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cotham is an extreme limited state politics scenario and while a legit concern is not gonna be part o' some broad national scheme or strategy. again, did some folks already forget 2020? in spite o' the democrat handwringing over the overturn o' roe, one o' the reasons there were no red wave in the mid terms is 'cause o' a broader public rejection o' the Court's dobbs decision and the perception republicans were to blame for taking from americans an important fundamental right. however, am gonna concede rfk jr is more popular with undereducated conservatives than the vast majority o' people who voted for biden last cycle, but this so ain't 2000 and you give voters far too much credit in any event. first, tribalism is far different today than it were at the turn o' the century. core trump voters are not leaving him for any reason, not pu$$y grab, january 6 or four indictments. more disappointing is the recognition most republicans is similar gonna vote trump just so long as he is the gop candidate. one thing which hasn't changed since 2000 is that conservatives vote. incumbents always need be concerned with a spoiler but the problem is magnified for democrats. libs, particular young democrats, underrepresent and if you give 'em any reason to be ambivalent, bored or distracted, there is a good chance they will let you down. second, rfk jr mentioning bobby and jack every chance he gets is calculated. conspiracy minded independents may be the most animated supporters o' rfk jr, but rfk jr is gonna garner more than a few democrat votes for no reason other than recognition o' his last name. you serious think those republican mega donors would be contributing to a candidate who claims additives in drinking water is resulting in a spikes o' feminization in young boys and masculinization in girls if not for the kennedy name? on this message board we act as if facts and issues is important, but the reality is that for an all too large % o' the population, issues and facts is secondary... perhaps tertiary concerns. people need serious listen to interviews with real voters. aside, the main reason we believe rfk jr is a relative non factor at the moment (things can change) is 'cause while democrats is terrible at voting, trump is loathed. Nikki Haley calls Trump ‘most disliked politician in America’: ‘We can’t win a general election that way’ am not a nikki fan, but she is correct about trump. am having observed more than once trump is the only republican candidate am confident democrats will vote against, though desantis is fighting hard to achieve same boogieman status. but again, is only august o' 2023 and depending on the economy, hunter biden silliness or any number o' as yet unknowns could change the calculus for voters and then the kennedy name might be just enough to swing things in battleground states. at the moment, there is an equal if not greater opposite cotham effect at work in the US as the republican anti-woke nonsense and doubling down on the weaponization of the doj narrative is so not helping at-risk gop seats. democrats is gleeful cornering at-risk republicans, forcing 'em to public take a stand on such idiocy as "defund the fbi," knowing such is no-win for most gop candidates. the first wave o' jim crow legislation were a reaction to the not unreasonable fear o' southern democrats (times change, eh?) that an increasing educated and voting black minority would hurt the established power structure in many southern states. blacks represented 30% of the population in alabama in 1960 and the percentage were decreasing yearly, but exaggerated fears o' the threat to traditional values a voting black populace were used to bring about a reactionary wave. extremism o' those in power increased as the perceived threat to their power became more evident. the new jim crow in texas, and the rest o' the south, is all too familiar, but while it retains a racist core, the change which republicans choose to resist is inextricable linked to inevitable economic changes that mirror what california experienced decades past. every year texas shifts more towards a service based economy with an emphasis on tech. expect republicans in georgia, north carolina and texas to become more reactionary in the coming years. is why we study history. HA! Good Fun! ps while perhaps suffering from a bit o' oversimplification, voting and abortion laws in texas is ideal subject matter for exploration via a crt approach. is natural and predictable for the dominant demographic group, once they recognize a legitimate threat to their power, to double-down and attempt to reverse cultural and economic trends by means o' passing increasing draconian legislation.

two featuring the recent departed robbie robertson . rip

kp says he ain't worried 'bout rfk jr candidacy today, but am thinking such shows startling lack o' imagination and/or equal limited recollection o' history. the last couple Presidential elections has come down to tens o' thousands o' votes in a handful o' battleground states. in the case o' rfk jr, republicans ain't hoping rfk jr wins a democratic primary, but if he peels off a few thousand independent and democrat votes from an unpopular guy like biden in georgia or pennsylvania, will anybody be shocked? how many votes did trump ask for raffensperger to find in georgia? 11,780? some o' you is too young to recall, but you shoulda' learned in school that bush beat gore 'cause o' less than five hundred total votes. in a nation o' hundreds o' millions, a few hundred votes in florida determined the Presidency. kari lake, on the other hand, were the situation which had to have democrats thanking God/Satan/Xenu/Cthulhu that she didn't win. democrats pumped millions into her campaign believing she were unelectable, and their plan ultimately worked as something like 40k arizona folks who voted for republicans down ballot did not vote for kari lake. however, lake only lost by 17k votes and her rhetoric has steadily become adopted as the norm as 'posed to exceptional by arizona republicans. those who fail to learn from history... HA! Good Fun!

