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| Saturday, September 6th, 2025 | |
| 12:48 am | ChatGPT says I'm Authoritarian-Centrist or Authoritarian-Right    Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Hitoshi Sakimoto - Madness |
| Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 | |
| 1:23 am | My D&D setup All minis beside the water elemental are painted by myself. Corner beggar dude is SVO veteran without legs. The girl mage mini is from the Warcraft board game.  Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Andrew Hulshult - Tome of Power (Official Heretic + Hexen Game Soundtrack, 2025) |
| Monday, August 25th, 2025 | |
| 9:48 pm | "Waste Money on Plastic" Actually, I prefer metal. It is just hard to find metal cheap nowadays. And these are collector items, so you can't play with them. In fact, even painting these isn't advised. Although sculpts are cute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0xIlR Guess one day I can 3d print them as resin, but modern 3d scan technology isn't good enough for tiny minis.  Current Mood: amused |
| 6:24 pm | D&D is getting cleansed from the woke negros It is done in a unique way: an alternative, called Daggerheart, was introduced. Advertised as less autism/statistics/grinding and more social justice. So all SJWs are now moving there together with their Palestine flags. We can finally enjoy wokefrei D&D, mah nigga! So what is Daggerheart? You know how D&D evolved to use only d20? Not queer enough! Daggerfart rolls-back, doubling on 2d12. Cuz this cock cage is more gay and DM has the key. Player agency? No! It has to be rANdoM! Remember how D&D treated nat 1 and 20 special? Now every roll is "special" (like in special olympics). And DM will have to make up some irrelevant story shit, instead of just running a module. Not like it is any new. E.g. Ironsworn had 2d10 + 1d6 instead of 1d20 But Ironsworn was unable to vacuum out the negroid kids trampling our D&D lawn. Daggerheart explicitly supports diverse characters. E.g. non-binary, trauma-informed mechanics for sensitive stories. Just remember: there is no clear game mechanics for these "features." It is easy to declare that your system supports any kind of a negro. Leaving the actual rulebook as an exercise to the reader. So happy they are getting their personal hell!  Current Mood: amused |
| Saturday, August 16th, 2025 | |
| 8:32 pm | Some of the less politically correct D&D campaigns https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/184  Current Mood: amused |
| Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 | |
| 7:30 pm | "White" Video Games? Final Fantasy Tactics is not cited as a top title in broader surveys of Black gaming preferences, which often highlight games with urban settings or competitive multiplayer elements like Call of Duty or Madden NFL. The game’s medieval fantasy setting, inspired by Western influences like Dungeons & Dragons, might also feel less culturally immediate to some players compared to games with modern or urban themes like GTA V.  Current Mood: amused |
| Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 | |
| 9:01 pm | 1988 D&D was the most progressive  Current Mood: amused |
| Sunday, July 6th, 2025 | |
| 3:16 pm | Nail Art Air Brush Somehow all our D&D mini painting tools come out of a beauty salon. make up sponges and brushes, nail art brushes and even airbrush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isqaylQ Although most influencers keep promoting expensive car painting airbrushes. They are bulky and noisy, that makes them feel manlier. Then again, manliness is expressed through ugliness.  Current Mood: amused |
| Saturday, July 5th, 2025 | |
| 12:42 pm | A way to roll d20 in prison, on train or during meetings https://constantchaos.itch.io/dicefold Another way is rolling d20 mentally. Without any tool or external source of randomness. Think of two words. Count the letters in both. If second count is even, add the count of 1st to the 10. Otherwise subtract it. Additional rules, If second has 5 letters - result is 10. If second word has less than 5 letters, then the result is 1 Ensure words don't repeat during a session. Obviously it is not very failproof if you are smart. Systems like ChatGPT easily roll 20ies most of the time, making error just once per 20 rolls.  Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxqHIi1UuQo |
| Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 | |
| 11:17 pm | Elmore Minis Somehow I never knew there is a series based of Elmore's artworks. https://www.darkswordminiatures.com/pro The dude did official art for 2e AD&D and Might & Magic games. Elmoer's art is cartoonish HoMM2 style art, which somehow died nowadays in favor of annoying warhammerish slop, or the grimdark demon shits slop. GF9 nine D&D minis were kinda okay, but a bit too realistic for my liking. The fairy tale component is missing. Unfortunately these minis are oldschool metal, so prone to chipped paint and breaking plastic stuff. But yeah, just compare them to the bland modern ones       Current Mood: amused |
| Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 | |
| 10:10 pm | Everyone seen the iconic D&D cover What most people don't know that it is a cropped version of the original. Due to Gary Gygax's mild misogyny, he demanded the girl to be removed. Really ironic Gygax himself was replaced by a girl in the end lol. TLDR: the D&D we know and love is the work of Lorraine Williams, who led TSR in the 90ies, gave green light to Forgotten Realms.    Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: FFVII REMAKE: ガードスコーピオン |
| Saturday, June 14th, 2025 | |
| 7:07 pm | Curse of Azure Bounds So before Baldur's Gate there was the Avatar Trilogy, which itself was precluded by the Finder's Stone Trilogy, which was the very first D&D book I ever read. Back then on some samizdat A4 print out. These trilogies basically advanced the Forgotten Realms, developing characters like Elminster and Mystra. And then there was the Curse of Azure Bonds game, 80ies Baldur's Gate, based of the 1st trilogy. Its Japanese version made Africans white. That is the funniest part about it. Unfortunately Finder's Stone never got a video game, despite it being the prequel to Baldur's Gate 1. Neither Drizzt books got any games. These BTW were prequels to the Icewind Dale games. I think there was Dark Alliance. But it doesn't replace a proper RPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypfILbd    Current Mood: amused |
| Friday, June 6th, 2025 | |
| 6:29 pm | Latest ChatGPT debugs the scripts it writes In fact, it solves most tasks I throw at it perfectly, if they are properly states. For example, here I asked ChatGPT to produce a script generating random D&D:AS monsters. And then to adapt a few general D&D monsters missing in the DAS games https://chatgpt.com/share/6843176b-3 Although when you just ask it to generate a DAS monster, it tends to generates overkill, like direbadger with 4HP. In D&D "Dire" animals are basically brutal and aggressive version of normal animals. Useful if your game has hunting sections, since usual Badger wont pose much challenge even to a solo Lv.1 hero. Current Mood: amused |
| Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 | |
| 5:40 pm | Stranger Things Stumbled upon this movie, going through various D&D stuff. First 2 seasons are meh, but 3rd and 4th specials. Think D&D campaign set in a Russian Gulag with Russian Ivan as Vecna. Americans opened a gate to Shadowfell, now Russians have to open two.   Current Mood: amused |
| Saturday, May 17th, 2025 | |
| 1:25 am | ChatGPT says I'm Chaotic Evil lol  Current Mood: amused |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 | |
| 2:23 pm | Got the classic D&D Board Games These are more akin to a HeroQuest on steroids than to the later Castle Ravenloft based games. So people used them to play the normal D&D instead.  Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven |
| Thursday, May 8th, 2025 | |
| 8:40 pm | DnD is satanist? At least I'm not painting the Russian orcs...    Current Mood: amused |
| Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 | |
| 10:32 pm | Bought 119 D&D minis in Belgium for 150 euro Usually these are sold for 4-5 euro for a small mini, and 20 euro for a mini like that blue dragon. https://www.ebay.com/itm/323472707541?g So guess actual price could be like 600 euro. What makes me sad is that a few of these came from the D&D:AS board games meaning 2 boxes of these games got plundered for minis and destroyed. These are like my all time fav board games, think Baldur's Gate 2 on a table. Other minis were plundered from https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178 Which was probably the best ever D&D starter set, and also featured a PvP skirmish mode. But I've seen a few of these sets without minis. So guess I can assemble and re-sell a complete one.  Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: The Legend of Vox Machina OST |
| Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 | |
| 3:19 pm | Mind Bondage Spell Mind Bondage Enchantment (Compulsion) [Evil, Mind-Affecting] Level: Cleric 4 Components: V,S,M Casting Time: 1 standard action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Target: Your father Duration: 1 day/level Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No This insidious spell is only taught to players who have attained the 8th clerical level. At this point, they are ready to learn "real" magic, finally graduating from fantasy. Typically, they are first accepted into the fabled "Temple of Diana." This spell is the first one taught to initiates. If your dad tries to stop you from playing DnD, then this enchantment will force him to buy you $200.00 USD of "figures and manuals." Material Component: Elfstar's character sheet  Current Mood: amused |
| Friday, April 25th, 2025 | |
| 10:45 pm |  Current Mood: amused |