DMDavid on The Movies and Stories than Inspired Dave Arneson to Invent the Dungeon Crawl. He identifies specifically The Black Room (1935) and House of Dracula (1945) as likely having influenced it, as they ran just around the time when Arneson claimed to have received inspiration from old monster movies. Isn’t it weird how far you can investigate into some off-hand claim someone made decades ago?

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Untitled April 26, 2024 4:09 pm
Oh great, it's April and there's already mosquitos out for the prowl
Untitled April 26, 2024 9:10 am
And of course part of the roles mystics play are already taken over by magic users, clerics, and monks (which even were called mystics at different times)
Untitled April 26, 2024 9:09 am
Today's thought mulling in my brain: I want to have psions in my quasi-#osr homebrew rules, and there's the basic psionics handbook by Richard LeBlanc which is serviceable... but the mystic class contained within is much too specifically Indian in style, talking about specific chakras. I want to use that class, but I want to make it possible to reflavor it as a European or a Chinese (or whatever) mystic.Which considering the wide area of things considered mysticism might be an issue.#ttrpg
Untitled April 25, 2024 2:18 pm
discussion what #shadowrun adventure we are playing next and who is GMing:P1: Queen Euphoria sounds interesting, but we'll also need a competent mage? And kyonshi's playing the mage?...This came out wrong, lolP2: And I thought I was mean#ttrpg
Untitled April 25, 2024 1:52 pm
@kensanata I think I could post to my blog via email, from what I remember. Maybe I should try that. It feels like that's gonna make it easy for stuff to go wrong though.
Untitled April 25, 2024 1:47 pm
it's interesting how I lately have started to move a lot of my online activities back to #Thunderbird (on Windows)/#Claws Mail (on Linux) as standalone desktop applications. It is quite convenient to have all the different communication channels I am interested in in one single spot. (email, usenet, rss, irc)In fact #Mastodon is the outlier, nobody so far seems to be interested in making a Thunderbird plugin for that. Although I guess I could use the bitlbee plugin @kensanata made for that.
Untitled April 25, 2024 9:51 am
gah, I was fighting for 15 minutes with #Outlook not wanting to print a message to pdf because of Sensitivity flags. turns out you only can save it as a PDF if you open the mail in Office 365 (their webmail client) and then export it to pdf. why is this not part of the desktop client? #microsoft
Untitled April 25, 2024 7:07 am
good morning everybody, is it Friday already?please tell me it's Friday. Thursday? Again?oh well
Untitled April 24, 2024 10:00 pm
by the way #thunderbird made issues again. or, well, #betterbird, which is mostly a better version of TB. But one thing they didn't fix is that the IRC client in their app doesn't send server passwords to servers. which is a problem when using it with znc, because that one uses the server passwords to identify which network to connect to.anyway, it can be added in the Config Editor, so at most an inconvenience.I assume barely anyone actually uses TB for IRC anyway.
Untitled April 24, 2024 9:56 pm
finally logged into tilde.club today, which is such a neat concept but seems a bit dead. at least at the times when I tried to visit it.on the other hand I got znc and an irc daemon running without problems and now have my private bouncer for... oh... well, lets face it, #IRC is hardly the chat system of choice by now. but I can use it and that's neat.
Untitled April 24, 2024 7:23 am
The Flying Train (1902)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud1aZFE0fU#video #germany #history #wuppertal
Untitled April 23, 2024 5:47 pm
speaking about weird people trying to chat me up on discord, I just remembered that one guy who went around German-speaking AIM chatting up people, presenting an elaborate spiel that ended with him telling people how he liked to kick puppies to death. he seemed irritated when he got me on my secondary account and I was interrupting his story all the time. but still, this seemed to be his hobby, he would sit there and chat up people and try to disgust them as much as possible.
Untitled April 23, 2024 3:37 pm
After playing around with Rocky Linux 9 and 8 I decided to just go back to Debian for my rpi server. It's really the most convenient in a lot of ways.
Untitled April 23, 2024 2:08 pm
Sigh. Someone came to the #osr #ttrpg discord I hang out on and asked if he could play a living armor warlock with a shotgun in my game. And now I wonder if this is someone trying to play me for a fool or if he really doesn't know what sort of game we are playing.On the one hand he claims he doesn't have much experience, on the other his chosen character build is something very specifically 5e and really not compatible with my game.
Untitled April 23, 2024 10:41 am
Went to get some fast food with my colleagues, noticed some interesting patterns at Burger King:1. Plant-based burgers are now in the main menu and you can customize other burgers with plant patties.2. Most offers at the soda-fountain are zero sugar now. In fact from what I saw out of 7 offers only two contained sugar (normal Pepsi and ice tea). Not sure what it means, but I generally like the way it goes to a less meat, less sugar kind of diet.#fastfood
Untitled April 22, 2024 8:01 pm
In today's bit of tinkering with my little linux server I got around to install a mailserver so I can have my own email address.Now if it also worked I would be even happier.
Untitled April 22, 2024 4:51 pm
Thank God it's Friday. This week has been long enough.Wait a moment...
Untitled April 22, 2024 4:02 pm
so from what I just heard the early summer and subsequent frost in Poland might lead to growers losing up to 80% of fruits in their orchards.Poland is the biggest apple producer in Europe.So if you had "apples" as the answer to "which commonly accessible good will have a price explosion this year?", step up and collect your price.
Untitled April 22, 2024 11:18 am
A Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XVIIA Monday Miscellany of Links pt. XVII I haven't done a link post for a while, so this one is a bit bigger than usual. Maybe I should imply in the title that it's some monthly thing instead of weekly. On the other hand I might just miss a self-set monthly deadline as well. Free Stuff Liminal Horror (itch.io)https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/a-monday-miscellany-of-links-pt-xvii/
Untitled April 21, 2024 9:03 pm
http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com/2024/03/weird-fantasy-world-automated-generator.html#ttrpg #blogospherefind