Prof Berk

I think the Intro Handout looks great.

Imagine if the only way you could speak was to wait for someone else to say what you want to say then repeat it. GenAI robs you of your unique voice. It trains you to value someone else's thoughts & imagination. You might as well not exist because you are voluntarily extinguishing your own voice.

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

When someone claims that they have no books they regret picking up, I can only conclude they just have bad taste.

Agreed. Never come at me with this weak ass shit.

Go on...

I already have the 1st ed and don't expect to need an update personally, but this is worth a look in for others.

So a lot of modern dog whistling is akin to some sleezy dude trying to hint at the desire for a self serving threesome. He just slimes his way over, "jokingly" says something repulsive, claims it was all in good fun, but there is always this greasy, unspoken "unless you are into that..."

With some proper distance from the purchases now, I'm really disappointed by both the Spelljammer and Planescape 5e releases. So much wasted opportunity. I don't know if I will hold onto either long-term.

So not so much for me or my table, no, but I do what there to be people pushing the envelope. As long as the quality matches the pricing, I don't have any innate objection. TTRPG can be a very inexpensive hobby, especially if a table share the expenses and dont make it all their GM's wallet.

Using the wrestling term of "cheap pop" to help explain Gabriel's speech in "The Dead" was an enjoyable convergency of the vertices of my life.

I am super curious as to the differences in mechanics/tone/presentation between Old World and WHF.

Some #ttrpg advice for players:
Part of being a good player is knowing when to temper what you want to do/have happen to not trample on the fun of others at the table.

Ugh

I admit, I sung this in my head to the melody of the Muppet Show intro.

Really don’t enjoy a crowdfunding project which teases being near fulfillment changing their tune to be “By soon, we mean June.” Ugh.

Making Sam Neil look younger and also making him look mid-stroke is a bold advertising strategy.

For me, write myths like myths, not like pseudoscience.

I had not heard about Joel selling MST3K. Wild.

I’m fine with divine or magical intervention or the like causing changes over short timeframes, but barring that, evolution takes tens of thousands of years minimum.

This kinda ties into a minor pet peeve of mine in some fantasy settings: half assed evolution.

It’s a uniquely social media experience to mistakenly assume that you have dropped someone from your follows because of a transgression, only yo realize that they were merely laying low and you had not done so when they return. Issue corrected.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Meddling Kids!

Event for #Dreamation2026 up and approved. Come take a spin with Flabbergasted! with me.

War Mimic just dropped.

And those of us longer in the tooth can relearn. Learning is a skill in and of itself.

Hey #ttrpg discoursers. Educator here. Just wanted to let you know that calling people thick for not learning how to deal with a given concept and saying they just need to try harder does not in fact help people learn typically. It’s you voicing your own frustrations, and in no real way helping.

I mean, how well does this match pay, since I keep getting told that’s how these things work.

The PCs had to watch a baby die with nothing they did being able to prevent it.

When you take inspiration from a source and shamelessly rip it off to make a new thing in your game, then you are a living part of the most noble and necessary act of the human condition: the perpetuation and advancement of culture itself.
If you outsource to AI, you help commit cultural suicide.