Recent content by Hriston

I'd use the 1932 Clark Ashton Smith story Maker of Gargoyles as inspiration and have gargoyles be actual statues (so constructs) imbued with the strong vice/virtue of their incredibly talented creator/sculptor, which brings them to life. Subtypes: Sin type Pride Greed Wrath Envy Lust Gluttony...

I think story, as it's used in this article, means a broad outline of the expected fictional content of gameplay, so the "story" of D&D would be something like a group of capable adventurers overcomes challenges in a medievalesque fantasy world which likely include fighting against fantastic...

I'm not sure if he meant it to be accessible to readers of his own (Victorian) time. His relentless use of archaisms seems intended, rather, to place the reader into a relationship with the somewhat alien syntax of a high and far-off time. He literally does this at every conceivable opportunity...

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and writer, has died at the age of 51.

I missed posting this the first time, but another point of interest for fans of Tolkien is the colophon at the end of the Project Gutenberg EBook version I was reading (emphasis added): CHISWICK PRESS:---C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. I've edited my post to include this.

I finished reading The Roots of the Mountains, by William Morris, last night. It felt like a bit of a slog, probably because I was reading it every night before falling asleep, and I've had a tendency lately to doze off pretty quickly, so it took me a long time to get through it. Its influence...

New images of 3I/ATLAS taken with the Nordic Optical Telescope on 11/11/25 show no evidence for breakup following perihelion and still exhibiting a sunward "anti-tail". https://faculty.epss.ucla.edu/~jewitt/NOTpictures.pdf

Yep, that's what I have for Terrin as well, assuming he wasn't targeted by Aywin.

I'd assumed from @Leatherhead's question that everyone on the team had been targeted by Aywin because it didn't really make sense to ask about Terrin's casting this far after the fact. I hadn't seen in the thread who specifically was targeted by Aywin and had assumed it wouldn't stack anyway...

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was asking about the healing benefit of the spell rather than the bonus to max hp which we already had and, I assume, is being extended to eight hours from the time of Aywin's casting. Do we each heal another 5 hp, or does the higher amount of healing we already received...

So even though Team Infiltrate were already benefitting from an earlier casting of aid, they regain another 5 hit points from Aywin's casting?

Terrin cast aid on team infiltrate during the battle with the cultists and mercenaries. Another casting wouldn't stack, would it?

I hadn't heard of Prof. Loeb before the publicity around 3I/ATLAS, but my impression is he has made the search for extraterrestrial technology a focus of his career and that he is using the appearance of 3I/ATLAS and 1I/'Oumuamua as an opportunity to make a case publicly that this type of...

I tried to watch it but could only get less than half way through. I definitely would not recommend it to anyone.

The latest image of 3I/ATLAS, taken on 9 November, 2025.