My BIL teaches some TKD over zoom and such. He has made a space outside for certain portions of the classes. Not sure that is practical with Texas heat, but maybe the falls/rolls can be taught outside using a laptop and a cam.
As for the interior wall, that may be doable - depending on how much space you have between ceiling and top of shelf. Heat rises, so the heat from the garage door side will rise and potentially float over the bookshelf (although you can stuff bedding and other misc fabric squishy stuff to "close" it off).
And I would do most of the work while clothed. Naked may be appropriate if it gets too hot once the insulation is in place.
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Amusingly enough, one of my least favorite events from my childhood has been cancelled.
I expected it, but the news cheers me nonetheless.
For those unfamiliar with the cycle, the Solano Stroll followed it perfectly:
(1) Have an annual street fair where you shut down the major artery in a small town and let locals sell their arts, crafts, and foodstuffs, and let families and their kids delight in being able to wander the closed-off street.
(2) Invite commercial interests and advertise it heavily. Bring in stages and "entertainment" where mediocre performers blast their music at 100+ decibels (yes, I've measured. Remember when rock concerts that broke 100 Db made news?), and put small children right in front of the speakers. Eliminate local arts, crafts, and restaurants in favor of commercial interests.
So these days, the Solano Stroll attracts 250,000 visitors annually. Albany's population is 20,000. Walking the entire mile of the fair, you might see 3-4 stalls from local businesses; the rest are all out-of-towners.
It's just a nightmare of traffic, parking, and lunacy that I abhor. Somehow, SOME people like being in a crowd so dense that you can't tie your shoes without bumping into someone, but I don't care for such things.
As you might be able to tell...
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I hated the Solano Stroll.
Especially the peer pressure to love it from *almost* everyone I knew in the community. I could frequently get out of going because it was usually on my birthday weekend.
The fact that it is canceled pleases me greatly.
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NH and Nylarthotep, thank you.
I hadn't even thought about egg carton foam for insulation, but that's a good idea. The long eastern wall of the garage is connected to the house, but the long western wall is the exterior wall and is only partially blocked by a boxwood hedge and a tree. The garage door points south and the northern end has a large utility closet and a separate keyed door which leads to the covered back porch, right next to the sliding door into the kitchen. So no *direct* house access, but at least you don't have to go through the garage door.
Ideally, I'd like to put some kind of false wall in-between the garage door and the office, to leave maybe six feet space for the lawnmower, jerry cans and bicycles. It seems we could almost do that by using our heavy wooden ikea garage shelving as the structure on the office side of the wall and just affixing some paneling and insulation to the back of it, since we don't have to worry about earthquakes here. And then line the walls with foam and cover them with paneling?
Power is not an issue, but we may have to move the wifi router from the living room to the corner of the kitchen closest to the garage.
Of course, instead of just giving one of the kids the office, now WW is talking about switching around *all* the bedrooms... when we first moved here two years ago, we gave the kids the master bedroom and bathroom, so if they won't be sharing any more, he wants to put us in there, which also means swapping the bathrooms and everything in both bathroom cabinets, putting Hermione in our current bedroom and Val in the one that is currently his office.
In some ways, it would feel like as much work as moving to an entirely new house, except for we wouldn't be moving the living room/library, or kitchen, or dining room, which would be a colossal amount of work. And it would make the kids happier. Which would make us happier. And he would have more peace and quiet in his office, and maybe even have some room to put some tatami mats down (since...
but it leads to better falls and rolls!
*cough*
Long-term...sure...once you get past the occasional broken rib or collarbone...
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*cough*
Long-term...sure...once you get past the occasional broken rib or collarbone...
traitorous bones must be purged!
Amusingly enough, one of my least favorite events from my childhood has been cancelled.
I expected it, but the news cheers me nonetheless.
For those unfamiliar with the cycle, the Solano Stroll followed it perfectly:
(1) Have an annual street fair where you shut down the major artery in a small town and let locals sell their arts, crafts, and foodstuffs, and let families and their kids delight in being able to wander the closed-off street.(2) Invite commercial interests and advertise it heavily. Bring in stages and "entertainment" where mediocre performers blast their music at 100+ decibels (yes, I've measured. Remember when rock concerts that broke 100 Db made news?), and put small children right in front of the speakers. Eliminate local arts, crafts, and restaurants in favor of commercial interests.
