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🌟 #Fandival, le festival en ligne des fandoms des univers imaginaires organisé par Tolkiendil, La Garde de Nuit, La Gazette du Sorcier et La Pierre de Tear / Cosmère, c'est maintenant ! 🌟
Pendant ces 2 jours d'animations nous aurons encore pleins de cadeaux à vous faire gagner ! 🎁
Rejoignez-nous vite sur :
👉 https://www.twitch.tv/pierredetear ou
👉 https://fandival.fr ! -
CW: Wind and Truth out of context minor spoilers
I can’t believe Brandon Sanderson wrote critical race theory Dalinar in WaT. King Racist of Racistville says racism is fake, to the first therapist ever. And then does nothing about it. This is the goofiest shit ever, especially since people who have finished the book tell me he never acts on this ever again.
Let me be clear, I’m glad Brandon is aware that Stormlight’s racial constructs are fucked up, but I think this is goofy bc it’s a watsonian solution to a doylist problem.
#stormlight-archive #cosmere #wind-and-truth #wind-and-truth-spoilers -
Ich bin absolut geflashed von den #Sturmlichtchroniken von Brandon #Sanderson. Die Bücher sind richtige Brecher und nicht unbedingt das, was ich als einfach zugänglich beschreiben wollte.
Aber ansonsten ist es mMn wahrscheinlich unübertrieben die beste Fantasyreihe der letzten 20 Jahre.
Dazu kommt die unsägliche Praxis deutscher Verlage, die Bände zu spliten. Zum Glück sind die Bücher in allen Formaten in meiner Bib/#onleihe vorhanden.
Meine persönlichen Pluspunkte:
- komplett neue Welt, mit Flora, Fauna und daran angepasste Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (keine Standard Mittelalter-Fantasy)
- einzigartiges rätselhaftes Magiesystem, was nur scheibchenweise offenbart wird
- komplexe Charaktere und starke weibliche Hauptrollen
- Spannungsbogen (#Sanderlanche) in Perfektion#bücher #books #booktodon #Stormlight #StormlightArchives #Cosmere #Fantasy #WayOfKings
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Parece que he entrado en buen momento, justo para #IntegracionBooktodon #booktodon
Me gusta leer ciencia ficción, fantasía, y terror, tanto novela como manga, y busco comunidades por aquí
Algunos libros/sagas que me gustan mucho:
- #Cosmere
- #Fundación (y Asimov en general)
- #TheExpanse (me toca leer el cuarto libro)
- #Dune
- #LaTumbaSellada
- #Monster (solo he leído el primer tomo, tengo que seguirlo)Entre otros. Las recomendaciones siempre son bienvenidas, que quiero ampliar la biblioteca cuando pueda (especialmente de autoras, que la verdad en mi estantería ya hay demasiado señoro)
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Parece que he entrado en buen momento, justo para #IntegracionBooktodon #booktodon
Me gusta leer ciencia ficción, fantasía, y terror, tanto novela como manga, y busco comunidades por aquí
Algunos libros/sagas que me gustan mucho:
- #Cosmere
- #Fundación (y Asimov en general)
- #TheExpanse (me toca leer el cuarto libro)
- #Dune
- #LaTumbaSellada
- #Monster (solo he leído el primer tomo, tengo que seguirlo)Entre otros. Las recomendaciones siempre son bienvenidas, que quiero ampliar la biblioteca cuando pueda (especialmente de autoras, que la verdad en mi estantería ya hay demasiado señoro)
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Parece que he entrado en buen momento, justo para #IntegracionBooktodon #booktodon
Me gusta leer ciencia ficción, fantasía, y terror, tanto novela como manga, y busco comunidades por aquí
Algunos libros/sagas que me gustan mucho:
- #Cosmere
- #Fundación (y Asimov en general)
- #TheExpanse (me toca leer el cuarto libro)
- #Dune
- #LaTumbaSellada
- #Monster (solo he leído el primer tomo, tengo que seguirlo)Entre otros. Las recomendaciones siempre son bienvenidas, que quiero ampliar la biblioteca cuando pueda (especialmente de autoras, que la verdad en mi estantería ya hay demasiado señoro)
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📚 Dijous 04/09/25 hi ha Club de Lectura del llibre Brazales de Duelo de Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn en format steampunk de nou al club de lectura que navega pel Cosmere de Brandon Sanderson!
