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Alan PatrickπŸ”œDragon Con

@nerdyalan.bsky.social

I'm a giant nerd that makes stuff with words and Linux. D&D, Star Wars, Star Trek, video games, horror, it's all good. 🌈, poly, and dedicated to leaving today better than I found it

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Latest posts by nerdyalan.bsky.social on Bluesky

Ooooh. Most of these are on Netflix.
- The Ritual
- The Color Out of Space (w/Nick Cage)
- Ouija
- Oats Studios (shorts but very good)
- Archive 81
- Midnight Mass (the life after death discussion is -haunting-)

Also, 30 Pieces on HBO Max is a lot of fun.

08.08.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love it!

08.08.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I once ran a streaming game where Matt Lillard was one of my players. Alongside the DDAL admins, Beadle (of Beadle & Grimm's!) explored Undermountain where he was chosen by a sentient ioun stone. This is a copy of the mechanics & lore for that stone!

29.07.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I tried Expedition 33 today.

Holy crap, what an opening.

30.06.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was too late for me a loooong time ago.

15.04.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Medina, OH. It's 930 pm.

I feel like this is the opening scene of a Call of Cthulhu scenario.

15.04.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've recently picked up an itch to write like mad again. Between a couple projects and my own notes/ongoing thing, I think I'm around 30k words in the last 10 days. That's one benefit of work travel: I hole up in the hotel room and scribble each night.

05.04.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fully agreed. I work them in when it's thematically appropriate, like with magic items that are central to the plot of an adventure. I mean, we've been doing it for a long time - it was nice to see similar validation in the attunement scenes in the D&D movie.

30.03.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I never joined - I was a Paizo venture officer at the time, then took on the DDAL role. But man, the PG people had a great rep around here

28.03.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hot damn. @steamforgedgames.bsky.social is bringing back the Pressgang program for Warmachine - just announced at Adepticon in Milwaukee.

Not sure if it will cover their RPG play, but having this program return is HUGE.

28.03.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gary Con is all done, and now I've gotta get these TTRPG products wrapped up. Boston next week, and d8 Summit on the near horizon!

27.03.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From a lunch conversation today: Henry Cavill as Sabertooth, and Daniel Radcliffe as Wolverine.

I'm in favor!

18.03.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Star Wars Unlimited - Jump to Light speed Fireball card, serialized 144/250

Star Wars Unlimited - Jump to Light speed Fireball card, serialized 144/250

Ever been at a game store and had the feeling of "I should buy that pack right there"?

Well, sometimes it pays off.

11.03.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to write more, but it's an expensive proposition. People rages against realistic prices for PDFs, scream "PDFs should be FrEe!!", etc. Time is expensive. Art is expensive, be it visual or text. I'm asking myself more and more "is publishing this worth my time?" a lot. Mental health, yo.

09.03.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The End of Everything Epic 5e Adventure to Save the World Crops are failing, the undead rise, an ancient evil stirs in the north, and even magic seems tainted β€” why is everything failing? Is there a group of adventurers th...

The End of Everything. We wanted to visit a world/adventure where things are weird, weirder, chaos, CHAOS, and so we ended up with this tome. Hastur's themes are throughout the sequence and the final setpiece (and linked lore) has been received really well!

www.froggodgames.com/products/the...

09.03.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@alexkammer.bsky.social and I wrote a whole book on this very king!

09.03.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My Cthulhu? Called.

08.03.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

HAHAHAHAHA there's no syntax checking or anything, you can make up source email addresses and hit this form.

I mean, if you were into such things.

28.02.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hey, the hr@opm.gov address is accepting emails again. We should be reporting what we did last week, right?

24.02.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

UK Games Expo is a pretty fantastic event, and congrats to the designers running their own AL stuff!

23.02.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My son and I have been playing a lot of HeroQuest and could use another player!

23.02.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're Hiring! Digital Media Specialist Position - Take This Digital Media Specialist We all know it’s dangerous to go alone. Take This is looking for someone to help us bring hope, connection, and mental health to game players, creators,…

⏰Tomorrow (Feb 23) is the last day to apply for the Digital Media Specialist position! www.takethis.org/2025/02/were...

22.02.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Who's gonna find me at Gary Con in a couple weeks? I'm running some preview games for the upcoming Gamehole Con "Wardens of the Eastern Marches" campaign but I have plenty of available time as of right now!

22.02.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My vote would be for Dungeon Crawl Classics/ Goodman Games - have you seen their cover art? The show would be -amazing-!

Plus they've been on the 50 yard line for a couple years so they know their field.

20.02.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

D&D @ Gen Con is moving from the JW Marriott over the Lucas Oil Stadium. I think this means that they're either gonna fight the True Dungeon folks, or combine forces for what is possibly the most epic LARP event Indy has ever seen.

www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1914-d...

20.02.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I WAS gonna attend Magic Con Chicago this weekend, but a confluence of events has resulted in that plan being canceled.

SO!

I guess I'm reading up on Call of Cthulhu 7th edition this weekend instead :)

18.02.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sassy Szassy just doin' what he does.

18.02.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh these are niiiiiiiiice

13.02.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've long looked at the LEGO Harry Potter kits and thought "those are pretty cool" which was immediately followed by "but JK Rowling is a piece of work".

Anyways, don't look at aliexpress. Definitely don't look at sets that are like 20% of the original price.

13.02.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was once talking about narrative design and adventure composition with new designers. One new person quoted something; I loved it and asked what it was from. They said I wrote it. My response: "Oh, that's the EDITED version. Way better than mine. Editors are amazing!" lol

05.02.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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