In this video, Neal Litherland talks about taxes and the importance of planning for them for freelancers.
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Make Your Own Cheap Pallets
A YouTube Short featuring extracts from the longer video to give you an idea of the process.
D10: The Strange Rumours – Ardeyn: Glass Desert
The Strange is a game published by Monte Cook Games. It is, at least in part, set in the normal world, but there are other worlds out there, in the Strange. This list has ten rumours for that setting, similar to the various different adventure hooks in the books, and these can be used as adventure hooks or simple misinformation.
- Ardeyn’s Glass Desert is one of the most treacherous parts of the recursion because of the ground glass particles that comprise the sand. It’s rumoured that those who are killed by the abrasive nature of the sand may rise as undead beings composed of particles of swirling glass and in a vaguely humanoid form.
- Calometh is an Umber Judge who seeks the Silver Sword believing that it will enable him to free demons from evil taint. He’s regarded as a dangerous lunatic by the Court of Sleep, and was cast out to wander alone, though it’s rumoured that Calometh has recently started recruiting a handful of humans to his cause.
- Galeta Swan is the current leader of the Reclaimers of the Glass Desert, who was captured and put into slavery by glass pirates when she was young. Though Galeta has vowed to bring the Green Wilds to the desert as a way of seeking revenge on the pirates, it’s rumoured that sometimes she uses more direct means against them, and regularly hires others to seek out and destroy pirate ships.
- It’s rumoured that someone has been taking advantage of the fact that the glass pirates are not unified in order to turn at least some of them against the others. It’s being said that a clan is being paid a bounty for any other pirates they hunt down, and that some from outside the Glass Sea have started to consider signing up to do the same.
- Siraja, the captain of the Revenge, has a fearsome reputation such that some of the other glass pirates fear her. It’s rumoured that her reputation has grown to such an extent that a bounty has been offered on her head, body optional, in order to end her depredations.
- Taimin of the Nightstar is one of the most well-known of the pirates of the Glass Sea, and it’s known that he has a habit of decreeing death matches between members of his crew who are feuding with each other. It’s rumoured that he’s not averse to ordering a death match to eliminate those he fears might try and usurp him at some point.
- The glass pirates of the Glass Desert are anything but a coherent force and the clans will often fight when they come across each other. This makes the rumour that someone is trying to unite the pirate clans worrying, as the potential infighting is one thing that somewhat diminishes the risk the pirates pose.
- The Reclaimers want to return the Glass Desert to the garden it once was, and are seeking out any way of doing so. There are occasional rumours that for some Reclaimers this means any way at all, and that they have performed frightful acts in their attempts to recreate the lost garden.
- The Silver Sword is a blade of glass visible only every nine years in the Glass Desert and can briefly be used to shrink the borders of the desert. Knowledge of its existence has leaked out and many adventurers are now seeking it, as well as the Reclaimers. It’s rumoured that the Reclaimers have taken measures to deal with others seeking the sword.
- There is said to be one dragon living in the Glass Desert, and scholars believe it is an embodiment of elemental disaster. It’s rumoured that some sorcerers have been seeking out information on the Glass Desert dragon, but only in the hopes of being able to make a lesser beast of disaster.
100 Descriptions for Locks, Locales of Sundara: The Skelet-Inn and D66 Elvenspring for the Forbidden Lands Now Available
100 Descriptions for Locks, Locales of Sundara: The Skelet-Inn and D66 Elvenspring for the Forbidden Lands are now available to buy from DriveThruRPG.
Doors and containers can have locks, and 100 Descriptions for Locks has 100 such to find. They range from the normal to the odd to the dangerous.
Locales of Sundara: The Skelet-Inn describes a single location, a fantasy inn, without a map but with various details that allow the GM to use it as a drop-in location.
Elvenspring are the half-elven descendants of human hostages left in Ravenland in the Forbidden Lands. D66 Elvenspring for the Forbidden Lands has 36 names and briefly described Elvenspring to encounter.
