The Undiscovered Lands

Meow Wolf's mind-bending TTRPG will let you rip holes in reality Explore a surreal world where memories are currency, featuring sentient pizza and immortal cybernetic hamsters

Love this.

@wotc-news.bsky.social I have a request, can we sunset the format in adventures where you mention skill checks with the ability first? Like saying “must make a DC 13 Wisdom (Survival) check”. Can we just say “DC 13 Survival check?” I’m pretty sure it’s how many of us DMs write it down anyway.

The 10 year old kid at the beginning of our DnD game just now: "So, you guys hear the new Pope just dropped?"

I don't think that, but I do fear we're going to lose this world once Andor is done, and I want to see more stories told in this world, or, at least, in this way. It's totally unique to the other the shows and films in both tone and style. I hope something else is created in a similar vein.

OMG, I just gave the beholder of our D&D game a corny accent where he says "bro" all the time and the kids in the group immediately dubbed him "the broholder." He is now transitioning into an NPC.

Listening to Afterburner, I think you could make an argument for it being an industrial album that was ahead of its time.

As much as I’m looking forward to Andor Season 2, I think I might be looking forward to @mattcolville.bsky.social takes on it just as much.

You’re not the boss of me.

Yeah, the click bait is real. But... you'll never believe what they do next!

Does anyone else feel like there's nothing wrong with the world that couldn't be fixed by a new Fugazi album? I feel like we really need a new Fugazi album. Or just a tour would be great. Thanks for attending my TED talk.

Also, there was a surreal moment when we were evacuating that I was running around taking pictures of things for insurance and kept thinking I was taking pictures of “Things we lost in the fire” and your album kept coming up in my head.

Oh nice! Definitely checking these out.

My players could call me out on this so, so often.

Reading about her prescience now. I’ll check it out. I live near Pasadena and had to evacuate so this feels spot on for me right now. Thanks.

I haven’t used PF’s Nexus but I imagine it’s a similar thing. If @hellomcdm.bsky.social can get the Draw Steel VTT up relatively close to following launch, I think it will have a big impact on adoption.

I think @mattcolville.bsky.social has the right idea by getting a VTT up and running to support his new game. TTRPGs require people to play with, and making a platform that’s easy to use and super accessible is the right strategy to get there.

I prefer playing DnD on Beyond because it’s just easier to me. I run games for 9 year olds online and they can pick it up real fast.

Don’t get me wrong. VTTs like Roll20 are great, but they are a great platform for playing “many” games. There are lots of allowances being made in the UX to create a fluid platform that can apply to any TTRPG.

There are ALOT of promising TTRPGs coming out this year. The reason I think #DrawSteel has an (ahem) edge is the VTT angle. If they can successfully launch a VTT custom built for their game I think they will have cornered a very large market that’s been widely ignored.

Ok hear me out. Taylor Kitsch is the star of American Primeval but all I remember of him is starring in John Carter of Mars so I’m watching AP like it’s a rugged sequel to JC and it actually kind of works? #AmericanPrimeval

The other night I discovered “Vorpal” is not a scrabble word and I feel betrayed by my childhood. #DnD

Look, this is all happening too fast. I still can’t get my Aibo to fetch.

Really? I’m not disagreeing with you. Just curious as to what the differences between the 2014 and 2024 rules are that make you feel that way.

The thing about this is that I don’t know if it’s real or it’s fake before clicking on it because there’s the Onion AV club and that’s not fake so it’s feasible he did an interview with The Onion right?

…a lot of Stephen King as a kid and reread a bunch of it a couple years ago and had some funny reactions. Like, Tommyknockers was probably written in a drug/booze haze, and I liked that book as a kid. Pet Semetary was much darker because I have a kid of my own now. It all hit different.

Reading these responses is interesting because I agree and disagree on a lot of the specific examples people are referencing. I understand this is totally subjective, but I wonder how much of this has less to do with age and is simply where the reader is at when they experience the work. I read…

Anyway, it may not be the same thing but seeing this triggered that memory. I was just baffled there was a whole cottage industry for dryer duct cleaning scams. Now I see scams everywhere!

I called the company and they were cagey and I started to realize it was a scam. Had the same vibe as scam call centers. Did some googling and figured it out.

But they don’t actually have the skills or knowledge or probably tools to actually do the job. And it’s some weird home thing you can’t really check well at the time (e.g. a long enclosed dryer duct). After I noticed we were having the same issues I took apart the duct and nothing had been done.

I had the same thing happen to me with the dryer vent. Did some digging and it turns out there’s a whole internet scam related to it. Bots flood local social networks with posts about some kind of labor. Someone shows up at your house claiming to be able to do something. All looks legit…