En aquesta edició tractarem el tercer llibre (sencer) de la 2a Era de Mistborn.
:tranarchy_punk_nonbinary: Sense inscripció i gratuït! Espai queerfriendly
VENIU PUNTUALS PER ASSEGURAR L'ACCÉS
#BrandonSanderson #BrazalesDeDuelo #ClubDeLectura #OciAutogestionat #SantAndreuDelPalomar #Barcelona
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Perdidos En El Éter #561 - Los Mundos De Brandon Sanderson
Eze reúne a los Caballeros de la Mesanderson, digo a grandes fans de Brian Sanderson (autor de sagas como Mistborn y Stormlight Archive, de su universo Cosmere, y otras como The Reckoners, Skyward, y Alcatraz) en una Mesa Nerdonda para contar como llegaron a su obra, que les gusta, y como recomiendan empezar. Con Vicka, Ian, y Fernanda. Además, MaGnUs dice estúpideces porque no leyó nada, y también tenemos un breve repaso a la carrera y libros de Sanderson.
(Imagen: Timothy Banks.)
Con música del elenco de Blind Guardian, Woodkid, y Stormlyte.
Escuchalo en tu plataforma de podcasts favorita.
Próximo programa: Star Wars Stories.
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#perdidoseneleter #BrandonSanderson #fantasia #novelas #libros #Cosmere #Mistborn #StormlightArchives #Stormlight #magia #escritores -
Bueno para mi toot número 1k haré algo que no he hecho no se porqué: una #introduccion
👋🏻 hola, soy Josué. Soy de Costa Rica, vivo en Panamá desde 2018 por mi trabajo de diseñador de interfaces.
Soy un multi-geek, eso quiere decir que me gustan muchas cosas sin llegar a obsesionarme con nada en particular. A veces es el #CafeDeEspecialidad, otras #Warhammer40k o recientemente el #Cosmere
Aquí comparto mucho sobre el apps, servicios y demás sobre el Fediverso y molesto a mis compatriotas 🇨🇷🤪🤙🏻
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Parece que he entrado en buen momento, justo para #IntegracionBooktodon #booktodon
Me gusta leer ciencia ficción, fantasía, y terror, tanto novela como manga, y busco comunidades por aquí
Algunos libros/sagas que me gustan mucho:
- #Cosmere
- #Fundación (y Asimov en general)
- #TheExpanse (me toca leer el cuarto libro)
- #Dune
- #LaTumbaSellada
- #Monster (solo he leído el primer tomo, tengo que seguirlo)Entre otros. Las recomendaciones siempre son bienvenidas, que quiero ampliar la biblioteca cuando pueda (especialmente de autoras, que la verdad en mi estantería ya hay demasiado señoro)
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple anarcho hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇). Newest obsession is #CrossStitch
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
None of us is free until all of us are free! #FreePalestine and free all antifas! ✊ :antifa: 🇵🇸
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple anarcho hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇). Newest obsession is #CrossStitch
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
None of us is free until all of us are free! #FreePalestine and free all antifas! ✊ :antifa: 🇵🇸
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple anarcho hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇). Newest obsession is #CrossStitch
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
None of us is free until all of us are free! #FreePalestine and free all antifas! ✊ :antifa: 🇵🇸
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple anarcho hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇). Newest obsession is #CrossStitch
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
None of us is free until all of us are free! #FreePalestine and free all antifas! ✊ :antifa: 🇵🇸
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple anarcho hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇). Newest obsession is #CrossStitch
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
None of us is free until all of us are free! #FreePalestine and free all antifas! ✊ :antifa: 🇵🇸
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇)
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇)
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇)
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇)
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
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Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇)
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
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Ok I have skimmed a handful of profiles and think I'm ready to make #introduction draft 1.
Hi hi, I'm ⭐️ris (pronounce the star)!
I'm a 30-something year old #nonmonogamous #nonbinary person living approximately in #Seattle, #Washington in the USA.