So these days, the Solano Stroll attracts 250,000 visitors annually. Albany's population is 20,000. Walking the entire mile of the fair, you might see 3-4 stalls from local businesses; the rest are all out-of-towners.
It's just a nightmare of traffic, parking, and lunacy that I abhor. Somehow, SOME people like being in a crowd so dense that you can't tie your shoes without bumping into someone, but I don't care for such things.
As you might be able to tell...
sounds like an everyday street fair to me, not sure why you hate it so.
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sounds like an everyday street fair to me, not sure why you hate it so.Amusingly enough, one of my least favorite events from my childhood has been cancelled.
I expected it, but the news cheers me nonetheless.
For those unfamiliar with the cycle, the Solano Stroll followed it perfectly:
(1) Have an annual street fair where you shut down the major artery in a small town and let locals sell their arts, crafts, and foodstuffs, and let families and their kids delight in being able to wander the closed-off street.(2) Invite commercial interests and advertise it heavily. Bring in stages and "entertainment" where mediocre performers blast their music at 100+ decibels (yes, I've measured. Remember when rock concerts that broke 100 Db made news?), and put small children right in front of the speakers. Eliminate local arts, crafts, and restaurants in favor of commercial interests.
So these days, the Solano Stroll attracts 250,000 visitors annually. Albany's population is 20,000. Walking the entire mile of the fair, you might see 3-4 stalls from local businesses; the rest are all out-of-towners.
It's just a nightmare of traffic, parking, and lunacy that I abhor. Somehow, SOME people like being in a crowd so dense that you can't tie your shoes without bumping into someone, but I don't care for such things.
As you might be able to tell...
It's a narrow, two-lane street, one mile long, that connects the two main N-S routes in the area. It contains almost all the good non-chain restaurants and shops in the area.
It is much too small an area for that many bodies all packed together (not quite at the level of "Tokyo subway", but close), it's too densely crowded to enjoy the typical street festival gestalt, and that weekend, everything on the street is rendered inaccessible.
For dedicated introverts who enjoy their peace and quiet, it's pretty miserable.
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It's a narrow, two-lane street, one mile long, that connects the two main N-S routes in the area. It contains almost all the good non-chain restaurants and shops in the area.It is much too small an area for that many bodies all packed together (not quite at the level of "Tokyo subway", but close), it's too densely crowded to enjoy the typical street festival gestalt, and that weekend, everything on the street is rendered inaccessible.
For dedicated introverts who enjoy their peace and quiet, it's pretty miserable.
This, plus, if you live in Albany, there's no "opt out" button. According to Google Maps, I'm half a mile away from Solano. Yet because they're bringing in TEN TIMES THE TOWN'S POPULATION ON A SINGLE DAY, parking becomes premium and our streets fill up. There's no parking on our streets, and our cars get hit by out-of-towners once every 2-3 years. We can't go anywhere because the streets are closed down, and neighbors closer to Solano have claimed that the crime rate in their areas skyrockets as opportunists take advantage of people fleeing their homes to avoid the crowds.
So, imagine a street fair that has no parking, no local flavor, and at least 4 times as many people as might be comfortable. THAT'S the Solano Stroll.
Let me put it this way: I've been to Disneyland on a holiday weekend. I've been to the Ren Faire on a Labor Day weekend. The crowds on such occasions are maybe half as dense as the crowds at the Solano Stroll. It's really an astonishingly unpleasant experience.
It's a narrow, two-lane street, one mile long, that connects the two main N-S routes in the area. It contains almost all the good non-chain restaurants and shops in the area.It is much too small an area for that many bodies all packed together (not quite at the level of "Tokyo subway", but close), it's too densely crowded to enjoy the typical street festival gestalt, and that weekend, everything on the street is rendered inaccessible.
For dedicated introverts who enjoy their peace and quiet, it's pretty miserable.
This, plus, if you live in Albany, there's no "opt out" button. According to Google Maps, I'm half a mile away from Solano. Yet because they're bringing in TEN TIMES THE TOWN'S POPULATION ON A SINGLE DAY, parking becomes premium and our streets fill up. There's no parking on our streets, and our cars get hit by out-of-towners once every 2-3 years. We can't go anywhere because the streets are closed down, and neighbors closer to Solano have claimed that the crime rate in their areas skyrockets as opportunists take advantage of people fleeing their homes to avoid the crowds.
