non-embedded

Effect: As long as a pursuer starts within Doug's AoE and contact is lost for at least three seconds they will forget his appearance and treat him and any allies as unrelated bystanders if seen again without doing something to cause a new pursuit, for as long as the song plays. The effect fades quickly but not necessarily immediately when it ends based on normal chances to resist mind control. Doug and any allies are also automatically affected if the situation changes to make them the pursuers (with the targets starting within his AoE) before the music stops.

So, probably time to open a tabletop gaming thread, even if most of us are doing this over Zoom these days. >.> Feel free to chip in with your own recent gaming, favorite story from the table, or if you're looking for a group online, maybe people here could arrange to get together for such things on Zoom/Skype/Discord/etc.

To start, new piece added to my gaming setup as of, oh, today. A dice jail. Made using scraps I had lying around. Hopefully this will kill the Wheaton Dice Curse that I'm occasionally afflicted with.

   

We're currently part of a first mission into Rise of Tiamat, which is the second part of Tyranny of Dragons. One DM, three players, we've killed a dragon and paraded it around as a trophy.

As It Happens: Why this Trump critic hosted a meeting about launching a new party for Republicans

A discussion with Evan McMullin, past chief policy director for the House Republican Conference.

Quote:AIH: Isn't this kind of backwards, I mean, sort of gathering everybody up to leave one person's influence in the party? Isn't it better to try and get that one person out? I mean, shouldn't Donald Trump be the one who's leaving, and not all of you?

EM: Well, certainly that would be our preference, right? But I don't think it's fair to say that he is alone. I mean, most of the party supports him. Most of the party wants to continue with him in its leadership. And so, you know, that's the challenge.

Quote:AIH: During the Trump years ... Republicans had control of the Senate. You had control of the White House. And now ... to split the party, isn't that basically a trip to the political wilderness?

EM: I would say that the status quo is worse than being in the political wilderness.

The Republican Party has now become a destructive force in America, and it is better that it be in the wilderness for a cycle or two or three than that it continue on this track.

The recent digression into gaming in the COVID-19 check-in thread has reminded me that I have a bookshelf-full of AD&D 1e modules, some of which are first printing, some of which even don't have penciled-in notes. My original intention was to leave them to Epsilon in my will... but that obviously isn't happening. Is there a market for these? If there is, what are they worth?

For that matter, is there any interest in them here? Maybe I can save the cost of an eBay listing and make a fellow forumite happy.

I'd have to go through the collection and catalog them all, but I know it includes the original Tomb of Horrors and the original Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, as well as a fair chunk of the UK series.

Previous thread is here, and I closed it out on some drama involving rabid Trump fanboy NormAtreides' brief success in playing one admin against a couple others.

I will just note again that I am not inclined to trust him nor give him much slack, given his shenanigans on the Trump page in the past.

At least, they are in Canada as of today, along with a dozen other white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups.

Quote:The federal government will now classify the Proud Boys (a neo-fascist organization with chapters in Canada and the U.S.), the Atomwaffen Division, AWD (a group that calls for acts of violence against racial, religious and ethnic groups), and the Base (another neo-Nazi organization that advocates for violence to incite a race war), as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code.

The government considers these three groups, along with another new addition, the Russian Imperial Movement (a Russian paramilitary group with ties to neo-Nazi groups worldwide), as "ideologically motivated violent extremists."

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) defines the term as extremism driven by a range of grievances and ideas from across the traditional ideological spectrum.

It is not necessarily a crime to be a member of these groups, but designating an organization as a terrorist entity can have serious criminal and financial consequences.

Banks can now freeze assets and police can charge anyone who financially or materially supports such a group.

They say orange does - but that's silly, they don't even sound a bit alike

Door hinge rhymes with orange, but what rhymes with nothing?

After all, it was booked and paid for months ago.

No word yet from the court, but I'm betting it's gonna be a big "no".

Speaking of coups d'état....

It must feel like old times for Aung San Suu Kyi, and not in any good way, being locked up by Myanmar's military "government" again.

And it was about alleged voter fraud.  The Dotard is looking on in envy.

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A strong blade, well-honed;
Where are the things it shall cut?
Why, where are they not?