Actuary. Also a host on @magethepodcast
Philadelphia, PA
Joined April 2008
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Had a lovely conversation on @magethepodcast talking about using @JamesTheFourth 's "The Department of Truth" as an inspiration for Mage the Ascension games: magethepodcast.com/scattered…
Thanks to conspiracy academic Jordan E for joining.
Sometimes gift guides are too niche. "The best lawnmower-themed stocking stuffers for the chocoholic in your life " or some shit.
Currently coordinating a group #Barbieheimer weekend t-shirt that has "Oppenheimer" in the Barbie font. Also floating this guy
Speech to text turned Salman Rushdie into "someone rusty". I know magical realism isn't for everyone but shot's fired.
The skies above Philadelphia seem to have gone from "Las Vegas in Bladerunner 2049" to the generic white "the developer of this map forgot to put anything in the skybox".
Who’s a character who didn’t deserve their fate?
@Kinzer_V if we’re doing it wrong I don’t want to be right
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Thanks to @gb_steve from @PelgranePress for recording with @magethepodcast about Blake, Blake's cosmology, and 1930s magic groups. Here's our conversation about the absolutely packed Fearful Symmetries:
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Finishing up a read through this 36 hour chomk of an audiobook of the stories of HP Lovecraft.
Notes:
-Fluting always seems to be mad. I think he was forced to go to a 4th grade recorder recital once and it really stuck with him.
-William Gibson-levels of no plot
(1/n)
-I wonder if there was a list of small cultures he wanted to shit talk. I feel like in the Horror at Red Hook there was a coin flip as to whether he'd call the Hmong or the Yazidis devil-worshippers and the coin said followers of the Peacock Angel.
(4/n)
I made the genius decision to have scheduled two interviews within 2 hours of having completed a root canal. Well within the window of effectiveness for lidocaine.
"Heewow and welcome to mwage the pahcassssth"
Demigod introduces a "Demigod's Journey" which stylizes play to a much more specific string of story beats. Each step is flavorful but adds time and complexity. It seems hard to book keep and balance. Curious to try.
Demigods ply a path that results in either godhood or death in a brutal up-or-out challenge to Fate. @StoryToldChazz and @terryrobinson talk new pantheons, building demigod narratives, and the underworld in Scion 2e Book Three: Demigod.
paininthedice.com/2022/10/24…
My new faucet has three settings:
-Spray
-Mist
-Look like you stood with your crotch in front of a malfunctioning fire hydrant
Monica is half the reason I became a podcaster and I got to share my experience running a looooot of Mage one shots for 5e folks and how that can inform making our games more inviting to curious #dungeonsanddragons players. Hear @zenithsun and I talk about it!
BXP 05×11 – Mage, Exalted, and D&D (feat. Terry Robinson)
Hello Bonus Babies,
Terry (of Mage: the Podcast) joins Monica to talk about the wild experience of teaching Mage to new people and Monica commiserates about her experiences with teaching Exalted… ift.tt/o3r8Ayg
Looks like it'll be in the 50s this week marking the start of "make decaf cold brew but then microwave it because I like my cold brew hot and I do enjoy caffeine but not in coffee so I'll probably also start the day with a Monster energy drink" season.
If you put enough psyllium powder into Belgian waffle mix you can get a consistent enough of a drone from air escaping the waffle iron to sing a proper rendition of "Scotland the Brave".
I'm reading The Rise and Fall of American Growth and most of the time its facts are fascinating but sometimes it's all "by tracking the toilet illumination index vs the book-foot-year we can see how food variety tracked women's suffrage."
And I'm like *blank stare* "of course".