Shawn the Delver gets weird with Explosive Creation

Shawn ‪@TheDelver‬ hangs out and rolls the dice on the GM's Compendium of Explosive Creation to make a weird little guy
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[@StephaniePlaysGames]

Omg, I love that we even had the same starting point! They turned out sooo different this is great!

[@RdotDoyle]

Yeah it was a really great test of the book and awesome to see two cool creative people bringing their own spin to things

[@TwinSteel]

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Love a good tea - been exploring other brands lately - second guest to choose Weirdo - Worlds Without Number has a bunch of "drop all the dice tables" - such a great way to do it - starting off on the same "voices" place and immediately moving in a different direction - voices + incarceration = asylum, yes very Lovecraftian - always fun to see these dice fall in ways that just make sense - porque no las dos - love that you include NPCs in this system, because it's surprisingly difficult to get my players to make up allies - I like how we have used this to produce fey warlock and great old one warlock - really drives home for me that those two aren't actually as different as I thought - also cool to see the different ways people use this: Stephanie was going outside the prompts and making big leaps right away, whereas Shawn is keeping it pretty close to the text - birds can be jerks just at a baseline, so an aggressively rude parrot is just spot on - I had a sorcerer pirate once that was physically counter to your average peg leg/eye patch/hook hand looking pirate, but her familiar was a parrot and it had been thru it - it had a peg leg & hook wing plus a horribly foul/fowl mouth - it was always out of breath because when it flew, it had to work really hard due to the missing piece of one of its wings - I liked that little guy - hadn't thought of him for a long time till just now - big giant mimic reminds me of that "I laughed; he laughed; the chair laughed" joke - love a good angler fish - there's a cool one in Heart (which is an AMAZING ttrpg you should check out if you haven't) - players ignoring hooks can be rough (and sometimes a little rude), but I have found that if I throw out a bunch of strings, players tend to remember the ones we tied up and forget the others, and then they think I had it all worked out from the beginning, when in reality, they don't remember all the stray ideas that never panned out - I like the idea of a cheese cult - for this lovecraftian character, I am terrified to ask what exactly is in the cheese - really appreciate when people cite sources - Yeah, Empire of the Petal Throne (a foundational piece of D&D history) has really been tarnished by Barker's bigotry - I don't fault anyone for avoiding his work - I'm currently in a place where I can engage with his work, but there are living authors who's bigotry stops me from even reading / rereading their work, so again, I don't fault anyone for wanting to completely avoid Tekumel - good to know Gygax was spouting incel/meninist/manosphere talking points 50 years before Andrew Tate was even posting to social media
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[@RdotDoyle]

In my house we go from elaborate loose leaf operations to the Aldi store brand and back. I got an electric kettle that dials in the temperature perfectly and that has been a game changer. I also love watching the same input go in different directions in the hands of creative people. Heart is awesome, it was on the shelf but my buddy's borrowing it and hopefully might run it soon. Separating art from artist is something I'm still wrestling with, and I'm pretty tired of constantly getting new reasons to have to wrestle with

[@TwinSteel]

@@RdotDoyle for many longs years I’ve been a Twinings English breakfast tea drinker at home and loose leaf for special occasions - I had a special kettle when I lived away from the family, but it got lost in the move back - might need to get another - would love to hear your thoughts on Heart when you run it - great stuff