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Monday Musings #112 🤬 Musings on My Indolence.

Monday Musings #112 🤬
Check out my new post, musings on Indolence, and Sunday Morning Knights!
Good Monday, Gamers! open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

SecretKC KC’s best nights out—handpicked, whispered, and sent straight to your inbox.

If you’re into this kind of curated KC nightlife/local culture drop — I put it all together in a free Thursday newsletter called SecretKC It’s light, local, and built for folks who ask “what’s going on this weekend?” every damn Thursday.
Let me know what you’re checking out.
—— Stay Sharp!

🔥Top Picks this weekend in KC
VOO Lounge – Thu, Aug 7 Cocktail Class + Live Jazz with David Basse
Sherri’s Lounge – Sat, Aug 9 Soul-funk with The Go Hard Band
Libations & Co – Fri, Aug 8 Blues night with Nick Schnebelen at The 1909 Club
Nighthawk – Sat Late Night Talya Groves + Sir Queen
And More!

KANSAS CITY WEEKENDS 4EVAR! 🤘🏾

🦋 First Flight Giveaway
We’re celebrating our first 100 subscribers with a luxe cocktail night at The Monarch Bar — $100 tab, reserved seats, and a signed cocktail book. Want in? Get on the List! there are few spots left before we hit 100!!

Around the Hearth | Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 3 Underground This time Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History jumps forward in time to the mid-1990s. Hosts Jay Brown and Lowell Francis look at Underground (1993), Mayfair's attempt to build on the DC Heroes sy...

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 3 Underground
@madjay.bsky.social & Lowell look at Underground (1993), Mayfair's reworking of DC Heroes w/ a dystopian, cyberpunk supers world.

Content warning: cannibalism, PTSD, transphobia, regressive treatment of disabilities & mental illness.
#ttrpg

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🦋 Something Very Kansas City Is Taking Flight…
SecretKC is about to hit our first 100 subscribers — and to celebrate, we’re giving one lucky local a luxe night out at one of the city’s finest cocktail bars: The Monarch Bar.

Monday Musings #111 🤬 Musings on my states of play

☀️ This week’s Monday Musing is all about summer games bucket lists, and the magic of regular Sunday games. My son’s hunting his first job, I’m chasing last-chance summer plays, and Lifted musings.
Good Monday, Gamers! #ttrpg open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

Good stuff!! 🐭 🗡️

🌃 Highlights:
• Soul Jazz @ VOO Lounge (Thu)
• Tropical Tease @ Hey! Hey! Club
• Jurassic Garden @ Powell Gardens
• Toad the Wet Sprocket + Semisonic @ Grinders (Sat)
• First Fridays + Dinosaurs at the Zoo
• Sunday night @ Green Lady Lounge
📸 Plus, we were spotted at VOO Lounge this week.

SecretKC KC’s best nights out—handpicked, whispered, and sent straight to your inbox.

For my Kansas City Peoples!
This week’s Secret KC is out!
If you’re into moody jazz sets, pop-up cocktails, art walks, and soul shows — we’ve got your weekend planned:
www.secretkc.com #kansascity

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
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But now I get to mention it TWICE!!

Monday Musings #110 🤬 Spouting Lore, bombs and stuff you missed.

Musings on spouting lore, dropping bombs and stuff you missed!

Good Monday, Gamers!
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Game #2 of Sunday - Flying Circus RPG. Gotta rescue some pilots, but feels like we mighta got sold out?! #ttrpg

We're live this morning, session II: The Harvest Season.
MYTHIC BASTIONLAND
@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social
@newmadras.bsky.social
and me!!
www.twitch.tv/actualplay

PIC: Wooden panels with carved knights on the sides. A headless and armless wooden knight in the middle. TEXT: Mythic Bastionland 3 sessions HEX with the words: Protect the weak Seek out myths Honor the seers twitch.com/ActualPlay Sundays, 8-10am EST July 20th, 27th and August 10th Thomas Manuel Indie RPG Newsletter and Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social MadJay Play Fearless @madjay.bsky.social Judd Githyanki Diaspora @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social "Knight Ponders the City (headless/armless) and accompanying panels," from The Bastion Free Library's Mythic Era Collection. Used here with library's permission

One more, the final words of the Tome Knight and the Key Knight's guilt...

