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The faction rules and downtime activities and tables in the 5e DMG generate good stuff. It's easier for a player to get involved with the campaign world when presented with a few options. And it makes me come up with stuff I hadn't thought about yet either. Allows for a gradual bottom-up growth of the campaign instead of labor intensive top-down world-building.

"Papa, I can read your mind." "Ok, what am I thinking?" "You're thinking about D&D." "You can read minds!"

Coop's got pink eye and I feel like someone in a zombie movie that's been bitten and is just waiting to turn.

Don't eat the cake.

I need to get back to NYC. Originally shared by American Museum of Natural History Happy ‪#‎FossilFriday‬. The fossil skeleton for this new species is much more complete than those of other giant dinosaurs, like Argentinosaurus, which is known only from a few vertebrae, said Pol. In total, scientists discovered 223 fossil bones from six individuals at the site, and the Museum's cast, crafted by experts at Research Casting International, is based on 84 fossil bones. These include a femur bone larger than a human being, which, along with several other original fossils, is on temporary display near the cast during 2016. Learn more about the titanosaur: http://bit.ly/1KKxbNa AMNH/M. Shanley http://bit.ly/1Kf8gX7

I had this issue. Great paintings. Originally shared by **** Gotta love a bit of beautiful 90's Nat Geo dinosaur artwork. http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2016/01/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaurs-national.html

It's time for Magick & Megacorps: Electric Rampage Episode 2 Soundtrack:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uDB0mOwpA

#itswizardtime

Twin Cities peeps. http://thesatanictemple.com/socks-for-satan-campaign-the-satanic-temple-minneapolis/

Originally shared by Emily “Syreene” Vitori h/t to Michelle C for the share... To quote Homer: "Donuts... is there anything they can't do?"

Darwyn Cooke draws writes all the Hanna Barbera superheroes in one comic. We won't talk about Jim Lee's Scooby Doo. Via Jay Exonauts​​ http://www.ew.com/2016/01/28/dc-entertainment-hanna-barbera-titles

Very useful. Originally shared by **** I made a thing for y'all based on that old hex map of London. Use it at your leisure. Basically, the Citygrid boils down an urban area to its spacial relationships and disregards its physical outline. Maybe (probably) this won't work for unusual cities, but for a standard city things should work out fine. Not all of the outlying neighborhood hexes need to be utilized, and there could even be additional out-outlying neighborhoods in the outer ring. 

It's officially primary and caucus season. #LizardPeople2016

News from the world of Magick & Megacorps 2085 .

Thinking of encounters for a city on Purge night. Probably a point crawl kind of thing.

Meanwhile, in Oregon...

Roy Chapman Andrews namesake, Andrewsarchus. Possibly the biggest mammalian land predator. http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/andrewsarchus-superb-skull-of-a-gigantic-beast

Hey, It's Roy Chapman Andrews birthday. http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/happy-birthday-to-roy-chapman-andrews Originally shared by Casey G. I just discovered I've got a children's dinosaur book written by Roy Chapman Andrews. He was a badass paleontologist and the possible inspiration for Indiana Jones. He led the first fossil hunting expedition to the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia. Flipping through the book, I found this rad illustration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews

I got all four endings for The Room 3 . Seriously, if you like Lovecraftian stuff, play this series. Great game inspiration. It gave me some ideas about how to work puzzles into a game that do not rely on a roll to solve. I'd say there's only one spot at the end where I had to resort to pixelbitching. And that was to find the puzzle itself, not the item I needed to solve it.

Hexcrawl Thoughts Lex Larson inspired a pretty good idea. Maybe someone has done this before.  A hex has a dragon lair (or other powerful monster). If the dragon is killed, replace the old encounter table with a new one full of deadly monsters vying for the territory. Double the chances of an encounter in the area.