Discussions of Darkness, Episode 36: Nothing In Your Chronicle Should Happen In A Vacuum
In the latest episode of Discussions of Darkness, Neal explains why anything that happens in a Chronicle should have an effect on other things.
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Making a Wooden Mantlet for Tabletop Gaming from Coffee Stirrers
This video shows how to make a wooden mantlet for tabletop gaming using coffee stirrers.
D10: Europe Rumours – The Finance Commission
10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe
This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard about Europe’s Finance Commission. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.
- Audits by the Finance Commission are done on individuals and companies with holdings or throughput in excess of 20,000 eurodollars, with random samplings done on those with less value. It’s rumoured that the random samplings are not entirely random, and that it’s possible to get individuals or companies specifically targeted.
- Commissioners of the Finance Commission often work with Interpol to help the latter with their cases. It’s rumoured that some within the Finance Commission and within Interpol believe that those employed by the other should be permanently assigned to them as part of their own organisation.
- Company and personal finances are audited by the Finance Commission, and it’s rumoured that some of the auditors working for the commission are little more than thugs running a protection racket, with those refusing to pay the necessary “fees” ending up on the wrong ends of audits which, without fail, always find indications of illegal activity.
- Eurobonds are issued by the Eurobank to investors, offering fixed interest rates and available for multiples of five years. It’s rumoured that recently the bank has been issuing Eurobonds in greater than normal numbers, with some wondering just why the bank is seeking so much investor money.
- Part of the Finance Commission is currently running blind tests with members of the general public, both within the EU and without, to see what neutral name the eurodollar should be renamed to, so that there is less objection to it becoming the world’s currency.
- The auditors and inspectors of the Finance Commission all have degrees of at least masters level, though some study in their spare time whilst at more junior levels. It’s rumoured that the commission has been considering founding its own college in order to train its staff with the degrees they need.
- The EC’s finances are controlled by the Finance Commission, which ensures that the budgets of the different commissions are sufficient for their needs. It’s rumoured that those commissions who annoy the Finance Commission in any way find their income drying up and the reasons for this always seem to be corruption within the targeted commission.
- The Eurobank is the most powerful financial institution in the world, and rumour is that it’s even more powerful than it seems. It’s said that the Eurobank has been quietly picking up stakes in financial institutions in other countries, slowly allowing it to affect a country’s economics without wielding the brute force of the eurodollar against them.
- The Finance Commission has a large number of security personnel, for transportation and site security and as the bodyguards of inspectors and auditors. It’s rumoured that the commission is planning to organise its security personnel so that they are more like a military force than a security one.
- The reserves of the Eurobank are stored within vaults in the mountains between Freilassing and Salzburg. These have a reputation for being the strongest vaults on the planet, and it’s rumoured that, so far, no-one has managed to successfully breach them. Which doesn’t stop people from trying, and it’s said that those who get closest, and survive the experience, are offered the choice of either indenture to the Finance Commission or being disappeared.
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100 Whispers & Rumors For Moüd, City of Bones, 100 Books to Find in or about the Grand Duchy of Reme II and 100 Encounters for Fantasy Mountains (SWADE) Now Available
100 Whispers & Rumors For Moüd, City of Bones, 100 Books to Find in or about the Grand Duchy of Reme II and 100 Encounters for Fantasy Mountains (SWADE) are now available on DriveThruRPG.
Moüd is an old, and once lost, city in the Sundara setting, and has complications that date back centuries. 100 Whispers & Rumors For Moüd, City of Bones has rumours for the city’s different districts.
Not every book is definitely useful or valuable and 100 Books to Find in or about the Grand Duchy of Reme II (Lost Lands) has 100 such to flesh out a bookshelf in the Lost Lands setting about the Grand Duchy of Reme.
Mountains can be dangerous places and 100 Encounters for Fantasy Mountains (SWADE) has 100 encounters that can be used to add flavour to a journey.
Tactical Plastic Report Episode 6: The Acetal Alliance
In this episode, Neal Litherland talks about the Acetal Alliance, one of the nations of the Plastos Federation in Army Men.