Take a drink every time:
Someone makes a Ford pun
Sam rolls a zero or below
Matt facepalms
Someone makes a campaign 1 reference
Anyone jokes about Caleb’s smell
Anyone yells Nine/Nein
Nott steals something
Group chanting “level two/three/etc…”
Group rolls initiative
Someone makes a Seaman/Semen joke
Mollymauk uses Vicious Mockery
Jester blesses someone
Anyone says “falchion”
A nat20 or nat1 is rolled
Beau catches an attack
Yasha appears in the episode
Finish your drink if:
Molly or Caleb goes down in battle
“How do you wanna do this?”
Party levels up
There are many primers on how to start with Ursula K. Le Guin, all of them perfectly fine, but I haven’t seen any that just go with “Start with what’s available and easily accessible”.
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is available online, and it’s only four typewritten pages. Confession: I hadn’t read this until today. You may think, as I did, because you know the story through osmosis (as probably many people who are familiar with sci-fi do) you don’t need to read it. You would be wrong.
This website has collated stories that are available online. They all appear to be from free sources like Baen, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld.
On Le Guin’s personal website there is a great deal of stuff: poetry (original and in translation), book excerpts, interviews, and writing advice.
She blogged pretty extensively for many years, and there’s some lovely stuff in there. Her penultimate entry was about her cat Pard and the Time Machine. (just Ctrl + F for “pard” on the archive index. Trust me.)
Don’t let me stop you from going to the library or your online bookstore of choice to get her books, of course, but there’s plenty of stuff available that you don’t have to go very far to access.
Are you creating a fictional language? Do you need help coming up with words that sound like they fit with what you’ve come up with so far?
Just put your fictional language in the model text, type some words in the translation text, and click “translate”. It’ll “translate” whatever words you put in using patterns from your sample text.
This can create a random calendar for you or you can input the year, the number of months, the name of the months, the number of moons, the number of days in a week, the names of each day, and more.
You can even save the data for your calendar so that when you go back to the generator, all you have to do to get to your calendar is paste the data.
This is a new resource that’s still in beta, so it’ll probably be updated in the coming months.
This map maker is easy to use and free. You can add different climates, mountains, trees, towns, cities, text, and notes. For an example of these maps, look at the quick map I made for this post’s header.
Here are all of the Routledge Grammar PDFs that I currently have. I’ll be updating whenever I find more. Let me know if there’s one in particular you want me to look for^^
Last Update: 2017/04/24
Fixed Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook link
Added books for Czech, English, French, French Creoles, Persian, Ukranian
Added more books in Cantonese, Danish, Greek, Polish, Spanish, Swedish
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