Unrelated to museums or Unsplash, @perplexingruins.bsky.social allows use (incl. commercial use) of a number of art assets here at the $2.50 tier on Patreon. That might be something to look at.

bsky.app/profile/perp...

Honestly, why not? You might as well.

Oh, I had almost forgotten about that. The month-long sermon series was common enough in the church of my undergraduate.

Actually, poking around, many art museums have work on Unsplash. That is very much combining my two main approaches to finding art for my game blog: classical art and work on platforms like Unsplash.

As a TTRPG-relevant example, the Walters Art Museum has posted Capri Albert Bierstadt's *The Blue Grotto*: unsplash.com/photos/GqIVW...

Find it here: unsplash.com/@thewalters

Nah, can't be. I have never once set up a board, only for a rook to slide directly upward into the sky.

That's not to say that I especially think any of these brutes are well-explained by a theory of mimetic desires. I have no opinion on that. I am strictly thinking about Girard's belief that hierarchy is a defence against mimetic rivalry overwhelming society.

Pallas's cats are lovely, yes. They are also not big cats, which is what I was talking about.

(Though I can understand an objection to the word "nightmare." I meant it more in a sense of dreamlike-but-scary, though I suppose that is not how everyone would take it.)

I like animals immensely and often want to spend time with animals. But big cats are terrifying. They are not friend-shaped; they are nightmare-shaped. Beautiful nightmares, to be clear. Awful and beautiful like wild gods. But not friend-shaped.

With the caveat that I haven't looked at the classes closely enough yet to be sure, I think I might be happy if the tactician rules clearly stated that you can take your 2 in Agility rather than Might. That would go a long way, at any rate.

Also, of course, MCDM will put out more DRAW STEEL materials, so maybe in a future book we'll get a jack-of-all-trades type hero.

All that said, I haven't looked closely at the shadow or null yet, so maybe there's a way to build a non-magical scoundrel/field researcher in DRAW STEEL and I just don't see it yet.

Again, this isn't a complaint anyone should take seriously. I'm just thinking out loud over lunch here.

(I don't think you should *have* to take that meta-fictional route to make a pretty common adventure hero trope, though!)

(Also, I'm really not sold that you could reflavour even the duelist as a non-magical troubadour -- at least, not without heavily relying on the admittedly-cool idea where the game represents the story being told after the fact, and not the events the story is based on.)