Dungeon Mastery: Being Tsundere should be seen as a kind of (Inter)national Epidemic

What is Tsundere?
Tsundere is a Japanese term for a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold before gradually showing a warmer, friendlier side over time. The word is derived from the terms tsun tsun, meaning to turn away in disgust or anger and dere dere meaning to become 'lovey dovey'. -Wikipedia

Its Relevance to Dungeons & Dragons
You will find that all Players and Dungeon Masters fall into this category. There is some damage that poisons humanity and those seeking refuge in Dungeons & Dragons seem hardest hit, perhaps because they are no more than a population sample. 
Dungeons & Dragons isnt just a game, its a shared experience where over time, players and Dungeon Masters grow just like their Characters and game-play Skills. Gygax and Co. have inadvertently staved off a significant spread of that epidemic with a globally accessible game that encouraged personal growth and human interaction. Beyond the game about killing people and taking their stuff it dragged kids out of their shells.
Where the Internet has given people the ability to hide in their room and communicate through a series of hostile acts escalating rapidly toward the failure of Civilization, Dungeons & Dragons was, oddly enough, the Panacea.

Basic Expert: Overusing Magic

Starting out an OP wizard...

Having caught an interesting anime called isekai wa smartphone (journey to another world with my smartphone) I noticed this little scene in the intro sequence and it reminded me of something from the cover of a Dragon Magazine (Issue #264).

I wont discuss the series other than saying his conversation with God over dying could have gone better. Yeah... that gets ugly.

Ending up an undead...

So imagine doing wizard stuff actually puts your spellcaster at risk. In the Anime world they use mana or life force to power magic, so burning through positive life force gets you to the negative plane pretty quickly.

So lets say your Magic-user/Elf spells memorized are simply what you can access-it is your spell catalogue slots rather than the few you select from the overall spellbook. It places you in a predicament at low levels if you find scrolls and must decide which spells to which you will limit your access.

So lets say you can use them multiple times until your life force depletes. A first level spell depletes your life force at 1%. So lets say using a first level spell gives you 1% chance of dying and becoming undead. You can use your first level spell once a round, but each use gives you 1% chance of becoming undead. Likewise a 9th level spell gets you 9% chance of depleting your life force and becoming undead. You wont become a vampire until 9HD so depletion of life force could be simply death for your spell caster at spell caster levels 1-8.

What does this do? It provides you with a limit on choices, not use. And it increases risk with power and over use. You wont want to use "teleport...teleport...teleport...teleport..." in your time as a powerful caster because each comes with a 5% chance of becoming undead. Rather your caster is more likely to use low level magic.

Now imagine no one knows that wizards/elves can go undead because they usually die from depletion of their life force due to excessively using magic before 9th level.

Short Fiction: How I killed my first Dragon at the age of twelve

Title: The Journey of Kukukut - how I killed my first dragon at the age of twelve

Rin
Rin had discovered the giant egg in the Chest amongst her grandmother's secrets.
Not being particularly aware of its origins or nature Rin removed it from the chest and took it to the kitchen where she proceeded to break it into the largest bowl to examine.
Satisfied it was not rotten Rin added sliced bacon and beat the egg and sliced bacon mixture pouring the mix into a large pie dish before setting the bacon and egg pie into the baking shelf in the fireplace.

Millicent the Golden
Removed from the protection magic of the chest, the magical runes placed on that egg by its Mother long ago now alerted that same Mother to its presence in the World, and subsequently its fate. Millicent, who had moments before been inspecting fruits in the market place only to find herself stabbed through heart and soul by the most murderous of blades, now roused from a domestic slumber. Millicent became enraged with madness, and transformed into a huge gold dragon, breathed an infernal fire across the hundred wretched humans who surrounded her amongst the market stalls.
From that charnal house Millicent launched skyward and flew toward the village of the distant child murderer who would now feel the wrath of Millicent the Golden.

