Dnd ish game, Esoteric Ebb

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJaJEUkh_b4

Looks great. Ok, it is a talker… super talker. 

Styled after this 2019 game apparently https://www.wired.com/story/disco-elysium-the-final-cut/

Quote

 you need similarly obsessed writers. Revachol, the city you’re in, has 1 million words per square kilometer. The game remembers that ludicrous thing you said about art and that mishap you had with that gardener. Your mind—through the talking skills—will later prompt you to become an art critic. And that gardener will eviscerate you for your comments.”

Dark Sun creator writer - Troy Denning

 Writes novels too. 

And star wars novels. And Halo. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3vIoOCh-v4

Space atmosphere trivia; living things size trivia game

•  Most meteors burn up in the mesosphere... about 48 tons every day. 
• Temps in the thermosphere can get up to 4500 F but molecules are very far apart, such that a person wouldn't feel the heat (from the "air").
• Sprites (atmosphere ... Pecos Hank type) can be 50 km long, while normal lightning is around 4 km in length. 
• Bar-tailed Godwit is a bird.
• There is more than one type of Griffin vulture. 

Via

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

This is awesome too: https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

• Polio facts are scary... read up on: 
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio
• 1948-1955 - Before a polio vaccine became available, several polio epidemics had occurred between 1948 and 1955. Many people avoided crowds and public gatherings, such as fairs, sports games and swimming pools, during this time due to concern about getting polio. Some parents wouldn't let their children play with new friends and regularly checked them for symptoms.
• Wow did this attitude affect how parents/grandparents of that time functioned and lived? Wild. 
• Had no idea about Myxobolus Shekel, the smallest known animal, a parasite. 
• We produce ~ 1 billion white blood cells a day
• Amoebas are weird
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• Why are water bears so ultra tough? 
•  House mice can fit in a hole the size of a DIME?!
• While the largest insect fossil was like 1' 4'' long or something, the giant centi/millipede thing, Arthropleura was 8.5 or maybe 9 feet long. Nine    Feet     Long. OMG, I knew about this thing, but realizing it is so much bigger than the giant dragonfly-cousin is crazy. The Carboniferous period for the oxygen win I guess (for both of these monsters). 
• Weird stalked eyes like a crustacean. https://www.sciencing.com/1761804/largest-prehistoric-arthropod-nightmare-fuel/
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• Kinda a real life Carrion Crawler. Yikes. 
• Speaking of the giant dragonfly cousin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura, back then hardly anything was flying. This is before dinos, etc. so like... only insects flew maybe?
• A scientist lady on yt said they think insects became strong flyers b/c of birds eating them. So this original giant dragonflycousin was probably more clumsy. 
• https://a-z-animals.com/animals/insects/the-10-largest-dragonflies-in-the-world/
• There is a jellyfish, Lion's Mane, that has a 7 foot diameter top bell thing. OMG. It's sort of taking up the space of a Mammoth, are you kidding me. 
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Portraits for D&D, some ai (puke) tweaking for speed

 If I get time, I might just color it myself. The ai, puke, ai stuff is killing me a little. 

FINAL I HOPE: 

#10, final i hope. 

Real from B/X books. 

Oh yeah... it combined the blackness of the cloak with the robes so now it looks wonky, like the robes are 6 feet wide at the chest height level. 

Manual edit in gimp... slightly better. But now I notice the glyph on the head looks wrong, cuz it looks like it is a metal band sitting right on top of his head. Better to be just drawing this by hand with a pencil and paper. 

OK headband kinda fixed, looks less like a metal headband at least. I filled in the glyphs on his robe's arm... meh. 

More to do (way more manual edits in Gimp): 

• need to straight line the cape or remove it. 
• add more glyphs on the robes, see orig. 
• I wonder if making all the glyphs more silver and less dull grey would be better. And do they need that outline? 
• check Raistlin glyphs  
• no outline
• thinner

#10, final I hope. OK, on DNDbeyond, you can't see the rune detail anyway so, glad I didnt' spend time on that. Made the robe more natural (thinner) under his armpit/that side, looks better. Defined the cloak darker, helped. Had to get rid of Swoosh lines, it didn't read correctly on the tiny portrait display on dndbeyond. Also had to make the white outline under his armpit to make it more defined.  Seems OK now. 

NEED TO DO:

• Now I think the top of the cape/cloak on the left needs a lighter shade to show light on the edge (see orig). 

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Earlier was thinking - Maybe I'll try another route.

The Dark Queen of Mortholome, game

 You are the final boss.  Souls style game, flipped on its head.  Cool idea.  

Yt is ai talker, but https://www.youtube.com/shorts/unEZ18Vcjj8

Indiana Jones origins from Secret of the Incas

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFwm4I5i60

Yep wow 

History of fossils and archeologists

 Way more drama and entertaining than youd think. 

The Bone War finally explained and why (one guy slighted the other for his mistake on elasmosaurus). 

Interest in dinos through 1920s, then died out by snobbery during depression and ww2. 

Deinonychus and that awesome art was by a paleontologist grad student, it changed everything around 1975, the Renaissance of dino fossil reaearch. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zh_TSTF9t0

Fossil middle of stone axehead or spearhead

 Handaxe on left. Right? Spearhead would be cool .  A shell fossil in middle  get pict  

Time 1:45 examples of 2:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V7jbRjZ0al8

Twisted Sifter - dnd story

 From Noone of Consequence. He found. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=555IBXHv6D8&pp=0gcJCdoKAYcqIYzv

Btw, random trinket and name generator https://www.thievesguild.cc/tables/trinkets-large

Tensor’s floating Disc - ideas

 Use for offense/trap. 

Door - 

Hide a “bomb” under it, knoxk on a door and watch the wnemy open a door, see the disc… will they hop on top? Cancel disc at right moment. 

Bomb= Could have snakes under it. 

Pit traps - Cover a pit trap and run across, drop disc when enemy on it. 

Zog Bogbean, names for dnd from music

 Zog Bogbean is the Marcy Playground singer guy's temp alternate band/ album. 

And that’s a perfect name in dnd. 

Also near perfect names are some of the small plant names around like 

• Giant ragweed
• Leavenworth’s Vetch
• Vetch
• Cleavers
• Fiddle dock
• Zog Bogbean

Dnd cartoons ep 10 and 11 official

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n1RshIJTqX0&ra=m

Time 16:40, love the midair turn around pose of the phantom stalker… great fight!

Time 17:00, great comedy... what a minute, did the The Princess Bride's funny slow priest guy's long winded marriage stuff come from this little D&D cartoon episode, am I remembering right? 

The Princess Bride's quote "Mawage. Mawage is what bwings us togethah today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam wifin a dream!

__________ and __________ have come here to make this tweasured agweement in front of their family and fwiends, pwomising their commitment in this holy and magnificent pwace, today and each day fowawd.

We would not be here today without wuv. Wuv, twoo wuv between these two. Twoo wuv will follow you forevah, so tweasure your wuv, __________ and __________, always. "

Creatures:

Ep.10 - The giant dragon looking thing with the venomous tooth is claimed to be a Dragon Turtle, by wikipedia. 

Phantom stalkers in ep 10. 

Bullywugs, with pronunciation at the end of ep 11. "Dear me! Bullywugs!"

Both episodes had me scratching my head even years ago… the DM said go north. Soon after, south. Well it was an imposter. But then, they went that way anyway. 

I love it when the phantom stalker was still trying to impersonate DM, and was speaking but he changed back and was in his scary PS voice. 

Good weeds for insects, pollinators

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nhxlGEltPGI&t=313s

The funny Backyard Ecologist dude with the eyebrows beard n hat.