I like fixing things whether that's #repair of stuff like furniture or vehicles or my friends' kids' toys, or #mending or altering clothes. I'm generally a #crafty dabbler into #DIY stuff. I've done knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, needle felting, cardboard construction, painting, digital illustration, carpentry, motorcycle and small engine repair, van/car maintenance... oh, and I like computer stuff too, it takes very little prompting to get me to make #spreadsheets for any given situation, and I've done a bit of programming in C, Python, and VBA for Microsoft office macros.I used to be conversational in Deutsch and 日本語, na hata sasa naelewa #Kiswahili and lately I've been semi trying to learn Tiếng Việt
I like #boardgames , especially cooperative or puzzle games, and #TTRPG s (I don't have a class main, but I do tend to play faces). I like to play some video games too, mostly RPGS, #sims (including some NSFW ones) and The Sims.
I like the #Cosmere and I'm currently reading/enjoying #TheLockedTomb series and #TheUnwanteds I mostly watch #queer family-friendly cartoons like #StevenUniverse and #TOH #TheOwlHouse
Right now I'm trying to follow Nicodemus's advice* and follow a bunch of people and tags and see what's out there to figure out what I'm doing on this platform
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit?usp=drivesdk -
Gift guide for nerds like me
Maybe you know some people like me — nerds, happily embracing their hobbies that were once considered abnormal but are now mainstream enough they sell out arenas.
Most who read this blog are here for the dungeons and the dragons. Communal storytelling with dice and friends is what unites us. You probably already have the core elements of the games you love, but your family still wants to get you things over the holidays that stretch from late November to early January. Pass them this guide.
- Almost all links are direct to the supplier or to Bookshop.org. When you can, shop locally and/or directly.
Our hobbies and communities grow with support.
For the experienced roleplaying game fanatic
First off, expand their Appendix N. The Tolkien-esque stories that founded fantasy RPGs are well known. There’s so much more available now.
The Hunger and The Dusk volumes 1 and 2 (Bookshop links) tell tales of romance between orcs and humans fighting aliens in a world that’s dying. G Willow Wilson wrote other stories as well, many which fit a fantasy motif, but none apply directly to D&D like The Hunger and The Dusk.
Lev Grossman’s works like The Magicians and Bright Sword take familiar tales (Narnia & King Arthur) and twist them up. Also on my TBR pile are Children of Blood & Bone, The Fifth Season and Brigands & Breadknives.
Expand their 5e games outside of Wizards of the Coast. Your RPG nerd friends already buy themselves the official D&D products they want. But you can help them incorporate wider tales.
- Labyrinth Worldbook from Kobold Press as part of Tales of the Valiant a 5e system.
- Game Master’s Guide from Kobold Press is one of the best collections of advice and subsystems (so I’ve heard). I don’t have either of these yet.
- Worlds To-Go: The Elysians and Crafting Heritages, Cultures and More: Worldbuilding from Homebrew & Hacking both feature sections by me! These focus on A5e as the base rules, but work well in your D&D game, of course.
- Making Enemies from Keith Amman is his latest guide to better monsters for fantasy games. As usual Keith focuses on expanding stat blocks into tactics, but in Making Enemies he gets into how to build those stat blocks for several systems.
Try other games! Talk to your friend and see what they already have or where their interests lie. There are a lot of other popular RPGs out right now. While Daggerheart and Draw Steel are supported by some of my mutuals on Mastodon. The one that intrigues me the most is the forthcoming Plotweaver system. It is the engine behind the Cosmere RPG and supports political stories beyond what D&D does.
Twilight:2000‘s update is a fun read of the classic post-nuclear exchange apocalypse game that helped me consider the Army. Song of the River Prince is a more cozy fantasy. With light mechanics and tales quite different from the high fantasy of D&D.
You can always get your geek new dice (Artisan Dice are my dream) or support a mapmaker (Deven Rue or Dyson Logos are two I enjoy) in their name. Or order a custom map. Someday the World of the Everflow, Telse and The Ferments will get custom maps. My favorite dice box maker is Elderwood Academy. A gift card to Hero Forge works too.
There are other options, but those are some of my favorites.
For the newbie
While the Tales of the Valiant Starter Set is below $15, get it. Or, stick to the WotC products because your nibblings or friends’ kids don’t want the off brand stuff. I grew up with the Odyssey video game system and Gobots. I get it — sometimes finances mean support how you can.
