What is the weirdest thing you had to research for your game?

Curious about the pigeon brain thing now.

Well? Can you?

It is definitely possible to buy it, being close to countries that have tanks to sell, theoretically it is possible to get civilian clearance for it, but realistically you're going to be breaking every other bridge you drive over and won't get anywhere with it outside highways on which you need rubber covers on tracks which the party member responsible of course did not think of brining, leaving a tiny but visible imprint on the entire road along Mt. Phu Lu'ong.

I let them roll with it because the idea of bringing a tank into vietnam is hilarious, but this session they got faced with a blockade made by police law enforcement. Good thing it's a magical girl game and where there is bullshit powerful enough to let you bring a tank from Chicago into Vietnam, there is also bullshit powerful enough to let you get away with it.

If medusas gave live birth or laid eggs

Most image searches for visual references. I have tons saved but still find myself lacking certain things.

The scientific possibility for binary/twin planets sharing orbit with one another, and whether they would share a moon, and how it might affect life (or the possibility of it) on the planets.

Turns out it is possible, in theory. So that was cool.

Russian environmental protection policies.

Are there any?

No. t.Vietnamese

I swear to god if this is about that fucking post-apoc game where the bandit girl got paralyzed by the player for magical realm shit

theatlantic.com/video/index/545228/my-deadly-beautiful-city-norilsk/

Hell no

I'm still trying to guess what would be the punishment for falsely accusing someone of breaking a contract in pre-islamic South Arabia, if any.

>Google has returned zero search results.

Recently, how long it takes to skin an alligator. Before that, I was deep down the rabbit hole of Belle Epoque scientific research for my Fate game.
God I love being the GM.

Images of masked or veiled women (including Middle Eastern nationalities), followed immediately by the weights of certain types of firearms, personnel-mounted weapons, and their various ammunition, including hand-carried miniguns (went with 20 lbs. and an additional 40 lbs. for ammo) and missiles (going with 10 lbs. each).

Hello, watchlists.

how many spiders can fit in a vagina

and celtic iron age economies

Is it possible to make charcoal from seaweed?(It is)
Does Seaweed Charcoal burn at a high enough temperature that it can be used in the process of steel-making?(It is not)
Decided to get around it by using Oil Rigs and offshore drills that survived the flood.
(Cosmic Horror WaterWorld Campaign)

What types of gases fluoresce in what colors when converted into plasma. Turns out that the easiest gases to convert into plasma that aren't white-hot, and thus useless as ammunition, legitimately fluoresce green, and are also commonly used in HVAC and cleaning services, as well as in fire-fighting, namely, if I'm remembering the name right, carbon tetrafluoride.

all of them

The what?

I don't remember specifics, but it was an old story where a that guy in a post-apocalyptic game did untrained surgery on a captured bandit girl to render her incapable of caring for herself and needing to be, well, "changed," several types a day. For magical realm reasons.

If I remember right, she eventually killed herself?

Well, that's... uh, a thing? Part of me genuinely wonders what kind of people are actually shameless enough act out these weird ass degenerate fantasies at their table. Like, seriously, what the fuck?

Can male elves get pregnant? What I found out was the average elf penis was five inches.

I regret gaining this knowledge

neutron bombs approximate production costs
the radiation decay rate of californium 242
goldilocks zone of planet habitability
estimates of how many planets in a galaxy of our size are reasonably terraform-able
zero-G recoil for guns
Radium gas crystallization
anthropomorphised Shark physiology
what gravity a cartilaginous skeleton can withstand
Ball lightning
elemental and terrestrial biomes
gravity wells
pulse storms

>these are all the ones I can remember from this year/late last year

I mean, if it's my fetishes specifically, and not some weird caretaker fetish? As long as everyone at the table knows that that's the kind of game we're doing, I'm fine with it.

That guy, though, he just busted into it for no apparent reason when give the opportunity.

I once learned basics of German just so I could impersonate a Nazi officer that was there for only a bit of one session well.

Uh, languages are always fun. I once took up a bit of classic Greek in order to find names for my D&D spells (character was a sort of literate in a renaissance setting).

