A geek, a professor & a dad. Doing science over at @Drew_Lab. Being nerdy everywhere. (he/him). World Builder for @DugongsD, the Dugongs and Sea Dragons podcast

occupied Wiechquaeskeck land
Joined March 2018
This is like me with my dice collection except DICE AREN'T DESIGNED TO KILL
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The end of the semester brings some freedom but oddly it's also making it hard to make my DnD games
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16,000 women will run in today's #BostonMarathon. It's the 50th anniversary of women officially being allowed to race. But 5 years prior, in 1967, a college student faked her name, wore a hoodie, and ran the most important 26.2 miles in the marathon's history. Here's her story:
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Be gay, do crime – at Los Angeles, CA
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I have this really fun, poignant, backstory RP idea for tonight's @DugongsD, but as I write it I am worrying that it's too self-indulgent. How do y'all make sure your characters have depth but don't take up all the air?
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I played in person DnD at a friend's house last night for the first time in like two years. I forgot how restorative it was to eat pizza and sit around the table rolling dice and telling stories.
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My favorite house rule. If you role a nat 1 on a save against damage, you take double damage (analogous to taking 2x damage on a nat 20)
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Does your Druid make potions? Why limit yourself to glass vials when nature has these!
The diversity of eggs in Stick Insects (Phasmatodea) is astounding (photo from researchgate.net/publication…)
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Apparently I'm the only one in @DugongsD who doesn't know what Red Dwarf is. They were aghast
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Any tips for playing DnD with people from work where there are different power structures? I'm a non-tenured professor who will be the DM for several tenured profs at the table.
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Hello, I’m Kat! I’m a freelance game designer (and mom) and have had the privilege of working with Hasbro, WotC, Larian Studios and a number of wonderful people in the #TTRPG space. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike
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This is the dog, and the squeaky toy, that have teamed up in such a loud fashion that we have had to invent cannonical reasons why this sound exists in @DugongsD
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Ok so we have long known the major character classes in #DnD have had SOME sort of relationship, but I wanted to see what the data would support (1/saddle up)
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So without further ado here's the NJ tree
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Here's a better pic
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And here's the Parsimony tree
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In case you want to do this at home I used the PHB for raw data, and used PAST free software (palaeontologia-electronica.e…)
(For example if you have hair and chimps have hair it's easy to guess that our ancestor had hair, not that humans and chimps evolved the character "hair" independently)