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Saints Of The Empty Throne by Levi Kornelsen A Swashbuckling Game Of Raggedy Noble Remnants

Thinking about Saints today...

Democracy is rulership and power (Kratos) of the common people, the mob (Dēmos), USUALLY by majority vote or representation.

An angry mob that most of the town is afraid of isn't democracy, but an angry mob that most of the town is part of... Arguably is.

Arguably.

the heat death of my universe

Too long, alas, to fully type here, so I'll link to a pinned post I have elsewhere.

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Any USA comic book folks in my circle?

In the 80s I bought an early Silver Age comic. I'm at a point where I'm curious about its condition & maybe taking preservation steps.

Anyone have thoughts on businesses who specialize in those things? Obvs I'll be poking around the web as well.

( circle of iron?)

It's technically Thursday where I am.

Night Witches There was a night bomber regiment in World War Two composed entirely of women. Natural-born Soviet airwomen. These 200 women and girls, flying outdated biplanes from open fields near the front lines, ...

On this day, October 15, in 1945, the Soviet "Night Witches" regiment was disbanded. Maybe check out the game? bullypulpitgames.com/products/nig...

Coming soon: Swords Without Master A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

⚔️ Your midweek reminder that Swords Without Master is coming in early 2026!

🎨 I'm pumped for the Eidolon cards we'll be producing, which will feature inspirational art on one side and playable suggestions, tone references and bits of fiction on the other.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Every Filmed and Televised Performance by Joy Division (1978–79) Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought one started a band.

Some day I will watch this.

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i am considering eliminating going from my vocab & replacing it with boing

(... spookhetti season ... yum ...)

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The truth here is unassailable.

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Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025 - Unwritten Earths Symposium | DriveThruRPG The Adventure & Hobbyist Annual is a collection of system-adventurous scenarios, maps and more for use with your favorite tabletop roleplaying games.  Caught Between Worlds This inaugural compila...

The Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025 is now available on @drivethrurpg.com!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Promo image with orange text on tan background THANK YOU!, next to illustrations of two male wrestlers. (top) Luminary character with sunglasses and purple-and-gold gear, smiling and signing an autograph (bottom) Waist-up Monster "nerd" character with pink glasses, ripped yellow buttonup, pocket protector and huge muscles. Bottom banner reads "World Wide Wrestling - Only Wrestling Is Real"

Thanks so much, wrestling fans! World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged beat the time limit and pulled out a solid victory in the squared circle. 💪

The campaign is over, but Late Pledges are available to preorder a copy of the upcoming print run, if you missed it.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

Chris Columbus's The Shining

Swords Without Master really broke my brain. System mainly shapes session, and dice are mainly nudges (not determinations). You might already have it in Worlds Without Master, No. 3.

But also... !

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A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

... he was pardoned by Reagan. If we decide to insist Rockford's fictional world is that tied to reality.

But, if we do insist, and also allow for some general rounding of "it was X years ago," it is also possible that it was Brown, maybe as part of a flurry of last-day pardons, which I like.

It is silly how much time I give to fictional Jim Rockford's timeline. But sometimes episodes deal with it. Anyway, called "Guilt" hinged on a 20-years ago relationship. This has adjusted my opinion of when Jim was in prison, which we know was 7 years & for armed robbery & probably means...

This might replace podcasts as my dishwashing listening.

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

Huh.

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

The cream is coming from inside the corn! Often thought of as no more than a rarely-contentious canned supplement to improve the texture of boxed cornbread, creamed (or cream) corn is a delicious dish in its own right.

This ended somewhere I did not anticipate at the beginning.

www.metafilter.com/210661/The-c...

Made compatible with 5e

I am returning to my TTRPG roots with a game I originally designed 3-4 years ago but never released.

RITE is a #TTRPG #zine game? experience? ritual? where up to four players take on discrete roles to create sacraments for midwinter.

Launching Oct. 14th
7 day campaign
Other RPGs as add-ons

"Why do I recognize this?"

Pokes the web search for a few minutes.

"Dr. Demento."

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Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025 by Unwritten Earths Symposium System-Adventurous Scenarios, Maps & More

System adventurous scenarios, plus a bit of guidance on playing them to your table's vibe.

unwrittenearths.itch.io/annual-2025

"One surprising thing about the study of language and linguistics: The more you learn, the less pedantic you become and the more you revel in the glorious, rip-roaring chaos of iterative creativity."

- @jesszafarris.bsky.social, Useless Etymology

My relationship with English in a paragraph.

And this is the real reason "they could never make Blazing Saddles now."