Tim Obermueller

I have made a GRAVE ERROR

Fuck it 10:45 lunch today

trevor: "nine months in my womb making me suffer and she looks like her BEAUTIFUL MOM"

"What is an omelette? A miserable little pile of eggs!"

I was an Ody Mandrell guy myself. Love racing vehicles powered by engines that were clearly just ripped straight off an airplane.

Was I overcharged? Freaking out here

This is so incredibly good!

Random Human Advancement When you level up, you gain a random benefit based on your race or class. Here's what humans get. You can either roll a d9 for your culture ...

I wrote a d100 random advancement table for humans. Ostensibly for my Middle-earth Hexcrawl ruleset, I think this could easily be used for any fantasy adventure game. As I think that humans are the most warlike of peoples, this list could be used for your fighter random advancements:

I love survival horror but this kind of thing is a huge selling point for me.

Friend, to me: "You like Gin and Tonics? I always imagined people who like those as depressed 1920s writers."
My partner and I in unison: "Yes."
Friend: "Oh, no one's ever... agreed with me on that before."

I desperately need people to understand that when it comes to video games and TTRPGs, the per unit production costs of a physical product are effectively negligible when compared to the cost needed to produce the digital product. PDFs and digital games are disproportionately under valued.

a glorious rat coin purse

twitter comments that range from "oh! so contradictory - laugh & cringe" to "so curious to know who would want this - any ideas?"

twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse

Reviewing the State of Reviews PLUS: 5 Free Relics for Cairn!

The latest Missive is HERE! I discuss my unhappiness with the state of #TTRPG reviews/critique, drop a relic-laden Cairn freebie, dive into some ZiMo campaigns and recent blog posts, and more cool stuff. Give it a read and grab the freebie NOW: meatcastle.substack.com/p/talking-ab...

Just a reminder to folks.

Shipping is as expensive as hell and indie creators should not try to subsidize it.

It will tank their project.

“Thanks, doc! You see, I am Pagliaci, and learning that you think that what I do helps people, why, that cheers me right up!”

I have no mirth yet I must goof

ICE arrests four people at Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained four people at the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha Monday morning.

ICE arrests four people at Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha

Me after a suspect escapes: "We've had the devil's own day."
Ghost of Grant: "Yes, catch 'em tomorrow though."
Narrator: "They did not catch them tomorrow or at any time."

Image showing the new character, the Vampire, and barely showing the new boss, a Sea Snake.

🌞 SOL CESTO UPDATE 🌞
- A very powerful character: the Vampire 🦇
- A new boss in biome 3 💧🐍
- Two items at the shop 🌟
- New perk at the fountain 🐦
And now, ROAD TO 1.0!

The Dark Rites of Arkham uses elements from the work of H. P. Lovecraft, such as 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒.

If you are familiar with the story, you might be surprised that not everything is as you remember.

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

WIP on the enemy storms that happen during the survival mode of Fright Train :)

We're working on a soon-to-be-released demo, so wishlist the game to get notified! ❄️ store.steampowered.com/app/4132890/...

#indiegame | #survivalhorror

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

*through a deluge of tears at 2:37am*
"🎵Mammago's Garage, you know!🎵"
*sobbing intensifies*
"The wimps, the weak and the wuss's, still have 3 more seconds to get the hell out here, and back to their knitting, ha-"
*throwing up*

Ultimately we've got to reckon with the fact that much of the OSR movement is merely reacting to indie TTRPGs' tendency to lose sight of why many folks take up the hobby: for a safe and budget-friendly way to satisfy the natural human impulse to put one's friends in some kind of fucked up labyrinth.

Genuinely monumental that she only missed two monthly issues in 50 years!

Meet the Woman Who by 1976 Was the Most Important Gamer in Roleplaying After Gary In 1976, after Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, the most important person in roleplaying games was a Los Angeles woman named Lee Gold. She still contributes to the hobby and still runs…

I think about this exchange all the time. The original article on Lee Gold which you should read: dmdavid.com/tag/meet-the...

Her one personal encounter with Gary Gygax revealed a similar bias. Early on, Lee sent copies of A&E to TSR. After a couple of months, she received a phone call, which she recounts. “This is Gary Gygax,” said the voice, “and I’d like to speak to Lee Gold.” “I’m Lee Gold,” I said. “I gather you got the copies of A&E I sent you.” “You’re a woman!” he said. “That’s right,” I said, and I told him how much we all loved playing D&D and how grateful we were to him for writing it. “You’re a woman,” he said. “I wrote some bad things about women wargamers once.” “You don’t need to feel embarrassed,” I said. “I haven’t read them.” “You’re a woman,” he said. We didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, so I told him goodbye and hung up.

In the immortal words of Gary Gygax: "You're a woman!"