TJ

I’ve been trying my hand at Dungeon Cartography. Liked this one enough I keyed it.

I think Richard Simmons should come out of retirement to start in a Pauly Shore biopic

Working on a post apocalyptic Braunstein Game set in Nebraska 2124. Does anyone in the post apocalypse refer to it as such? Or is it just “yuck, another Monday, time to feed baby souls to the Sloar again”

Trying for every week and 3hour or less per session.

What an interesting sounding question

Thursday vibes

In lieu of session 0 I’m running “Open House:” a multiple night event where potential players can make characters, hear (endure) the campaign world pitch, vibe check, judge their interest, etc. Might this approach help set expectations, limit dropouts, and increase campaign longevity?

Using the RAW and the general vibe (treasures, spells, humans characters only, Lovecraft and Howard influence, no Tolkien elements) but creating my own lands, pantheon, and backstory.

Unlike all of you sheep, I’m going to celebrate RPG-A-Day in December when it won’t be so commercialized.

TBD but been floating the idea of a weekly, three hour Tuesday night session starting at 7 or 8 pm central.

Alas, “I wish I had time:” the continual, mournful lament of the responsible, adult gamer

Hyperborea by Jeff Talanian; The Monster Overhaul by Skerples; The Matt Finch Bible (AKA Tome of Adventure Design); AD&D Fiend Folio; D30 sandbox and DM companion’s by Richard LeBlanc; Creature Companion by RJ Thompson, fully illustrated by Evlyn Moreau; notebooks, pencil, eraser, and miscellaneous

Working on an old school campaign using Jeffrey Talanian’s Hyperborea rules. Looking far and wide for chill players interested in an online, sandbox, weird fantasy campaign. So far players have been harder to find than I anticipated. Just gives me more time to scry and scribble…

THAC0 isn’t better; it’s just home. 🏡

I had to miss @evlynmoreau.bsky.social’sOZ game this morning and I’m bummed about it. Last session was awesome!

Me in the 90’s

Spent the weekend at North Texas RPG Convention and spent 4 days with many of my gaming pals from all over the country that I never get to hang out with in person. Looked through my phone to see what great pictures I had taken to preserve the memories and realized I only took one…

Same reason the cat paws at you in the middle of the night. Different anticipated results and intentions though.

I love the attention to detail; there is so much implied backstory made plain.

The innovations of the next ten years in AI, robotics, drones, medicine, energy, and social engineering will come at a pace the world has never experienced. The disruption caused by smart phones, social media, and Web 2.0 in the 00s will seem quaint by comparison. Buckle up.

This works until it doesn’t and then it never works again. That AI that is boring and predictable will be twice as skilled in 18 months, 4 times as skilled in 3 years. There is really nothing to stand in the way of the path we are on. We are computers ourselves, but we aren’t on the same trajectory.

By the time a machine has the functionality to pass a Turing test it will give itself away by its near limitless knowledge and only by learning deception and dumbing itself down will it be able to pass the test. How many good relationships start with a lie?

As AI, medicine, and technology start to break barriers between man and machine, I would imagine the US will pass laws that lean towards the conservative and limit progress. (you can argue whether that is a good or bad thing.) One thing is certain some countries will not hold back.

This lady has been running this scam in casinos for at least 10 years, they really must not be able to do anything about it.

Seriously, why do they always use this same stock image? Who is this person? I need Starlee Kine on the case.

As part of the boring but supportive ally demographic, we can never fully appreciate or understand your experience. But many of us do see what is happening to our family, friends, and peers, and that it is terrible, frightening, and getting worse fast. We want to help. Direct traffic.

Conservative men are afraid that immigrants might steal the jobs that no one wanted to do in the first place

Conservative women are afraid transsexuals will steal the men that no one wanted to do in the first place

It will get better at what it does exponentially. It will out perform humans in a timespan that, on a historic scale, is minuscule. It will leave the bounds of prose and visual art. Video, acting, music, and sex will be next. And then it will start inventing arts that we can’t fathom yet.

I still distinctly remember the claustrophobia in that thing almost 40 years later. Hot metal and existential dread.

I almost picked up blades in the dark today at Powells. Not familiar with the rest. What’s looking good so far?

This is also misrepresentation though, intestinal gas smells like the sulfur compounds released by bacteria during digestion. It’s not a mass of tiny pieces of poop flying through layers of clothing and up your nose.

How cheesy, Tide had an old couple in their commercial impersonating Kari and Tory from the mythbus… oh, Jesus.