going to be hamstrung is worthwhile even if very little of the video.
Plus it is nice to see people who mostly make rage-bait take the time to actually talk about something they love and why they love it.
I know Jon can be rage-baity and annoying but I like his passion for Pern . I share it given the original Harper books being hallmarks of my angsty teenage years(along with a couple of Darkover books). I think his point about how things without visual media (movies, TV, video games) is
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them." - Larry Wall
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open." - Frank Zappa
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Benard Shaw
"Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter." - Stan Kelly-Bootle
"The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth." - Peter Abelard
"Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke" - Rodney Dangerfield
"You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big." - Andrew Carnegie
“I became a kinesthetic person because I always overintellectualize. And feelings, for me, are a concept. Feelings? Ah yes, I've heard of those.” - Nina Hartley
"As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock." - Tracy Ullman
"During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else." - Richard Lewis
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." - Eric S. Raymond
Give it a watch. Thanks to @tenkar for making it. #dnd #osr
One point only obliquely touched on is this is great way to inject setting lore into the game without doing an info dump.
This could be something like it being had to transport (a jade throne), hard to convert to coin (worth more than anyone outside a big city can afford), or coming with complications (it was stolen and its rightful owner can prove it).
I just watched an interesting video on designing treasure in OSR games. The gist of it is treasure, especially major treasures, should require choices.
"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris." - Larry Wall
"We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism." - Sonny Bono
"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience." - Gary Gygax
"Peace begins with a smile." - Mother Teresa
"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish." - Richard Feynman
"Whatever the reason, running a role-playing game by the numbers is a crime akin to serving chips without salsa: Violators should be taken out and shot." - Alexander Macris
"In the end, what have we to exchange that matters, except stories of grace and courage, laughter and love?" - Brian Doyle
"Rewriting is what happens when you return to a book after your creative process has run its course." - J. Daniel Sawyer
“What I care about is this: Stories change us. They create communities of people with shared memories.” – Orson Scott Card
This week Diversity & Dragons did an excellent overview. If you haven't seen the film I suspect you will want to after this.
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My mother's sister became bitter towards the end of her life which opened a space between her and my mother and myself to be honest.
I have many happy memories of times with her. Perhaps the best was the night she took me to see what remains one of my favorite films, Excalibur.
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"I write this not for the many, but for you: each of us is enough of an audience for the other."
- Epicurus
