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mymorningsketch: Monster Manual Week: GELATINOUS CUBE! Today’s 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual sketch is the Gelatinous Cube. Unfortunately, there’s no illustration for it in the Monster Manual itself, but the Gelatinous Cube remains one of the iconic D&D monsters. Essentially 10′ x 10′ x 10′ cubes of jelly-like digestive fluids, “gelatinous cubes are nearly transparent and are difficult to see.”…
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All organizing is science fiction. What does a world without poverty look like? What does a world without prisons look like? What does a world with everyone having enough food and clothing look like? We don’t know. It’s science fiction, and it is as foreign to us as the Klingon homeworld (which is called Q’onos…
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killscreen: “Werewolf is designed in a way that’s scary for people who’ve never played because it’s dark. I wanted to make cards that were cute with bright colors and use wool felt for the carrying case. It’s a user experience problem.” -Mathew Sisson on the design philosophy behind the reboot of Werewolf.
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sciencesoup: Introduction to Macromolecules Earlier, we talked about amino acids and how although they’re pretty simple structures, they can join up and build grander molecules called proteins (pictured above). Proteins in turn are part of a group called macromolecules. Macromolecules are exactly what they sound like: big, complex molecules composed of smaller subunits. There’s an…