So, imagine a street fair that has no parking, no local flavor, and at least 4 times as many people as might be comfortable. THAT'S the Solano Stroll.
Let me put it this way: I've been to Disneyland on a holiday weekend. I've been to the Ren Faire on a Labor Day weekend. The crowds on such occasions are maybe half as dense as the crowds at the Solano Stroll. It's really an astonishingly unpleasant experience.
I was dragged to the Mall of America on the day after Thanksgiving for five straight years. I'm going to put it on a similar level to that.
EDIT: 1997-2002. Before Amazon and online shopping had *truly* taken off. And it was with my ex-in-laws.
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I missed NH's birthday, and I'm sorry, so happy belated birthday.
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It's a narrow, two-lane street, one mile long, that connects the two main N-S routes in the area. It contains almost all the good non-chain restaurants and shops in the area.It is much too small an area for that many bodies all packed together (not quite at the level of "Tokyo subway", but close), it's too densely crowded to enjoy the typical street festival gestalt, and that weekend, everything on the street is rendered inaccessible.
For dedicated introverts who enjoy their peace and quiet, it's pretty miserable.
This, plus, if you live in Albany, there's no "opt out" button. According to Google Maps, I'm half a mile away from Solano. Yet because they're bringing in TEN TIMES THE TOWN'S POPULATION ON A SINGLE DAY, parking becomes premium and our streets fill up. There's no parking on our streets, and our cars get hit by out-of-towners once every 2-3 years. We can't go anywhere because the streets are closed down, and neighbors closer to Solano have claimed that the crime rate in their areas skyrockets as opportunists take advantage of people fleeing their homes to avoid the crowds.
So, imagine a street fair that has no parking, no local flavor, and at least 4 times as many people as might be comfortable. THAT'S the Solano Stroll.
You just described my home.
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It's a narrow, two-lane street, one mile long, that connects the two main N-S routes in the area. It contains almost all the good non-chain restaurants and shops in the area.It is much too small an area for that many bodies all packed together (not quite at the level of "Tokyo subway", but close), it's too densely crowded to enjoy the typical street festival gestalt, and that weekend, everything on the street is rendered inaccessible.
For dedicated introverts who enjoy their peace and quiet, it's pretty miserable.
This, plus, if you live in Albany, there's no "opt out" button. According to Google Maps, I'm half a mile away from Solano. Yet because they're bringing in TEN TIMES THE TOWN'S POPULATION ON A SINGLE DAY, parking becomes premium and our streets fill up. There's no parking on our streets, and our cars get hit by out-of-towners once every 2-3 years. We can't go anywhere because the streets are closed down, and neighbors closer to Solano have claimed that the crime rate in their areas skyrockets as opportunists take advantage of people fleeing their homes to avoid the crowds.
So, imagine a street fair that has no parking, no local flavor, and at least 4 times as many people as might be comfortable. THAT'S the Solano Stroll.
You just described my home.
We're sorry.
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...and maybe even have some room to put some tatami mats down (since he's continuing to teach aikido over zoom some evenings/weekends), and his current space is not exactly ideal for that. He just can't do any falls or rolls with a hard concrete floor under the tatami, but he can't do that right now anyway.In no way am I going to pretend to know more about aikido than WW, but I do have a background as a martial arts instructor and I did take some aikido.
Teaching over remote sessions without an uke (I'm assuming) and not being able to repeatedly fall/roll, from my knowledge and experience, would severely limit what he'd be able to teach and make teaching other concepts and techniques close to impossible without the visual reference of the uke's reaction for the students.
Granted, I've seen some truly awful...like MST3K levels of awful...martial arts "instuctional" videos in my time...
Anything he's doing has got to be better than that.
My favourite ones are the one where a very out-of-shape looking bald man hurls people around the room merely by waving his arms around in Mystic Forms.
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My favourite ones are the one where a very out-of-shape looking bald man hurls people around the room merely by waving his arms around in Mystic Forms....and maybe even have some room to put some tatami mats down (since he's continuing to teach aikido over zoom some evenings/weekends), and his current space is not exactly ideal for that. He just can't do any falls or rolls with a hard concrete floor under the tatami, but he can't do that right now anyway.In no way am I going to pretend to know more about aikido than WW, but I do have a background as a martial arts instructor and I did take some aikido.
