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A: Okay, we recently looked at the positives in using monsters, but how about reasons why NPCs are awesome?
C: This might be a topic for you to take the lead on—I mean, you've got an entire town which is essentially full of NPCs, and you utilise them more than you do monsters. How have you found that? A lot of things to be built, obviously.
A: Yeah. And as I mentioned in Part One, sometimes it can be frustrating when you build the perfect villain and then the party destroys them in seconds. But, despite that early setback, I really like using NPCs. There's something so appealing for me to have these over-the-top antagonists who can really interact with player characters.
C: I think people can still develop relationships with monsters. It's definitely easier with characters but I think it is possible with monsters; in my game you guys have moments where you think, 'oh, this fucking monster'.
A: Like Slytherin Gretch? Small, treacherous goblin and would-be assassin of our wizard Emer. Just thinking about him makes my blood boil.
C: That wasn't his name, but yes.
A: On the one hand, yes. Farrar, as a gnome, gets hatred against goblinoid creatures as a racial trait, but it wasn't until she met Slytherin Gretch that I really felt that hate.
C: Still not his name, but I get where you're coming from.
A: But I'd argue that he was more NPC than monster, in terms of having class levels and the intelligence to seek revenge on us.
C: True.
A: And, like, yes, you can build up feelings towards particular types of monsters, but I think the best recurring enemies are NPCs. And I think having recurring antagonists really helps players have a stake in the game.
C: That's a really good point. And once you've built your antagonists to a certain level when you're creating them, they're then pretty easy to level up. You guys have a nemesis group in my campaign who sort of levels with you over the course of the campaign; you encounter them every now and again Star Wolf style, and those meetings are quite cool and interesting.
A: Also, recurring antagonists can be super useful. I think that there are times when you really have to chivvy players into doing something—or sit back and let them go off-piste—so it's reassuring to know that, if there's something you really need them to do, you can have those antagonists show up and act like a red rag to the party. I think if you guys saw the villainous de Leon sisters vanish into the sketchiest of alleys, most of you would go straight after them without hesitation, and that's good for me to know.
C: There may also be something to be said for having enemies we recognise; knowing what class an enemy is, and their likely powers, can be a useful. There are a lot of witches in your campaign, and now we know what some witch powers are, and we know more how they fit into your world.
A: Yeah--it means you don't feel cheated by the actions of a new witch, because you've probably seen someone else do a version of that spell before. Also, a big reason I like NPC enemies is because I can be a smart DM. When you guys faced kelpies, I kept wanting to strategise, but I felt like these water-horse creatures wouldn't think smart.
C: Yeah, I get what you mean.
A: And that's annoying. I like forcing you guys to think more and to use spells or each other's skills inventively; I think you start to do more stuff, and it makes it more interesting in terms of how you play your characters. And I think that's more likely to happen if your enemies are also strategising.
C: I see what you mean. And I want to pick up on something you just said, which was about players feeling cheated by an enemy.
A: Yeah, I think some of the monster 'special attacks' can feel unfair when you don't know about them in advance. Like, to return to the Rot Grubs, they get poison, which feels quite powerful given that they also have grab and gnaw. It would be easy to get annoyed at that. Whereas with NPCs, if they can do something cool—like Isilt and the two crossbows—the players are more like, 'oh, you sunk three feats into your NPC to make them be able to do this one cool move'.
C: True, and most NPCs aren't going to dispatch a player character in a single hit, which stops the game feeling unfair. Players can learn from their mistakes rather than being instantly killed by them. And then it's their fault when they mess up in a very emphatic way. That eases my conscience a little as I throw all these enemies at you.
A: And I think, for me, sure NPCs take a lot of prep time, but I understand their skills and abilities much more, which makes things quicker in game. I like having witches as antagonists—I know what hexes they can use; I know what they can and will do in combat. Well, I say this—I forgot what they could do last campaign and everything went horribly wrong for my de Leon witches, but in general, it works. And I'm not going to mess up in a way which accidentally over-powers my enemies by thinking they can do things they can't do. So that's good.
