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* I've signed up for a 4-sesson D&D mini-campaign... because it takes place on a train. We need to bring level 9 characters, so I am attempting to multi-class. 6 levels of wizard - school of necromancy, and 3 in rogue. I do not know D&D or what it's terms mean very well. I want my nice clean GURPS tables darnnit.

D&D also has a big problem of look at all these choices! But if you want to be effective you only play this short list of builds. If you want to play Dwarf, this is your class and your sub-species and your archetype. Want to be be a rogue? Pick this race, this sub-species, this everything. Anything else, and you are playing a less effective character which effects the whole party.

I will roll with it, but my brain and the mechanics of D&D have never gotten along. Sadly, my system of choice got raided by the Secret Service and was dragged to federal court, so they lost market share due to the financial impacts and it isn't really played these days. (GURPS was never going to have the cultural impact of D&D, but every time I see a thinkpiece about 'why this other system fell off, clearly it must have been deeply flawed' I feel a thousand years old)

* I feel like every video essay or discussion of genre stuff just assumes knowledge of The Mummy (1999) staring Brendan Fraiser. Part of why I've never watched it was because I've seen to many clips, I feel like I've seen most of it. I've seen it discussed so much... I was waiting until like I'd forgotten a few details so I could watch the movie without them being in my head.

At this point I need to just see it. I didn't think before I clicked on the OSP holiday special, which this year was Mummy research, that of course it was just going to start talking about the movie assuming people were familiar with it.

* Before the end of the year, I want to get actually watching The Mummy out of the way, but also I want to watch Easy Rider and National Treasure. Easy Rider is directly responsible for limited access to the most historic cemetery in New Orleans, and one of the many stories I'd heard for the reason behind Nicolas Cage having a crypt there is that it's a National Treasure reference. I have seen National Treasure, but not in ages, I want to see if that tracks as the reason for the design.

* I also want to make a short list of books I will finish before the end of the year, but I am still working on that list. I also need to make posts about my planner stuff, hopefully soon because I have managed to get enough stuff off of my plate that I have at least 3 brain cells left.

* I am still working on becoming a properly accessorized D&D player. I ordered a dice tray off of Etsy and it was lost by the postal service for a month.

* My writing laptop dying means my November writing project is off to a slow start, but I am to be on track by the end of this week.

The existential angst of having to choose only 3 sets of dice

The dice case/tray combo I am using for D&D holds 3 sets of dice. So, I must needs choose:



Close up of just the d12s to see details:



Notes:

* The red dice look waaay better in person, they grab and play with the light in amazing ways.

* The black + rainbow dice are steel anodized to be rainbow with black enamel. Don't ask me how often I think 'Eddie Munson would go nuts for these', I can't count that high. Also, the sound they make hitting the dice tray is so satisfying.

* The silver sparkles in the purple / silver / blue dice also look better in person - cell phones aren't great at details. Maybe I should do a proper set of glamor shots with my real camera at a point.

* The grey/smokey dice with green ink are like paranormal investigation vibes, so I need them

* The very green dice are gelatinous ooze vibes, they're a D&D monster that eat adventurers and leaves their gear. It's a classic all the way back to the OG basic ed D&D. They are very cool if you understand the reference.

These are not all my dice, but how do I leave any of those behind?