Teaching over remote sessions without an uke (I'm assuming) and not being able to repeatedly fall/roll, from my knowledge and experience, would severely limit what he'd be able to teach and make teaching other concepts and techniques close to impossible without the visual reference of the uke's reaction for the students.
Granted, I've seen some truly awful...like MST3K levels of awful...martial arts "instuctional" videos in my time...
Anything he's doing has got to be better than that.
I'm also a fan of the ones where a man makes a hand gesture and some odd vocalizations to make someone collapse into unconsciousness from at least a social distancing length away.
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I'm also a fan of the ones where a man makes a hand gesture and some odd vocalizations to make someone collapse into unconsciousness from at least a social distancing length away.My favourite ones are the one where a very out-of-shape looking bald man hurls people around the room merely by waving his arms around in Mystic Forms....and maybe even have some room to put some tatami mats down (since he's continuing to teach aikido over zoom some evenings/weekends), and his current space is not exactly ideal for that. He just can't do any falls or rolls with a hard concrete floor under the tatami, but he can't do that right now anyway.In no way am I going to pretend to know more about aikido than WW, but I do have a background as a martial arts instructor and I did take some aikido.
Teaching over remote sessions without an uke (I'm assuming) and not being able to repeatedly fall/roll, from my knowledge and experience, would severely limit what he'd be able to teach and make teaching other concepts and techniques close to impossible without the visual reference of the uke's reaction for the students.
Granted, I've seen some truly awful...like MST3K levels of awful...martial arts "instuctional" videos in my time...
Anything he's doing has got to be better than that.
I miss it all so much. I miss being in shape. I miss being young.
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I miss it all so much. I miss being in shape. I miss being young.I'm also a fan of the ones where a man makes a hand gesture and some odd vocalizations to make someone collapse into unconsciousness from at least a social distancing length away.My favourite ones are the one where a very out-of-shape looking bald man hurls people around the room merely by waving his arms around in Mystic Forms....and maybe even have some room to put some tatami mats down (since he's continuing to teach aikido over zoom some evenings/weekends), and his current space is not exactly ideal for that. He just can't do any falls or rolls with a hard concrete floor under the tatami, but he can't do that right now anyway.In no way am I going to pretend to know more about aikido than WW, but I do have a background as a martial arts instructor and I did take some aikido.
Teaching over remote sessions without an uke (I'm assuming) and not being able to repeatedly fall/roll, from my knowledge and experience, would severely limit what he'd be able to teach and make teaching other concepts and techniques close to impossible without the visual reference of the uke's reaction for the students.
Granted, I've seen some truly awful...like MST3K levels of awful...martial arts "instuctional" videos in my time...
Anything he's doing has got to be better than that.
Wow, you must be old!
Wow, you must be old!I miss it all so much. I miss being in shape. I miss being young.I'm also a fan of the ones where a man makes a hand gesture and some odd vocalizations to make someone collapse into unconsciousness from at least a social distancing length away.My favourite ones are the one where a very out-of-shape looking bald man hurls people around the room merely by waving his arms around in Mystic Forms....and maybe even have some room to put some tatami mats down (since he's continuing to teach aikido over zoom some evenings/weekends), and his current space is not exactly ideal for that. He just can't do any falls or rolls with a hard concrete floor under the tatami, but he can't do that right now anyway.In no way am I going to pretend to know more about aikido than WW, but I do have a background as a martial arts instructor and I did take some aikido.
Teaching over remote sessions without an uke (I'm assuming) and not being able to repeatedly fall/roll, from my knowledge and experience, would severely limit what he'd be able to teach and make teaching other concepts and techniques close to impossible without the visual reference of the uke's reaction for the students.
Granted, I've seen some truly awful...like MST3K levels of awful...martial arts "instuctional" videos in my time...
Anything he's doing has got to be better than that.
That's a given, as he is older than me.
I was never in shape on the other hand. Being young you would be nice, if I could keep my mind, wit, and most of the baggage that comes with it, sans anxiety.
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I was never in shape on the other hand. Being young you would be nice, if I could keep my mind, wit, and most of the baggage that comes with it, sans anxiety.
I'm in this post and I don't like it.
The best shape of my life, when I was riding my bike regularly AND a vegetarian, I was still on the borderline of overweight according to my BMI.
Now?
I'm surprised I have a pulse, and my blood isn't gravy.
