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  #TuesdayGame What a night! We beat the final sub-boss and his cluster of hidden clerics, but it was a tough one! I died (again). But Pa had a magical hourglass that allowed him to sacrifice his life for me. Which was only right since he was the one who brought me back as an undead last time. He even said that! But then, because I got his HP, which were higher than mine before I died, I later survived a disintegrate spell, by the skin of my teeth. Now we're off to lick our wounds. #ttrpg...

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  #TuesdayGame We have no idea where to find the demigod we allowed to be loosed. Side quest time! We're off to sort out what's going on with the vampire invasion in Paducah. Technically, we have a horse in the race as one of the vamp leaders is the gf of one of the PCs. I'm not so sure about her and neither is he, so we'll see where that goes. Early indications are that the issue is a vampire conclave to decide the next 400ish year plan. #DnD #ttrpg

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  #JustFinished Blood Over Brighthaven by M.L.Wong I took two passes at this book. I DNFed it in the spring as it seemed like just another YA girl takes on the patriarchy, finds a more oppressed sidekick, they disrupt the status quo and fall in love book, which I am tired of. And it was, in the end. I did find a little bit that was interesting and different when I read it fully for book club. But it's a long way in before it breaks the mold at all. Good enough. #books #bookstodon #SFF #f...

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  @SJohnRoss Oh, there probably is, but I don't know it. Heroic romantasy, maybe? Though, technically, this one can't be a romance, because spoilers.

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  #JustFinished The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon Excellent pandemic/mystery/SciFi story connecting to the Gen Z zeitgeist of turning away from technology. And I wasn't even mad about the romance subplot this time! Just lovely writing. #sff #books #bookstodon #SciFi

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  #TuesdayGame Went to fight some vampire spawn to help out the gf. We went in cocky. Oops! They swarmed over us, and probably thought they had the fighter until I hit him with a 112 point heal on the way out the door. Maybe, though, just maybe, our wizard has learned he doesn't belong in melee. He's died before, though, so I could be wrong. For flavor, I slapped him with the revivify. "Get up!" Both of our arcane casters have simulacri of themselves now, which...

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  I have a tattoo that's in a comic book style that I would like turned into a line drawing. It's a relatively largish piece with a lot in it, but I don't think it'd be that technically difficult. I'm looking to #hire someone to do this for me as its beyond my meager capabilities and a different style from the kid's. Please reach out if you're interested in quoting cost. #art #noAi

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  But I don't wanna get up to make dinner! #cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon

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  #WednesdayGame We're working on clearing out all the encounter spots on the map in order to get all the magic items we might need for the fight with the Giant army. Feels like grinding to me, but it's what the group wants to do. Many of them are video game players, so it may be that they're just used to it, where I'm not. #Pathfinder #ttrpg

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  #TuesdayGame Slow week. We did a bunch of bastion stuff and then launched on the next phase of the campaign. My character's friend, Naftali, asked us to come to her city to help out with some disappearances. By "some," she meant 5-10 a night! And no bodies. After some research, we figured out it's an abomination. it doesn't look like a fun fight down the road... #DnD #ttrpg

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  #WednesdayGame: The magic users let the front line take the glory this week and stayed out of most of the fights. They had it well in hand, and there had been a few fights recently where we "softened them up" enough to kill them before those swinging weapons got close enough to do anything. We decided to share the fun. :) I have armor that's made of hill giant's nails. It has the property of either scaring or enraging giants within 30', depending on the...

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  #JustFinished Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Popcorn reading. Very enjoyable running around and screaming interspersed with moments of intelligent planning! So what if there was a contradiction in the basis? Will read the next. #sff #books #bookstodon #SciFi #TimeTravel

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  #TuesdayGame So, we found the aberrations from last week... turns out they were much larger than we thought, but we killed them right dead pretty quickly! Then we managed to track down the lair momma and the baby we killed were hanging out in, and splatted all the eggs and rescued the people who were being stored for food. Yay! Then we kicked around ideas for what to do next. We're going to try to un-undead me. The GM told us we're missing something for the solution. Wah! 😞 #D...

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  #WednesdayGame More grinding, but we found a map of the giant's ancient temples and figured our that we missed one. We've found artifacts at the other three so far, so we're definitely heading there! Other than that, we're basically just rolling over the competition, which has its fun. But it was more fun that we had to do some thinking tonight, at least for me. Ja must have had like 10 or more crits tonight, though. Damn! #pathfinder #TTRPG

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  #JustFinished Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher lf you haven't had the absolute pleasure of reading Kingfisher's fairy tales, start now. She does such a lovely job of turning the stories on their heads while keeping the otherworldliness. Highly recommended. #books #bookstodon #fantasy #fairytale

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  #TuesdayGame We mostly farted around, prepping to go north to look for a wizard's tower we hear is hidden up there. Could be it belongs to the guy who kidnapped our minions and is still running around. Did some bastion turns; did some interior decorating; adopted another recurring NPC. This one is an old lady with dementia who thinks one of the PCs is her son. Makes for fun role-playing though, since he leans into it! #ttrpg #DnD

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  #WednesdayGame Another kind of quiet night. We've moved on to the and of the module and still have no idea what we're supposed to do to beat this thing. We have all the maguffins we're supposed to have and unless the goal was just to keep them out of the giants' hands, we're stumped. We did come up with two possible plans to get where we had to be within the encampment though! at least our brains worked a little... #Pathfinder #ttrpg

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  #JustFinished The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence What an enjoyable story with depth and actual twists and well-placed hints. Two fully-realized, independent youths find each other exploring the Library. From there Lawrence surprised me with the direction of it and obvious care in the crafting of this story. He throws in some cute, cheeky references outside of the story without ruining it. Very well done! #books #bookstodon #fantasy

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  #JustFinished Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky Not his best, but well-done. I tend to prefer his SF works. I didn't feel this started all that well, but it grew on me. It read like a group of adventurers trying to figure out what the GM was throwing at them. Fun and interesting by the end, with good character growth. #books #bookstodon #fantasy #ttrpg