Little John

Little John

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Avid nerd enthusiast. I love Computers, RPGs, Photography, Art, Reading, Learning, and more. I try very hard to understand other points of view and not be too judgy, and I firmly believe that diversity and multiple viewpoints make for better solutions.

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Digital Brain
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Gentoo penguins propose with pebbles. If she accepts the stone, the bond is sealed or strengthened, so Edinburgh Zoo scatters colored pebbles every breeding season for males to court their mates.

Little John
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The joy of being a good person sometimes is that you sadly realize that sometimes the greater good of humanity and future generations requires some sacrifices, up to and including yourself. The unwillingness to make even the smallest sacrifice or even to demand that only others have to make it is…

Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)@owenkcstephens.bsky.social

"You wouldn't likely survive a real revolution." True. That does nothing to reduce my growing belief that one may be required.

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Allan Faulds
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Good afternoon, I've just discovered as a result of seeing this post that there's an absolutely exasperated community page with advice about how to deal with Trump pronouncements and actions

Molly White@molly.wiki

A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."

Little John
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I won’t spoil anything for you, but Buddy was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time for all the most creative reasons. Incredibly believable acting, absolutely perfect costuming and set design, writing and direction were immaculate. 11/10, no complaints. Every person involved was perfect

Little John
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I am including important locations, npcs, plots, various history / lore bits associated with things, and some adventure ideas. I am planning to expand more on as many of the topics as I can for my own benefit. If people are interested, I might throw it on my website when I’m done.

Little John
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I am not normally a writer but I have started trying to document all of the stuff for my current D&D campaign both for my benefit and because one of my players wants to contribute as sort of a co-DM and I think I am up to about 40 pages of stuff so far, and I only stopped for the day because sleep.

Little John
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My humblebrag is that I have a book problem instead of a drug problem. I travel for work and comb used bookstores. Our house currently has 14 full bookshelves with one more waiting to be built. My son says it’s a problem.

Little John
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I also do not discriminate against electronic formats. My iPad is a magnificent device for travel as well as reference material. iBooks is definitely the main consumer of space on it. There is no point to this thread. I just love books.

Little John
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I've been doing a lot more thinking lately, which is a weird thing to say. I might pour some of that out here to see where it takes me. I kind of miss the old social media days of original thoughts and not just 1000 reposts of Meme's and awful news that may or may not be true. Bluesky seems good.

Little John
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Also, next week with any luck will be my first session with my own homespun adventure in Sharn. I have the 3E and 5E sourcebooks, but I am still a little lost on where I want to take this. It is a small party with a Herengon Artificer and an Elf Rogue with a Pixie Cleric NPC companion. #DND

Little John
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Today's D&D Session was solid if expositional. I did a lot of verbose descriptions in their planar travels along with one small Ambush encounter. They went from the city of Sigil to Ecstasy in the Outlands to Elysium and the Castle of Lathander where they got their first set of long term goals.

Little John
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We now have a character starting a Fraternity of Celestial Warlocks and his cohort starting an Watchful order for Paladin Protectors both in service of Lathander (and his leadership team) as a branch of the overarching plot.

Little John
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They are part of an alliance of celestial and divine beings subverting bits of the Blood War to prevent it from spilling over and wrecking other realms or beings of importance. So far we have Lathandar, several powerful celestials, and archfey based on Prince, at least one Nature God, and more.

Little John
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I’m loving the current parties I’m DMing for. One Planar Campaign for a party of people I have played with for 30 years, plus my own teens, and a separate game for 2 complete strangers from other countries that is sort of a combo of Radiant Citadel and Homebrew about to head to Sharn. #DND

Little John
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Just saw Supergirl. It was awesome. I’m pretty sure 90% of the haters online have not watched the movie. I saw it with my son and my nephew. They both also enjoyed it. Great actors, good story, overall solid. Milly and Eve (and many others) were 100% believable in their roles. I hope we get more.

Little John
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For context, I live out in the country and you can hear this to some extent at least a half mile down my road, it definitely makes it easier to get my kids attention out in the yard.

Little John
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I think AI has its uses. However, hearing an ad about how I should let the Walmart AI plan my meals for me is the most wretched use I have heard yet.

Little John
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I see a lot of people freaking out over game systems and #DND in particular. I play a lot of games and we are 99% rules as written so players can learn to play with other people too. But the big 2 for 30+ years are 1)Have Fun and 2) Enjoy time with friends. The game is just a backdrop.

Little John
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I feel like once a game is upsetting you this much it stops being fun. I enjoy #DND but there are so many activities you can do to enjoy time with your friends if it stresses you so much.

Little John
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My apparently hot take on D&D lately is that I enjoy it without using many house rules. My primary group has been together at its core for almost 30 years and our main thing is having fun with friends. The game doesn’t matter it’s just an excuse to hang out.

Little John
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I am confused by so many posts I am seeing like this. Are people not RolePlaying in their Roleplaying Games? So much of our games now and historically do not revolve solely around combat. It’s definitely a portion and get more rules because it’s more mechanical than roleplaying, but, WTF?

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Little John
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@twins.com can you start posting on here so I have some baseball content to follow and we can get more engagement. I will happily evangelize across other platforms to push for followers, but I would like to give them something to see.

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