Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

And the winner of my hand-wringing about which TTRPG to run is ... Savage Worlds!

What won me over:

* You get to use the polyhedral dice plus, for good measure, a deck of playing cards.
* It seems to have the right intermediate level of crunch, between the extremes of "creating writing workshop" and "tax accounting". I generated a character and ran a short combat, and my eyes didn't roll out of my head.
* The character record sheet fits on one side of one sheet of paper and includes both words AND numbers.
* It uses skills rather than classes.
* The rulebook is reasonably concise, clear, and well-illustrated.
* A character has just a few wounds, not scores of hit points.
* Exploding ("acing") dice will produce occasional epic results.
* People report that combat is faster and more interesting than, e.g., Pathfinder.
* It seems to have an active community and publisher support.
* The Last Parsec setting looks like it will work. Many reviews call it an homage to Star Frontiers. Pre-written adventures exist.

#ttrpg #SavageWorlds

Who wore it best?

@pieist I always wonder what weird stereotypes other countries have about Americans.

BREAKING: My 9 y/o nieces have enough stuff stored under their bunk bed that they're not worried about monsters -- there's no room.

A traditional Christmas, just like Krampa used to do.

I can't believe she's not sharing. #Violet #DogsOfMastodon

If you're looking for an explodey movie to watch (say, to distract your dog from New Year's fireworks), Harlock: Space Pirate has pretty animation and COMMITS to the trope.

✅ Lasers
✅ Giant skull on front of ship
✅ Lots of black leather
✅ Swords
✅ Aliens
✅ Characters constantly switching sides
✅ Weird shoulder bird
✅ Boarding actions
✅ Male gaze
✅ Terrible one-liners
✅ Eyepatch
✅ What if Space Battleship Yamato but Battlefleet Gothic?