Came up with a weird idea while half awake.

Gypsy style wagon. Drawn by flamingos.

Ok, weird, maybe some nice local color. Then I remembered that pic of a T-Rex skeleton covered in lawn flamingos (caption: A flock of flamingos can strip a T-Rex to the bone in 90 seconds)

Suddenly that wagon isn't silly...

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I've read a number of "magical academy" stories, and my brain wandered off on an odd tangent. Something reminded me of skyclad... and then my brain veered off to the magical academy stories.

So I had the thought of the potential mess if being skyclad was required for magic *and* you had teenagers learning it in a mixed gender school. Oy.

But *that* ( Read more... )

Today's Oglaf had a new-to-me tag above it "disrespect magical books, get papercuts"

That sent my mind off on a tangent.

The first (and most obvious) was "vampire books". Which led to memories of books in comics and stories that got activated by blood.

That led to it having to be *fresh* blood. And having blood be a trigger for or magic items/symbols/ ( Read more... )

Any fan of the BC comic strip is familiar with Clumsy Carp and his incongruous ability to make water balls.

In a fit of silliness, I once added them to my D&D game. the PCs, came across a room with a stack of spherical objects with a light coating of dust.

They seemed to be semi transparent. And of course, when one them them tied to pick one up, it ( Read more... )

This is what happens when my brain free associates.

I have to present this more or less in order for full impact.

First, we've all heard of pink slime (yuck) the stuck they make out of ;eftover bits of alleged meat.

Second, D&D has a monster called green slime.

Third, most gaming depictions of orcs make them green.

So... Is green slime what left over ( Read more... )

Something reminded me of a wonderfully pervertible bit of geology.

Have a large courtyard with a gong and striker hanging there. The courtyard is unpaved just surfaced with some sort of damp clayish stuff.

if the gong is struck it produces *much* stronger (and deeper) vibrations than you'd expect. The vibrations cause the thixotropic clay to ( Read more... )

Something reminded me of the old Fritz Lieber story A Pail of Air. And by more obscure than usual though processes I came up with an idea for an FRPG campaign.

Picture your typical "medieval plus magic" world. Now have an analogous disaster befall it.

So daylight is rapidly getting weaker and things are getting colder and colder.

At first the ( Read more... )

Today's https://grrlpowercomic-feed.dreamwidth.org/ pointed me at this video

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which led me to this

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Many years ago in my weekly D&D campaign the party had gotten pretty chewed up. As I recall, no one died, but most of them were pretty low on hit points ( Read more... )

A few (sort of) D&D related things ( Read more... )