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Another soulless soul1/2/2024 ![]() There is a ton more in other editions.įor monsters, he closest official 5e stuff is probably covered under the Night Hag entry as far as a soul that has been taken. There are a couple of references here and there in 5e. I may create some homebrew ideas and post there. Now it seems there are no hard rules, but a little direction. That soulless period was the purpose of the original post. but the character is somehow different during their soulless time. In theory this condition is reversible as it often is in film and literature. What if a player or central NPC lost their soul? perhaps selling it to the devil, perhaps they angered some voodoo witch doctor that somehow stole it.ĭo they lose control of the character, do they lose levels, ability scores, does alignment change? I should add a little clarification here and say: Available from Macmillan.Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures Live Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, by Corey Pein (2018, 320 pages). Then I remembered, that just hasn’t happened YET. 290.)ĭoes that last bit sound like anywhere you know? Maybe everywhere during the pandemic, when wealthier people paid desperate people (not enough) to go out and do their shopping or driving or other basic commerce for them? I thought, huh, I’m surprised no politician here has demanded that we all turn in our cash or our credit cards and use only a Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos approved/created payment app. ![]() But these problems were largely invisible to India’s wealthy and middle class, who hired servants to do their shopping and thus escaped the battle of will and endurance that suddenly characterized routine commerce.” (p. It was easy to spend an entire day traipsing from one machine to another, only to find them all out of cash. “In the cities, many sick and elderly people died in the long ATM lines - in at least one case, a doctor refused treatment after demanding cash, which was, of course, what everyone was waiting in line for. That sounds fairly benign until you learn that the Indian government partnered with a tech company on a start-up app called Paytm, that was in no way able to handle the massive amounts of Indian citizens’ daily transactions. ![]() So Modi’s government announced that two denominations of Indian currency - two denominations that comprised nearly 90% of all cash in circulation - wouldn’t be considered legal tender and had to be turned in for larger bills. At that time, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, implemented a policy of “ demonetization,” because he wanted people to move to smartphone apps for all of their transactions. The most disturbing story in a book of disturbing stories came at the end, when the author describes his and his spouse’s life in India, where they lived in 2016. It’s sort of a strange concept, but there’s no doubt that Pein does a very good job of dropping the reader right in the middle of Silicon Valley culture, and WOW, I find that a hugely scary place to be. I think I checked this book out from the library and then ignored it for a long time because I knew it was going to be hard for me to do it justice in a review. The second hurdle is dreaming up an idea for a start-up, and then getting that idea in front of investors. It’s pretty much impossible, and it involves either living with many, many other tech workers in tiny, tiny, tiny (and shared) living spaces, or actually in a tent that somebody is renting out as an Airbnb. The first hurdle, of course, is finding a place to live on a journalist’s budget in Silicon Valley. In other words, and as the jacket copy proclaims: “To truly understand the delirious reality of the tech entrepreneurs, he knew he would have to inhabit that perspective - he would have to become an entrepreneur himself.”Īnd so he does. Author Corey Pein set out to live and succeed in Silicon Valley, figuring there’s tons of venture capitalist cash available there for whatever kind of start-up he might be able to dream up (and then kind of vaguely start, and then cash out of).
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