Welp, that dampened my enthusiasm for the game. I won't preorder it, and maybe wait until it is on a Sale for a reduced price.
Playing in a D&D 5E game, running a Scion campaign heavily inspired by German folktales and folklore.
@DebsBookReviews I translate old German folk tales into English! Two books have already been published under the series title "Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles".
If you want to check out some of the tales before buying the books, you can listen to podcast and video adaptions of them here. I encourage such adaptions by others - I release all my translations under a Creative Commons Zero license!
Also, if Prigozhin wins, Putin will probably end up being "killed by traitors", but Prigozhin will vow to avenge him and bring all traitors to justice.
Probably not quite yet - they'll want to give Russian units time to retreat from the frontline and intervene in Russia.
The world will be in a better position because this internal conflict dramatically weakens the Russian war effort in Ukraine. Whatever faction comes out on top will be rather busy "cleaning house" for a while - giving Ukraine more space to fight this war.
Two TTRPG sessions (Dungeons & Dragons in person, Call of Cthulhu online), going swimming at the public pool, working some more on my translations of German folk tales.
Oder wenn einen dann Personen aus dem Bekanntenkreis jedes mal erklären:
"Ich glaube, das war gar nicht rassistisch gemeint. Das hast Du bestimmt nur missverstanden!"
Außerhalb von solchen Räumen werden solche Regeln in Deutschland aber nur selten eingehalten.
A media company, to influence the world according to my political agenda.
Hey, every bilionaire's doing it!
Wie kann man dann dafür sorgen, daß Rassismusverursacher dort nicht auftauchen und Stress produzieren?
Um sicher vor Rassismus zu sein reicht es, wenn man den Umgang mir Rassisten meidet.
Schaffe das mal. "Kein Rassist zu sein" ist kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess. Es reicht eben nicht sich nur "gegen Nazis" zu positionieren. Man muss auch ständig seine unterbewussten Denkmuster und Vorurteile hinterfragen, und das ist anstrengend.
Ja, Rassismuserfahrungen dürften unter Schwarzen Menschen in Deutschland universell sein. Und einfach mal ein paar Stunden genießen wo man seine Ruhe davor hat ist wahrscheinlich viel wert.
Die Kommentare unter dem Artikel sind mal wieder unterirdisch. Ist es echt so schwer zu begreifen, daß Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland zumindest für ein paar Stunden mal Ruhe vom Bullshit der weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft haben wollen?
I am also using a D&Desque setup for my world (currently leaning towards Pathfinder 2E).
I am fully embracing both raise dead and reincarnate spell effects. This has the implication that as long as someone is rich and take precautions, they are hard to kill for good. "Raise dead" will bring them back until they reach old age, and "Reincarnate" will bring them back even if they die of old age - but with a young, healthy body from a random ancestry!
This has a number of interesting social effects:
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Unlike in our world, bigotry against people who "look different" is not tolerated by the ultra-rich, since they might very well find themselves within a body of a marginalized minority the next time around!
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Wealth is no longer "dynastic" (though this is still an ongoing shift in my world). Since the ultra-rich generally hope to stave off death indefinitely, they see less reason to build up "heirs". They might still have large number of descendants (often from different ancestries!), and might even be fond of them... but often, they are seen as means to an end, as (presumably) loyal servants for their financial empires.
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There is a sharp divide between those who can afford those repeated resurrections, and those who are well-off but who still can't easily afford coming back from the dead. The competition among the latter who wish to join the former is fierce.
Ich mache diesen August wieder Urlaub im Harz. Da sah es letztes Jahr schon ziemlich verheerend aus...
Leistung lohnt sich derzeit eben nicht - die die bereits Gele haben, bekommen alles nachgeschmissen, während die die wenig haben sich ständig abrackern müssen nur um nicht noch weiter anzusinken!
Basically, in this tale a farmer's girl lost her way in the forest and stumbled across a hut inhabited by seven dwarves. She asked them for a place to stay for the night, and received it (after the dwarves argued about who would get the honor of giving up his bed for the girl).
A short term later, a farmer woman arrived. When the girl opened the door and explained that there was no more space, the farmer woman suspected her of being the lover of all seven dwarves, called her a slut ("Lumpenmaitschi" in the local dialect), and then fetched two men who killed the dwarves in the same night, buried the corpses in the dwarves' garden, and burned down the hut (the girl, however, had managed to escape).
This tale is from an obscure 19th century folk tale collection from the Aargau Canton in Switzerland, and I don't think it has ever been translated into English. But I think I shall do so at the earliest opportunity.
Und wenn man es vermietet, kann man eine Hypothek nehmen, die Erbschaftssteuer damit bezahlen, und dann die Hypothekenzinsen von der Steuer absetzen.
Da hätte ich gerne eine Beispielrechung, wieso unter solchen Umständen "Otto Normal Mensch" das Haus verkaufen muss bloss um die Erbschaftssteuer zu bezahlen.
So viel kann das doch gar nicht sein?
Bei mir kam die Erbschaftssteuerforderung über ein Jahr nach dem Todesfall. Das war jede Menge Zeit um noch eine Hypothek aufzusetzen.
Die "Klimaskeptiker" sind so dumm wie frech, wie ich auf Twitter immer wieder feststelle.
Vermieten. Einfach Hypothek für die Erbschaftssteuer aufnehmen, und die Zinsen von der Steuer absetzen.
Für Leute, die sich an deutschen Sagen und Legenden interessieren: Viele der alten Sagensammlungen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert sind inzwischen digitalisiert und online erhältlich. Wikisource hat eine Link-Liste für diese Sammlungen (falls Ihr noch andere kennt, bitte hinzufügen!).
Diese Liste war extrem hilfreich für meine eigenen Recherchen und Projekte, und man kann da sehr viel Zeit damit verbringen, die Sagenwelt bestimmter Gegenden zu erforschen. Einziger Schönheitsfehler: Die meisten dieser Bücher verwenden Frakturschrift. Aber auch daran kann man sich gewöhnen!
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I am curious - has anyone tried out these color e-ink Android tablets with some popular drawing/painting apps?
I have a reMarkable 2, which is decent for quick black & white sketching - but I really want a color e-ink tablet one day, and I want to make sure that color drawing and sketching works well with them.
So, religions in Dungeons & Dragons fantasy settings usually have some weird "Greek-style pantheism as viewed through the lens of Christian monotheism" thing, with worship of particular deities being fairly "standardized" and big religious conflicts occurring between the worshipers of different gods within the same pantheon. Because you gotta have religious crusades, I guess.
I'm not telling anyone that this is BadWrongFun, but personally I am getting a bit tired of this approach. So instead, how about people worshiping the same pantheons - but interpreting the nature of the gods and the cosmos differently, as well as how to worship them based on their own philosophies and cultural and theological lenses?
As a student of German history and folklore, I can point to the Thirty Years' War - which was one of the longest and most vicious wars in the history of the country, and was triggered in part by religious differences of people worshiping the same God.
Thus, if there is a religious conflict in my setting, I don't want it because people are saying: "You are worshiping the wrong Gods!", but because they are saying: "You are worshiping the Gods wrong!"
Any thoughts on how to interpret the same pantheons in different ways?
I mean, how do you deal with something like that? There were so many buildings of that type because cities in the 19th century were growing rapidly thanks to growing populations and industrialization, and European Colonialism exported this kind of building style to the rest of the world. This is no great mystery, and there is ample documentary evidence for this.
I wish I could believe that the adherents of this notion did so as a joke. But alas, here we are...
juergen_hubert @kbin.social I translate German folk tales.
I am also interested in tabletop role-playing games.
Mastodon: @juergen\_hubert