Veeky Forums actually calculated the correct number once

the average diet and knowledge of a bulgarian peasant
Who was behind the Bulgarian revolution of 1180
The map of 12th century Venice
Inflation rates on Imperial coins minted before the splintering of from the Roman empire

>the average diet and knowledge of a bulgarian peasant
Share. I am interested

Not sure about Bulgarian peasants in particular, but peasants generally ate food derived from grain and vegetables they grew (wheat, oat, carrots, turnips, etc. depending on what exactly they were farming). Pigs were also kept for food but as your average peasant didn't have many pigs they'd typically only be slaughtered on specific occasions, rather than pork being something you ate every week. Cows were kept for milk, but were too valuable to use for food.
If the location allowed it, fish and animals like rabbits and birds might also be caught.

The myth about medieval peasants being malnourished is just a meme. They actually ate a more balanced diet than most of us do (and besides, if they were all malnourished, they'd hardly be able to do any farming which is actually very hard work). It's just that since they were almost entirely reliant on what they could grow, a bad harvest could easily screw them over.

The physical dimensions of Avril Lavigne

come on guy, stop posting here and start working on it already! You're teasing me since too much time, I see you pop up in threads all around the place.

Here you go, everyone.

currency.

i still dont understand all aspects of it

The most deceptively difficult research was probably a few years back when I ran a VtM campaign set in ~1993 Los Angeles. The city's layout has changed quite a bit, and it was oddly hard finding the info I needed for player maps. Just finding out what used to be in the spot currently occupied by Staples Center was a fucking chore.

Physiology of jumping spider's eyes. Also their general mental capabilities. There is not a whole lot of articles beyond "wow spoodes r smart" so I had to dig through actual scientific publications.

Looking through scientifc publications is always a pain in the ass when 90% of it is behind paywalls.
I tried to find information on the habits of deep sea fish, only to find out not much research has been published on the matter and most of what has been is behind paywalls.

No she didn't kill herself. Basically after he paralyzed her they threw her in the back of the pickup truck they stole from the bandits that was parked outside the hospital, drove off into the city and drove into a trap set up by the one PC's old group of three guys. After killing them, they ran into this cult that wanted the girl because of her psychic powers, they were basically a jonestown suicide cult who would let people die when they were hurt because it meant they were being "chosen." After they said they wanted to keep the girl, the PCs shot their leader in the leg and ran off into the subway tunnels. Before this, the girl had woken up, realized she was unable to move her legs, and started screaming and when she found out what happened she broke down crying. Basically she was in pain for the next four or five sessions that we did of that campaign. The player who did it never took care of her, it was another player who sort of did but it was all off-screen. Anyway, after the girl woke up the first time we stopped playing that campaign for a year and when we picked it up again they made it back to their village, where the girl is slowly dying from a spinal infection. So now I am trying to research what exactly is going to happen here.

So this is what's going to kill my up until then successful board related thread, huh.

Traditional Korean Shamanism

I was running an urban fantasy game set in North new Jersey.
Very high population of Korean immigrants in parts of North Jersey

dont they worship trees or some shit?

"Is it possible to start a tank paintball association in the Netherlands?"

Dumbest thing I've ever searched for is "medieval night-vision goggles"

Its shamanism.
And like most shamanistic relgions they beleive in nature spirits.

But there is a creator god.

And IIRC He turned a bear into a woman.
had a son with the bear lady.
And that son founded korea

No I'm just fishing for some medfags who might know how to answer my questions. I'm probably going to have to suck it up and ask on reddit or something, I know they have a dedicated board for medical advice or whatever. I just want to make it as depressingly realistic as possible so that this edgelord realizes that his actions have consequences.

Mythical creatures and stories for South America.

I was not accurately prepared for how strange there myths get.

Like the mountain dwarf that kidnaps a woman then treats her like a fucking queen getting her whatever she wants whenever she wants. Can even have visitors. But the instant she leaves his house she's kicked out forever.

Details on cannibalism, specifically cannibal serial killers. I will never sleep with innocent dreams again.
Didn't even end up using it because I wasn't interested in subjecting my players to that.

