Nathan Fhtagn

atokniiro:

An introspective journey of artistic self discovery, presented as a 6 page comic.

BUTTS.

galadriels:

"Your duty is with your people,’ he answered.
"Too often have I heard of duty," she cried. "But am I not of the house of Eorl, a shield-maiden and not a dry-nurse? I have waited on faltering feet long enough. Since they falter no longer, it seems, may I not now spend my life as I will?"
"Few may do that with honour," he answered. "But as for you, lady: did you not accept the charge to govern the people until their lord’s return. If you had not been chosen, then some marshal or captain would have been set in the same place, and he could not ride away from his charge, were he weary of it or no."
"Shall I always be chosen," she said bitterly. "Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return?”

PARTS OF THE BOOK THAT WEREN’T IN THE MOVIE

Thanks to the legendary Ray Bradbury for inspiring this comic.

learning2swim:

Why is this the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

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nevver:

Penny Byrne

mostlysignssomeportents:

Jon Stewart vs White Santa

How have you been sharpening your pencils? Regardless of your answer, rest assured that you’re doing it wrong.

Lest there be any doubt that I’m geographically situated smack dab in the middle of former cartoonist’s David Rees’ target demographic, I almost didn’t click on the link to the pitch perfect send up above because I believed it was real.

Here in non-Caribbean, non-Southeast-Asian, non-Russian, non-Mexican Brooklyn—think Girls, the Jonathans Ames and Letham, brownstone-dwelling movie stars and the very latest in n’est plus ultra strollers—it’s entirely plausible that a humorless young artisan might take to the Internet to teach us regular schlubs How to Sharpen Pencils.

Just wait ’til he brings out his leather strop. (Misplaced yours? Look in your basement, or your grandfather’s tomb.)

Please note that though the video may be satirical, Rees makes actual money sharpening—and authenticating—customers’ Number Two pencils, using the same techniques demonstrated in the video. (Sorry, holiday shoppers, as per his website, he won’t be taking orders for his live pencil sharpening services until the New Year, but he does have a book out.)

Like you need any more excuse to whip out your knife, place it in your dominant hand, and start carving.

To quote a certain classic Broadway musical, you gotta have a gimmick.

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Space Ham Pillow

ハムピロー - SOS

A member of my home group is going to run a game, and I'm going to play. This is the e-mail I sent her. This is my baseline resources for running a game from scratch! If you are a new Dungeon Master, or know a new Dungeon Master, perhaps this might be of help to them.

Third edition rules, online searchable database
http://www.d20srd.org/

Random Dungeon Geomorph Generation
http://davesmapper.com/

Complete random environment design.
http://www.wizardawn.com/rpg/

One Page Dungeons
http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/One_Page_Dungeon

microdungeons
http://blog.microdungeons.com/

Dyson's Dodecahedron for pre-drawn maps!
http://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/

A list of collected random tables
http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-never-being-able-to-find-table-when.html

A list of non-random table resources
http://hackslashmaster.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-never-being-able-to-find-table-when_22.html

Wiki containing blog resources organized by topic
http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/LinksToWisdom/

And, the best resource for creativity in games on the web, The Dungeon Dozen
http://roll1d12.blogspot.com/


Some additional information for the blog readers! You can contribute a link to the Links to Wisdom, making it better. +Dyson Logos has a Patron campaign, as does +Tony Dowler (Patron)

with the exception of Abney Park/steampunk scene in general, the Book of Erotic Fantasy is the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever worked on, so i’m just grateful i was able to salvage one of my career’s greatest shames into something entertaining 

darklyeuphoric:

Trained cancer sniffing bees in beautifully crafted multi-chambered Portuguese labware? This is technology I can get excited about.

sexhaver:

rasputin:

Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees. The bees are placed in a glass chamber into which the patient exhales; the bees fly into a smaller secondary chamber if they detect cancer. 

Scientists have found that honey bees - Apis mellifera - have an extraordinary sense of smell that is more acute than that of a sniffer dog and can detect airborne molecules in the parts-per-trillion range. 

Bees can be trained to detect specific chemical odours, including the biomarkers associated with diseases such as tuberculosis, lung, skin and pancreatic cancer.

breathe into the ＢＥＥ ＯＲＢ to reveal your fate

10 points to anyone who tells this joke out load at parties.

““Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is “timing”
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.””

- Fulton J. Sheen

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lucypaw:

pissykitty:

Yup sure have!

Everyone in my life I met online, my wife, my b/f & my friends..

Pretty much everyone I’ve ever met off the internets.

Been living with one of those Internet People for about a decade.

i met heather on the internet and she’s wonderful!

I am currently in the room with two of them, in fact. One of whom has lived together with me for 8 years. So…

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madmothmiko:

Darren Bartley

It’s easy to get swept up in the pyrotechnics of music. As players and listeners, we can get lost in the super-quick notes and the craziest-bounciest-bows and the biggest most dramatic moments. But no matter how flashy a piece of music is, we all know the substance is what is underneath. We all know that the fundamentals are where our attention and our work belong, because none of the fancy stuff matters if the core isn’t good. In fact, all of that flash just masks flaws, like a pretty frosting spread on a mediocre cake. I want to make a fantastic cake that stands alone with or without frosting. I’m not sure I even like frosting…

Today was a back to basics day for me, a day of scales and octaves and tone and relaxation. I need more of these days.

