Jeff Dee

Fuck AI.

Now we ask the ‘right to life’ crowd whether we all need to stop washing, lest any of the potential lives in our skin cells be ‘murdered’.

Right. “Traditional” only identifies the way things have been done. It doesn’t invite a conversation about *why* things were done a certain way, or what people liked about the way things were done, or how what they liked might be done even better. #ttrpg #ttisg

Nope! There are no 'dibs', no dividing the man up into different bits for players to squabble over. Everyone plays a 100% complete Malkovich.

And the GM (Grand Malkovich) is also Malkovich, watching everyone else be Malkovich.

Contemplating the design of a John Malkovich #ttrpg.

There’s no character creation. Everybody plays John Malkovich.

Why is “pan handler” not a synonym for “chef”?

It might help if we talked about it some more:)

Any feedback or questions?

There are 340 MILLION OF US.

Don’t you dare get despondent.

STAND UP.

And go GET YOUR COUNTRY BACK.

Please.

Let us not cower. This is all absolutely ridiculous.

Come on now.

There certainly are systems which I'd agree have rules which aren't really necessary. The viewpoint I'm expounding addresses both them AND systems which (it could be argued) have too *few* rules.

There's nothing that every table agrees on. So that's not a useful standard. The standard must be a) is it going to come up often, and b) are there liable to be arguments if it's not handled objectively (by mechanics, rather than fiat). That's the most reliable way to serve the most gamers.

The #ttrpg catchphrase “rulings over rules” bugs me. It’s not wrong, it’s beside the point. GMs make rulings when rules are absent or poor because we’re at a tabletop not a computer. Designers must still ask 1) what rules are needed and 2) how to make ‘em good enough not to need over-ruling. #ttisg

So sorry. When? There was another small update this morning, presumably bug fixes.

Thanks to the new custom multi-player ship construction, I'm playing No Man's Sky again.

Not only that, but you can walk up the ship's entry ramp, walk around inside, fly to other planets, get up & walk around while it's flying, land & walk back down the ramp onto the surface.

Cool.

#NoMansSky

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HASA DIGA GEN AI !

“Does it mean no worries til the end of our days?”

“Kind of!”

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Not that we shouldn’t help the end of the AI bubble along, by sharing facts about everything that’s wrong with it at every opportunity, of course.

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There is an important difference. If you say "Under Republican control, Congress has been ineffectual..." it provides a basis for voting Republicans out. If you merely say "Congress has been ineffectual..." it implies "they're all crooks!" and encourages people to opt out of voting.

Pathetic orange-nosers.

Manda @talzhemir.bsky.social is playtesting Lost Age, her sequel to our Paleolithic #ttrpg Cavemaster. Here are two ‘character tablets’ from tonight’s game. We’re using a diced variant of the Cavemaster “Habilis system”. I’ve tried to draw pictures in the style of Copper Age sites like Gobekli Tepe.

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Now THIS is old-school: A review of the Cavemaster RPG There’s a school of thought which argues that a role-playing game’s mechanics should reflect or evoke its genre. I don’t agree that it’s always necessary — a good GM a…

CAVEMASTER is my award-winning Paleolithic ‘stone-punk’ game. Using stones instead of dice, it’s the TTRPG that cave-men could have played! #ttrpg

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

Absolutely the fuck not. No settlements. Destruction for all AI companies. No compromise. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

NO. You don’t ‘settle’ with thieves!

My partner @talzhemir.bsky.social began playtesting her sequel to Cavemaster called "The Lost Age". Set in the Chalcolithic era (post cavemen, pre Homeric Greece). Towns & copper tools, but no writing. Adding a bit of civilization to Cavemaster changes the whole game! #cavemaster #lostage #unigames

I now have ALMOST 1200 followers here on BlueSky.

But as they say, ‘almost’ doesn’t count except in horseshoes and hand grenades :/

This reminds me. Hexes are a bit better for natural caverns… but don’t play well with a square grid if you want any rectilinear rooms alongside ’em.

Sorry you missed it, but real life takes precedence. No worries.