aside, seeing as how more than 50% o' rfk jr's campaign money is coming from republican mega donors, am thinking he deserves a spot on the debate stage, although he may not meet the minimum number of individual contributors requirement. regardless, republicans is spending a whole lotta dough on a sham candidate and am thinking they deserve to have their contribution recognized. reverse side o' the same coin, if democrats continue to fund extremist republican candidates in the belief those candidates may win primaries but will lose against moderate democrats in a general election, am thinking those democrat funded "republican candidates" should likewise appear to debate democrats, although am not sure any 2020 national office republican saw more than 50% funding come from democrats, so is not exact an apples-to-apples comparison with rfk jr. am kidding but am nevertheless thinking it is kinda contemptable behaviour to intentional promote perceived unelectable candidates. the extremist candidates such as rfk jr and the host o' gibbering election denial and anti-abortion lunatics who got mowed down in the midterms, is set up to undermine electable moderate candidates and there is no doubt the scheme has proven effective. however, am thinking it is hypocritical to condemn the extremism o' your political adversaries if you is spending millions o' dollars promoting your opponent's most fringe challenging candidates regardless o' the efficacy o' the stratagem. in any event, am thinking it would be fun to see who 'tween vivek ramaswamy and rfk jr could abase themselves to the qanon element most effective on a national stage. am suspecting giorgio tsoukalos' head might explode if he watched those two metaphorical race to the bottom in their effort to embrace far-fetched pseudo-logic. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23925061-govuscourtsflsd6486541290?responsive=1&title=1 To be sure, the Messino court “decline[d] to create a per se rule against excluding evidence to remedy a conflict of interest,” id. at 830 (citing United States v. Diozzi, 807 F.2d 10 (1st Cir. 1986)), but Nauta has not identified any case, and the Government is unaware of one, in which a court has excluded evidence to avoid a conflict on facts remotely similar to this case, where the Government put Mr. Woodward on notice long ago about potential conflicts, and he is now seeking to affirmatively use those conflicts to gain a tactical advantage at trial by excluding highly incriminating evidence to the benefit of not only his own client but also a co-defendant (Trump) whose PAC is paying his legal fees. The Court should not countenance this maneuver. jack smith, in most polite way possible, suggesting defendants and judge cannon is talking out their seeming collective kiester. when the mar-a-lago documents case got started, we tried to give aileen canon the benefit o' the doubt, but such deference did not last long as her rulings from the bench evidenced either unconscionable bias for a defendant or gross incompetence regarding knowledge of the law. time suggests cannon's curious behaviour were an alchemy o' both bias and incompetence. and the hits keep coming. judge cannon is giving the appearance o' acting as an advocate for trump. when the appellate court rejected her reasoning for appointing a special master and denying the government access to evidence seized during a warrant search which even trump's attorneys were not arguing was improper, they chastised her rather forceful. unfortunate, judge cannon thus far appears to have learned nothing from her earlier appellate rebuke. is possible judge cannon digs in and forces another appellate intervention on the appropriateness o' a garcia hearing for which there is no real support for the defendant's position. a second predictable brutal rebuke from an appellate court might be enough to get aileen removed from the case. alternatively, judge cannon might grant the doj request thus avoiding another appellate showdown, thus allowing her to continue to wreck havoc from the bench. cannon also canceled a hearing regarding a protective order to address the multiple defendant's ability to view classified and national secret documents and artifacts as part o' discovery. cannon did not reschedule the hearing. canceled. wtf? the government cannot release documents until there is some kinda protective order decision and so discovery is effective stopped... indefinite. the dominant voice in our head is a cynic and am thinking the garcia stoopid and the protective order hearing is a sign o' things to come. am a bit curious to see how cannon deals with the garcia hearing 'cause we don't see any way the 11th circuit finds for the defendant and another blistering appellate rebuke o' cannon could be justification for jack smith to seek her removal from the case. HA! Good Fun!