C: I get your point. A lot of the time in D&D you end up improvising; having reliable enemies you can fall back on is helpful.
A: And making NPCs who match your players' race or class can be useful.
C: Yeah, it creates a fun parallel.
A: Fun, but also a good learning tool for me as a DM; I understand the classes and races so much more. Which is good because then I can get better at utilising the fun quirks which each race/class has, like the fact you play a dwarf and dwarves get a stone-sense or whatever.
C: Stonecunning. Yeah, I automatically get a check to look for weird stone.
A: Exactly, and since that's a Weyrholm-specific thing, I should try to work it in more often, the same way as I should work in Delphi's Travel Domain abilities. I mean, you picked skills and talents for a reason, and I should make them relevant.
C: I get what you mean. Though it's also fallible—I've done campaigns which I've planned around certain characters' abilities or backstories, and then their players weren't able to make it, and there were things which didn't make sense to everyone else because I'd been so character-specific when designing them. In my desire to create content which felt accessible to them, I ended up making it less enjoyable for other people.
A: That's true, one doesn't want to base an entire campaign around one quirk. In an entirely unrelated topic, I really hope Weyrholm doesn't die soon because there are some things which won't make much sense to the other SJWs. But I think so long as one isn't obsessive, having a few nice touches of character-stuff works well.
C: Definitely.
A: Though I often forget. Like, I forget that humans can't see in the dark, and it's not until I design a character and I'm like 'that's their weakness' that I remember to work it into the plot. That's just one example, picked entirely at random; as a sidenote, you are the only character with darkvision in my campaign. I'm not saying that will be important ever, but you are the eyes and ears of the party.
C: I'm going to try and not overthink that comment right now... Focusing on enemies, I'd like to suggest that actually using monsters and using NPCs is less different than you might think. On the monster side, as I've mentioned, I sometimes add a few class levels onto something picked from the bestiary. I've done this a few times, where I'll create a level 2 orc which may in part be from the bestiary and in part be from classes. There's some intermingling, and over time I may build that in to specific NPCs or I might build that into a stronger orc for a particular encounter.
A: Yeah, we keep meeting gnoll warpriests in your game.
C: Right. And on the NPC side, you have the de Leon sisters who all had levels in witch and who all had at least one shared witch ability, which is flight; so I think at some point you probably built them with comparisons. Even if you didn't make a basic template off which you built each individual one, there was probably some continuity between them, which maybe helped you use NPCs monstrously, right?
A: Yeah, I hadn't thought about it that way, but that aspect is definitely there. On the character sheets, I have one witch written out in full, and then on the others, a lot is copied or written in shorthand. And I guess using recurring villains, whether they're my witch sisters--or if Isilt comes back to finish his speech--that's sort of like going through my own private bestiary of villains and selecting from my already-made characters.
C: I think that that might be the sweet spot. You can use your NPCs like monsters, and I like turning some of the bestiary entries—hobgoblins and things like that—to later game enemies through tweaking, which really operates more like building an NPC. A game shouldn't be made up of just monsters or just NPCs; the intermingling of them can be quite fun and interesting, and there's lessons to be learned from either side.
A: Yeah, I should stop thinking of it as either monster or NPC and do a little more mix-and-match with my antagonists. Time for some incredibly powerful rot grub witches.
C: What have I done?
A death in the family – coping with character death
Villains get got – when your cool characters don't get to do any of their cool stuff
Villainous trades – swapping out some useless spells
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Amanita orientigemmata
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name Amanita orientigemmata
name status nomen acceptum
author Zhu L. Yang & Yoshim. Doi
english name "East Asian Gemmed Amanita"
The original description of this species can be found in (Zhu L. Yang & Yochim. Doi, 1999).
The fruiting bodies of A. orientigemmata are small to medium-sized. The cap is 50 - 100 mm wide, at first hemispherical, then becomes convex to plano-convex, occasionally slightly depressed at center, moderate greyish yellow to light yellow, and somewhat darker in the center. It is covered with felty, floccose patches or small subconical warts which are 1 - 4 mm wide, up to 1.5 mm high, and whitish. The cap's margin is short-striate and nonappendiculate. Its flesh is white.