But when the price isn’t significantly different get;
- Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club if they are into Stranger things.
- Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set for those that aren’t. Both of those are designed to welcome new people to D&D.
The battle boards from Beedle & Grim’s look great for a not-quite newbie or someone who consistently plays the same class. I’m currently running an Artificer, and Rogues are my second most played class.
And for those who want to be a newbie DM, Return to the Lazy Dungeon Master is the best collection of simple advice to focus on the players, their characters and empowering their story options.
Those shopping in the Renton area should support Shane’s Cards & Games, Wizard Keep Games and Mox Boarding House.
For flavor dorks
My preferred geeky coffee is Found Familiar. My current favorite is Fae Magic. My preferred geeky tea is Friday Afternoon Tea. It helps that they’re local-ish too. A friend recently tried Many Worlds Tavern. I’m looking forward to a flavor report.
For coffees in the South Sound area, I recommend Campfire, Bluebeard, and Boon Boona. I swing by Macadons and Common Ground for sweets.
Beer people should head to The Brewmaster’s Taproom. My go to wine shop is All Things Wine and when in Walla Walla I support Tempus (we’re in the club), Sleight of Hand (also in SoDo), Balboa and Echolands. If you ever tour the dub-dub send me a message. It’s a fun town for those that love flavor experiences.
For finer liquors I enjoyed a taste of The Dalmore recently and would love more. It was a rare scotch that my non-peaty-preferring wife would enjoy with its softer, luxurious mouth feel.
Straightaway cocktails are the best packaged cocktails for people who want smaller servings on hand.
For soccer fans in the Puget Sound
If your soccer friend doesn’t read Sounder at Heart they must. It’s another place I write. There’s a special on annual support right now at 20% off.
Reign tickets are cheaper than Sounders tickets and you’ll be supporting the best women in the world. For the Sounders fans that don’t have tickets get the two-pack. Avoid getting Men’s World Cup tickets at the current pricing unless your budget is quite a bit bigger than mine.
Not from the local area? 1996 Designs makes excellent large brick people of your favorite American soccer teams.
For being prepared without being a Prepper
Working around emergency and crisis managers is reminding me of a few ways to be prepared.
Have a plan when the emergency happens. Know your neighbors and the organizations that will help when disasters happen, because they will happen. A communications system that involves receiving alerts from multiple sources is vital — that should include a radio, as well as your local alerts system and free services on social media. Have backup power, even light solar for portable devices is helpful. You need at least three days of food and water, but if your budget of money and space allows a week or two that’s better.
SHARE AND HELP OTHERS as part of your plan.
- Portable Emergency Weather Alert Crank Radio – ER50
- 65W Power Bank w/ 15W Solar Panel by Grid Doctor
- Costco emergency food kits
- Support active NGOs with a history of success that empower locals — Team Rubicon and World Central Kitchen for example.
I also keep an Amazon list for my family that lives well away. People can also decide to support the website.
None of the above products or services pay me except Sounder at Heart, the website I founded and ran from 2008 to 2019 and rejoined in 2022, Factal (and those linked resources are free to the general public) and the two supplements mentioned in line paid me a one-time commission.
#coffee #dnd #flavor #giftGuide #giftIdeas #reign #renton #sounders #wine
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Gift guide for nerds like me
Maybe you know some people like me — nerds, happily embracing their hobbies that were once considered abnormal but are now mainstream enough they sell out arenas.
Most who read this blog are here for the dungeons and the dragons. Communal storytelling with dice and friends is what unites us. You probably already have the core elements of the games you love, but your family still wants to get you things over the holidays that stretch from late November to early January. Pass them this guide.
- Almost all links are direct to the supplier or to Bookshop.org. When you can, shop locally and/or directly.
Our hobbies and communities grow with support.
For the experienced roleplaying game fanatic
First off, expand their Appendix N. The Tolkien-esque stories that founded fantasy RPGs are well known. There’s so much more available now.
The Hunger and The Dusk volumes 1 and 2 (Bookshop links) tell tales of romance between orcs and humans fighting aliens in a world that’s dying. G Willow Wilson wrote other stories as well, many which fit a fantasy motif, but none apply directly to D&D like The Hunger and The Dusk.