cnn article only brief mentions the artemis accords which is unfortunate. am knowing musk has been talking 'bout mars, but lunar south pole exploration is kinda the next big thing; the US plan for a manned mars trip always assumed an initial return to the moon at the lunar south pole. the presence o' frozen water in perpetual shadowed craters at the moon's south pole is a hoped for discovery and the discovery o' mineable water in meaningful quantities would make some kinda lunar outpost far more practical in the future. so, with the india rover soon to get underway, we got our fingers crossed and am hoping for news o' billions years old comet residue to be discovered by india in the dusty surface o' some nameless lunar crater, locked away in unfathomable darkness which has endured since long before humans or even dinosaurs evolved... and thanks to the artemis accords, news and tech support for the endeavor is gonna be shared 'mongst many cooperating nations. congrats and good luck to india. HA! Good Fun!

make bg3, bg2, bg1 with the iwd2 rules implementation would be something we would pay good money to see. aside, am knowing you dislike bards and perhaps if we saw bg3 implementation we would also like 'em less. however, we will observe the best bg2 stronghold quest were bard, but 'cause almost nobody played as a bard, all that content were wasted. last time we personal played a d&d bard were d20 and we thought it were fun. we also played and had fun with bard archetypes in pathfinder pnp: dwarven scholar & detective. we got good will built up for bards. converse, years o' pnp experience has resulted in our reflexive dislike o' druids, a class almost invariably played as some kinda annoying hippie wannabe or as a 20th/21st century ecoterrorist. if somebody says they is gonna play a druid as part o' a pnp group, it takes effort for us to stifle a groan. have never once seen somebody play a druid other than cliché or cartoon. drizz't mucked up the ranger class for many players, but to be fair, 2nd edition went all in on the drizz't silliness by adding dual-wield as a class feature. even so, were drow fan boys and not tsr who added lame to the class. ranger has been busted ever since 2nd edition. paladins is rare played well, but am admitting we has seen exceptions to a general trend. we ordinarily avoid druids, rangers and paladins in d&d crpgs cause o' our dislike o' how they is played in pnp... which doesn't actual make much sense. irrational doesn't change the fact we tend to avoid those three classes. HA! Good Fun!

is not bad to slavish follow a recipe. the first time we prepare a dish, we near always follow recipes as written or described. if you like how the dish came together, then is no reason to make changes to instructions provided in the recipe. the thing is, am finding we frequent make changes to recipes based on personal taste as well as our accumulated cooking knowledge. is often ways to achieve improved results by changing a described process or ingredients, but one should understand both the impact o' process and the qualities o' ingredients when making such changes. understanding process and ingredients is also helpful when ingredients is not readily available. try and find decent tasso at a market in the sacramento valley. good luck. making tasso requires minimum three days; our recipe calls for seven days. when we make red beans and rice, chances are we skip the tasso, but am recognizing what the tasso brings to the dish, so am able to fake the smoke and tang from the pickled meat. it don't take much imagination to add cheese curds to an online or cookbook recipe calling for cheese curds. as 'posed to slavish following an established recipe you took no personal part in creating, am suspecting gordon ramsey would be a bit more impressed if you convinced a group o' self-appointed wisconsin cheese pundits that the meal they just enjoyed contained cheese curds without using cheese curds. just sayin. unrelated, we had an ez cassoulet for dinner... multi-beans (royal corona, tarbais and great northern,) couple handfuls o' torn bread pieces (small pieces) from a two-day-old baguette, tomatoes (roma and cherry,) summer squash, corn and bacon were the main ingredients. we used a fair amount o' garlic and finished with fresh basil and grated parmesan. we use our insta pot to pre-cook the beans which is so much easier than an overnight soak followed by cooking. the beans require a bit less than an hour in the insta pot and is complete hands-off during cooking. the summer squash and corn cassoulet recipe we have calls for mint but we used basil. guess what? the meal were delicious even w/o mint. go figure. HA! Good Fun!

saw headlines and instant wondered if the scientist had "fallen" out o' a window or been poisoned. HA! Good Fun!

gonna admit we always thought the cheese curd hype from wisconsin folks were more imagination than real. tested our theory by making poutine for acquaintances from midwest/wisconsin. showed 'em the packaging from the sooper expensive cheese curds we got shipped from wisconsin-- two varieties. served our guests two kinda poutine, but one option were not cheese curds but rather a Gromnir house substitute involving provolone and mozzarella. when we asked our guests/guinea pigs which slight melty and covered with gravy "cheese curds" were better/more authentic, three outta four preferred our knockoff mozzarella and provolone substitute, and nobody recognized the mozz + porvolone as fraudulent. we didn't spoil the meal by informing our guests they had been used to test a pet theory. everybody left satisfied, especial Gromnir. HA! Good Fun! ps guests also preferred restaurant quality deep fried frozen fries as 'posed to made-from-scratch fries... though am admitting we did not have access to kennebec potatoes which is the variety o' tater am believing makes the best french fries. we didn't do any sorta switcheroo on the fries. not doing deceptive with fries were intentional sleight o' hand on our part as our guests were focused more on looking to determine which fries were genuine so they overlooked the possibility we had done something sneaky with the cheese.

