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by TheSilencedScream

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by Krisse Tuominen

There may not be an entry for it on TV Tropes, but you know the existence and meaning of the trope. You don't need a plot when the Leatherpants Guy is walking around oozing danger, angst, anger, regret, and these other Big Dramatic Manly Feelings.


The rough-around-the-edges kind of "Leather pants guy" in the early 00's was Jeremiah on the Jeremiah TV show. He prances all around with his rustic habitus: leather pants, rugged hair, worn-out work boots, and an old navy jacket. He is giving the 100% "I don't give a single flying F about it" -Attitude. No wonder there is a Jeremiah tabletop RPG! People want to play their own post-apocalypse Leatherpants Guys!

The Witcher basically just pranced around in his leatherpants through a couple of Witcher episodes. Basically, it is its genre's own "Leatherpants Guy" series. And of course, there is also a Witcher RPG. Who doesn't want to be their own witching Leatherpants Guy?!

Shadowhunters are very Leather-Glad people, fitting the Leatherpants Guy trope very well.

I can't help but notice how much The Shadowhunters series fits into this TV trope. Jace prances with his leatherpants around as the Leatherpants Guy. Even when he is actually wearing denim. Once again, people nod around him. The same goes with Isabel, who is wearing leather pants, rubber pants, leather skirts, leather jackets, and leather this and rubber that. Avessaries look her in awe, and she poses for them, and everybody says "uh", "unhh", and they grunt nodding.

Shadowhunters fit the Leatherpants Guy trope very well.

Even Magnus, who is pretty androgynous, is occasionally prancing around as The Leather Pants Guy. When you think about it, Shadowhunters is full of Leather Pants Guys.

Yes, Magnus Bane is in the picture

If the Shadowhunters were a comic book, you could put words on bubbles: "(S)He is the Leatherpants Guy", "I'm the Leatherpants Guy", "Yes, you are Totally The Leatherpants Guy". And then some nodding and grunting. The same procedure as always. Ahh!

We are the Shadowhunters. We are the Leatherpants Guys

by leroy43

If you've played RPGs for a long time, as I have, you have likely run the gamut of hand waving it's-all-made-up worlds to the micro-minutiae-every-detail-matters settings. Likely, like me, you're somewhere in between. Cinema takes great liberties with accuracy in weapons and armour, for instance, and largely for pragmatic reasons. Helmets are wrong because audiences like to see the actor's faces, and the actors want to have a safe work environment so the swords have dulled tips and a hilt that wouldn't normally be there.

That said, sometimes I like a little verisimilitude in my game world, and I also love a well researched book, which brings me to this lovely primer.

Everyone, or least almost everyone, likes pretty rocks. And I've had characters collect them. I was therefore delighted to find this book that has about 100 different interesting geological specimens.

The book is not just rocks and minerals, or at least, not in the sense you might expect. Here, entries include all manner of things you might find including fossils and bone.

The introduction is very clear that this is a work of fiction. "... it's adherence to reality of the material world is an afterthought". That said there is ample material here for any GM to take what could otherwise be an ordinary natural item and use the information from this book to great effect.

There are three primer chapters, one on the basics of geology (factually correct as far as I can tell), one on the basics of mining (useful for world building), and one on the basics of earth magic (send your research mages here).

Each entry in the book includes some beautifully presented art representing the entry. Here is the sample mineral from page 42., showing borax as a convenient sample, as well as the colour coding used throughout the book to indicate the categories used for each entry.

This visual colour coding is very useful, and the basic taxonomy likewise. The text entry for each page follows a similarly useful template, with the name, categories, and a one line summary.

Each page then also has quick notes for the following:
- description
- occurrence
- extraction and preparation
- industrial properties
- culinary properties (you'd be surprised...)
- decorative properties, and
- magical properties

This last one is the longest of each entry, and that is where the book shines as a game resource.

Beyond the entries from Agate to Zircon, there follows a long section on alchemy, inspired from myth and legend, followed by a full chapter on metal smithing. There's then a section of magic items, one per entry, which will require the GM to set in their game system, but is certainly a useful aid.

The appendices offer a cornucopia of additional materials, from gem cuts, to suggested pricing models, random generation and discovery tables, and a bibliography of source materials for those who want to explore reality.

Overall, this 360 page book is a treasure. If you're looking to add some spice to your game by incorporating some of what's within its pages, want to learn more about the topic in a gaming related way, or just want something pretty on your coffee table, Anna Urbanek has gifted us something special.

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