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Hooray! I've just been excused from jury duty.

Alexander Zverev Beats Carlos Alcaraz It's the biggest upset so far in the men's singles. For the women, it was Iga Swiatek.

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Something I'm playing with in historical and other low-magic settings is keep clerical magic but get rid of wizards. At least one TSR campaign book, Charlemagne's Paladins, offers this as an option. I tried this option in my solo Middle-earth campaign. I renamed the clerics "healers" and treated their turn undead and spells as skills rather than than actual magic. It's still a work in progress.

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I was thinking about combining Ars Magica with Vampire and Werewolf, both of which have their own Dark Ages supplement. Then add the Highlander mythos for good measure.

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I'm still working on my homebrew based on California as an island aka Insula Calafia (Island of Calafia), based on a legendary Amazon queen who included griffins in her forces. I'm also working on the changed geography and adding fantasy elements, such as turning California Condors into rocs. I also renamed a couple of the major cities. San Francisco = Porta Aurea (Golden Gate) Los Angeles = Urbs Nuntiorum (City of the Messengers) Other details are extrapolated from this video:

I'd much rather go with that. The campaign tells the characters' stories.

I used to go to a diner that had an old-school vibe. It was a few blocks from my workplace. Of course, when I switched jobs to a different city I couldn't go there anymore. The diner closed a few years ago.

I got an email about an upcoming workshop on Saturday the 27th*. Unfortunately, there may be a time conflict, as I've got a MERP game that day. My biggest beef with the ASP and other such organizations is that they offer memberships but not jobs. I would love to work for such an organization, but it seems it's only interested in asking me for money I don't have. *EDIT: It turns out the workshop is just a revised version of a course I took a few years ago, so I can happily skip this one.

More like one of a long string of false prophets, in the vein of Jim Jones and David Koresh. Except his religion is politics.

I originally misread the first word as Batman!

If some supernatural force is helping Dump, it sure as hell ain't coming from above.

It doesn't get any clearer than that! 😜

Subscribing to YT is not free. YouTube Premium costs about $14 per month. It's cheap if you watch a lot of videos, but it's an added expense I can't afford at this time. I should just watch more of another channel (MHz Choice) that has a lot of shows from different parts of the world, mainly Europe, but they've expanded.

It's not a hole in one, but....

I blame the Victorians. They're the ones who promoted the cutesy image people have of Faeries. The old legends tell a very different story.

It never made any sense, and it never will.

Last night, one of my cats got hungry. She went to the plate left out for all the cats, but it turns out all the food had been eaten. She just sat and stared at the empty plate until I gave her some food.