Lev Grossman’s works like The Magicians and Bright Sword take familiar tales (Narnia & King Arthur) and twist them up. Also on my TBR pile are Children of Blood & Bone, The Fifth Season and Brigands & Breadknives.
Expand their 5e games outside of Wizards of the Coast. Your RPG nerd friends already buy themselves the official D&D products they want. But you can help them incorporate wider tales.
- Labyrinth Worldbook from Kobold Press as part of Tales of the Valiant a 5e system.
- Game Master’s Guide from Kobold Press is one of the best collections of advice and subsystems (so I’ve heard). I don’t have either of these yet.
- Worlds To-Go: The Elysians and Crafting Heritages, Cultures and More: Worldbuilding from Homebrew & Hacking both feature sections by me! These focus on A5e as the base rules, but work well in your D&D game, of course.
- Making Enemies from Keith Amman is his latest guide to better monsters for fantasy games. As usual Keith focuses on expanding stat blocks into tactics, but in Making Enemies he gets into how to build those stat blocks for several systems.
Try other games! Talk to your friend and see what they already have or where their interests lie. There are a lot of other popular RPGs out right now. While Daggerheart and Draw Steel are supported by some of my mutuals on Mastodon. The one that intrigues me the most is the forthcoming Plotweaver system. It is the engine behind the Cosmere RPG and supports political stories beyond what D&D does.
Twilight:2000‘s update is a fun read of the classic post-nuclear exchange apocalypse game that helped me consider the Army. Song of the River Prince is a more cozy fantasy. With light mechanics and tales quite different from the high fantasy of D&D.
You can always get your geek new dice (Artisan Dice are my dream) or support a mapmaker (Deven Rue or Dyson Logos are two I enjoy) in their name. Or order a custom map. Someday the World of the Everflow, Telse and The Ferments will get custom maps. My favorite dice box maker is Elderwood Academy. A gift card to Hero Forge works too.
There are other options, but those are some of my favorites.
For the newbie
While the Tales of the Valiant Starter Set is below $15, get it. Or, stick to the WotC products because your nibblings or friends’ kids don’t want the off brand stuff. I grew up with the Odyssey video game system and Gobots. I get it — sometimes finances mean support how you can.
But when the price isn’t significantly different get;
- Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club if they are into Stranger things.
- Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set for those that aren’t. Both of those are designed to welcome new people to D&D.
The battle boards from Beedle & Grim’s look great for a not-quite newbie or someone who consistently plays the same class. I’m currently running an Artificer, and Rogues are my second most played class.
And for those who want to be a newbie DM, Return to the Lazy Dungeon Master is the best collection of simple advice to focus on the players, their characters and empowering their story options.
Those shopping in the Renton area should support Shane’s Cards & Games, Wizard Keep Games and Mox Boarding House.
For flavor dorks
My preferred geeky coffee is Found Familiar. My current favorite is Fae Magic. My preferred geeky tea is Friday Afternoon Tea. It helps that they’re local-ish too. A friend recently tried Many Worlds Tavern. I’m looking forward to a flavor report.
For coffees in the South Sound area, I recommend Campfire, Bluebeard, and Boon Boona. I swing by Macadons and Common Ground for sweets.
Beer people should head to The Brewmaster’s Taproom. My go to wine shop is All Things Wine and when in Walla Walla I support Tempus (we’re in the club), Sleight of Hand (also in SoDo), Balboa and Echolands. If you ever tour the dub-dub send me a message. It’s a fun town for those that love flavor experiences.
For finer liquors I enjoyed a taste of The Dalmore recently and would love more. It was a rare scotch that my non-peaty-preferring wife would enjoy with its softer, luxurious mouth feel.
Straightaway cocktails are the best packaged cocktails for people who want smaller servings on hand.
For soccer fans in the Puget Sound
If your soccer friend doesn’t read Sounder at Heart they must. It’s another place I write. There’s a special on annual support right now at 20% off.
Reign tickets are cheaper than Sounders tickets and you’ll be supporting the best women in the world. For the Sounders fans that don’t have tickets get the two-pack. Avoid getting Men’s World Cup tickets at the current pricing unless your budget is quite a bit bigger than mine.