Dragons: r or K selected? i.e., how pissed are mama and papa dragon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

Someone's using 5e to play Fallout I bet. Originally shared by Game Master Toolbox http://imgur.com/gallery/14q54k3

Abigail Garske  Originally shared by **** Smh..

I drew my 5e character, Tetza the Great Old One pact Warlock and his gibbering mouther familiar. His patron is Xuxeteanlahucuxolazapaminaco, a giganitc, singular, gibbering mouther that rules part of the Amedio Jungle on Oerth.

Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin were first written down in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively, but they are actually between 2,500 and 6,000 years old—not quite tales as old as time, but perhaps as old as wheels and writing. Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette Using techniques from evolutionary biology, scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age. http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-origin-of-stories/424629/  … http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/on-the-origin-of-stories/424629

Just saw this on FB. This is the mayor of Lakeville, MN losing a game of Magic. https://twitter.com/MayorMattLittle/status/690749920530182144

Found a room full of kuo-toa worshiping Blibdoolpoolp, minding their own business. So my creepy warlock cast hunger of Hadar in the room with our paladin and barbarians preventing escape. It's super effective!

Time for the D&D .

Acheroraptor, Dakotaraptor, juvenile T-rex. Not bad. http://imgur.com/gallery/bSlXg

This is looking pretty good now. http://www.5esrd.com

Murder continues. events/ctukb6k960dpa2a8b05caa0gsts?authkey=CJDd0pCEjsLgWA

Be careful, east coast. Mom saw a car in the ditch. Originally shared by The Onion http://onion.com/1RZsUxf

They grow 'em big in Texas. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/deinosuchus-dalek-backed-alligatoroid.html?m=1

I never played Pokemon, but this is still hilarious.

I've had a headache all week and went searching for "It's not a toomah," gifs, but this one is better.

That can't be good.

Adam Muszkiewicz the text of Freebase is in the tubes. Alignment is the best thing. What's your alignment? LG [Liberal Granola]: Knows that mass social protest is the only way to defeat THE MAN. LN [Liberal Noncommittal]: Buys bumper-stickers against THE MAN on occasion, and would like to rise up against his oppressors and end this cruel reign of tyranny, but prefers Dead shows. LE [Liberal Establishment]: Sells bumper-sticks against THE MAN and T-shirts for Dead shows; pretending to be part of the movement for social change, yet profiteering off his fellow brothers and sisters, finally  becoming part of the System that has forced our children to go  to die in 'Nam.  NG [Noncommittal Granola]: Bought a couple of shirts, thinking this helps, but only  practices Iron Butterfly riffs in the garage while the gears of  government run by fascist weapon industries crush his remaining  freedom.  TN [True Noncommittal]:  Is happy to live in whatever Orwellian hell is presented to him,

D&D will always be my #1 game, but the exploding damage dice in Savage Worlds can be so satisfying.

Just a little farther... http://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/so-then

#gameable Nibiru Cataclysm confirmed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm Originally shared by **** Mike Brown  ‏@plutokiller  - OK, OK, I am now willing to admit: I DO believe that the solar system has nine planets. - I'm just going to leave this here (courtesy of @miquai)  https://twitter.com/plutokiller/status/689834557374267392 - Sorry for the delay, but the Planet Nine paper is not officially published. See what you think! http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22 https://twitter.com/plutokiller/status/689839710844256256 ☺

Did you know it's #penguinawarenessday ?

Emperor Penguin. #makeareactionroll   Originally shared by The British Library 'Le Roi des Pingouins.'Anthropomorphic image of a penguin as a king.

Hey, Khairul Hisham, do you take commissions for your paper minis? I need a handful for a convention game.

That's it. I've watched all of Rick & Morty. Goddamn cliffhangers.