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Mmmm, gravy {drools}
BMI Is a big fat liar.
I'm (getting) old, and technically may be slightly overweight, but I am in NO way 'Obese', stupid BMI chart!
IF I was EVER to actually get down to the weight I'm 'supposed' to be at, according to BMI, I would probably be blown over by the slightest breeze, and drop dead from malnutrition.
o_O
In Short,
BMI is a big fat liar.
That is all.
:)
No, it's not.*
For some people, in some very rare cases, it's overestimating because they have too much muscle mass, or such, but for most people - we're just way more out of shape than we think we are. That, however, is considerably rare, and what usually happens is you have someone with a reasonably large frame who's rather thick and wears it well to come up as obese. Just because folks like myself are big and it looks decent on them doesn't deny the fact of how big we are.
BMI is designed off of the "norm" of what we SHOULD be, regardless of societal norms.
We tend to develop our norms based on those around us - and most of the developed first world is actually really, really, really fat. What we consider "normal" is normal based on modern probability curves, and when everyone around you is fat, fat is the new normal.
In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.
Well, just because everyone lost both of their eyes doesn't make that guy's one lost eye grow back. He's still got one eye. Yeah, it's better than nothing, and when everyone else is blind it seems amazing...
...but it's still one-eyed, no matter how much he wants to say otherwise.
(*...it does, however, require more wiggle room than it has, and isn't as cut-and-dry as the charts say.)
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Wizards of the Coast announced recently that they would work to being more inclusive.
The amount of sh*t being spewed by what appears to be white men is just appaling. Im sure there are some trolls in there. But is just shows how toxic the community is.
I have a friend at work whose husband went out there to work for them last year. He was excited (this was a dream job since he was young) and eager for her to look for teaching jobs out there so she could follow him at the end of the school year.
A few months later, he was back in Dallas and dejected. He was *really* unhappy with the WOC culture.
Wizards of the Coast announced recently that they would work to being more inclusive.
The amount of sh*t being spewed by what appears to be white men is just appaling. Im sure there are some trolls in there. But is just shows how toxic the community is.I have a friend at work whose husband went out there to work for them last year. He was excited (this was a dream job since he was young) and eager for her to look for teaching jobs out there so she could follow him at the end of the school year.
A few months later, he was back in Dallas and dejected. He was *really* unhappy with the WOC culture.
Do you think that was true of original wotc or is that a function of hasbro?
Heh bro.
Certainly the wotc expats in paizo dont seem to share the toxicity.
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Wizards of the Coast announced recently that they would work to being more inclusive.
The amount of sh*t being spewed by what appears to be white men is just appaling. Im sure there are some trolls in there. But is just shows how toxic the community is.I have a friend at work whose husband went out there to work for them last year. He was excited (this was a dream job since he was young) and eager for her to look for teaching jobs out there so she could follow him at the end of the school year.
A few months later, he was back in Dallas and dejected. He was *really* unhappy with the WOC culture.
That's disappointing to hear.
I do wonder what would have happened if they kept the iconic fighter black instead of changing him.
Tuesday FunTime:
I have to run my "randomania homebrew" tonight and I don't have a plot as of yet.
The plot so far: The group got hired on as guards on a merchant caravan and decided they liked it so much they've traveled across northern Taldor and are headed into Galt.
- Encounter #1: A destroyed caravan where all the guards and merchants had been turned into zombies. A necromancer on the loose? No one was interested.
- Encounter #2: I rolled up, "Which of these tall tales is true?" on the random plot table, so the caravan hired on a guard who had a level of bard and told a lot of stories, plus had a journal of more. Then a band of orcs ambushed the caravan and killed him.
So they're heading to Edme in Galt and have heard rumors of Razor Jenny, but they're going to question the lone surviving orc and move on and I need something random for 1st-level PCs to do.
I can make it up on my own, but we're pretty dedicated to, "We don't know what's going to happen from week to week," so I figure FaWtL is about as random as it gets...
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Tuesday FunTime:
I have to run my "randomania homebrew" tonight and I don't have a plot as of yet.
The plot so far: The group got hired on as guards on a merchant caravan and decided they liked it so much they've traveled across northern Taldor and are headed into Galt.
- Encounter #1: A destroyed caravan where all the guards and merchants had been turned into zombies. A necromancer on the loose? No one was interested.