Another is the dwarf with a 6 foot long penis who wraps it around his waist like a belt to hold is pants up.

How the fuck do you use that in a Shadowrun mission without going full magic realm?

play it for laughs

>scientifc publications is always a pain in the ass when 90% of it is behind paywalls.

sci-hub.io is the site for you

Have him put a cock sock on it like in doujins, that sounds hilarious

A bag job for a Johnson who is a front for a big player the porno industry, turns out a lot worse when another team, on the payroll of a competitor, shows up. Leave the details of why this specific dwarf is so sought after for the climax of the mission.

I had to research what would happen to a person bedridden for a few weeks, how long it takes for bedsores to develop, etc.

Technically, I research more random things for my work. I'm a content designer on a several years old facebook game, with weekly new content, so we're really spreading our themes wide.

For me - prices and fluctuations of thereof in the late medieval. I still get emails with scientific papers about it from a subscription I made then. Some fun facts - there were two decades or so, when prices of horses doubled. Also prices of horse boys (guys who would take your rented horse and return it to the place where you rented it from) was set in England to one price for more than a hundred of years by a royal decree.
Also, even though it was punished by a corporeal punishment, sellers often faked meat, selling cheaper kinds for more expensive ones.

What's better is the reason it's a dwarf is he has to be short enough to be under the height of a window when standing outside it. Then he sends his prehensile penis through the window so he can rape the sleeping teenage girls inside.

Or if they aren't in reach, he uses his dick to unlock doors so he just sneak in.

Not bad. My group were Venezuelan bprd though.

Types of bacteria and parasites that usually live in jungle areas and how to treat them with more traditional means.

I think mercury came up at least once as a solution.

Is your setting based around fighting shark aliens with neutron bombs?

16th century women's undergarments.

Well... Then they are tasked to clean up after the two aforementioned teams of runners screw up the job, and the dwarf goes AWOL.

In any case tho, this doesn't need to be magical realm, unless you spend hours describing the marvels of prehensile superdick rape.

How to dissolve bodies...

And what about the revolution? Was this against Byzantium or something else?

>Mythical creatures and stories for South America.
>I was not accurately prepared for how strange there myths get.
I know this exact feel

The density of various human body parts and how tough you'd have to be not to break your hand on a tank

I was trying to make a super villain who was 500X stronger, more durable, faster, and smarter than the average person. His whole thing was that everyone thought his power was the ability to make up to a total of 500 copies of himself that could act independently and would transmit their knowledge back to the rest of the copies whenever they were reabsorbed or killed; but they secretly also had the power to collapse all 500 into one body and "burn them off" to do incredible feats of strength and speed and durability.

At least he wrote a wall of text with no spacing, LIKE A DIRTY GODDAMN REDDITOR WOULD!

>Dark Heresy 2.0 based warhammer 40k homebrew
yeah pretty much actually.
Lots of fun

I looked up the customs and population of the Ute people of South West Colorado and Utah (which is where Utah got the name)

Anarcho-christianity

Continue as you were citizen

>The myth about medieval peasants being malnourished is just a meme.
I think it's part meme, part anachronism. Peasants in later eras, after the Columbian Exchange, did have a tendency toward nutritional deficiencies due to going nuts over those sweet-ass new world crops like corn and potatoes without really understanding the changes that was introducing to their nutritional balance.

cargo cults

>Growing food is their fucking job
>They are starving
It's not happening

Draught could cause periodic famines, and around 1700-1800 free market speculation on grain caused massive famines in urban areas, but if you're working the earth there is no way you would starve

Malnourishment is not starvation. We had widespread pellagra in the past because poor farmers subsisted mostly on corn - they weren't starving but they weren't healthy either.
That said I agree that there are too many memes.

>XVIII century
Ho boy, early capitalism was the shit. Late XVIII century saw weavers so impoverished they couldn't, on average, afford sustainable diet because they were in a big part replaced by their own children. Luditte movement wasn't actually against technology, it was a proto-union movement used to negotiate salaries.