Not from the local area? 1996 Designs makes excellent large brick people of your favorite American soccer teams.
For being prepared without being a Prepper
Working around emergency and crisis managers is reminding me of a few ways to be prepared.
Have a plan when the emergency happens. Know your neighbors and the organizations that will help when disasters happen, because they will happen. A communications system that involves receiving alerts from multiple sources is vital — that should include a radio, as well as your local alerts system and free services on social media. Have backup power, even light solar for portable devices is helpful. You need at least three days of food and water, but if your budget of money and space allows a week or two that’s better.
SHARE AND HELP OTHERS as part of your plan.
- Portable Emergency Weather Alert Crank Radio – ER50
- 65W Power Bank w/ 15W Solar Panel by Grid Doctor
- Costco emergency food kits
- Support active NGOs with a history of success that empower locals — Team Rubicon and World Central Kitchen for example.
I also keep an Amazon list for my family that lives well away. People can also decide to support the website.
None of the above products or services pay me except Sounder at Heart, the website I founded and ran from 2008 to 2019 and rejoined in 2022, Factal (and those linked resources are free to the general public) and the two supplements mentioned in line paid me a one-time commission.
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Ok I have skimmed a handful of profiles and think I'm ready to make #introduction draft 1.
Hi hi, I'm ⭐️ris (pronounce the star)!
I'm a 30-something year old #nonmonogamous #nonbinary person living approximately in #Seattle, #Washington in the USA.
I like fixing things whether that's #repair of stuff like furniture or vehicles or my friends' kids' toys, or #mending or altering clothes. I'm generally a #crafty dabbler into #DIY stuff. I've done knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, needle felting, cardboard construction, painting, digital illustration, carpentry, motorcycle and small engine repair, van/car maintenance... oh, and I like computer stuff too, it takes very little prompting to get me to make #spreadsheets for any given situation, and I've done a bit of programming in C, Python, and VBA for Microsoft office macros.I used to be conversational in Deutsch and 日本語, na hata sasa naelewa #Kiswahili and lately I've been semi trying to learn Tiếng Việt
I like #boardgames , especially cooperative or puzzle games, and #TTRPG s (I don't have a class main, but I do tend to play faces). I like to play some video games too, mostly RPGS, #sims (including some NSFW ones) and The Sims.
I like the #Cosmere and I'm currently reading/enjoying #TheLockedTomb series and #TheUnwanteds I mostly watch #queer family-friendly cartoons like #StevenUniverse and #TOH #TheOwlHouse
Right now I'm trying to follow Nicodemus's advice* and follow a bunch of people and tags and see what's out there to figure out what I'm doing on this platform
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit?usp=drivesdk -
Ok I have skimmed a handful of profiles and think I'm ready to make #introduction draft 1.
Hi hi, I'm ⭐️ris (pronounce the star)!
I'm a 30-something year old #nonmonogamous #nonbinary person living approximately in #Seattle, #Washington in the USA.
I like fixing things whether that's #repair of stuff like furniture or vehicles or my friends' kids' toys, or #mending or altering clothes. I'm generally a #crafty dabbler into #DIY stuff. I've done knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, needle felting, cardboard construction, painting, digital illustration, carpentry, motorcycle and small engine repair, van/car maintenance... oh, and I like computer stuff too, it takes very little prompting to get me to make #spreadsheets for any given situation, and I've done a bit of programming in C, Python, and VBA for Microsoft office macros.I used to be conversational in Deutsch and 日本語, na hata sasa naelewa #Kiswahili and lately I've been semi trying to learn Tiếng Việt
I like #boardgames , especially cooperative or puzzle games, and #TTRPG s (I don't have a class main, but I do tend to play faces). I like to play some video games too, mostly RPGS, #sims (including some NSFW ones) and The Sims.
I like the #Cosmere and I'm currently reading/enjoying #TheLockedTomb series and #TheUnwanteds I mostly watch #queer family-friendly cartoons like #StevenUniverse and #TOH #TheOwlHouse
Right now I'm trying to follow Nicodemus's advice* and follow a bunch of people and tags and see what's out there to figure out what I'm doing on this platform
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit?usp=drivesdk
