YES! Such a good read!

Szass Tam did nothing wrong

I’m reading the Cradle series by Will Wight. Some great progression fantasy, currently on book 5, Ghostlight.

I had originally done quite a bit of tinkering with tectonics for my world’s map, but found I wasn’t getting the results I was looking for/getting frustrated with just how much was involved to feasibly replicate it.

I found my fantasy solution: while the world was still molten hot from its creation, great elder beasts were plopped down on it, and in their ensuing melee, the mountains, hills, oceans, and trenches were formed. Their now dead forms can still be found on the world, many of the largest mountain ranges, island chains, and deep sea trenches found along their breadth.

I didn’t really answer your question, but you had me thinking of bashing my head against my keyboard for a couple of weeks some time ago!

I might try to get my group (5e and P1) to just meet in the middle for a P2 Game when we’re done with our respective campaigns…

The little experience I had with it was quite something!

Damn shame, but I can definitely understand. The need for constant creative input and the mental gymnastics wear the two of us out after one session, and we are both seasoned DMs. Makes the game awesome, but tiring!

Been playing 5e and Pathfinder, two separate groups there. Homebrew 5e campaign, and RotRL, an official Paizo adventure.

Also playing Ironsworn, a solo/co-op grimdark game. Been playing with the DM of my 5e group, it’s fantastic.

Very similar experience in 2012ish, definitely had a rough time of it. That’s when I learned I have a deadly allergy to penicillin.

You’re definitely thinking of T1, or health class and the Internet lied to me all my life. Come to think of it…

But for sure you can get T2 from making unhealthy choices with sugar consumption.

This is a top tier meme format for music communities. Making me need to dive into more game OSTs.

If anyone is on the hunt for good ones, Brad Derrick did some incredible work for Elder Scrolls Online. It’s all fantasy sounds, but an excellent source of ambience for the TTRPG player. A two album set for the base game, and an album for each expansion. It’s some 10 hours of solid work!

It did just that for me, gets those creative juices flowing!

Ok, I get this, but let’s take a closer look:

Have you ever seen such a high resolution Pikachu meme? Such a shame it’s been wasted on more political rhetoric that no one asked for. More pixels in the damn quotes text, how wild!

If you’re looking for a TTRPG and not wanting to worry about the lfg hassle, check out Ironsworn! Grimdark low fantasy, playable in solo or co-op. Just takes some getting used to, and reading lots of player advice, but playing solo become very easy if you already have that rpg brain leading the way. Also free materials online, but I bought the core rules and the “dungeon” expansion hardcopies for about $50 (USD).

I’ve since converted a couple of things and am solo playing to beef up the plot of a book I’m writing in a world I’ve been working on for about 5 years. Makes that process engaging for the gamer side of me!

Can’t help you with the bees, I’m afraid…

Ah yes, I too value the mastery of the Thu’um in my partner.

Yes! I love my work, even though most people hate retail. I’m in a grocery store deli, and getting people food they like and them coming back saying I offered good recommendations just makes my day!

I’m the manager, and even I still struggle a bit with money at times, all the while trying to save for a house. Not easy out here, but certainly wouldn’t want to stop working.

Ah, so even the “landed gentry” made the migration… /s

That anxiety bit is too true, it has me fairly despondent when I think about it too long. It’s fair assertion you make, for sure.

Nah, existential is spot on

Relating to existence

Seems all too apropos in this context.

Thanks for the solid source! I do understand the need for keeping the discussion real, but the article clearly states,

…concluded that to avert catastrophic health impacts and prevent millions of climate change-related deaths…

Sounds pretty existential to me, at a scale we have never experienced.

While your numbers, if factual (no source posted), are statistically correct (in that it won’t make our species go extinct), you have to remember a simple fact: those numbers represent individual human lives. Family, friends, neighbors, your pizza guy, etc. Pretty brutal to be so flippant about.

Also, this doesn’t take into account the potential for cascading environmental system failures that could be caused by such warming. These unknowns could greatly change the equation.

I realize you are mainly arguing the point in response to “existential threats” being bandied about, but it’s a weird stance to take here.