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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 1m

It's a parasite in one instance, where it adapted to living in sinus cavities, burrowing into the nerves and jangling the brain.

Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 3m

Brachyaderma Polyspermia. "Loreli's Fungus" not one plant but seven. It selectively poisons it's gametes to alter its genes, giving it the ability to "adapt" to where it grows. Copper usually kills it but if poisoned with it, it just randomly mutates itself so some of it may survive.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 19h

Had a while gaming group of adults earlier this year, and I casually dropped I have been running games since 19XX and all of them told me this was longer than they have been alive and I may have seen the grim reaper in the corner of my eye

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 19h

"yes it is AI drawn!"

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 1d

I do a lot of shipping internationally through work and nothing is more convoluted than getting a parcel to a USA address

Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. I have been calling it the "not my final form" rule and it makes combat extra spicy.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 1d

Next nap, get your knees higher than your hips

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Sushi @sushifur.live · 2d

is your child texting about KOBOLDS?

brb = bring rocks babe
idk = in dragons keep
yolo = yipping out loud often
lol = loving our lair
stfu = shiny things, forget u
dtf = digging tunnels fast
hmu = hoarding magical urns
btw = big tail wiggle
imo = interesting moss odour
tbh = tiny but hungry

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 1d

That is dope AF comrade

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 1d

I guess. Corona majeure has only had the three saints, and it was three soldiers who were quite tired of an indifferent god, so they quested to his mountain and demanded he exercise a little more divinity for his people. They came back changed.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 2d

IN the classic sense, all church folk will to some degree say they have been chosen by God. But Corona Majere Has only ever chosen three People, his Saints of Dawn, Midday and dusk. When so chosen, each had divine intuition and could perform 99 Miracles between them before burning out.

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 2d

I think there's a lot of efficacy in repeating that Donald Trump seems to be exhibiting profound dementia, and we should be told who is actually running the Executive Branch.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 2d

So he wakes. Gives the sorcerer a warning and grabbing his hammer. The sorcerer grows demon claws, pretty confident he can take an unarmoured dwarf in hand to hand combat. He couldn't.
And as the beatdown commenced, every other PC ran a betting pool, one player ran sports commentary.

Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 2d

The cleric, a dwarf with a steady and grumpy nature, has been holding the doodad, and drifts to sleep with the storm outside. Between the storm outside and being asleep, he's got -14 to the perception check to hear the sorcerer rooting around in his backpack in the night. And he succeeds.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 2d

The party camps in an old farmhouse, only the attic is safe and stable. The sorcerer, who previously expressed a lot of interest in the glowy doodad liberated from previous dungeon, delays going to bed with the others - opting to study while the players sleep.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 2d

Recharge devices - Phone and tablet.
Move game packet from physical folder to clipboard.
Read tag journal on train ride to game location.

Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 3d

The next one i write will be my favourite

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 3d

No ragrets.

Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 3d

SOCRO!!

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Quae F12 @quaefrei.bsky.social · 3d

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 4d

"English degrees are useless" says man who needs ai to write an email

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 3d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 3d

Counterpoint: not every bard needs to be a musician. (If trope persists, see your GM)

Counter counter point: classes are arbitrary, and "bard" is a just job title

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Spare Sidekick (They/Them) @sparesidekick.bsky.social · 3d

Streetfighter. Mage the Ascension. Aeon Trinity. Grimwild. Numenera. Fallout. (s)Mall Gods,

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