@madjay.bsky.social and @newmadras.bsky.social just brought it...

Another clip, less than a minute...
youtube.com/clip/UgkxEDN...

PIC: Wooden panels with carved knights on the sides. A headless and armless wooden knight in the middle. TEXT: Mythic Bastionland 3 sessions HEX with the words: Protect the weak Seek out myths Honor the seers twitch.com/ActualPlay Sundays, 8-10am EST July 20th, 27th and August 10th Thomas Manuel Indie RPG Newsletter and Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social MadJay Play Fearless @madjay.bsky.social Judd Githyanki Diaspora @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social "Knight Ponders the City (headless/armless) and accompanying panels," from The Bastion Free Library's Mythic Era Collection. Used here with library's permission

"You say you have Delsonde's memories but do you have his honor?"

The Key Knight, Hex, drops weaponized wisdom on a Spectre who refuses to give up their living claims to the holding.

Can't to see @newmadras.bsky.social and @madjay.bsky.social tomorrow morning.

Clip: youtube.com/clip/UgkxxwE...

Hey MOM!! Mad-Dice.com is on TV!!
Rewatching @newmadras.bsky.social, @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social and I play Mythic Bastionland as hype for our next run Sunday I'm a big fan of Into The Odd, and I love what @bastionland.bsky.social is cooking up in this iteration.

www.twitch.tv/videos/25175...

Around the Hearth | Open Hearth Podcast Ep 11: Smallville, Flying Circus, Mythomorphosis In this episode we cover a wide range of games old and new. Host Lowell Francis is joined by Rich Rogers (+1 Forward, Hit the Streets) and Jay Brown (Diceology, Life: Indomitable).Smallville Flying...

I'm on a podcast!! With some awesome gamer folks!
aroundthehearth.openhearthgaming.com/episodes/ope...

Monday Musings #109 🤬 Something New, something Odd.

Musings on the Rise and Fall of the Tome Knight.
Good Monday, Gamer!
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Coffee made, found a nice PDF character sheet, a cool online dice roller app... This Knight is AMPED!!

Prepare for MEKTONFALL One GM. One Player. Mekton in the Titanfall Universe

One pilot. One Titan. One impossible rescue.
We’re fusing Titanfall’s high-speed pilot warfare with Mekton Zeta’s crunchy mecha drama in a one-player TTRPG mini-series.
A cargo pilot with a family secret.
An enemy who wants her dead.
Mission: rescue a blacklisted ghost pilot before it’s too late.

SecretKC KC’s best nights out—handpicked, whispered, and sent straight to your inbox.

🎉 Discover Kansas City's hidden gems with SecretKC! From Roxie & The Moon King to Earth, Wind & Fire, your weekend awaits!!
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Coffee is a Demon. What's your telltale. (Stolen from a friend) I only sleep 4.5 hours at a time.
#SorcererRpg

Monday Musings #108 🤬 That growth and prep life.

It's still Monday, right?! Good Monday, Gamers!!!

Monday Musings #108 🤬 open.substack.com/pub/playfear...

I am interested in getting this back on the table for a small series to see if it still holds up!!

Coming soon: Ex Tenebris A gothic space investigation TTRPG

Ex Tenebris has a prelaunch page up on Kickstarter! Go and sign up to be notified when the campaign launches.

Ex Ten is a gothic space investigation game. You're a ragtag team hunting down undead, demons and dark technology in a star-spanning setting.

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Around the Hearth | Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 2 Villains & Vigilantes In this second episode of Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History, hosts Jay Brown and Lowell Francis look at Villains & Vigilantes, the superhero rpg that broke the genre open. We go over what the g...

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 2 Villains & Vigilantes

In this podcast ep, @madjay.bsky.social and Lowell Francis look at Villains & Vigilantes, the superhero rpg that broke the genre open. We we touch on pitch, gaming history, comics media context & then a general discussion.

#ttrpg

Monday Musings #107 🤬 Not a Free League Ad

Good Monday, Gamer, a word about the Free League Summer Sale? 😝
Monday Musings #107 🤬 open.substack.com/pub/playfear...