ad&d bards were idiotic with the triple class nonsense. 2e bards were suck. we actual liked d20 bards, but only if we had a dm who made skill checks meaningful. 4e skalds made decent leaders, but almost nobody liked 4e, so... 5e bards? the most obvious criticism we got o' d&d 5e bards is that they is too good at too many different things. parental marital status aside, am observing just how stacked is 5e bards. as charisma characters with skill bonus abilities which makes 'em a good choice as a face character, bards is an excellent choice for a single-player crpg such as bg3. bards are also full casters who are able to cherry pick the best spells from other classes. with one level o' life cleric, bards is elite healers if you wanna go that route and regardless they may provide a party a few o' the best buffs available in 5e. no, bards ain't as good as fighters in weapon combat, but they is solid and may be built better than solid if you need to be an elite weapon-haver. the bard class has many pros and few cons. am not planning on playing bg3 anytime soon, but if/when we do decide to give bg3 a chance, our likely first character will be a valor bard. sure, a halfling valor bard dual-wielding hand crossbows is ridiculous, but ridiculous is a selling point from our pov. we will note how the luck quality o' halflings is serious underappreciated. sure, hobbits don't fit the power fantasy image many players is trying to create with their bg3 avatar, but from a numbers pov, halfling luck is win. make intelligence a dump stat and choose drums. name animal. if it makes you feel better, chances are we go dark urge which in a sense is bastard territory given the requisite dubious parentage. HA! Good Fun!

the last two years haven't been bad for wildfires in norcal. nevertheless, more than a few insurance companies called it quits. if you wanna live in most o' el dorado, placer, nevada or sierra counties, it may be difficult to secure home insurance which isn't cost prohibitive... may be functional impossible for new homes in certain areas, although the fair plan does offer a kinda respite. our residence is foothills, so the mountains is a short trek removed. is amazing how much difference a fifteen minute drive east on highway 50 makes in terms o' surrounding greenery and decreased summer temps. HA! Good Fun!

it is the same in CA-- the "basic check" is only involving an emissions test plus a check of computer + hud lights. if your car is old enough and you ain't got a computer to check codes, then the "basic check" is functional non existent. HA! Good Fun!

coca cola's lawyers will be contacting obsidian, DOOM and shady 'bout copyright infringement. HA! Good Fun!

one hopes pizza is excluded. tar and feathers remains the prescribed punishment for putting ketchup on a hot dog w/i the city limits o' chicago, but pineapple on a pizza or lettuce/tomato on a taco will likely result in at best a condescending sneer. ... am also admitting a full nerd moment as literal the first thing we thought 'bout 'pon reading your post were that you share malcom reed's favorite food from enterprise... silent enemy episode? something obvious wrong with our brain. HA! Good Fun!

the reason we posts as Gromnir is 'cause we were disappointed with interplay's bg2 forum. particular noobs, but anybody who had the temerity to suggest bg1 and the bioware developers were less than perfect, were treated like heretics or witches whose existence needed to be purged. so we posted Gromnir-style which annoyed the Defenders of the Faith even more than our observations 'bout bg1. worse, the biowarians were not only amused by the Gromnir schtick, but they got what we were doing and appeared to approve which annoyed the bg1 faithful even more. we will observe outrage and groupthink take hold and calcify much quicker nowadays and the scope o' the problem feels larger with "innovations" such as social media magnifying the pestiferous qualities o' gamer anger. regardless, is same issues but perhaps the scope is different. HA! Good Fun!

is precise why we don't tell guests we put prunes in the dish until after they have eaten and informed us how much they enjoyed our stew/roast/whatever. some folks know dried fruit don't belong in a braised meat dish. some are certain they don't like prunes even if they can't recall the last time they had a prune. am finding it is best to give diners a chance to taste and enjoy free o' whatever preconceptions they may have brought to our table. 'course if their preconceptions is the result o' a food allergy... HA! Good Fun!

