Zeb will be on Philadelphia Gaming Expo Friday Night Live, November 6, 9:30 pm Eastern.

T’Challa the bobcat has returned to the wildlife sanctuary where he lives.

John Leeson, who voiced K9 on Doctor Who.

A tame bobcat named T’Challa is running loose in Chattanooga.

@Jennkryst I call that a pro.

Wyatt Earp owned a horse named Dick Naylor.

As mentioned here: I have.a number of cousins Dave.

https://www.peacetigers.com/

@MisterBoring A lot of D&D tt gamers agree, or maybe 'cause I’m straight up that at least part (though not all) of the reason I have that collection is that he’s family. His son and I do mean it, though. Hah, I should just run those old modules…

Anyway, these’ll be fun,

@Deviant JK Rowling has claimed that she came up with the whole ‘wizard school’ idea independently of Yolen (in 1991), Pratchett (1983), Murphy (1974) and LeGuin (1968). LeGuin said that her own Roke Island wizard’s school was inspired by T.H. White having mentioned the folkloric wizard school Domdaniel in The Sword In the Stone (1938). Domdaniel is known to English speakers from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

But Rowling says it’s coincidence, and the other authors have, wisely, not bothered to argue.

@Pavel said:

You’re only allowed to imply the Rowling racism.

I suppose I could have gone for Strangely Green. It was from Blackadder Goes Forth, and a joke about a certain flavour of British upper-class naming – it’s actually spelled Cholmondeley-Marjoribanks in the script. (That would be pronounced “Chumley Marchbanks”). It goes along with a similar gag about nicknames, Lieutenant George’s other old school chums are called Drippy and Bumfluff.

It was just deemed too silly. For a world full of absurd names and lazy puns.

This was back in the day when Harry Potter was sacrosanct and remarking that it’s “stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited” caused HP fans to accuse Ursula K. LeGuin, of all people, of being jealous of Rowling’s ‘talent’. An ordinary geek like myself going around admitting that they noticed the racism, homophobia, slavery, smart-girls-are-annoying tropes, child abuse, weird fact that all wizards are tories, and general I read this before but it was called The Books of Magic and it didn’t suck vibe could expect great outrage, like way more than one gets for suggesting that GMs have to talk to players.

@Muscle-Car

I am guessing that it’ll plug into D&D 5ed and Pathfinder but is being/was playtested with The Necromancer’s Game.

It’s a Kickstarter

The man, the myth, the legend, author of numerous modules, the old D&D expert box set, AD&D 2nd edition, the Planescape setting, a couple of Forgotten Realms and a Spelljammer novel, he is one of my cousins Dave.

He’s never done a kickstarter before.

No, we’re not close, I haven’t seen him since his mom died about seven years ago.

@Floof I was not permitted to name a Harry Potter character “Strangely Brown.”

Adrian Brody is sexy Tim Blake Nelson.

Dot-Marie Jones is evil Jamie Lee Curtis.

Mads Mikkelsen is a sort of dire David Bowie. Like a dire wolf dire.

Liam Neeson is Sean Bean for incels.

See what I’m getting at? It’s a game. Can you think of some?

RJ Mitte

@somasatori said:

Should one play any games at all?

Only if you do not actually expect to play.

Any expectation that a game be a game is overbearing presumption. And a personal attack.

@Ominous Yep. Evidently their take-out was inferior.

@Roz Years ago I was befuddled that conservatives kept calling the Bureau of Land Management a terrorist organisation. It’s some sort of cognitive flaw.

The absolute best was that in the late '90’s neonazi skinheads started getting D.O.C. tattoos like in ‘American History X’ and I think, no, not ‘Department of Corrections’, no, I think DOC stands for ‘Day Old Chick.’

The excessive use of initialisms.

I read a whinge about take-out from BWW. I thought, “A big weird woman brought you food and you complain?”

@Jumpscare said:

Some people cling to my character’s words in a way that feels like they’re hoping to get in on a plot, and others suddenly disregard my character.

If you make it known (in +finger or whatever) that it’s your PC, the disregard side will probably reduce. Discovering that two personas you’ve been dealing with are one person can be off-putting and people who have that reaction are likely to withdraw some. Some people may feel that secret staff PCs serve as undercover wrongfun police who are scrutinising them rather than playing with them, and will avoid.

The cling-ons may drop off if events on the game are transparent enough that people can tell that IC connection to a staff PC isn’t a doorway to plot access. At least, it was my experience that my main PC didn’t attract that sort of thing, while people did run out to meet certain NPCs.