Fair enough. Though everything gets extra salt in this household already, ironically because of that very med.

We've had one, yes, but what about second bikini?

Beaches are surprisingly nice places to read. Actually, I think I just like being near water.

I have an air fryer by proxy. Is that good enough?

I've got a Knave (OSR) hack I've been working on for a long time. Been through a few iterations and currently working on a rather crunchy magic + martial arts system for my setting.

I still haven't named my setting, probably should at some point. It originated out of being hyperliteral with the idea of planeswalking. You know, if you could literally walk to other worlds. Along the way it picked up a bunch of concepts I thought would be neat divergences from standard fantasy tropes. For instance, the world is monadic animistic. Which means that every object has a spirit and also every spirit is an object with neither the physical or the spiritual description being more true (they're one and the same.)

There was an article that I can't find at the moment, that talked about monsters that changed the way I approach them.

The idea is, monsters are a symptom. There's something else that's wrong. You might need to kill them but that won't solve the problem and eventually a new monster will appear.

So the way I approach things is by thinking about what's wrong and how that might manifest. Often the same "monster" works in multiple cases and the underlying cause makes each instance feel different because it acts differently based on the cause.

When you have the total package, any choice is a good one. Though with hips like yours, maybe it has to be ass?

Luckily 3D piranhas are a lake thing and not an ocean thing. Also crocs are surprisingly a lake thing too. Really, just stay out of the depths and watch out for sharks and you'll be fine.

A really cheap way to do mechs might be to steal the Synthesist Summoner as a gestalt class. Otherwise, Lancer is sort of the go to for mechs which shouldn't be too hard to just bolt on the mech parts.

I'm not familiar with Witchburner, what's that about?

The flight was my favorite thing about it. Just flying around felt really good. Nothing else of note about it though, lol.

Isn't it like required for people who live by the ocean to wear a bikini 24/7? Or have all the low budget horror films been lying to me?

I deleted the app and removed it from my browser home screen. I noticed I was still habitually clicking on the icon when I opened Firefox.

Cleanliness is godliness and you're definitely a goddess. With a cute piercing too! Any importance to the stone?

My understanding of their desire is to be able to hold onto rights related to their settings and characters (and by extension you hold onto your own settings and characters) while forcibly sharing (SA) mechanics and to do this in a single license.

This is a goal that CC (BY) (SA) can't solve simply due to the one license requirement. The intent was (though the execution failed) that you'd say ORC everything but and the result would be people could borrow the ORC mechanics and any improvements could be backported if it was good.

That said, I haven't been following ORC very hard as I have no real interest in it. My own work I'm perfectly happy with CC-BY-SA on everything.

I've never been very good at intrigue or really faction play in general. I tend towards a lot of environmental mystery if that makes sense? Maybe it's been too long, but I'd love to hear more about your intrigue plots!

That makes sense. An unwinnable war at the end of civilization is much more grimdark than having these big players moving and shaking things up.

Not for me personally, though I have wanted to do an end of the world tour as presented in Ryuutama as a black dragon campaign. The sort of thing where you can't change fate, but you can scrabble together to see the ruins of the past and see how people have cobbled together something resembling a life even as the crops fail, the air and water stagnates, and the light of the sun dims.

On the topic of JRPG rulesets, I will someday run Ryuutama...

What would you say you like about or are challenged by Fabula Ultima?

I think it's the subtlety across multiple factions that I struggle with. It's easy enough to do a monster of the week and be subtle about what and why it's there but the interrelations are a challenge.

That sounds a lot like Icons from a game that I can't remember the name of atm. The idea being to make faction leaders the definition of the faction. Maybe sometime I'll remember that advice, lol.

My current project is a bit like that. Less due to being busy and more just inspiration is a very slow drip.

There's nothing as frustrating as having time, sitting down, and realizing you have nothing. lol