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RPBook, to militaryhistory
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I've been asked for book recommendations about mercenaries in during the . It's not something I know about. Do any of you have recommendations?
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RPBook, to worldwarshistory
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Gah. I've just visited a #SecondWorldWar group on Facebook, and the first two posts I saw were wrong.

One had a photo of a Sturmtiger claiming it was a Maus.

The other mentioned the Victoria Cross. It correctly mentioned that only one person won the VC twice during the war, but then listed how many VCs were awarded by country, and missed out New Zealand. Charles Upham, the man who won it twice, was a New Zealander.

I feel like I'm being trolled.

#histodons @worldwarshistory

RPBook,
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@synlogic @worldwarshistory True. I'm using Facebook less and less, but some of my friends are there, and it's how we keep in touch.

Maybe I should leave the groups that I'm in though :)

RPBook,
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@synlogic @worldwarshistory yeah, I'm finding Mastodon to be much more pleasant :)

RPBook, to ttrpg
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memory
Our eldest had a 13th birthday during the pandemic lockdowns. So we organised an online RPG for him and some friends.

They played Torchwood operatives, and at the start this woman appeared. She gave them some information, warned them not to harm the creature ("I know what you Torchwood people are like!"), then disappeared.

It was some minutes later that they realised they'd had a call with The Doctor. Their reactions were fantastic :)

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RPBook,
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@ttrpg we'd only asked her to be there for the start. At the end, they had an idea, but needed the TARDIS to make it happen.

Bless her, Charley did a quick change back into kit and hopped back onto Discord to discuss their idea.

She had no script for any of it, just some notes of things to mention at the start. But she ad-libbed her way beautifully through the whole thing.

What could have been a really awful lockdown birthday became a wonderful memory for all concerned.

janbartosik, to bookstodon
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RPBook,
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@janbartosik @bookstodon excellent book, very good film.

RPBook, to militaryhistory
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This review from @PSchweig86 has me very interested in this free solo game about , and I'm going to back the Kickstarter too.
http://hobbygamesrecce.blogspot.com/2023/09/solo-games-battle-cards.html


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RPBook,
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@synlogic @PSchweig86 @militaryhistory @worldwarshistory yes indeed. I'll be interested to see what campaigns the Kickstarter games cover.

todzi, to histodons German
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Which books are you reading right now? @histodons

RPBook,
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@todzi @histodons
Current non-fiction:
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
The Wrecking Crew by Colonel Bernd Horn

Homebrewandhacking, to ttrpg
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What's going on for you? Any new post gen con projects? I wanna know! Tell me about them!

Anyone still here or have you all moved to Threads and Bluesky?

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RPBook,
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@Homebrewandhacking @ttrpg @indiettrpg I have no interest in Threads or BlueSky.

I've got a preview up for my next Kickstarter, a system-agnostic SOE sourcebook: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russellphillips/soe-sourcebook

I'll be posting a request for an artist later today. The Kickstarter will hopefully launch in September.

clacksee, to bookstodon
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Grr. Argh. One of my writers groups has blown up again with people bitching about the fact exist.

Anyways, content warnings exist.

Here, have a blog post.

Spoiler alert: content warnings are a good thing.

https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/blog/behold-she-blogs/content-warnings-are-not-censorship

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RPBook,
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@clacksee @bookstodon I'm lucky that I don't need content warnings, but I've never understood why anyone would object to them.

Is there an RSS feed for your blog?

RPBook, to histodons
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Interesting about Japanese Americans in the and the fight for recognition of the wrong that was done to them.
https://ww2podcast.com/ww2-podcast/201-the-japanese-american-experience-in-wwii/
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RPBook,
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@xankarn @worldwarshistory @histodons I can't wrap my head around the idea that any history is "done" and should no longer be talked about or studied 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for the article 🙂

RPBook, to random
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Some time ago, I read a story about a GM running a pre-written adventure. This GM decided to tweak the adventure as written, by gender swapping every NPC. His (exclusively male) players found it odd that they only met one man. As the game went on, they became increasingly paranoid that the women were doing something to the men.

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RPBook,
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@AimeeMaroux @ttrpg others have commented that they set gender randomly. I think that's a good idea if you don't want to track like I do.

I've heard of men in other scenarios complain that women are over-represented when the proportion is a lot less than half 🙄 Sounds like your friend fell victim to that.

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