Rin
Rin plunged the blade tentatively into the heart of the pie staring at the pie and then again at the egg shell and then again at the pie. It was a big egg. Much bigger than any hen egg. But it had looked like an egg should look. And the pie had, according to previous experience cooking with her grandmother, turned out correctly. Rin slid the knife in deeper. Rin smelled the good smells as she sat and stared at the pie cooling on the heavy timber table.
Rin traced the blade across the pie slicing portions for her and her grandmother and after a while she halted.
Her hunger seized control and she ripped at the pie with her hand plunging the stolen handful into her mouth. Her world trembled with the a terrible realization. This pie was all for Rin.


Millicent the Golden
The roof of the hut torn asunder, revealing a dragon filled sky to its singular occupant, Millicent stared down at the child with the pie. Confused, Millicent looked about and saw the shattered egg shell. Millicent returned her gaze to the hungry child and the pie. Millicent focused on the interior until she found a smell she was familiar with. The odour of a recently deceased corpse came from a bed.
Millicent returned her gaze to the monstrous and hungry predator that had stuffed a handful of stolen and murdered future in her mouth...

End Game: No more Dungeons & Dragons...

I gave my last set of Dice and my two boxes of tatty and damaged Dungeons & Dragons books to my cousin. Something she can play with her kids and grandkids.

I told her its a educational and fun game all about killing folks and taking their stuff.

Star Trek: Picard looks peak trek...

Okay... thats looking like God-tier Star Trek.

Real World: Kyoto Animation Fire

You probably already know that Kyoto Animation was destroyed in a fire when an individual entered the building and and using petroleum set fire to workers and the building killing over thirty of the people within, and greatly injuring about as many. They created amongst their many works Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid which I only saw just recently and enjoyed. All their computers and servers were also destroyed claiming current and future works.

                    

The List

2020

• Violet Evergarden : the Movie

2019

• Free!-Road to the World-the Dream
• Sound! Euphonium The Movie-Our Promise: A Brand New Day-

2018

• Tsurune
• Free!-Dive to the Future-
• Liz and the Blue Bird
• Violet Evergarden
• Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions! -Take On Me-

2017

• Free! -Take Your Marks-
• Baja's Studio
• Sound! Euphonium The Movie -May the melody reach you!-
• Free! -Timeless Medley- the Promise
• Free! -Timeless Medley- the Bond
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

2016

• Sound! Euphonium2
• A Silent Voice : The Movie
• Sound! Euphonium The Movie -Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band-
• Myriad Colors Phantom World

2015

• High Speed! the movie -Free! Starting Days-
• Sound! Euphonium
• Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-

2014

• Amagi Brilliant Park
• Free! -Eternal Summer-
• Tamako love story
• Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-

2013

• Beyond the Boundary
• Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions the Movie: Rikka Takanashi Revision
• Free! -Iwatobi Swim Club-
• Tamako Market

2012

• Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
• Hyōka

2011

• K-ON! the Movie
• Nichijo
• 2010
• K-ON!!
• The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

2009

• The Last War of the Heavanliods and Akutoliods
• Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya(2009)
• K-ON!
• Suzumiya Haruhi Chan no Mahjong
• Nyoron Churuya-san
• Sora wo Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai

2008

• CLANNAD ~AFTER STORY~

2007

• CLANNAD(ON TV)
• Lucky Star

2006

• Kanon(ON TV)
• Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya(2006)

2005

• Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid
• MUNTO 2: Beyond the Walls of Time
• AIR(ON TV)

2003

• Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
• MUNTO

                       

The building was apparently a death trap with no fire escapes, people will need to answer for that as well.

Do No Harm.

The Hippocratic Oath can extend beyond doctors to everyone.

If you are considering doing something harmful, take the time to think about your actions and the consequences and choose to do no harm.

Creature Catalogue: The Tiro Tree

The Tiro Tree
AC 6
HD 40,000 (320,000hp)
MV 0' (0')
AT nil
DA nil
SA Fighter L36
NA 1(unique)
ML 12
TT nil
AL Neutral
XP 9,997,250

This ancient tree stands two hundred feet tall and overlooks the valley of Valley of Mune.