#oar

[vintagerpg]

The Goodman Games OAR of X2: Castle Amber (2020) fits the same basic bill as Lost City, but seems a slightly more off-beat choice. Again, it offers a central adventure that is an under-appreciated classic and a large area for new material to be developed — the countryside and settlements of Averoigne. But…

Castle Amber, the original, is a strange module to begin with. It strikes me as a sort of massive correction by author Tom Moldvay to include the work of Clark Ashton Smith (particularly his medieval Averoigne stories, particularly particularly “The Colossus of Ylourgne”) in the growing tapestry of D&D (Gygax, somewhat bizarrely, overlooked Smith in Appendix N). The thing is, there is a lot of identifiably Smith stuff in the module, but I don’t think it feels particularly Smithy. It feels like Moldvay doing a weird haunted house. Which is fine, because I really like that tone on its own merits — it is one of my favorite modules and pretty unique in all of TSR’s output.

The Goodman material neither feels particularly Smithy to me, nor does it match the odd Moldvay tone. It’s a third flavor. And while I don’t dislike it, I find it hard to reconcile it all as a whole. This applies primarily to the fortyish new entries for the castle. The details on the environs are a welcome treat — since there wasn’t much there to begin with, I don’t feel so jarred when Goodman sets the pace there. The art throughout is delightful though.

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #roleplaying game #Goodman Games #OAR #Castle Amber #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons

[viridian-pickle]

#photography #adventure #summer #rowing #oar #maritime #boat #boat race #nautical #lake #sport #dock

[jupiterdomain]

Giovi Taioli

#muscular #six pac abs #smooth torso #oar #arm veins #athlete #Giovi Taioli

[360nw]

Oar Detail - Fern Ridge Reservoir - Lane County Oregon - August 2009

#oar #canoe #handmade #oregon #the great pnw #photographers on tumblr #pnw #lanecounty #lane county #original photography #lake

[gloriousgoateedragon]

#boxer shorts #black and white #vintage gay #male model #crew #oar #retro mustache #retro moustache

[aviel]

「オア、アイカ」- (Oar, Aika)- Ikenaga Yasunari (2017)

#オア、アイカ #Oar #Aika #Ikenaga Yasunari #2017 #ART

[zunadahalforcbarbarian]

#dnd #d&d #zunada #dungeons and dragons #dnd 5e #d&d 5e #d&d 3.5 #dnd 3.5 #dnd5e #5th edition #dnd5edition #5e #sailing #ship #map #sail #dyx #oarsman #oarsmen #oar #oars #man #men

[azzyfree-art]

Games on the road

I thought I'd do another painting redraw with my ocs. This one was the painting titled "Interrupted Sleep(1750) by François Boucher"

I'm not sure if I'm done with this one. I feel a need to go back and make some changes.

#azzyfree art #illustration #painting redraw #interrupted sleep #oc #fantasy #alchemist #our alchemical romance #oar #travel

[jt1674]

#alexander spence #skip spence #oar #war in peace

[vintagerpg]

This week, let’s take a look a Goodman Games’ Original Adventures Reincarnated series. These are great! Could they be better in a couple specific ways? Probably!

I don’t have big love for B2; it’s a fine module, but I tend to think it is beloved because it was printed in gigantic quantities, rather than printed in gigantic quantities because it was beloved, you know? Similarly, B1 is the superior introductory module, but it isn’t really a module to fall in love with. For this reason, I passed on the OAR series for a while and for those reasons I am going to pick my nits now so I can be more enthusiastic the rest of the week.

Again, these books are great, they’re gigantic love letters to the original source material, which are reproduced in full. They’re accompanied by 5E conversions that mostly stick to the originals, but also sometimes add or expand the material in fun ways. The 5E sections are accompanied by piles of new art, which helps me re-envision stuff that was previously fossilized in my brain, which is cool. Anyone with an interest in these old school modules will enjoy owning this book.

That said, I think they are trying to do too many things at once. I think the archival effort is fantastic, but along with the supplemental essays and interviews ultimately balloons the page count to a degree that it is hard to use the conversion module at the table — this should really be two separate books. Even then, the lack of PDF availability for the conversion (no doubt a condition of the licensing deal) also diminishes playability (I don’t think I could photocopy the maps without taking the book apart, honestly), which is a shame, because I think the conversion is the real legacy of these books (and their source material). Adventures want to be played!

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #roleplaying game #Goodman Games #Into the Borderlands #OAR #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons

[seafoamspirit]

Trick or Treat!

uhhh oar

#trick or treat #halloween 2023 #oar #shitpost #the-aprils-only-fool #~~}-

[askbarracudaa]

"looks like I found a new group of sailors to play with . . ."