The gills of this species are free, crowded, white to cream-colored; and the short gills are truncate and of diverse lengths.
The stem is 50 - 110 × 10 - 15 mm, subcylindric to attenuate upwards; its surface is whitish to white and covered with fibrillose squamules. The stem's basal bulb is 20 - 30 mm wide, ovate to subglobose; and its volva is short and appressed limbate or is a floccose, white to yellowish group of patches or warts near the bulb's apex. The annulus is white to yellowish, and often torn from the stem during expansion of the pileus.
Spores of A. orientigemmata measure (7.5-) 8.0 - 10.0 (-11.0) x (6.0-) 6.5 - 7.5 (-8.0) µm and are broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid and inamyloid. Clamps are present on the bases of basidia.
Amanita orientigemmata occurs in mixed forests with broad-leaved trees and conifers. Its distribution range is from Japan to China.
Amanita orientigemmata is characterized by its grayish yellow to light yellow pileus with whitish, felted volval patches or warts, inferior and fugacious annulus, limbate volva, inamyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid spores, and the presence of basidial clamps.
It differs from A. gemmata (Fr.) Bertillon in its presence of clamps, slightly smaller spores, and different structure of volval remnants on the cap. The volval remnants on cap of Amanita gemmata from Europe dominantly consist of irregularly to subradially arranged, filamentous hyphae, mixed with scattered to locally fairly abundant inflated cells.
In Japan, the species was originally described from Fir-Chinkapin (Abies-
Castanopsis) forest. Amanita orientigemmata has been collected in coniferous as well as mixed and broadleaved forests in northeastern and southeastern China. - Zhu L. Yang
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author ["orientogemmata"] Zhu L. Yang & Yoshim. Doi. 1999. Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. B 25(3): 107, figs. 1-4.
MycoBank nos. 459919
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AY436465 nrITS (partial) (HKAS 38345) Zhang et al. (2004), Key Lab. Biodivers. Biogeogr., Kunming Inst. Bot., Yunnan, China
AY436497 nrLSU (HKAS 38345) Zhang et al. (2004), Key Lab. Biodivers. Biogeogr., Kunming Inst. Bot., Yunnan, China
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The following material not directly from the protolog of the present taxon and not cited as the work of Dr. Z. L. Yang or another researcher is based on original research by R. E. Tulloss.
NOTE: Spore measurements from papers by Z. L. Yang use his "Times New Roman" face for "Q" and "Q'"—respectively, "Q" and "Q."
basidiospores from the protolog: [100/4/3] (7.5-) 8.0 - 10.0 (-11.0) × (6.0-) 6.5 - 7.5 (-8.0) μm, (Q = (1.07-) 1.15 - 1.46 (-1.59); Q = 1.30 ± 0.01), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, rarely subglobose; apiculus small.
from Yang et al. (2001): [25/1/1] (7.0-) 8.0 - 10.0 (-10.5) × (5.5-) 6.0 - 7.0 (-7.5) μm, (Q = (1.08-) 1.18 - 1.50 (-1.55); Q = 1.36 ± 0.11), broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid, rarely subglobose, colorless, hyaline, thin-walled, inamyloid.
from Yang (2002a): [20/1/1] (8.5-) 9.0 - 10.5 × 7.5 - 8.5 (-9.0) μm, (Q = 1.13 - 1.24 (-1,27); Q' = 1.19 ± 0.04), hyaline, colorless, smooth, thin-walled, inamyloid, broadly ellipsoid, sometimes subglobose; apiculus proportionately small; contents not recorded; color in deposit not recorded.
ecology Solitary to gregarious. China: On soil in forest. Japan: In Abies-Castanopsis forest.
material examined from the protolog: JAPAN: HONSHU—Tottori Prefecture - Tottori City, Ôchidani [Pk.?], 8.ix.1979 E. & F. Nagasawa s.n. (paratype, TNS-F-198540), 9.ix.1979 E. & F. Nagasawa s.n. (paratype, TNS-F-198546), 12.ix.1979 E. & F. Nagasawa s.n. (holotype, TNS-F-198537).
