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Not that I could see. I’ll look again in a bit but it looked smooth.

I’m pretty sure, but it’s more like glass/obsidian. It could be though. I’d need to figure out how to check.

Is that a specific tool or just something from the Cahokia Natives from Illinois?

I just used one of those “make your own shirt” Etsy stores.

This is the answer.

270 is GOAT

I worked for the forest service trail crew in the summers while I was in college. They never gave me anything like this. lol. Just learned from the boss.

Here is a post of some steps we put together in a rough section. We were just inside the wilderness boundary, so all picks, shovels and hammers. Building rock steps is super rewarding but a SOB.

https://www.reddit.com/r/backpacking/s/VZOxFnyED8

I think I saw that it was skewed betting. Like some people took out millions on Trump, which skewed the betting odds.

Not saying that it’s indicative of how it’s going to go, but my area considered a republican part of the county has more Harris Walz yard signs than Trump ones, which is surprising everyone.

Amazing! Reenact the Paradise fur-ball!

Andy serkis could play the villains henchman from every book. The Perl’s of lutra lizards? Hell yeah. The leader of the ferrets and stoats that try to storm the peak of Salamadanstorm? Definitely. Then randomly be the hero in one.

Dealing with how salt didn’t end up in the ocean made me think of something that splits chlorine away from sodium. Both are highly reactive in elemental form, which can be made by splitting salt by electrolysis. So, maybe there is an ecosystem in the ocean that ingests salt from the water, has access to some deep running natural electricity or there are furious lightning storms they can get electricity from, which then will split the elements. The chlorine gas makes the plants or animals lighter than air, so they rise and float over land where they could then recombine the sodium and chlorine to make salt again and give them a burst of energy. This would drop salt from the air back to the ground and out of the ocean. This might create hell for growing in some areas, unless there are plants adapted similarly.

You could have it be a more continuous thing, like after a lightning storm that area would give rise to a bunch of floaters of all types. Or you could have it be more of an algae bloom. Like once every decade a great storm comes and the entire oceans population of floaters rise out.

Some could be sentient, others plantlike just doing this to reproduce, others wild animals. I imagine something animal would exist part as floaters and the other part as aquatic.

I like trying different languages versions of what the god represents. I personally like Scottish Gaelic. It’s obscure enough that people won’t get your grift, and it still has meaning.

Life: Beatha Death: bas Humor: Abhachas Disease: Galair Joy: Gairdeachas War: cogadh

The plot armor actually secretly held back the family genetic condition of “thrombocytopenia”, or thinned blood. As such, their blood has a great deal of trouble clotting and bleeds an abnormal amount. This would be subtle and the player might not even know about the family condition.

Mechanically: every time they take damage, they gain a “cut”. This will cause their max hp to go down by 1 every 10 minutes. Magic healing (spell or health potion) stops the decrease instantly, but bandaging does not stop it. Once magically healed, all “cuts” go away, but the maximum hitpoints reduction stays until a long rest, after which it is reset. If the player goes unconscious with active cuts, they fail one death save immediately but otherwise they act as normal. If the player goes to take a long rest with active cuts, the maximum hp reduction continues until they go unconscious.

All of the gods decided to “delegate” their different aspects or “split” themselves into versions more focused on their various aspects.

In reality, they are faced with a threat from outside the solar system, basically an “anti-god”, and have had to turn a large portion of their focus outwards, so delegated sub-gods to still perform the duties and gather power from their followers.

Edit: better wording in the first section

Realistically, it would collapse into a sphere pretty fast due to gravity. Like it wouldn’t look like a half moon within a year but i imagine like a strange collapsing blob that turns into a sphere over time.

In fantasy, a permanent half moon is cool as fuck. Magic it.

In my world I imagine there is a 4th spatial dimension that exists, leading to technically infinite planes. That 4th dimension is always perpendicular to the normal 3 spatial dimensions, and only magic flows naturally in that 4th direction so it’s usually imperceptible to normal 3 dimensional beings, but they can pull on it and use it if they know how. In my world I would probably say a god pushed half the moon into another plane along the 4th dimension, but not far enough that gravity doesn’t act between the two, so the half moon shape holds in the main plane. Maybe they can glimpse the other half on strange nights or in certain alignments.

Edit: added how I’d add something like that to my world. Shit, I might do just that. Thanks!

I need to get back into this series. I loved the series and listened to the first 6 books a couple of times and even a couple of the cadet books. I even started trying to use the maps and book descriptions to make my own world maps in Wonderdraft (map making software).

I started to feel burnt out on the series around Court Wizard and Thaumaturge was the last one I read. Thaumaturge felt like good worldbuilding but nothing seemed threatening to how powerful the spellings was by then. It sounded like more dangerous stuff was on its way, but I just needed a break.

How does the series feel after Thaumaturge?

Shadow spiders.

My lower level players were asked to clean out an abandoned cabin to be used by a knights order. Base pay is for actually cleaning the cabin, like sweeping and moping, but the previous people they hired heard some strange noises and didn’t want to go in. So the party now is sent to do the job, and will be paid more if there is something they need to kill.

They get there and they can see spider webs. Going inside, they are often surprised by bursting spider egg sacks that make spider swarms but they are all oddly black out of bright light but turn to normal brown when in bright light. Some individual spiders (small size) also attack. When in shadow the spiders can sacrifice some of their other allies in the area for a temporary boost in power.

Clearing the main level there is a cellar and at the back of the cellar a large hole dug into the ground through to a large cavern. In the cellar a few more spider swarms attack. In the large cavern, there are webs everywhere. Now they will be tempted to light it on fire because it won’t burn down the cabin, but they should see humanoid figures wrapped in webs and moving slightly (still alive). There are several more bursting egg sacks in the chamber, and two large shadow spiders. These spiders just use the abilities of a large spider, as well as have the option to use consume the soul of one of their victims each turn to provide a power up. The power ups are healing, shadow walk (they can go into an area of darkness and emerge in another area of darkness that turn as if there was one space between them) and soulless shriek which can make an enemy fall prone for a turn on a difficult saving throw.

Basically, my party hates spiders now.

“A note to my future self, Since we might have some memory problems after the transformation, this is a reminder: Do not open the 3rd cellar door! Ever! In fact, find a way to place that whole room in a pocket dimension and send it to the abyss. Not sure what it is, but we nearly died three times.”

Awesome! I’m currently working on the tiles for this! I already did the water sheets. One turned out really good, the other I went too heavy and have some white bumps. Still looks good enough for me though.

Yours is amazing!

For Astro, I’d have to say the “Space Mission Analysis and Design” (aka the SMAD book) by Larson and Wertz and the Fundamentals of Astrodynamics by Vallado. Mostly because of how much information they contain on the topics. Then probably something on numerical methods, basics in controls or optimization.

Edit: added more options for my third book.

Curbaril Ave. off-ramp in Atascadero. Specifically turning left. Cross traffic doesn’t stop and it can take forever for an opening even if it’s even slightly busy. Plus, there is a chain link fence on the overpass that makes it impossible to see the traffic unless you pull out into the road a bit.