Love How Tumblr Has Its Own Folk Stories. Yeah The God Of Arepo We’ve All Heard The Story And We All

I do think it's kind of sweet that with google broken beyond repair, people have resorted to the tried and true method of gaining information: ask the smartest guy in town

And instead of turning to the local librarian, or their high school science teacher, or their grandpa, or the worldwide group chat that is reddit, they decided the wisest sage they know of is you

Congratulations, you've been elected as one of tumblr's village elders.

No one tell this guy I'm the court Jester.

Polygon

Did not expect this kind of lore from NASA’s first tabletop game

From Hubble to dragons and even magic

From the article:

NASA has released a free, original tabletop role-playing game, and it’s one part educational experience and another part sci-fi/fantasy epic with magic and dragons. The crux of The Lost Universe, the organization’s first TTRPG,involves a mystery: What would happen if the Hubble Space Telescope disappeared? It’s a simple premise and one that hides the complex backstory underscoring the events of the role-playing game. Without getting into the weeds, the game takes place on a planet called Exlaris, which was once thrown into chaos when a black hole moved too close and kicked it out of its orbit. The planet has since gone back to some degree of normalcy and is now almost completely dedicated to academia. In one city, a scholar named Eirik Hazn made a spell to connect with Earth to study the Hubble Space Telescope, which has famously collected data on black holes. However, the spell and telescope are stolen by a dragon, and researchers working on the project have been disappearing, so the players — Earthlings who worked on the telescope at NASA who were brought through a portal to Exlaris — have to save the day. The official 44-page gameplay book is available to download for free on NASA’s website. You can play it in a party with 4-7 players, but you may need to fudge a few things to graft this narrative onto your TTRPG system of choice. The book says it’ll take around 3-4 hours to get through the adventure.

Dragons that become less european-style as they grow older, eventually becoming extremely alien at wyrm age

I hunger for things labeled as dragons that look nothing like anything a sane person would call a dragon, like an aquatic dragon whose wings have become cuttlefish tentacles levitating the beast with ambient water-reactive magic; their original four limbs are devoted to holding a huge cyst that constantly “sheds” the equivalent to low-potency greater healing potions because the dragon’s life force has advanced that much

behold a dragon

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?

Welcome to Nightvale, or any other weird podcast helps me have weird thoughts in a separate location from my work brain.

It’s literally that simple

Friend: “hey my son can’t concentrate on his homework. He chooses to do literally anything else everytime. He said his head doesn’t feel like it.”

Me: “Did you give him music?”

Friend: “No! No tech until he’s done! He doesn’t need more distracted.”

Me:

“k, bring me the child”

*Go to her house*

*points to the obviously ADHD boy struggling with his homework*

Me: “so your head doesn’t feel like doing homework?”

Son: “yeah. It would rather do ANYTHING else.”

Me: *unwrapping earbuds* here, listen to this for an hour while you do it.

French voice: 1hr later

Son: “k I’m done! :-)”

Friend: “wow, what’d you give him? Concentra, Adderall, Ritalin‽”

Me: “Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics” and some lo-fi.

Plot twist they end up making a pact with him providing power.

You run a secret, hidden café frequented by mythical beings. One day, a human somehow finds their way to the café. They have not noticed they are the only human, nor have the other patrons noticed them. Yet.

Item that requires the caster to input a series of symbols matching a prompt into a device that casts the spell. Level of complexity of the device could vary by rarity/power. Low level spells: Simon Says Cast Ray of Fire! High level spells would be more like Typing of the Dead.

Typing of the Dead used a computer keyboard, but any sufficiently complex device that will cast Lightning when the user inputs a sequence matching a prompt on it could do—ye olde typewriter, a piano keyboard or keytar (for bards), the Nintendo Powerglove, or, when casting a particularly complex spell at home, Just Dance 4 for the Microsoft Kinect.

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