Jason Schneiderman

FRAN SKAFA and the METSKAMORPHOSIS emma alice johnson

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Sure.

Oh, the yes indeed!

Pick the apple, admire the apple, toss the apple away…

People talk around COVID instead of addressing it because there’s no easy way to avoid COVID infections without foundational lifestyle changes. Masking means quitting restaurants in specific and social eating in general; it means inviting social and maybe professional censure. Nobody wants those!

Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha

and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut

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They kept you in the basement, learning to print.

That one, too. :)

Earth Girls Are Easy (1988); Nightmare Before Christmas (1993); Ed Wood (1994); The Crow (1994); Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008). I saw Mask of the Phantasm, too.

Met Alice Cooper as he and his family were dining at the Ground Round.

You and I, in a little toy shop, buy a bag of balloons with the money we brought…

YouTube video by VHS-Goldie The Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance - 1984

I'm so happy; I'm just burnin'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPh6...

I'm not the first to say, but to clarify, when toy companies use "role play," they mean it in the kids-play-dress-up sense, so this is a license for making robes and wands and scarves and such.

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Have you heard of "The Jargon File"? It's definitely in there, and it propagated from that document into Usenet, where it caught on. (It's the same place you'll find "!" as "bang," as in "bang path.")

Same, in all ways. The groups I'm in have slowly migrated their activity from Slack to Discord, and I wonder what they'll think of shifting back.

True, but it was common for people typing on VAX or other ASCII-based terminals to use the asterisk instead of the bullet. (Which led to another, meaner joke.)

That's clever, but unrelated. :)

They did have "The Complete <blank>'s Handbook" series, but the name was retroactively applied.

They didn't, not yet; the "splat" came from the Clanbook/Tribebook/Guildbook/Kithbook construction. The universal variable was *, which the nerds called "splat," so a "*-book" was a "splatbook."

Lots of cameos from D&D notables. The campaign book was also supposed to include guidelines for incorporating your own home brew world(s) into the story. The final battle was to take place in the dungeon below Castle Greyhawk, where everything started.

I wrote the original brief for this product. It was originally supposed to be a campaign that celebrated D&D’s 50th by sending the players on a tour of all the classic settings we reintroduced for 5E—Ravenloft, Eberron, Spelljammer, DL, and, of course FR—to battle a multiversal threat.

Are the Big Two Just Doing... Torg?!

SBG/Are the Big Two Just Doing... Torg?!
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Age of Revelation and DC KO seem... kind of familiar

Utah Hogle Zoo photo, giraffe and parents

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒

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Rock triptych: Goose, Geese, Veruca Salt

I've got two games on the schedule for Dreamation: a run of Spectaculars using a mashup of the Eldritch Mysteries and Streetlight Knights pads, and my Star Trek pastiche for Under Hollow Hills. That, and an as-yet-unscheduled Phantom Ink. I think I want to add one more thing, but I'm not sure what.

Those were his heroes — and you know what they say about meeting them.

Well, shit.

Afternoon soaps? Bottle of cold brew?

You know what comes close? Heist, from MTG Arena.