The planet Dune is special, because only there Spice, the most important chemical in the universe, is found.

Several noble families and organizations battle to gain control over the Spice.

---SPOILERS below for parts 1 & 2 of the series---

One of the families is set up to be murdered, but their young son survives. He is rescued by the planet's locals.

These locals are fierce, and they are many.

---SPOILERS for part 3 & the rest of the books---

Lead by the noble son, the local people rise up and conquer the universe. The son becomes the new emperor.

He realizes that the universe – and mankind – is vulnerable because of the single source of Spice. Under the influence of Spice, he sees and enforces a Golden Path, which will eventually ensure mankind's survival but destroy the empire.

Ice tea insurance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikCWJeDVHU

Northern Italian?

Yes, so? There are just 5 permanent members (china, france, russia, uk, usa), all others are temporary

In my group there are at least these patterns:

• are you a moon druid?
• are you attacking everything, always, under the guise of protecting the party?

If you request data from a server, chances are that your server needs to request that data from another server - which is 'upstream'.

There can be multiple upstream servers involved in responding to your single request

I am new on this subject but a little bit of searching gave me this:

https://infrabel.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1

Zay-braah I guess, if I would try to write Dutch sounds in English spelling.

There's a sound version available at https://webwoordenboek.nl/uitspraak/zebra

geoblocked to usa

The flag from the thumbnail is that of Fryslân, nowadays a Dutch province.

It does not show hearts! The red parts are 'pompeblêden' (leaf of the water lily), and should specifically not be heart shaped according to the official instruction for creating the flag.

Not indian, but yes, one of our cats does use head movements to express her .... requests

I have used both types of distance calculation in different campaigns. I agree that the 'alternating' rule is better, but I've also seen that it confuses some players and in that case slows down combat.

I'm currently using the phb rule. My players have just gained access to fireball and similar AoE spells, and I use the actual circular spell effects

So far I have not seen the players actively abusing this, so for now I'm just ignoring the weird distance effects