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wanna give a shout out to one of the most useful websites in the world: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com
gotta be one of my favorite genders
Countless generators for countless names. Some say it's the best fantasy name generator site around, which is very humbling to hear.www.fantasynamegenerators.com
While reading German folk tales, I am repeatedly struck by the notion that "random encounters" in typical #dnd -type #ttrpg settings are assumed to be _combat_ encounters. While direct attacks by supernatural creatures _do_ occur in folk tales, it is far more common for them to appear, frighten the bejeezus out of a witness, and then vanish again without lasting harm.
Yes, that huge cat with the glowing eyes is scary, but as long as you don't attack it, it won't bother you. A headless horseman might travel along the road, but that doesn't mean he will necessarily try to run you down. And if the Wild Hunt passes overhead, just throw yourself on the ground and you will be safe. And that "little grey man" might shout "Heh! Heh!" and then simply scuttle off into the undergrowth.
This goes even more for more "natural" creatures. Attacking a full party of armored adventurers is a decidedly odd action, if you think about it - creatures who have co-existed with humans will usually have learned to be careful around them, or go extinct. Even if they _do_ attack humans for food, it's more likely they will go after lone stragglers than an entire group of people. So if they attack an adventuring party, they must either be _really_ confident about their success, or too aggressive or stupid to care about their odds.
So if a predator comes across an adventuring party, it needs a reason to attack them outright. If it is defending its territory, it will likely make some threat displays first, since combat is always risky. If it is hunting for food, it will likely follow the party for some time and observe if there is any specimen that might get separated from the herd - but it might give up if the party shows no obvious weaknesses.
So what I am trying to say is: Some random monster charging the PCs in the wilderness is an option, but it should be less common the monster observing or passing by the PCs without actual violence.
Might have to hand some of these out at #emfcamp in 2026
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PSA: if you're not regularly reading the alt text people put on images here, you should!
I say this in part because I see a lot of folks asking questions that are already answered by the OP's alt text, but also because folks tend to put interesting details or context in there that you'd otherwise miss.
I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.
The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards.
Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech.
She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.
Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead inthe eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship."
She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit.
She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable".
She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees.
And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire willfall. And I wil help it along."
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Happy Fursuit Friday! Otter wiggles caught on film! 🎥 🦦
8mm color, shot on a Kodak Brownie II
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ALL major cities should have a parking lot around them. If you’re driving to a city, you have to leave your car at the outskirts and then get on public transportation.
Cities should be car free zones.
'In a country with £15 trillion of financial wealth of course there is money available to fund the NHS.
And cuts are not needed.
Nor is privatisation required.
All that is necessary is sufficient financial imagination to permit the raising of the NHS to make good the shortfall the Tories left.'
The NHS need not die: Rachel Reeves just has to permit more government borrowing and we could have the health service we need https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/12/the-nhs-need-not-die-rachel-reeves-just-has-to-permit-more-government-borrowing-and-we-could-have-the-health-service-we-need/
According to the FT this morning: England’s NHS is in “critical condition” after years of underfunding, an official review into the health service has warned.Funding the Future
When someone addresses "chat" outside the context of a livestream, I'm assuming the intent is that they're breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience - saying a thing while explicitly *not* directing it at anyone present. Or am I overthinking this? :p
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And luck turns a fair-weather friend,
It's Friday the 13th once more.
Take care or you'll meet a gruesome end!
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![A social post from @ThatEricAlper that says: Revenge served cold [A facebook post from: Aaron Chapman- To the owner of the Black Tesla who parked behind the Orpheum on Seymour Street tonight, who told me to go f**k myself after I told them they'd likely get a parking ticket because of tour vehicles that were going to park there, who seemed to presume I was just some nosy civilian rather than the guy running the concert tonight, here's a photo of the tow truck I called for your car, and a photo of me eating an ice cream cone while I watched it being towed. I don't think I've ever had an ice cream cone that tasted so sweet and refreshing.]](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/577941 "A social post from @ThatEricAlper that says: Revenge served cold [A facebook post from: Aaron Chapman- To the owner of the Black Tesla who parked behind the Orpheum on Seymour Street tonight, who told me to go f**k myself after I told them they'd likely get a parking ticket because of tour vehicles that were going to park there, who seemed to presume I was just some nosy civilian rather than the guy running the concert tonight, here's a photo of the tow truck I called for your car, and a photo of me eating an ice cream cone while I watched it being towed. I don't think I've ever had an ice cream cone that tasted so sweet and refreshing.]")
