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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.

Massive subsurface frozen sea discovered on Mars

I have long had a love of the Ars Magica version of Europe, but translating it into Hero System has always been too intimidating for me.

Share this, please.
 
 

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

Fantasy RPG have the town tavern.  Sci-Fi RPGs have the bar at the spaceport.  Western RPGs have the saloon.
 
For Pulp RPGs--it's the diner.






 

The ASP has never been a conduit for jobs; astronomy jobs in the US are principally are listed via the American Astronomical Society (and I think nearly all of those are PhD-level jobs), aas.org.
 
I thought the ASP's HQ was in San Francisco, and I can see them listing jobs in their offices only locally.  You might see if you can make a contact via "normal" job-seeker channels, provided my memory about their location is correct.

Another astronomy ed workshop from the Rubin Observatory people: link
 
(let me know if that link doesn't work right; another "upgrade" of Outlook means I have to eye-hand transcribe it from an email, because the old highlight-and-copy no longer works)

"As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here. Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God."  --  2 Thessalonians 2:1–4

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

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

From the late great Terry Pratchett
 
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad. (LL)