(teacup is the white/black boat, Oar is the green boat and it's unknown what the blue boats name is. Barracuda doesn't plan on having a nice chat as you can tell XD)

#jsab #jsab art #jsab oc #Teacup #Oar #Boat #Jsab boat #Siren #Mermaid #merman #jsab barracuda #barracuda #ask blog #ask barracuda #Little guy #Sailors #jsab au #He really needs to fix the windows on his house #just shapes and beats #just shapes and beats oc #Just Shapes and beats au

[ilikegoodstories]

Fomapan 100 (3)

De ce ai nevoie ca să creezi un joc? De ce ai nevoie ca să creezi un joc în spațiul public? Timp de 3 zile, 3 jocuri din Biblioteca de Jocuri Publice vor fi desenate cu creta în 3 spații publice din Timișoara. Instrumentele de joc sunt obiecte de cretă, obiecte care prind forma în urma jocului, urme ale instalațiilor performative ce vor ocupa orașul. Cu ajutorul lor vom instala 3 jocuri în 3 zone din Timișoara, între blocuri, în spații publice, în apropierea parcurilor sau a parcărilor.

Dacă ai drum prin Timișoara, în perioada 26-28 octombrie 2023 s-ar putea să dai peste un joc din Biblioteca de Jocuri Publice. Dacă nu-l găsești, nicio problemă. Intră pe www.institutuljocului.ro și urmează instrucțiunile pentru a instala chiar tu un joc din Bibliotecă.

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Cele 3 jocuri au fost instalate în cartierul Circumvalațiunii, zona Calea Martirilor și în apropierea râului Bega. 

După ce jocul este desenat ai timp limitat să vii să joci. Instalațiile-joc sunt efemere, realizate cu creata, dar formele de desenat, instrumentele de joc rămân în spațiu și poți veni să completezi, să modifici regulile, să-ți creezi propriul joc.

Instrumente de Joc și Biblioteca de Jocuri Publice fac parte din Institutul Jocului, spațiu de cercetare și creație de jocuri active. Locațiile au fost identificate la fața locului și cu ajutorul BETA și a Ordinului Arhitecților Timișoara.

#biblioteca de jocuri publice #institutul jocului #oar #ordinul arhitectilor #timisoara #romania

[rastronomicals]

3:08 AM EST November 27, 2023:

Skip Spence - "Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold)" From the album Oar (1969)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Acid-Casualty Alt-Folk

#Skip Spence #Oar #Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold

[kwaggysshardmindemporium]

Album! Okay so today was Oar by Alexander 'Skip' Spence. I'm sorry Skip but this is bad. The BEST songs on it are like the definition of "the lower end of okay." And those are the first few songs. After that, it sounds like the artist is getting progressively more bored of making music. I legitimately feel like my time was wasted listening to this. I would say listen if you need a nap, but I've had TWO albums recently that would do that for you that DIDN'T suck completely and totally. (Those would be Ys and The Hour of Bewildebeast, to clarify.) If it wasn't obvious, 1/5. Not the worst thing I've been made to suffer through, but definitely the worst thing I've had in a while.

And you know what? I don't love being this negative. So let's talk about something I LIKE that I've been wanting to post about but never get around to it. Let's talk about my *favorite* band. My favorite song. The song I'm listening to right now to wash the taste out of my mouth. Big long gush plus some song links about something I love very much below the break.

So, my favorite band is The Amazing Devil. You know Jaskier from the Netflix Witcher series? Yeah, he's the lead singer of a band, too. This one. It's great. They write some of the most poignant music you'll hear in your fucking life. The genre I've seen it described as is "gothic folk" and it's very good. Their most popular song according to Spotify at 11.5 million plays, and the first song I ever heard from them myself, is the title track of their second album: "The Horror and the Wild." It's a great song. Here ya go:

That whole album is great, but fair warning if you or a loved one close to you have severe mental health struggles, the opening track "The Rockrose and the Thistle" is about that in a very raw way and might be a tough listen. Similarly, if you've had experiences with abuse, "The Unwanted Animal" towards the middle might be triggering. I personally check both boxes here even if I don't really talk about the latter, and it's probably the only song on there I have real difficulty listening to.

The *best* song on that album in my opinion, is "Farewell Wanderlust," their second-most popular song. Have a link:

I listened to this, got to this song, and knew instantly that this was my new favorite band.

And y'all? This isn't their best song, nor their best album.

Their best album IMO is Ruin, their most recent album. The album goes a little harder on the drums and faster on the guitar, and the subject matter is generally less grim. So it absolutely *soars.* The songs are fucking powerful. The other song I hear a lot of people say they know from this band is on this album because it's... I guess I'd call it a minor viral hit? It's called "Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious" and while it's a good song that title is a LIE. It's a story song about two nerdy and socially stunted people finding solace in each other's presence at a party. It's very sweet but very much not a drinking song.

Another great track on this album that I love a lot is "Blossoms," a song about a very nasty messy breakup.

And let's stop dancing around it. My favorite song from this band, and by extension my favorite song PERIOD and it's not very close, is "The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace." It's a song about overcoming your demons and if not becoming the person you want to be at least becoming someone who isn't weighed down by the shit the world has shoveled on them. Strap in, it's fucking long.

They do have another album, Love Run. It's their first album. I've listened to it, and it's... fine. Nowhere near as good as the later two, really only bother if you decide you like this band and want the complete experience. You won't be wasting your time but if you're like me you just won't like it as much. I'm not gonna spam links to songs off it because there's not much on there that does it for me.

Don't really have a closer here. Hope a mutual or two actually reads this and gives the band a listen. And even if you don't, if you're seeing this I appreciate you reading it.

#music #album of the day #alexander skip spence #oar #the amazing devil #Youtube