Posts made by hedgehog

You could also consult with your local chapter of the NCJW to see if they might have any resources. They'd probably be especially keen if you had an interest in the Women of the Wall or feminism in Israel or the work of the Hand in Hand school.

Staying at kibbutz guesthouses is also an option, though they're generally separate from the communal living spaces, and not necessarily as 'authentic' an experience:

https://www.zimmeril.com/sSearch_EN.asp?Stype=1&Sreg=&Scity=&Ssubtype=@2@

Also worth checking out:

http://www.bnaibrith.org/magazine-articles/beyond-birthright-a-niche-opportunity

Back in the day, my PC's Pooka boyfriend and he went around handing out shiny new dictionaries to people on Yule. It was meant to be commentary, but I reckon they took it as a prank.

• Panang curry, hot.

• Chicken tikka masala, also hot.

• Chicken samosas.

• Mulligatawny soup.

• Mashed potatoes.

• Weiner schnitzel

@thenomain

I'm pretty sure Richard Peck's 'The Secrets of the Shopping Mall' is where White Wolf ripped off their writeup of Mannikin Inanimae from. Your idea fits that story well.

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Shopping-Laurel-Leaf-Contemporary-Fiction/dp/0440980992

If I ever played a Sidhe wilder with Faerie Eternity (it's a young Rhys Fulber from Frontline Assembly):

@sg

And let's not overlook the fact that he basically started it with Jack Parson's money, and also stole his wife.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5978746/the-strangely-true-connection-between-scientology-the-jet-propulsion-lab-and-pagan-sorcery

@peverel

Still need more flour.

https://youtu.be/K3cbKEwGxRk

Chiming in late to the conversation, but I am that person who has a wiki, +finger set, +info set and a shortdesc.

I figure information overload is better than a blank slate and nothing to go off of or create interest.

As a chaotic good elven cleric, I would require members of the party donate to my goddess' temple before healing them.

It was slightly less cruel than the fact that she considered herself more of a psychopomp than a healer and would roll for the critically wounded to see if it was their time to die or not.

Point being? Don't take the cleric for granted, assholes.

25 years if we're counting NannyMUD, 23 for The Dreaming 1.0.

@Ganymede

May this apparently less-hideous Giant Butter Jesus also get struck by lightning. I mean, if that church didn't take the first time as a message that perhaps a quarter of a million dollars was perhaps better spent on actual good deeds, maybe second time will be the charm?

For those of you who have not witnessed this atrocity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_Srg6xuqs

@Ganymede

I knew that. I figure every Ohioan has passed it at some point in their lives and has an opinion on it. I have seen it but twice (going to and from Jungle Jim's from Dayton) and the impression it left on me is undeniable. Mostly because of the hubris of the assholes that made not one, but two Giant Butter Jesuses.

@Thenomain

I am married, but I feel compelled to ask what your opinion is on the Giant Butter Jesus (2.0)?

@Thenomain

If people flee Ohio they will be abandoning Bill's Donuts. However, depending on which direction they head on the highway, there's always Warm Glow Candle Shoppe.

@Ganymede

I will always confuse this with 'Blue Jacket', which is currently pining for the fjords. No more cloppety coconut shells.

@Auspice

I tend to agree that since Grossman himself doesn't provide a map of the layout of the school, there's no canonical way in which it is actually laid out. Especially since there's also Brakebills South to consider. And if people bitch at you, 'fuck you, it's a goddamn College of Magical Pegagogy' should suffice for explanation. Not to mention that it doesn't actually appear on any map anywhere.

And, hey, at least there's a map of Fillory.

@Auspice

Wasn't Brakebills supposed to be in kind of generic upstate New York? So maybe setting it outside of Albany or Rochester or something would work? At least that way you would have a real world map to work with?

Based on my most recent scene, with someone who has apparently been on the game for years, but this was my first time RPing with them:

Read the desc of the room. Read the pose I have written. Respond appropriately to those things, rather than just shotgun your way through a staccato series of:

'Amadeus nods.
Amadeus lets it go.**
Amadeus asks, 'How did you do that?' ***

poses that give me absolutely zero information or hooks to respond to.

Don't RP from your phone without informing me that you are planning on doing so. Don't expect me to carry the whole scene for you, providing a paragraph (or so; my pose length can vary) of text for every single bland sentence you give in return. Give me a chance to pose before you shotgun - since I am actually writing, it takes me more than fifteen seconds. Don't cheat on rolls unless pre-determined (by asking) if it's okay that rolling dice is unnecessary for the scene.

** Actual response composed in reaction to seeing a ten dollar bill spontaneously combust on a service counter.

*** Eventually said after said combustion, with no Awareness roll made to determine that my PC had actually used Pyrokinesis.