Yang et al. (2001): CHINA: HAINAN—Ledong Li Autonomous Co. - Jianfengling, 26.ix.1987 T. H. Li s.n. (HMIGD 12446a, as "Amanita bingensis" in Bi et al (1997)).
Yang (2002a): CHINA: JILIN—Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture - Antu Co., Mt. Changbai, s.d. Y. Wang 811333 (IFP).
Zhang et al. (2004) voucher for sequencing: CHINA: YUNNAN—Unkn. loc., s.d. unkn. coll. s.n. (HKAS 38345).
citations —Z. L. Yang and R. E. Tulloss
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We all know that butter is the latest buzz-word, especially if you are part of the Banting community!
Fat is our new best friend.
Margarine is a definite no-no! But, please have some butter in your coffee, with your fried eggs, in your porridge, on your seed crackers, your veggies, in your sauces and anywhere else you feel like it. Butter on absolutely everything, every day, all the time! Yes please – triple yum!
But, what makes butter from grass-fed cows so special?
Grass-fed butter is rich in about 400 different fatty acids and a number of vitamins, such as A, D and E, but vitamin K2 is only present in cows eating rapidly growing green grass, rich in vitamin K1. K1 is then converted into K2 by the cow's system, which is something our bodies cannot do. Therefore, by eating grass-fed butter we are able to utilise this vitamin. K2 is responsible for making sure that calcium is deposited into our bones correctly, promoting strong bones and teeth, as well as helping to prevent tooth decay (by reducing the amount of acidophilus bacteria in the mouth). K2 also helps to prevent heart disease by stopping calcium from being deposited in the arteries. It is also shown to be important for brain function and the reproductive system. Pregnant women deficient in this vitamin, often give birth to children with poor facial bone structure. K2 is also found in pastured eggs, some organs like kidney and liver, and marrow, from grass-fed cows.
Grass-fed butter is also high in butyric acid, which promotes a healthy metabolism, wonderful for weight regulation, and helps to control insulin sensitivity, which is great for anyone on the Banting diet, with insulin resistance and Diabetes. It also has anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-stress properties.
And that's why I choose to use butter from grass-fed cows in my products.
I started my business, Sweet Like Candi, a little over a year ago because I saw the need for delicious gluten free and sugar free treats.
I have had an interesting health and food journey – in my eyes, both food and health are inexorably linked. I am a firm believer that you are what you eat.
I suffered in excess of eight years of my life with intestinal ulcers, bloating, insomnia, brain fog, mood swings and a number of other uncomfortable and painful symptoms, until I was lead to a Homeopath, (after all a doctor could prescribe to me were anti-depressants, which I refused to take).
Months of elimination tests culminated in some blood tests that stated that I had intolerances to gluten, dairy, eggs, yeast and garlic.
Knowledge is power, and I equipped myself with as much information as I could on the subject. At first, I was immensely overwhelmed because when reading food labels, it became apparent that these items were in the majority of store bought and ready-made foods.
This sparked my passion for cooking because I realized that the only way that I was going to be able to eat anything, was to make it myself.
Baking became my biggest challenge as I was determined to bake without the likes of flour, eggs, milk, sugar and yeast. I realized that baking was a science, and the only way to bake without an ingredient was to figure out what the ingredient actually did, in order to replace it.
I did extensive research, wrote articles, experimented for hours on end, forced my friends to be my guinea pigs, and eventually I started a blog about my food journey because I reasoned that there must be other people out there in the same position as me.
Six years ago, it wasn't an easy task to eat out at restaurants, if you had allergies or intolerances. Trying to explain what I wanted to eat became a five day game, because I would forget to mention no basting on my steak or no dressing on my salad, and landed up sending my food back more often than not. My friends, I'm sure, dreaded going out with me. So, I was faced with a choice, stay at home or just not be strict when going out and suffer the consequences. I still wanted a social life, so I chose the latter, which became a bit of a downward spiral as one cheat lead to another, and one compromise led to another until eventually I was not healing myself.
