Underdark minor monsters to include

 Shrieker mushrooms to attract things (dragon?). 

Mushrooms with tentacles… dnd cartoon style  

Other mushrooms? 

That napalm gelat cube? . 

New gelat cube idea, napalm cube

Tenkar talks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCTijqH3uE&ra=m

Comment by Garrickstangle5…

“ made and used (to great effect) a variation called the napalm cube or n-cube. Adventurers have a knee-jerk reaction of Oh, g-cube, use fire. Its 'juice' is partly acid but mostly lamp oil and it catches fire really easily. Two rounds after catching fire, the heat on its outside causes internal pressure which causes it to explode in gobs of burning sticky jelly, out to the same radius as a fireball (hence the name napalm cube). My adventurers don't ignore the clue of 'smells like acid and lamp oil' anymore.”

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The Toadies - new music

 

New album  2026  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUrADhEPIXc

The Charmer. Very good song. Lots good. 

And some fans say best album is Hell Below Stars Above. 

Great live version “i burn” maybe my fav somg od theirs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNtNQQt4WDw&t=1232s

Pathfinder, whoa, almost died!

 First the tank got clobbered by yhe giant with chains on two orcs, swung around, smash! 

Then the dern crawling hands that crit for 19 dmg, owwww! And srrangle, no castinf verbal!

UODATE- it gets better. The battles r getting interesting. Forgot swarms are completely immune to all regular attacks, only aoe spells hurt. 

I lije this bog swamp story area. Good descriptions. Has choices. Even has some choices requiring dice rolls. 

IDEAS

• Worg - the beast before you is unusual ly large , and its eyes, especially angry. Its menacing grin might almost be taken for a smirk. 
• Worg speaks - I see no reason to fued. We might help each other. (It grins, almost a smirk.). You don’t know the diff betw a wolf an a worg, strange for such a tasty morsel as yourself. - Bring me 3 bodies to eat and I will tell u where an old skninny tasteless old man  buried his chest. 

• Will o wisp - intelligent. V deadly. Immune to like most spells. 30 ac vs lowbies is harrd impossible. 

Sorcerer build - i guess yndead and become a lich?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_Kingmaker/comments/11knwft/what_to_know_and_what_to_optimize_in_a_lich/

Faery movie, damn good

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfBPZl7d_M&t=669s&pp=0gcJCb4LAYcqIYzv

Based on book

OSE modules

 Incandescent grottos - big boss dragon. 

Overland monster rolls ouch. Cyclops, displ beast, 6 legged lady centaurish clawed dangerous we fight. 

Crystal ppl monster origins

 Maybe Planescape https://www.completecompendium.com/catalog/ps/2635/tsnng/

Reminds me of Dark Souls and Elden Ring crystal mobs. 

Video game, Pathfinder Kingmaker… silly

I just made a list of things I can’t tolerate in an RPG. I get this game, and one silly ass thing after another. Hard to feel like D&D at all. 

 It has all of them, immediately. I hope it gets better.

Problems are

• Bard in my party
• Gnome in party
• All melee types are women. 
• Barbarian is a woman
• Paladin is woman
• Undead elf with chainshirt is woman, a fighter type with neg energy spells
• Super,chatty npc crap
• Bossy women npcs
• Gggaaaahhhhhh!!!!

Etc

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8 kinds of fun, the Angry Gm

 https://theangrygm.com/gaming-for-fun-part-1-eight-kinds-of-fun/

He eventually lists them. 

• I have comments on “the challenge seeker”. For example, a puzzle that takes too long is terrible. 
• Fellowship… can it extend to NPC joining, like the gnome in Sunless Citadel? Meepo? But why not the Titan in G3? Likes to be more powerful than npc, or just too much trouble or just too many characters?
• Discovery - i disagree. Discovery is fun. Moral dilemmas suck.
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The original  list https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf

- - geez, they made a mistake right off the bat. Listed Quake, the vid game, and listed Competition under it, but that’s not one of their 8 thingies.  …. I guess maybe their point is that th list of 8 isn’t exhaustive. 

