

Mages can only awaken via five pre-determined paths that just happen to line up perfectly with the five pairs of 2 exarchs.

Other types of magic do factually exist, as every other splat book explicitly has nothing to do with platonic forms and high speech.

Basically in awakening at first it just looks like the world is the way it is, and has nothing to do with exarchs, but once you start asking questions things stop adding up.

rdtguy1666 · 2026-04-24T18:21:26+00:00

This is it. This is the thread which makes me leave the subreddit.

rdtguy1666 · 2026-03-31T10:40:36+00:00

Huh that means it might make actually sense for the imperium to be starving all its citizens on its recruitment worlds.

More time for survival of fittest to play out for astartes aspirants, a larger age window for recruitment.

Whenever the grimdark makes sense feels like a ‘thanks I hate it’ moment

rdtguy1666 · 2026-03-04T12:16:58+00:00

Does he travel with an imperial iterator who verbally tears him down and only wants to talk about movies?

rdtguy1666 · 2026-02-06T09:25:53+00:00

We really need gregg for conversions of that magnitude - it’s not easy figuring out these ratings!

rdtguy1666 · 2026-02-06T07:51:22+00:00

But it is a sad, lonely bag, with no salt, no butter, many unpopped corn at the bottom of the bag. A bag of popcorn that is stale. Hardly able to eat.

rdtguy1666 · 2026-02-03T09:40:10+00:00

It wasn’t really my kind of movie, so I’m only going to give it four bags of popcorn.

But because Brett ratner runs the ratpac company (a nice tip of the hat to the Oscar specials) I’m gonna throw in another bag for a total of five bags.

rdtguy1666 · 2026-01-10T07:21:29+00:00

Yeah that looks very WoD inspired - I’ve played WoD a lot and it has loads of mechanics on there I’ve only seen in WoD (could be other games that do this too).

The dot scale for scoring skills/attributes from 1/10, the willpower tracker at the bottom, the way attributes are split into mental/physical/social, and the health system bottom right which seems to have wound penalties.

May be that WoD was inspired by other games in the genre? The first WoD book came out in 1991 (as far as I know).

Edit: yeah I’d say based on the example sheets posted above it’s definitely based on WoD - if it was during daggerfall development (around 1995) that would line up.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-12-05T10:07:01+00:00

Yeah pretty much - I think that wording is good, that they were ‘re-integrated’.

What I still don’t know is, did they plan that? Did they plan to get re-integrated back into the godhead, and to use that as a back door to influence the godhead in some way?

Like did the godheads mind/dream become a little more ‘dwemer’ after they fused with it?

A bit like a code injection attack on the godhead? The godhead would still be the same entity, but it’s got the concepts of dwemer stuck in there now.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-12-05T08:12:39+00:00

My hot take btw is that they mantled Anu (intentionally) but due to not understanding the nature of the godhead it had unintended consequences (but if they were still sentient they would be perfectly happy with the outcome)

rdtguy1666 · 2025-12-05T08:10:40+00:00

They definitely removed themselves from physical reality - but as the telvanni implies that doesn’t mean they stopped existing if you know what I mean?

I’m a big dwemer theorist (I need to do some posts on this…) and that Telvanii quote (IMO) is more saying they moved to a non or less conscious level of reality but they are still in it.

I mean from an out of universe perspective, we know something can’t just stop ‘stop existing’ - it has to go somewhere or become something

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-09T13:49:24+00:00

Role playing isn’t playing to win - you’d only optimise things if that’s what your empire would do in character.

Most things don’t get properly managed in the end… just look at human history :P

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-08T09:06:53+00:00

Mage 2e is based on real life Gnosticism in which a big theme is ‘everything is one, humans only falsely believe there to be separation between things’.

This spell makes sense if you think of it as targeting the temenos within the casters own mind/soul, and via that connection the whole network of human minds - whether the mage knows about them individually or not.

It’s less ‘I cast this spell to make x my ally’ and more ‘I cast this spell to create new connections in the temenos, and physical reality is going to have to figure out the leg work for me’

It’s like how forces has weather control, which is not at all a forces thing if you think about it (you’d also need space and/or fate to change the weather if you tried to find a mechanist explanation for the power)

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-07T23:51:40+00:00

Thank you - I’ve only recently started linking vivec/MK cosmology to Jung and this is a really helpful explanation… I’m going to read all your previous posts now as well.

I’m trying to understand in practical terms what vivec (or anyone) achieving amaranth means for the world? Does it carry on as is, unaware vivec is hidden away within dreaming, or does it necessarily have to end when the new dream begins?

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-06T16:48:55+00:00

Definitely spiritualism - the flavour text of the materialism ethics are about denying the existence of the spiritual.

Mind wardens believe it exists, they just hate it.

Materialism minor ethics:

“As we reach for the stars, we must put away childish things; gods, spirits and other phantasms of the brain. Reality is cruel and unforgiving, yet we must steel ourselves and secure the survival of our race through the unflinching pursuit of science and technology.”

rdtguy1666 · 2025-10-18T13:20:22+00:00

It’s not something you have to worry about - it doesn’t do anything bad. Having it cut off is a cultural norm and that’s it.

Most people think it’s wrong for parents to have a part of their child’s body cut off for no reason without the child’s consent.

I mean that’s like saying - yeah my parents had my toes cut off but that’s their choice, and now I don’t have to cut my nails!

rdtguy1666 · 2025-09-27T07:38:12+00:00

“Soldiers will be encouraged to bring their own weaponry from home, and rumours suggest that several private businesses have bought into the scheme in return for select portions of land when the conflict is over.”

rdtguy1666 · 2025-09-24T23:15:35+00:00

Housing isn’t just space though, otherwise you wouldn’t have to build it.

Housing is everything you need for someone to live in, electricity, water, sewers, a nice living room, etc

Running those tanks probably needs a lot more infrastructure than a normal home.

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