I guess it's pretty big. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/17/dinosaur-titanosaur-largest-animal-ever-walk-earth-argentina

Eric Fabiaschi​ says nice things about Unholy Land too. Why didn't I search this around Christmas? I like these bits: This setting is sort of if someone took Ray Harryhausen's Clash of the Titans setting advanced up to the time of the Romans then drop kicked in the Biblical themes in the back end. Yes, exactly that. While there are stats for baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph the material might be a bit blasphemous but its not egregious nor does it pander to its audience's lowest common denominator. Also what I was going for. http://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2015/12/review-commentary-on-pay-what-you-want.html?m=1

Hey, someone who got Unholy Land from the Epimas bundles actually read and blogged about it. http://realmofmelpomene.blogspot.com/2015/12/looking-at-unholy-land-for-hex-mas.html?m=1

Either the sewer vents here at work froze shut or troglodytes have established a lair in the warehouse. Ugh.

Me IRL after binge watching 15 episodes of Rick & Morty this weekend. I've had some similar thoughts about the possibilities of infinite parallel universes. But holy jeez...

Hour into Bone Tomahawk and it's boring as hell.

Gameable. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/world/asia/china-mao-statue-henan.html

OK, I started watching Rick & Morty. It's pretty close to perfect.  I watched the five from season 1 that are available on the AS website. I'm home alone today, so season 2 binge starting now.

"Where...where is the shield generator?" Originally shared by Losso Smith

Huh. I've run Seti@home since 1999. I've only checked on my stats every few years, but I did today and found you can make this little certificate. This puts me in the top 15% of users though I only run it on my personal computer.

Watching Bullets: the Movie, I mean Winter Soldier again.

There are no monsters or violence in The Room games, but they are still freaky as hell. Wear headphones and play before going to bed.

Paul V. do it.

DMs Guild now more interesting. Originally shared by A. Miles Davis Someone was asking about other parts of the FR world: per D&D AMA - It is totally okay if you want to play around with one or more of the other continents in the Forgotten Realms. Kara-tur, Al-Qadim (my personal favorite), and Maztica are totally part of the DMs Guild allowed content.

Sometimes ups outnumber the downs, but not in Nottingham... http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/brian-bedford-dead-obit.html

Sometimes FB's memories feature is OK. 5 years ago today, Abby doing a victory dance while playing Song of Blades and Heroes.

It's time for Magick & Megacorps: Electric Rampage Episode 1 Soundtrack:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kg80jAtI8

Turns out there Academy did screw up Fury Road's nominations. Nothing for best soundtrack? Mediocre. https://youtu.be/MgYnKu8RYAU

The Academy has finally decided to right the wrong of not nominating George Miller for Babe: Pig in the City.

I told my daughter the actor that played Professor Snape died. She said, "I'm sad even though I only saw him in a few movies."

Just happened at my office. http://www.theonion.com/article/learned-sage-points-out-powerball-not-much-after-t-52161

Trying out making maps for Roll20 with the level editor in Hotline Miami. Since this campaign is video-gamey, the pixely graphics are perfect. Sorry, Bret Gillan, I don't think these would be very fun if I threw a bunch of henchmen in them. 

Thanks, Epidiah Ravachol​. No more haga for me. Only the best Stygian Black Lotus.

Guest post at The Friendly Atheist from that Lucien Greaves dude from the Satanic Temple. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/01/13/when-it-comes-to-the-satanic-temple-christians-seem-to-love-bearing-false-witness/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Random Hexcrawl Thought One map, many scales.  Map divided into zones. Zone at the bottom (or east or west or whatever) has a small scale, like 1mi. per hex. Next zone is 6mi. per hex. Then 30mi. per hex. The farthest one is 60mi. per hex. Like a Mercator projection where the farther away from the equator you get the scale increases. If someone asks how a hex in one zone relates to an adjacent hex that is in another zone, answer, “who the fuck cares?”

Given the OGL news, I'm feeling the need to revisit this little side project.

From the mouths of babes: Cooper to Mrs. G: "Abby is going to be a water biologist and I'm going to be a dinosaur bone scientist. I guess you and papa are just worker people. You don't get to study or do anything cool." Too real, Coop. Too real.