pine @pine@tabletop.social

i transcribe a lot of stuff!
mostly Six Feats Under's Actual Plays, found here: https://6fu-transcripts.tumblr.com/tagged/transcript-masterpost/chrono

played ten candles and oh my god, what a good game. we had Very weird luck (one person rolled one six in thirty six dice) and the at the end we all kept rolling successes and couldn't quite end where we expected to

me: hi, i'm looking for podcasts that have diversity in terms of queerness and race
people: i know some with fanon poc
me: absolutely not

thinking about how easy it would be to make the dungeons and da asian characters in fellowship (la ning is the heir, a stalwart defender, w'leed is the halfling, a clever storyteller, and dong feng is the extradimensional spider)

aand one shot pod has just passed mcelroys in amount of their audio i've consumed. f@tt still far in the lead at 700+ hours to the 175-190 hours of other APs i'm currently listening to

i love, love, love character parallels. really enjoy that kind of character relationship where two characters are super similar on paper but diverge in practice and when two characters seem really different but end up having similar plot arcs. that's some good stuff.

"Walking in two worlds but truly belonging to neither..."
from the Dungeons and Dragon's Player's Handbook, Half-Elf, page 38.

I BELONG TO BOTH WORLDS—OR—I BELONG TO ONE WORLD WITH TIES TO ANOTHER. MY SITUATION IS AS COMMON AS THE NEXT, JUST AS MANY BELONG TO TWO FAMILIES. I AM NOT BETWEEN, I AM ONE, I AM BOTH.

if your character is a "barbarian" please think about what it is to be foreign. that's a pretty central thing to the concept of barbarian.

the best interaction i've had in my life has just been "wait, d&d is real? they didn't just make it up for riverdale?"

i think the bit that peeves me the most about d&d is that attributes are modified by race and NOT by class or background

how much of a thing is it that tabletop/board game stores are in the basement of an arcade/shopping center?

my method of talking excessively about tabletops i want to play is starting to pay off in getting other people excited about playing them

yes i can write stuff for formatting transcripts in google script
no i do not understand google script

i'm reading Tales from the Loop and the weirdo type feels like it's specifically about me