doesn't matter 'cause is us v. them. american politics is increasingly tribal and for maga and the alt-right, the them is deep state "establishment democrats," blm protesters and illegal immigrants. facts don't matter 'cause is always alternative facts. look hard enough and somewhere on the interweb you will find alternative facts just as reliable as the facts they use. who you gonna believe anyway? the educated elite is part o' them after all. maga is outraged and the core problem we face in fixing maga and alt-right intransigence is that they got reason to be outraged. increasing income inequality and the disappearance o' working class jobs as well as family farms capable o' supporting the american dream broke many living in rural and rust belt america. the pain many maga adherents feel is real. unfortunate, rush limbaugh and his successors convinced a generation o' folks that democrats, "feminazis" and immigrants were the cause o' their problems. didn't take too much effort for the alt-right to sell grievance and outrage to maga, many o' whom had given up on hope for something better and were just trying to make ends meet. you ain't gonna get rid o' maga stoopid until you fix the larger societal and economic problems which created an increasing disaffected working class. good luck with that, eh? trump were the first national politician to come on the scene in many decades who said the quiet part out loud. the real victims o' racial bigotry is working class whites. lgbqt+ and anything else which makes maga folks feel uncomfortable shouldn't be promoted by the government (or even private corporations such as anheuser-busch and target?) white lives matter too. etc. trump said maga anger were justified and that conspiratorial thinking were legit. trump, a guy who literal descended a gold elevator in his own "gilded tower" to begin his Presidential run, somehow became the figurehead for all those marginalized red state and heartland americans and whenever he is attacked by them, right or wrong, legions will spring up to defend him. the reality o' what trump did or said is immaterial insofar as false electors or secret documents. the important part for maga and alt-right folks is trump is yet again being attacked by them. trump (and rfk jr ?) is the guy you can depend on to always fight them. so even if you aren't convinced trump is complete innocent, you know for certain they needs to be opposed. HA! Good Fun!

trump is not being charged with inciting the january 6 attack on the Capitol, so... a good reason key shouldn't respond to individual counts is 'cause is clear he don't know what is being charged. in any event, key posts read like an alt-right mad lib: "political witch hunt," "establishment democrats," "Obama," "banana republic," "Hillary" none o' that stuff has anything to do with the validity o' the various indictments, but you will always hear in a defense o' trump from alt-right sources. we didn't bother responding initial 'cause we saw key's response as eye-roll worthy at best. aside, am gonna repeat how tiresome is the hillary comparisons. serious, people need to quit it with hillary emails. hillary were mindboggling reckless to maintain a private server and fbi director comey tried to make that point brutal clear, but charging her for crimes woulda' been unique in the entirety o' the history o' relevant statutes. the biden and pence document situations is similar non analogous. the only reason the doj learned pence and biden had documents is 'cause pence and biden folks informed the doj o' the presence o' documents, after which pence and biden fully cooperated with the nara/doj efforts to retrieve docs. no obstruction. no effort to withhold documents. no attempts to destroy evidence. honest, if you see as mar-a-lago analogous, am not sure where you is getting your news. keep in mind it were only after trump spent the better part o' a year jerking the feds around as he failed to relinquish docs as is his duty according to the Presidential Records Act that any kinda criminal investigation were initiated. even after the feds realized trump had highly sensitive defense secrets in his possession at a florida resort, the doj wasted three months to final get to the point where they sought a subpoena for doc returns and according to the indictment trump then resorted to attempts to hide documents from the feds and his own lawyers in addition to his efforts to destroy evidence o' his obstruction. the most obvious criticism, and one we would hear from republicans and alt-right loons if we were talking 'bout a democrat ex-President, is why it took so long for the doj to do anything about trump and his mar-a-lago docs. senate republicans on the intelligence committee would be going ape-****e if ex-Prez obama were discovered to have been waving around pentagon attack plans for iran at a martha's vineyard resort and in response the doj did functional nothing but ask politely for doc returns. were only after the obdurate trump team's three stooges efforts to withhold state secrets and cover-up trump malfeasance were a special counsel appointed, a counsel who would choose independent to charge for the fraud and fake elector scheme as well as the mar-a-lago docs issue. only in alt-right fantasy land is trump some kinda victim save o' self harm. lord knows is not worth addressing how multiple indictments and possible convictions will improve trump electability compared to 2020, but at least that aspect is opinions as 'posed to key's clear factual fubar o' his doj weaponization narrative. oh, and we got no idea where key's suggested obama quote regarding banana republics and political adversaries originates, so am unable to discern validity or context. well, last time key learned 'bout eisenhower's military industrial complex speech thanks to Gromnir, so maybe we can learn him something new this time too, eh? baby steps. HA! Good Fun!

