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I feel like Blades could use way more of this. You can give me 25 examples of what Position/Effect look like when done right. Give me a common pitfall of what a bad obstacle design looks like and how to avoid it, (because I've probably fallen in said pitfall before, and will again).

You know who I just realized does do this tho? Apoc World, in the Advanced F**kery chapter. "Here's a custom move playtesters tried. It didn't work for long."

Dangit, Bakers, you smart smart people. How do you keep doing it?

You know what I think some TTRPG texts are missing? How to do things *wrong*.

You see a lot of examples of the right thing to do, but not a lot of "Here's an easy mistake to make. Don't do this, here's why."

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Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

Naomi Novik's "Deadly Education" (aka the Scholomance Series) is 110% how I'd expect a magical school CfB to look like.

There's also "The Library at Hellebore" by Cassandra Khaw, but that's a bit closer to just an Apocalypse Keys playset/prebuilt setting.

It's been on my mind.

A screenshot of a Reddit post, reading and showing photos of: Empress Eugénie’s crown, shown intact before the October 2025 Louvre heist (top) and damaged afterward (bottom).

Should still display it, calling it, "The Fragility of Empires"

AI chatbots upended their lives. Then they turned to each other : Consider This from NPR Some people who say AI chatbots upended their lives and the lives of their loved ones, are now turning to each other for support. Around the world, people are talking to AI chatbots, and these chats c...

The quote came from this article. It's a really sad look at people who, look, I'm glad they found each other.

Some people really pushed back on the idea that 5e is a combat-focused game. But you give a fluffy Cloud Dragon a stat block, or make the whole fiction about Neopets without changing the rules, and suddenly it becomes much clearer.

"If [GenAI] is the disease, human connection is the cure."

I know there is a dark corner of TTRPG space that uses AI, but by and large, this is a hobby that *demands* human connection.

If you're in this hobby as a player, practice GMing, friends. There will come a day your services are needed.

Well. At least it wasn't a long long day.

Bad Bunny wearing a blue bunny hat at the Super Bowl would be a power move, just saying.

Just a reminder: there is no "right way" to enjoy Harry Potter.

"But this podcast" No.
"But the fanworks" No.
"But it was my childhood" Don't care. Read better fantasy. Cut this one out of your life.

I was in that game with Mads! Aside from being a thoughtful game, the pastoral way the text is written is just...choice.

I still think about my game of Harvest from time to time.

I've been sick for like, a solid week. And I felt bad because I've used it as an excuse to not do things I normally like doing. Felt like burnout.

Now I'm looking at the clock and it's past 1 AM. I have work tomorrow, but the word doc has a lot more words added to it.

Feels good to be back.

It was also a bit of a unique class in that it was more "conversational". The professor had his thoughts and ideas, but sent us out to find answers and had us bring them back for discussion (as opposed to a lecture-based class where we're expected to just accept the prof's words as gospel)

The Tarzan novel (1914) was required reading, as it served as a sort of "culture guide" for what was expected of men-in-western-society, and our starting off point.

We ultimately went through WWII and into the James Bond/commercialization era.

The History of Masculinity is one I keep coming back to. Prof took a lot of time in the first class to separate "manliness" from "masculinity" before starting, essentially, in WWI when enlisted men and officers essentially shared the same space for the first time.

5 classes I took in college:

Masks
The History of Masculinity
Foreign Films
Movement for the Actor III: Stage Combat
Interpersonal Relationships

An ugly truth I don't think gets mentioned enough:

Some people's problems with fascism as it manifests isn't that there is fascism; it's that they aren't the ones benefiting from it.

To recap: Don Lemon has been arrested, Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s killers have not.

Just a bit of joy (yes, the world at large sucks right now).

The weather has a lot of my friends working from home today, and something about online connectivity (i.e. Discord) has today feeling like an Adult Snow Day. In a way that even COVID wasn't.

YouTube video by The Bad Spot Awake, Embers

A little teaser to kick off the week…

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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

YouTube video by Star Wars Andor Season 2 | Mon Mothma’s Senate Speech | Now Streaming on Disney+

Not everyone can be Mon Mothma, but you can be the two IT workers.

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The art would have to be standout, but I've done it before.

Heck, I have a pdf of the Symbaroum art book despite not owning the game itself, or having played it.

Watching this project come together and it's going to be so good! One shot RPG anthology for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark coming to Kickstarter March 1, 2026.

"Tom Cruise is helping-"

Lemme stop you there. As someone who loves the OG Top Gun a more-than-ordinary amount, Tom Cruise has nothing to do with why.