- Encounter #2: I rolled up, "Which of these tall tales is true?" on the random plot table, so the caravan hired on a guard who had a level of bard and told a lot of stories, plus had a journal of more. Then a band of orcs ambushed the caravan and killed him.
So they're heading to Edme in Galt and have heard rumors of Razor Jenny, but they're going to question the lone surviving orc and move on and I need something random for 1st-level PCs to do.
I can make it up on my own, but we're pretty dedicated to, "We don't know what's going to happen from week to week," so I figure FaWtL is about as random as it gets...
Check out this thread.
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So I heard a rumor about a Swallowtail Festival happening in some place called Sandpoint...
No?
Fine.
Be that way.
A druid has become upset with an encroaching bandit/barbarian camp. The druid decides to take care of the problem by taking over the bandits/barbarians and using them to attack caravans that the druid is also having an issue with.
Maneater keeps getting better and better!
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A druid has become upset with an encroaching bandit/barbarian camp. The druid decides to take care of the problem by taking over the bandits/barbarians and using them to attack caravans that the druid is also having an issue with.
... this is actually very similar to an idea I was planning for the campaign I'm currently writing, though the druid was a ranger instead.
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Tuesday FunTime:
I have to run my "randomania homebrew" tonight and I don't have a plot as of yet.
The plot so far: The group got hired on as guards on a merchant caravan and decided they liked it so much they've traveled across northern Taldor and are headed into Galt.
- Encounter #1: A destroyed caravan where all the guards and merchants had been turned into zombies. A necromancer on the loose? No one was interested.
- Encounter #2: I rolled up, "Which of these tall tales is true?" on the random plot table, so the caravan hired on a guard who had a level of bard and told a lot of stories, plus had a journal of more. Then a band of orcs ambushed the caravan and killed him.
So they're heading to Edme in Galt and have heard rumors of Razor Jenny, but they're going to question the lone surviving orc and move on and I need something random for 1st-level PCs to do.
I can make it up on my own, but we're pretty dedicated to, "We don't know what's going to happen from week to week," so I figure FaWtL is about as random as it gets...
Two groups of tax collectors/road watchers/whatever, one belonging to Revolutionary Road Watchers Corp, and the other belonging to People's Reserve Militia.
Each requesting different taxes, listing contradictory regulations, and arguing with each other about whose jurisdiction it is.
They might be offering a bounty for finding the same person - a reactionary noble-born criminal.
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Tuesday FunTime:
I have to run my "randomania homebrew" tonight and I don't have a plot as of yet.
The plot so far: The group got hired on as guards on a merchant caravan and decided they liked it so much they've traveled across northern Taldor and are headed into Galt.
- Encounter #1: A destroyed caravan where all the guards and merchants had been turned into zombies. A necromancer on the loose? No one was interested.
- Encounter #2: I rolled up, "Which of these tall tales is true?" on the random plot table, so the caravan hired on a guard who had a level of bard and told a lot of stories, plus had a journal of more. Then a band of orcs ambushed the caravan and killed him.
So they're heading to Edme in Galt and have heard rumors of Razor Jenny, but they're going to question the lone surviving orc and move on and I need something random for 1st-level PCs to do.
I can make it up on my own, but we're pretty dedicated to, "We don't know what's going to happen from week to week," so I figure FaWtL is about as random as it gets...
It kind of feels like they are not following any threads you throw at them. Am I misreading?
How is that fun to GM?
Hello, everyone!
On Youtube yesterday, I saw a commercial for the streaming service Apple+. Next year, they'll be doing a series called Foundation, which is based off of the Isaac Asimov novel.
NO WAY!
Interesting,
Seeing as how most of Isaac Asimov's stuff doesn't seem to translate well to screen adaptations, with very few exceptions,...(Just IMHO, based solely upon my own reactions to what few movies have been made from his material)
I would be interested in seeing how it comes out. :)
Buuuut, I'm already paying for Cable, and Netflix, and Disney+, there is NO WAY I'm forking over $$$ for any more services.
Nope. Nada. Zero. Zilch.
Aged Wizzie's piggy bank can only take so much.
there is NO WAY I'm forking over $$$ for any more services.
Especially to Apple.
I like Apple, but I've never read Asimov.
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Yeah, getting anything Apple is essentially paying 2x as much for only slightly more quality. Not really worth it. When Android and PC can do 90% of the quality for 1/2 the price, I'll stick with them.