Libre wolf instead of pure FF

 Built on FF with all telemetey turned off

Duckduckgo doesn’t use Chrimium

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=np7raX-10G8&t=1034s

GloomRaider - a small TTRPG (free stuff), like Shadowdark

GloomRaider... guy says "Gloomraider is an RPG based on Shadowdark, but with many changes or adjustments taken from or inspired by the 1970s and 80s editions of D&D. In this video I .."

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwn-bE69QA0&t=1048s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhy5HbZ8qHA&t=1060s

It is interesting, and I'll say very cool for gamer folks to make their own thing to such a degree it's an official release. Wish I had the time and umph to make one. 

Well, here is a lot of it for free or pay what you will:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/513378/gloomraider-osr-rpg-quick-start-basic-rules 

Free module, basic on purpose: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/515076/gloom-beneath-the-sorcerer-s-tower-osr-adventure-for-gloomraider-rpg?src=also_purchased 

• I need to go review it, once they make me wait long enough ... reading this free module, it sounds really solid (if simple). 

Personally, if it has ascending AC, I wouldn't mind giving it a try. I like what he says here:

Thanks! In short I'd say GloomRaider is like Shadowdark for AD&D instead of 5e. The primary difference is the way various mechanics are handled. I go more with old school D&D mechanics as opposed to 5e mechanics. If you are familiar with all the editions of D&D, you'll see bits and pieces of many of them in GloomRaider, like: - Ability score modifiers are the traditional bell curve -3/+3 (Basic D&D editions) - Modifier improvements are more tied to leveling than increasing ability scores (Pre-WotC D&D) - Racial ability score adjustments (AD&D) - Racial traits (AD&D) - Spells (AD&D & Basic D&D) - Casting spells includes "Vancian" style - Monsters (AD&D) - Class traits more in-line with AD&D Things from Shadowdark that I handle differently: - Advantage/Disadvantage is adding or subtracting 1d4 - Class traits are a bit different, but generated similarly to Shadowdark - Incorporates "roll-to-cast" spells differently - Gear slots is very similar but has slight differences The one-hour real time light is unchanged from Shadowdark. In general GloomRaider is more like AD&D and Basic D&D than 5e and Shadowdark, but is easily adapted into Shadowdark as houserules.

Official description partly says this, which I like:

You have been blessed with certain gifts above the average folk in the world that you have chosen to put to use to either defend the world from those denizens of the dark or simply to raid into the gloom to return with riches and glory. You are known to the common folk as a gloom raider! A hero to some, a menace to others.

The idea behind GloomRaider is to take place in a "world of megadungeons". To do that, take any medieval fantasy/D&D setting (published or homebrew) and advance it 2,000 years after a post-Medieval apocalyptic event where gods, angels, titans, demons, devils, and dragons warred for control of the world. The common peoples living on the surface went underground for protection, carving out vast labyrinths in which they lived for a thousand years before being forced to escape back to the surface. And for another thousand years they've been remaking their civilizations in the sunlit world. Those old underground homes are now the "megadungeons" of the Gloom, as numerous under the lands as cities and towns are on the surface.

Gloomraider is an alt-D&D RPG that came out of work I had been doing to create my own OSR RPG since 2009 after running the Castles & Crusades RPG for a couple years. It is a mix of AD&D, B/X D&D, with some 3e D&D elements and heavily influenced by the Shadowdark RPG, plus some of my own additions.

And he said all money (from the small pay what you will thingie) will go to paying for custom art to put in the main books. Cool.  

Analysis of Alice in Wonderland characters

 https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/character/the-mad-hatter/

Giant statues kiinda kneeling but looking up, Ben Hur movie

 In the 1959 Ben Hur movie at the start of the big chariot battle, time 2:43:00 on Tubi. 

These statues are weird… remind me of the gnoll boss miniature. Slightly oft proportions, some gands too big n blocky. Stylized tho. Squatting kneeling grimacing, looking upwards clutching their weapons and shields. One guy has an axe and helmet. Another guy, holds his tiny shield like a discus, and he has what looks like a flute... see the bearded statue guy below.

via https://www.peplumtv.com/

See his axe. Note the golden dolphin fish they flipped to keep track of race laps. 

The poster even has one of the statues. 

And this freaky tree thing... it's like 4 tortured trees merged into one. Or maybe it was one gigantic tree at one time but the middle rotted away, it's hard to tell. Time 3:39 at at other times:

Trivia about the race course (circus), from wikiped: Other elements of the circus were also historically accurate. Imperial Roman racecourses featured a raised 10-foot (3.0 m) high spina (the center section), metae (columnar goalposts at each end of the spina), dolphin-shaped lap counters, and carceres (the columned building in the rear which housed the cells where horses waited prior to the race).^[133][135] The four statues atop the spina were 30 feet (9.1 m) high.

Blogs to see: https://www.peplumtv.com/ has a ton of old sword and sandal stuff, pretty cool stuff I've never seen before. Like:

Scenes from QUO VADIS (1951)

Sheids from THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY (1927)

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. 
• 
  

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. 

priest doing exorcism

 Note 2 versions of priest doing exorcism. What is spraying out of the cross/crucifix, is that blood? 

https://fineartamerica.com/art/paintings/exorcism

Inspiring Views of Canadian mountains

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNPcXX6ygA&t=5608s

Time 1:33:28 might be my favorite. Mystical, haunting, and beautiful. 

Our campaign idea- dragonborn wildshape

 As a druid, he knew the druid powers only allowed for animals… not magical creatures. But being dragonborn, couldn’t help but think… maybe, just maybe. 

