Kevin Kulp

Jaws, Under Paris, and Deep Blue Sea. This ends up in rarefied company!

Poster to the movie BEAST OF WAR, where an aboriginal soldier is about to get chomped by a very large and scary shark.

We just saw BEAST OF WAR, a new Aussie shark movie. Ranks an amazing #4 out of 183 shark movies we've seen. Aboriginal lead, amazing practical effects, good dialogue, WW2 background story, believable villain you love to hate, racism, hot nurses, amazing chomps, fun jump scares. Go see or rent it.

I still remember the phone number to the payphone in my wife’s dorm in Saint Andrews Scotland, memorized in 1989. It is 13 digits and I’m probably never going to forget it.

Happy birthday, @jenkatwrites.bsky.social! Here, have a birthday oopossum.

🐻 The battle of the chonks has arrived: It’s Fat Bear Week 2025.

Will 128 Grazer pull off a three-peat? You can vote for the fattest bear on @explore.org’s website until Sept. 30. https://wapo.st/3Kfr5ix

A blue jay in a spruce tree fluffs up as it poops

The jay does a little wiggle and flap to settle down its post-poop fluffiness

Back to its sleek self, the jay—crest down and relaxed—tilts its head towards the camera, patiently expecting some peanuts to materialize on the doorstep.

Poop, wiggle, pose, (request) peanuts. Profit! #birds

(For those who follow the adventures of my resident blue jays, this is Deetoo.)

TTRPG convention questions - as a visitor, what makes a good standing banner at a stand? (Those pull up roller banners)

As a stallholder, what do you think makes a great banner? Anything I should make sure that I do (or avoid doing) when ordering one?

Game Designers... what was the game that got you into designing #ttrpgs and why?

For me it was Fiasco by @jmstar.bsky.social - it was/is a great game, I enjoyed playing it. The format was mind blowing but it didn't quite do what I wanted. So I wrote When The Dark Is Gone which did.

#gamedesign

I mourn your lost glasses. :)

Thank god I planned for this!

Looks like it, but wearing an orange or pink shirt. We had @dorianhart.bsky.social’s family and my sister-in-law over and were playing Wii in the living room when the crashtastrophe occurred.

…we don’t KNOW that.

Kitchen with the kitchen cabinets ripped off the wall and shattered glass across the floor

Happy 16th anniversary of Kitchenpocalypse, everyone, when my cabinets and my wall decided to part ways (and turn on the gas stove in the process!)

@johnrogers.bsky.social Happy birthday, John!

Ha! I game with a bunch of LookingGlass alums, and I’m pretty sure one of my SotS players (and one of my dearest friends) helped design that. 😀

Continuing to work on “Escape to Utopia” and I’m now writing up Robot Uprising threats.

Which would you fear most? An autonomous car (like Christine)? A robot police dog gone bad? A killer drone that wants to land an explosive on your head?

The fear that one of your NPCs is really a robot…?

Yes, the shark-dog in Alien Shark (#168/179). It wasn’t worth it. 😀

It’s just a shark movie thing. Real sharks don’t make any noise that I know of!

Real sharks don’t growl. Movie sharks growl, roar, and occasionally snarl. REALISM.

It came up today that I can tell if a shark movie’s sound effects were done in Bulgaria or South Africa by the sound of the growl the shark makes. It’s a very distinctive kind of growl!

I had it on Reddit (without our comments) but haven’t updated it in 50+ movies. I need to update it!

Sure! At your leisure. My Sharking partner is a scientist and screenwriter, so it’d be a huge amount of fun if that’s useful for you.

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Since the pandemic my Sharking partner and I have watched and ranked 179 crappy shark movies. Happy to provide insight if that’s of use.

The pork butts I smoked today may be the best barbecue I’ve ever made, and I have absolutely no idea why. But my dowager empress certainly thinks so!

A cat peering out from behind a starcase bannister.

You can always tell a Milford Man.

My podcast has evolved into a conversation between TTRPG luminaries, and it's awesome. But it needs a new name. Current possibilities:

Dungeons & Discussions

Tabletop Team-Up

The Riggscast/The Ben Riggs Show/Something else with my name in it.

OR:

Something else.

Thoughts?

@multiplexer.bsky.social and I expanded on this in SotS. I like giving people the tools to adjust their experience to be exactly what they want, especially when they can learn what to tweak to get a particular tone.

No guarantees. But I laughed just seeing the poster.

It’s hard, and there sure is no right way to do this. Wishing peace and ease for both you and your mom, Lynne.

“Dungeons and Dragons: Only a Game?” in a cool fantasy typeface with cool black and white insert art of a spooky castle, a dragon breathing fire, and a sword. It looks like an unofficial third-party small press D&D supplement from 1981. Tell me more about this game!

“What is D&D? After extensive research, the Christian Life Ministries concludes: 'DUNGEONS & DRAGONS instead of a game is a teaching on demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, Satan worship, gambling, Jungian psychology, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and many more teachings, brought to you in living color direct from the pit of Hell!!!'"

“Other FRP Games: New games are being created, more sophisticated and cruel than the original D&D, such as RuneQuest, Chivalry & Sorcery, Arduin Grimoire, Tunnels and Trolls, etc."

The Pro Family Forum’s early 80s Satanic Panic pamphlet "Dungeons and Dragons: Only a Game?” has it all:
- a great cover
- a description of D&D guaranteed to entice 14 year olds
- a list of other, “more sophisticated and cruel" fantasy TTRPGs to try