Winchell Chung @nyrath@qoto.org

The Midsummer Lands Combined

It is done (for now) – all six of the Midsummer Lands hexmaps are done and released, and now combined!

High resolution version (22,800 x 31,800 pixels) is available at the blog -

https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/07/01/the-midsummer-lands-combined/

It started out buying test prints of merch so I could be sure it was up to spec... then you start decorating with your own merch...

My life is getting more and more "pale brown with chance of dungeons".

"My Cosmic Ray Detector function, just 7 lines."

submitted by TripplerX
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vj656b/my_cosmic_ray_detector_function_just_7_lines/

Session 3 of my #FateCore space campaign.

Our heroes fought off a tentacled abomination from the deep and rescued a neurally-enslaved platoon of battlesuited mermaids. Back on the surface of the ice planet, the mermechs attempted to hide by burrowing angel-style into the snow, but they were spotted by the rescue helicopter. This footage fell into the hands of a powerful member of the Charybdis crime family, who sounds exactly like Werner Herzog and made our disgraced scientist an offer he couldn't refuse. After a long night of adventuring, the party has five minutes to get to the starting line for the next leg of the rally race.

Some lines:

"Did the octopus just ingest a whole shipping container of xanax?"

"We could always bankrob at the end of the race."

"Killing people is just, like, rescheduling their deaths."

#ttrpg

These are a random assortment of the kids I could find pics of on my phone. The first one, though, is the one who’s gonna be coming to work with me for the summer whether you fund me or not. But if you fund me, that’s a way to reduce the punishment our society inflicts on teachers.

Help me run a tiny summer camp!
https://www.patreon.com/PunkPedagogy

I teach at an alt school in a 2/3 minority, very poor community. Well-heeled families also send use their kids because we’re an amazing school.

Every June, a couple parents approach me to do summer things with their kids. They’re always great kids, but they’re also the families who can afford to pay a teacher out of pocket.

This year, I’m taking one kid under my wing paid for by his dad, and another whose parents can’t.

While that one cures, I added the trench run and got capacitive touch working in the studs.

Very happy about this.

Here’s the bare circuit

I guess I’m just going to work my way through then.

New ink healing up nicely.

Searching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions. (arXiv:2206.00030v1 [astro-ph.EP]) http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00030

Man. Really good play test of Eyes Wide to the Stars tonight. The fiction was OK — it was characters meeting each other for the first time. But most importantly we started to canonize the core themes of the game:
Consent, compassion, connection; and their antagonistic counterparts of coercion, detachment, and abandonment.

I’ve started seeing how to design Actions parallel to Bronze, where the title is what the character’s doing and the consequences are what the players are doing.

Ready to draw a starship but don't have an inspiration? Have a crack at the Stella Sciuri, the PC's ship in my #FateCore campaign. It's made from two surplus submarines (from the water planet Ceto) with a structure connecting them, something like a catamaran. It can transform among several different modes:

For underwater travel, the subs travel side-by-side in the usual orientation.

For drifting in space, the subs rotate so their conning towers are pointing toward each other. The entire craft then spins, generating "gravity" that points "down" within the subs. (We are waving our hands furiously about the nauseating Coriolis force that would result from this.)

For accelerating in space or landing, the subs again have their conning towers "up" and the fusion engine (in the central structure) thrusts upward (exhaust downward), so "down" is correct inside the subs.

For launching, the fusion engine rotates to fire forward (exhaust abaft). In this configuration only, "down" is toward the aft of the subs.

#MastoArt #prompts #art #starships #scifi #submarines @nyrath

A successful Session 1 of my #FateCore space campaign. The party has become involved in a 10,000 km ice rally (think Dakar) to win money to buy fuel.

Other fun tidbits:

They arrived on this planet with a cargo hold of alcohol to sell ... but it turns out it's illegal on this planet.

The uplifted capybara enginer has been convinced to take part in the race with the promise of installing a hot tub on the ship.

Another race team comprises the son of one character and the nephew of another. They were embarrassingly confronted at the pre-race brunch by their older relatives (who don't yet know what these young mean are *really* up to).

Multiple organized crime families.

"Are we space drug dealers?"

As a cliffhanger, an attack by ice ostriches.

#ttrpg

This is the best sentence I have read in a good while:

"Their proposal seems to be that the Great Filter is that Capitalism is a death cult: either you reach for the stars and explode, or you get a little cottage in the country and don't bother disassembling Jupiter."

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/05/today-in-fermi-paradoxes/

One thing I love about my life is that, when I say something like “A person made of stained glass”, I then have to draw it to show people.

That’s my job.

This character is a so-far mute, psychic alien from our ongoing playstorm of Eyes Wide to the Stars who needed help escaping from the mine bosses that found their spacecraft(?) buried in millions of years of strata of soil. A miner and a medic wound up escaping with them.

*on the xenophilia Discord of my Patreonfolx: https://Patreon.com/Joshua

One of the player characters in my #FateCore game now has the aspect "space Karen", after she delayed some attacking law enforcement ships by demanding to speak to their supervisor. #ttrpg

If I can convince myself to stop writing space adventures and drawing spaceships and spaceguns and space robots and space aliens this game is gonna be awesome.