2e Planescape, the writer(s) - Planar Slang

Excellent read on how to tiptoe add some planescape to a normal campaign https://theplanardm.com/introduction-to-planescape-4-4-adding-planescape-to-your-campaign/

Ah ha, Planar Slang, it is a thing. Derived from the colorful speech of 16th, 17th, and 18th century thieves, beggars, etc. https://theplanardm.com/planar-slang/

 This entry was fun, a first person account of https://www.completecompendium.com/catalog/ps/2635/sislan/

Vocabulary, Like,here https://www.completecompendium.com/catalog/ps/2635/suisseen/

He or she always uses funny little specific speech patterns and these words to refer to people. Some speech reminds me of the lost children in mad max 2 or 3.  It is like some who were lost amongst the planes and … became like yokels. Also reminds me of Farscape lingo and Firefly/ Serenity lingo.  I am enjoying it. 

Basher- does it always mean attacker? — that site above says A neutral reference to a person, usually a thug or fighter.

Sod - does it always mean attackee? Nope, sometimes just unlucky sods, in the British way. 

Screed - untruth or nonsense.

Graybeard - old folks of knowledge

Berk - maybe traveller between planes?

Wash - means malarkey 

Dead book - means u gonna die 

Chant - means knowledge or experience or something . See https://www.completecompendium.com/catalog/ps/2635/terithra/

Bark - maybe one who is about to die, see https://www.completecompendium.com/catalog/ps/2635/terithra/

They often use slang like “ain’t”

Quote

'Course, a berk who tries to strike the membrane in melee must get close to the suisseen - close enough to be within the creature's watery exterior. That 

suisseen - close enough to be within the creature's watery exterior. That means he's subjecting himself to an attack by the beast - fact is, the suisseen gets a chance to strike the sod even if it's already made its attack for that round

Example

often dragging him back to the Misty Shore for discipline - which means the dead-book for the bark.

Tree diversity usa

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vChrI9TP5o&t=339s

SE wins  time 5:39

And a sliver of florida has 330something species 

Gygax and Arneson - a Seventh Game was Created by Humanity

 I love this little piece, how it opens up  your mind. We are starting to see all the ramifications of D&D (every other video game created, movies, etc. etc.). What lies in the future? 

https://kotaku.com/fantasys-widow-the-fight-over-the-legacy-of-dungeons-1833127876 quote:

Stormberg, a former archaeologist with circular glasses, clean-cut blonde hair, and an excitable disposition, sees the 1973 birth of Dungeons & Dragons as nothing less than a major moment in human history. “For two millennia, no new games had ever been created,” he said. “Human beings had only created six types of tabletop games. Dice games, plot games, card games, board games, miniature games and pen and paper games like Hang Man.”

“A seventh game was created by humanity. A seventh game! That didn’t exist before! And it was created by two guys who lived in the United States in my lifetime! It’s just a game, right, but millennia have gone by without a new type of tabletop game being created. This is the event horizon. We’re right here on the event horizon. We can’t see it. We’re not far enough away from it to understand how it has changed the world.”

 

Gygax interview

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A1IsQY2D4&t=766s&pp=2AH-BZACAQ%3D%3D&ra=m

With the DungeonDelver. Great stuff. 

Tidbits

• Talked about old TSR as corporate took over shoulda been more employee owned but the new top dogs wouldn’t do it (greed). And the cheapening of the books instead of the indescribable schhol textbook style stuff that the ad&d 1e was made from. 
• He like a Harry Potter (first one?) best. Lotr Fellowship of the ring was his second fav (it had just come out and he loved it but Harry Potter he had seen rt before). Said ti was a bit too long and the flutes and chanting of the elves felt a little wonky. REALTED he had mentioned humbly that he didn’t read the 1e DmG book in a long time. Rather read from another guy… sort of like being your own cook. Other people’s cooking is more interesting. 
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