I think there are some people in my audience who could use a quick history lesson. I believe it will help clarify some important things.

Likely most of what you know about "The Irish Potato Famine" is propaganda meant to conceal an intentional genocide. If you are Irish American like me, you probably had to do a report on your family's immigration history.

The answer to why your family came here was probably "the potato famine" drove your ancestors to leave, because there was no food.

This is at best a half truth.

Saw a video passively repeat an ahistoric account of the origin of roleplaying. I hate to see this.

Gary Gygax did not invent roleplaying. If the origin of roleplaying is a thing that can be said to have happened in one moment– did not happen at his table. Gygax was a co-creator of D&D. However he did not create the role-playing part. And that game existed in some form before he was directly involved.

Dave Arneson created D&D Gary Gygax gave it boring rules.

A sci-fi series where a brave pansexual federation of explorers travel the galaxy teaching alien species how to play baseball. It's not like *every* episode is about baseball. They occasionally find a beach plant or a hot spring planet.

Does anyone know any good hacks for Settlers of Catan?

I want to play a game with my friends where the knight and thief from that game explore dungeons and fight monsters to claim treasure. Okay lol, I'm getting alot of suggestions to play a game called DD? We're not really interested in indie stuff.
Everyone knows Catan really well so we just want to play this dungeon exploration concept in Catan.

So I made it to the end of #MagnusArchives by @TheRustyQuill and I need to say some things!

(Don't worry, no spoilers) I found Magnus after some frustrating experiences with other horror podcasts.

Any show telling a new written story every episode is taking on a monumental challenge. Especially with horror.

Reading the #CAHisOver tag is embarrassing and shameful because of how often I was willing to overlook glaring flaws in the name of civility and *potential* opportunity.

CAH (the game) sucks. It feels bad to play and it is nakedly indulgent of privilege and violence. It's a huge box of micro and macro agressions tailor made for privileged people to splash around in.

That's something obvious that I knew two rounds into my first time playing.

Okay, we need to fill out the hook-up Monster Manual. Just referring to besexual women who are into multi-partner sex as "Unicorns" is boring and normative.

Referring to a straight man who is down for an MMF threesomes as a "Manticore" starts to make it fun again. A charming narcissistic abuser who seems normal when you meet them is a Mimic.

A poly triad who seem incompatible but get along really well is a Chimera.

Horny teen boys who don't know how to talk to people are Goblins.

#DnD Hot Take:
Your grimdark Warlock take is BORING. I am so tired of seeing edgy faustian monkey paw shit being the only take on this class. Here are some alternatives:

-Patrons are the equivalent of a magical billionaires and the Warlock is a con artist fleecing them. -The pact is a mutually beneficial arrangement built on equal terms. The Warlock acts on the patron's behalf in situations where they cannot be direct.

-Old school art style "patronage." The Patron sees potential in the Warlock and fosters it for the occasional commission.