And inf G3, when going against the 2 red dragons… the Acorn Amulet might activate to help him make the change to a dragon himself. 

D&D Triceratops custom stats

To make it compete with the Giant Croc, can hit twice every round

+9 for 4d8+6 gore

+9 for 3d8+5 stomp

Golden stamp book, dinos etc

 Getting picts. Apparently it was released in different books from the 1950s through the 1970s maybe even 1980s. 

Jackpot https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/animals-of-the-past-as-painted-by-matthew-kalmenoff/

Related: https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/sinclair-and-the-exciting-world-of-dinosaurs/

This has the 1975 extra page: on ebay.  

Others below might be ok (a lot of overlap, but one or two unique I think since there were various versions of these books and stamp books):

•  https://paper-alcove.myshopify.com/products/golden-stamp-book-of-animals-of-the-past-complete-1969-vintage-dinosaurs
• https://www.lastdodo.com/en/items/11110763-the-golden-stamp-book-of-animals-of-the-past
• https://www.ebay.com/itm/365625285918

Not same book, but cool: https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/matthew-kalmenoff-painted-dinosaur-postcards/

1975 version. Mine had this extra stuff I seem to recall (the picts/stamps for sure).

From another book. Same artist maybe. See https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/sinclair-and-the-exciting-world-of-dinosaurs/

1950s verison, eh? See the 29 cents thing? 

Croc relatives , one had shoulder horns?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetosaur

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98wra_4AhCg&t=319s

via https://dino-world.com/desmatosuchus-the-armored-archosaur-that-ruled-triassic-texas-4-12135/

from https://www.deviantart.com/kingofallkongs/art/Desmatosuchus-1964-1175001786

Dino lectures

T. Rex and Albertasaurus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2q8yFXLbHs&t=2671s , see time 44:20 to hear about how he doesn’t think Nanotyrannus is real… that was 5 years ago, becuase a month ago here is agreement all over that Nanotyrannus is real. 

Tate part 2 - (Cretaceous dinos) - (nobody has part 1)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-ngnGT0ls

Ceratops…Beginning icon thing, all the heads 

Get photo time 23;28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXC21ux4Yk&t=764s

This one is neat, time 3:13 shows how they got 100 new dinos described in recent times, opposed to the original 20 dino species.  Wow. Utah. 

Utah has the most complete dinosaur record located in any one area in the world.

Tate Geologic Museum’s spring lecture 2021 Cretaceous Dinosaurs part 3- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thhb6Jy-Acw&t=193s

-=-=-=-=-=-=-= extras! Charts and art

https://paleontologyworld.com/dinosaurs-%E2%80%93-species-encycolpedia/compsognathus

AWESOME Same as dino vid part 2 - https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/preserve-cret-dino-salt-deposits/

The D&D cartoon items in D&D 5.5e 2024

 Energy Bow, we have it, love it, so versatile: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Energy-Bow

• Can restrain
• Can save your friends from a distance (treats like a teleport back to you, but we reskin to be it grabs you and brings you back quickly)

Hat of Many Spells, might be good: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Hat-of-Many-Spells

Shield of the Cavalier, nice: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Shield-of-the-Cavalier

• Has a super invul type sphere thing like in the cartoon
• Powerful bash attack

Quarterstaff of the Acrobat, quite nice: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Quarterstaff-of-the-Acrobat

• once per rest when you're hit with an attack while holding the quarterstaff, you can spend a reaction to gain a +5 armor class bonus against that attack.
• Adv on acrobats checks when 10 foot pole form, but can't use it to deflect or throw this way. 

Thunderous Greatclub - I love in the cartoon how he has to knock it on something, gently or hard, to activate, very cool: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Thunderous-Greatclub

• Can knock people down
• Destroys objects well (just like cartoon)

Sauropods yt lotsa details

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWu4MZeaGs&t=443s

Is from 6 yrs ago but says something like  the biggest skellie on display is in Chicago. 130ish ft long!

The crazy long spines on sauropod necks, etc.

The long spiney things on necks of dinos. Especially obvious on sauropods. What are they for exactly? Are they just related to tendons that start to form bones (happens in some humans ... like in legs somewhere I think).  

Talked about here: https://svpow.com/category/dicraeosaurids/

quote "The serial positions of the cervical ribs with prominent dorsal processes is telling — in every example that we know of, whether sauropod, theropod, or (shudder) ornithischian, the dorsal processes are best-developed in the middle of the neck. That suggests that the divergent muscles were pulling on the cervical ribs hard enough to leave separately-ossifying tendons only at mid-neck, at some distance from both the head and the trunk."

It seems these critters were doing some real work with their necks. Ceratopsians and theropods had big heads to hold up and maneuver. Apatosaurs didn’t have big heads, but they had big heavy necks — weirdly, apomorphically, expensively heavy necks — so whatever they were doing, it was probably something important.

Carnotaurus , not a sauropod, also has 'em. 

Stuff here: https://svpow.com/2016/05/03/tutorial-30-how-to-identify-morrison-sauropod-cervicals/wedel-2005-morrison-sauropod-cervicals-1-diplodocus/

UPDATE, this vid at time 30:13 has two sauropods, one with forked neck “ribs” and other without forking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-ngnGT0ls

Dino Skeletal Drawings, nice

 https://www.skeletaldrawing.com/sauropods-and-kin

I see how they started getting the HUGE necks on the more upright bigger sauropods. Compare those thick neck bones to those of a giraffe... 

Alamosaurus sanjuanensis From the skeeltaldrawing site. 

_by_izzycreates from deviant art.