Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

Dungeon 23 is something I think about every day, and I think about it as that, even though I intend to create a #facility23 instead.

To recap, this is the brainchild of @seanmccoy, who posted about it here: https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23

I told myself I wasn't going to start until January 1. I mean, I don't even have a Japanese notebook yet! (Santa might bring me one tomorrow.) But I can't stop thinking about it, so I started to list some ideas. Not full room descriptions, just ideas. And then I added some themes to consider. Which led to some questions I had to think through, which...

Now I have a Scenario, The Brief, and some Warden's Notes, all for eventual players, as well as Implications, Room Ideas, and a "Think about" section for me as I create the facility, all of which led naturally to a list of "Baddies" and a growing "Backstory."

I don't have quick notes for a mega-dungeon, I've got extensive notes for an entire module!

As of right now, eight days before I'm "starting," I've got notes for a future MegaCorp (Chan Hong Co) that won salvage rights at auction for an ancient crashed alien ship that they, in their MegaCorp way, dubbed "Chan Hong Facility 23," and where they promptly set up shop for a combination of manufacturing, research, and salvage. Can you guess which of the three areas ended up sparking a cult? Or why?

I think I need to keep *some* things to myself for now, to avoid spoiling eventual game play. But I'll try to post what updates I can that don't spoil anything beyond early game play here on a semi-regular basis.

I'm also thinking about how I want to eventually present this. I'm a writer, not an artist! I do live with an artist, though. Still, I'm a writer. How narrative can I make this while still giving Wardens the flexibility they need to run games?

#dungeon23 #facility23 #ttrpg #MothershipRPG #Mothership #mosh

My understanding is that mastodon itself supports so-called "quote tweets," but they aren't implemented on most servers. They're implemented on the server I use, though, so this should appear to be quoted.

#nerdery #mastodon #QuoteBoost

I’m beginning to think that signing up for Cinemark’s movie club might have been a mistake. Not just because it's a bad deal, although movies in theaters have seemed to be somewhat rubbish since I signed up, or unsuitable for reasons peculiar to my family. I was excited when the Black Panther movie was released… but found no passes were allowed, which I think left me out. (Although maybe not, I only realized today, since I have credits, not passes. Oops!)

Finally today, we decided we’re going to see something, anything, because it's Christmas Eve. We picked a 2:55 showing of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and… because it’s a matinee showing, it’s cheaper than what I paid for the saved-up credits.

So here I am with six stored up credits for free movie tickets, paying $30 for three people to see a movie I could maybe have seen months ago but was scared away from.

I'm not saying Cinemark's movie club is a bad deal, I'm just saying it might have been a mistake for me to sign up for it specifically.

#blog #cinemark #BlackPanther #WakandaForever

At my house for the Winter Solstice Festival (in Chinese: 冬至 Dōngzhì), we enjoyed hotpot. Very spicy hotpot!

#blog #food #photography #dongzhi #solstice

I’ve posted a couple of Fiat-related things recently, so why not one more? I asked MidJourney to give me an image for “fiat 500e gran prix hyperrealistic” but it was four months ago, so I’m not exactly sure which version of the model was active at the time. This was the result.

#AIart #midjourney #fiat

I’ve had this picture on a series of computers for a few years now, but before posting it I tracked down where I originally got it from, and dimensions.com is pretty amazing. It seems like a person could spend a lot of time poking through the site looking at the size of things.

https://www.dimensions.com/element/fiat-500

For an arbitrary comparison, the 2023 F-150 King Ranch edition with SuperCab is 6.36 meters long, 2.43 meters wide, and 1.96 meters tall. Its wheelbase is 4.17 meters, which is quite a bit longer than the Fiat 500’s entire length! This helps to explain why I’ve seen trucks like this try to make U-turns and block traffic for a while.

I’m not sure I’d be able to drive something that big safely. Perhaps others can.

#blog #fiat

You know what’s delicious? Peanut brittle!

You know what’s really hard for me to stop eating as long as there’s any left? Also peanut brittle!

Next time I should buy less of it. Or more. I haven’t decided which.

#blog