I landed up at an Iridologist who looked into my eye and summed up my health woes in one word – Candida. Candida is a yeast infection. The organism Candida Albicans is already present in our bodies, such as the mouth and gut, in order for us to function correctly. Factors such as stress, poor diet, a compromised immune system, extended use of antibiotics, alcohol and birth control pills can cause it to grow out of control.
In my case, the Candida was the worst he had seen. It was in every organ of my body and he said that if I continued the way I was going, I might not be able to fall pregnant. And thus started my new blog, and my new food journey, Sweet Like Candida.
This blog is just focused on eliminating gluten and sugar – and I thought how amazing it was to be able to bake with eggs and dairy again.
I started finding ways to replace the sugar and gluten, making my own gluten free flour mixes and I even made a few cakes using beans. I pushed the boundaries with ingredients, much like I had done before.
But, even though I now had a new eating plan, I wasn't feeling healthy and I still wasn't losing the fat roll around my middle – a sure fire sign that I was insulin resistant.
Around this time, my step mom found out that she had Type 2 Diabetes. Her health journey led her to Tim Noakes, The Real Meal Revolution and Banting, which in a nut shell is about eating real food and avoiding anything processed and ready-made. In an ironic twist of fate, it seemed like my food journey had come full circle.
I devoured the Real Meal Revolution book from cover to cover and became excited when it mentioned reversing Candida, which had by now become my life's mission.
The main aim with Candida is to starve it of all sugar, and foods which convert into sugar, which it feeds on – thus Banting is the perfect diet for me.
When I learned about the phenomenon of hidden carbs in foods, it was like a light bulb went on in my head; it made complete sense to me, because although I wasn't eating gluten or sugar, per se, I was still eating rice and potatoes and some fruits and vegetables, which all, because of their hidden carbs, converted into sugar in the body, fueling my Candida.
The book made me feel like someone understood where I was coming from, and how I still absolutely needed my food to taste delicious and that I didn't want to feel deprived because I was eliminating certain things from my diet.
The huge amount of fat did cause me to panic at first because all my life I had been taught that fat was bad and unhealthy. But, with the constant repetition from my step mom that fats are good and carbs and hidden carbs are the enemy, my mind began to shift as I tested it out and began to see the results in myself.
I no longer experienced the yo-yo effect with my weight – losing it and then putting it back on. The bloating stopped and so did the mind fog and mood swings. I had so much energy, with no more tired slumps or lethargy. I was happier than I had felt in forever and I just wanted to share my good fortune with the world, and so began my new task, with my new business – Sweet Like Candi.
Sweet Like Candi specializes in cakes, desserts and savoury items for all occasions. Some examples include: cauliflower pizza bases, bread, truffle squares and a variety of cakes and cupcakes. Only the best ingredients are used: free range eggs; grass fed butter, cream and yoghurt; organic chocolate, cocoa and coconut oil; vanilla extract (to name a few).
All of my products are Banting, low carb, Diabetic friendly, grain free, sugar free – as well as dairy and egg free (where applicable).
Children's diets have become very important to me – I feel that the sooner we start, not only feeding them better, but educating them on the foods that they consume, the better they will feel and the better equipped they will be to fight, and even prevent, health issues in the future. I am constantly creating treats and snacks that are delicious, healthy and kid approved.
I am excited about a healthy future. All it takes is a choice and the want to live a happy, fulfilled life.
Making curry is one of my most favourite and relaxing things to do. Building up the flavours as I go along and creating the perfect balance of sweet, salty, and spicy, to me, is an almost spiritual creative-release. Not only because of the intricate layering of flavours, and the intoxicating aromas, but because with each chop of the blade and sprinkle of spice, I allow my mind to wander, peacefully, to uncharted territories.
Something as beautiful as the perfect curry, dolloped with a cooling mound of thick yoghurt and fresh sprigs of tangy coriander, deserves the perfect accompaniment – whether you are mopping up the juices or wanting to house the curry in a "bread-like" cocoon, for the ultimate spicy sandwich.
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