on the downside, am no longer able to identify our lonesome as the only person we know who adds prunes when braising meat. HA! Good Fun!

we read the georgia election interference indictment charging trump and coconspirators. were 2:00 am when we did a first read and we were keeping track o' every time an "unindicted coconspirator" were mentioned 'cause is one o' those important facts which sometimes is overlooked in media. caution: not every mention o' an unindicted coconspirator signals a cooperating witness (rat), but such is the obvious conclusion in the absence o' an alternative explanation. is difficult to identify at this stage who exact is the "rat," as such media outlets should be cautious when 'bout speculating on rat identities. is potential defamatory to make guesses w/o evidence. not every mention o' an unindicted coconspirator signals a cooperating witness, but such is the obvious conclusion in the absence o' an alternative explanation. ... we mentioned we were keeping track o' possible rat sightings in the georgia indictment, but we gave up after we hit sixty. serious. is a talky indictment, so is more detail than is ordinary, but even so there musta been at least eighty mentions o' unindicted co conspirators and given the context o' the reveals we ain't talking 'bout just one rat. half dozen? more? dunno. the georgia case is gonna be televised, so that will be must see tv... unless you suffer from musophobia. HA!

fixed sven said their audience were midcore rpg players, purposeful avoiding softcore. not hard. not soft. mid. am honest not sure what midcore is s'posed to mean. the term is possible misleading 'cause the manner in which sven uses makes it less 'bout perceived depth or difficulty as 'posed to a recognition o' broad appeal. as such one assumes larian embraces targeting an expansive goldilocks zone. 'course am thinking hardcore is kinda a weird label which is attached to games which is having little in common save for their niche appeal. am personal not a fan o' aiming for broad appeal. is how we got minivans in the 1990s and new michael bay movie every couple o' years. that said, is tough to argue with success. whether or not you thinks sven is right or wrong 'bout the midcore label, larian has managed to significant expand their audience with each new release. credit where credit is due. admission: the vehicle we got the most use outta for many years were a 1997 chrysler t&c lxi minivan. with all seats removed save driver, it were an ideal dog hauling vehicle. taupe. ugly vehicle made uglier by uglier being brown/bronze. the minivan worked for us precise 'cause it were a fugly, generalist, multitasker. no amount o' dog drool, vomit or mud were gonna make the minivan worse. am s'posing if we had to move a sofa, were a soccer mom with multiple kids, or had an airport shuttle business, the minvan woulda' worked equal well. even so, is difficult to imagine anybody genuine loving their minivan. based on what we saw in bg3 early access, am equal surprised so many people love bg3. looked like a taupe minivan from what we played. 5e weren't our personal issue with bg3. at the same time am recognizing the enduring appeal o' d20 d&d. heck, the reason paizo's pathfinder became so popular is 'cause wotc abandoned d20 and paizo continued to make games gamers recognized as feeling like the d&d they knew and liked... for all its flaws. d20 and old skool d&d love is a big enough niche that it continues to sell pnp and crpg games. regardless, midcore, not soft. HA! Good Fun!

am finding prunes is an underutilized method for adding sweetness or cutting down on acidity in meat dishes. prunes qualifies as a Gromnir pantry staple seeing as how prunes has a decent long shelf life and the frequency with which we use 'em. one o' our favorite prune recipes: the only downside to snacking on prunes as 'posed to using as an ingredient is the sticky factor. we could cut prunes into small pieces and then eat with a utensil, but doing so results in additional cleaning and fork-and-knife a prune just seems kinda pretensions. sticky fingers means am unlikely to eat prunes while simultaneous doing other tasks, which cuts down on their utility. HA! Good Fun!

https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Spelljammer https://spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Spelljammer_Helms#Series_helm spelljammer, which has been around a long time, took starships label literal. think treasure planet "ships." edit: nautiloid info https://spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Nautiloid https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Nautiloid HA! Good Fun!

yes. have mentioned previous but it bears repeating that overcoming wotr difficulties is not 'bout crafting clever tactics. in spite of all the options available, wotr is not complex. the game is crude. all you need do is stack buffs of your party's ab and dc numbers while simultaneous adding debuff to foes. on the highest difficulties to make nenio one-shot demon lords, make sure you got all the mind effect and illusion boosting gear possible, and consider having a court poet in party for the int boost. the madness domain and hexes also become indispensable for debuffing. is worth considering a single level of crossblood sorc. etc. HA! Good Fun!