I feel really bad for the backers of Mike Nystul's Axes & Anvils Kickstarter because they sure did get taken for a ride by a scam artist.  (Those links will take you to some tragic stuff.  Caveat emptor.  The saddest part is probably the people still defending a guy who took their money and blew it on something other than the thing they payed him to do, but Gamer Stockholm Syndrome is a real thing.)  

But hey, I'm here to help.  Okay, so that dwarf RPG seems to have gone tits-up, but there's nothing stopping you from running an all dwarf campaign using whatever fantasy RPG you've already got, a few dwarf-themed random tables, and a couple of appropriate house rules.  Take these and do what you will with them.  FOR MORADIN'S BEARD! (Or whatever, I fully admit I don't get the dwarf fixation.)

d10	First syllable	Second syllable	Third syllable
1	Drem	dra	din
2	Dun	duir	dune
3	Dward	kar	gor
4	Gald	lara	gune
5	Gar	lor	ia
6	Gord	man	ian
7	Mor	mar	iar
8	Murd	mur	kun
9	Thrak	rak	ran
10	Thrim	ral	run

d10	First Bit	Second Bit	Legend
1	A crown	Above a goblin skull	“A Hearth Ever Lit”
2	A dragon's head	Above smoking ruins	“Cleave or Be Cloven”
3	A flagon	Imposed over a keep	“Drink, then Death”
4	A hammer	Imposed over a massive gemstone	“Forge Forever”
5	A helm	Imposed over a mountain	“Honor Thy Ancestors”
6	A horn	Imposed over a series of hills	“Live Hearty, Live Free”
7	A mailed fist	On a blazing, fiery field	“Purge the Mountains”
8	A shield	On a field of metalwork	“The Hammer Sings”
9	An anvil	On a field of runes	“The Purest Metal”
10	An axe	On a field of stonework	“Under the Hill, Over All”

d10	Dwarf Type	Clan Industry
1	Accursed dwarf	Armorsmithing
2	Dark dwarf	Brewing
3	Deep dwarf	Carpentry
4	Degenerate dwarf	Forging
5	Fire dwarf	Fungus tending
6	Frost dwarf	Gem-cutting
7	Hill dwarf	Gunpowder and explosives
8	Iron dwarf	Mining
9	Mountain dwarf	Rune-etching
10	Night dwarf	Weaponsmithing

d10	Clan Beard Style	Clan Beer Style
1	Long, brass bells braided within	Bitter red ale
2	Long, decadently perfumed	Caramel altbier
3	Long, oiled into sculpted flourishes	Extra-strong brown ale
4	Long, precious gems braided within	Extra-thick stout
5	Long, precious metals braided within	Fruit-laden lambic
6	Long, unkempt, a symbol of wildness	Hoppy pale ale
7	Shaved clean as a sign of disgrace	Invigorating ice beer
8	Short, a sore point never to be brought up	Refreshing bock
9	Short, neatly trimmed with military precision	Syrupy lager
10	Wild and mangy, the bones of foes braided in	Tongue-loosening porter

d12	Clan Recreation	Sacred Clan Item
1	Arm-wrestling	Ancestral Armor
2	Boasting contests	Anvil of Mighty Creation
3	Competitive eating	Bloodied Battle Standard
4	Competitive head-butting	Deep-Earth Craft
5	Drinking contests	Hammer of Head Smiting
6	Goblin-skull bowling	Library of Heroic Deeds
7	Hammer-swinging	Runic Axe of the Bearded Champion
8	Kobold tossing	Scepter (made from the head on an orc king)
9	Rock throwing	Shield of the Dwarven Vanguard
10	Storytelling	Tankards of Endless Filling
11	Underdark relay races	Tun of Powerful Brewing
12	Wrestling	War Golem

d12	The Clan Needs to...
1	...compete against the giants in the ancient struggle for control of the mountain passes
2	...compete for gold and honor in this year's Inter-Clan Invitational Games
3	...devise a plan that will allow them to gain the treasure hoard of a sleeping dragon without waking it
4	...discover who among them is attempting to sell the clan's beer recipe to a rival dwarf clan
5	...either make peace with the neighboring elves or make war against them
6	...exterminate their degenerate cousins below who sully the honor of all proper dwarves
7	...figure out by which route the goblins are planning their next attack
8	...recover an ancestral weapon from the clutches of an orc chieftain
9	...retrieve an ancient heirloom from a lost fortress
10	...right the wrongs of the past to regain the clan's now-tarnished honor
11	...safeguard a newly-discovered mine and bring it under the auspices of the clan's stead
12	..sanctify a burial place of the clan's ancestors

House Rule #3: Characters gain double XP for defeating kobolds, goblinoids, orcs, giants, elves, and dragons.

ilaniel:

IS THAT A CAPYBARA

WORLD’S HAPPIEST CAPYBARA

adventuretimegrabyourdog:

coffeenuts:

Above (by Aurelie Curie)

Reminds me of Desmond’s levels in AC3 unf unf