Natalie P (is not a vampire) 🦇

We would not have Andor without the WEG Imperial Source Book, it's true.

Before the advent of wikis, licensed IP rpgs definitely sat up there with visual guides and DK "book of" / encyclopaedias as supplemental lore purchases for fans of that IP, for sure.

(yes, there ARE people playing it, but I see far, far more chatter about dozens of other games and have barely seen anyone talk about Cosmere AT ALL outside of aforementioned Sanderson fans)

It's just a personal, anecdotal observation but the "popularity" of Cosmere seems to almost entirely driven by non-roleplaying Sanderson book fans buying it in droves, just because it's Cosmere?

I've not seen a roleplaying community upswell about it, at all.

I could be blind, but?

My cat Albert sat right up against a PS5 controller

Mum says you’ve got to let me have a go

Can not stress enough how different a UK cellar and US suburban basement are. Simple terminology just doesn't cut it.

It's a bit like saying a golf cart and a formula one racing car are the same thing.

It's why the UK "well WE never played in the cellar, pshaw, pshaw" is always nonsense.

Bagged up just shy of 100 DvDs for charity shop donation, barely looks like I've even touched the set of shelves they're on.

There's so many.

Genuinely picturing you making hover legs out of air conditioning.

Guy Fieri 'Has A Ball' Trying Out Traditional Scandinavian Dishes | Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives YouTube video by Food Network UK

He conquered Norway *as a child* they say.

Nowhere is safe.

Since the dawn of thyme, the United Kingdom has stood against the ravages of Flavour and received naught but scorn and derision.

Now, with the barbarians at the gates, with their spikéd hair and their shirts aflame, you understand the cost of this war.

The laptop cats of today, gathered around their old grandparent cat, enthralled by stories of The Big Warm Flashing Box, where they could lay by Their Human as they made the tapping noises, but would never be shooed off.

Slight aside, but I thought it might make you all smile that one of the oldest theme parks in the world, on the shores of Lake Erie, has long accepted the undeniable truth that the seagulls are just going to steal your chips, no matter what, and so sells cute merch about it.

In Flavour Town, "en garde!" is pronounced "au jus!"

I hate that will make sense to some people.

I wasn't trying to one up anyone, I was trying to warn you that Flavor Town knows no borders and Guy Fieri is already in your home, just out of sight.

It is, already, too late.

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.”

Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

There are fifty one seasons of Diners, Drive Ins & Dives.

Fifty one.

So far.

The Mummy was very odd for me. I saw it at the cinema with friends and I *hated* the experience.

Barely a year later I saw it at home, as one of my first DVDs that I bought as a job lot, and I fell in love with it, utterly.

I genuinely can't tell you why the experience was so different! 💜

It's been four years since last week.

Honestly now I'm just wondering what giving one's teeth a "hifty" entails.

I'd play Lamenters against it.

That way, I win even if I lose and get eaten, because peak Lamenters.

It is! But it's also extremely upsetting for tweens with their first flagship product Ultramarine squad having to face the true existential horror of a Tyranid invasion in a store competition.

Therefore, discouraged.

It's a spiritual successor to my 2e Frateris Militia army, so it will dominate by sheer weight of dice against anyone who hasn't managed to somehow bring a tank.

Legal, but asked to step out of competition, store and social, for being against the spirit of the campaigns.

(I'm at two!)

春が来るよ〜🌸

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon facing to the right with wide eyes

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on a bench

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on grass with one ear pinned back

Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon looking towards the sky

Thinking about low res pikachu.

If, however, you want the most modern version where history has moved on a bit, the shadow of the Emperor Wars is a bit more distant and there's not as much fervour and fear over the coming millennium shift, then the Universe Book for 4th is your best bet.

If you just want setting and you're interested in rules but not too fussed, the Second Edition Core Book.

Well, that also might be confusing. If they're published by Ulisses Spiel post 2020 then you're fine, that's the current edition.

It might get called 3rd edition some times, but really it's the 4th, because the 2010s FASA edition was just called "Revised"

Basically, you don't want FASA.

...a more modern ruleset if that's your thing.

But one that would still benefit from some (encouraged) house ruling to sand off the edges and make a few systems work smoother.

And I say it's more Dune crossed with Arthurian literature, Allen Quatermaine and the like, as EVERYONE sees it different.