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| I have little to add to these debates but there's some interesting insights in the back n forth on the latter! |
Google kills Jamboard. I had considered using Jamboard as a lightweight VTT with integration with my Drive stuff, but held off because of the likelihood of something like this. There are other options but they get by by SaaS rather than stealing your data, which in theory is slightly less bad but in practice I figure Google/the NSA already have anything they want on me already.
Lanterns of the dead were towers "originally constructed to warn passers-by of the danger of infection" at sanataria, "as well as to illuminate cemeteries where it was feared that repenting souls, ghosts, and criminals could hide"
B/X hexcrawl tool, lots of work put into this one
Alex Schroeder (who wrote another wonderfully elaborate-in-content-simple-in-execution hexcrawl generator) is setting up an automated rss feed for the OSR discord server
Rob Conley finishes his fantasy sandbox guide and, as a capstone flourish, has a Kickstarter up. A tremendous achievement.
Blog post (from a longer back n forth) related to how prose fiction has tended to draw more and more influence from film, to the detriment of the uniqueness of the former. Not all endorsed, even just the aesthetic parts, but the suggestion that prose is oriented “to the memory rather than the senses” has given me a lot to chew on w/r/t medium
(Related: novelization style.)
Harris also writes about the distinctions between story-first and worldbuilding-first art, which I think is actually an excellent summary of the differences between the two, written by someone with tastes opposite my own. The way that worldbuilding invites collaboration is why worldbuilding is an especially apt form for the roleplaying game.
While we're talking film and medium, Neil Brand on scoring silent films.
I have nothing to add on present IRL events besides what John Ganz says here.
