I had that book. Great find. But troubling that things I grew up with are now museum-worthy.
05.10.2025 14:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@scubaninja.bsky.social
Shepherd that moonlights as a computational biologist. TTRPG grognarf. Cypher fanatic and lover of indie publishers, scuba diving, history, science, art, literature, synth, death metal and prog. Collector of way more RPG stuff than I could ever use.
I had that book. Great find. But troubling that things I grew up with are now museum-worthy.
05.10.2025 14:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0For SNACKBAR! If you haven't backed this, why the heck not?? www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
27.09.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโve reached the age where a sneeze or a hard cough will throw out my back. ๐ฅด
13.09.2025 17:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0check out the sick new logo on my website courtesy of @hyenablood.yeen.world + click one of the buttons to support a trans artist in these precedented times #indiettrpg
08.08.2025 19:52 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Thatโs so early 2000โs.
07.08.2025 01:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0An ad card from Underground Oracle Publishing. It features art by Tithi Luadthong.
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I used to study mosquitoes and the parasites they transmit. Sacrificed hundreds of thousands for the sake of learning their secrets. I think the local population got wind of it and decided I was to be sacrificed to their blood god.
29.07.2025 02:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Put me down for ten cases of bioluminescence.
28.07.2025 03:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Reasons to play Dieselpunk 1921:
You can shoot imperialists in it
It's good
It's straightforward
There's tons of character options
I didn't use AI to make it
It's free!
I was veeeery into horror comics in the 1970s. I still remember a few, though I would be challenged to find the titles. Probably explains why I am always looking for something weird to experience in books and games.
27.07.2025 16:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโm starting to agree with the โsnowbirdsโ who live in the nearby towns. Except I want to be a โreverse snowbirdโ: during the winter, live in southern Wisconsin; during the summer move to Greenland.
27.07.2025 15:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Itโs an adventure!
27.07.2025 15:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We have a dog. Heโs not exactly a good herder. Sheep populations expand exponentially. I didnโt intend to have this many! We are having a sale this fall. Maybe get them back down to a handleable 30 or so.
27.07.2025 15:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nah, the wool works like an insulator and keeps them a bit cooler. A couple degrees anyway. But direct sunlight for them is bad. They are basically vampires.
27.07.2025 15:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I completely agree. Iโve never sold anything I designed - and that was in the before time, when electrons werenโt owned by the corporations - so Iโm not technically a designer. But as a GM, it does drive me a little nuts when I roll up with a cart full of options, and everyone picks 5e.
27.07.2025 15:36 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I mean, to be fair, most of us started telling stories to each other in elementary or middle school. No rules. Usually. I think our addiction kinda grew from that. And whatever game got slapped down in front of us first was like throwing a bag of crack into the window of a crackhouse.
27.07.2025 13:20 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hmmโฆ still around. SL is, too.
26.07.2025 22:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 060+ sheep deciding they donโt want to cooperate is a force to be reckoned with.
26.07.2025 19:42 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Me: โChill for an hour; youโll love the spot Iโm moving you to.โ <Starts opening gate to the holding lot.>
Sheep: <knocking down fence and running for the adjacent pasture> โFrreeee! Ffrrreeeee, my Precious!! Om nom nom nom!!โ
Me: โ*sighs* fuckโ
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Me: โOkay sheep, time to move to the holding area while I work out the temporary fence for getting you to the back pasture. No shenanigans.โ
Sheep: โBut that pasture right over there has lots of yummy sweet grass!โ
Me: โThatโs for the week after next.โ
Sheep: โWe wants it, Precious!โ
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Right? It takes a village. Every. Single. Successful. YouTuber. Has an entire team backing them up. I cannot emphasize this enough. Creators do not have to do everything by themselves, because the necessary people with the right skill sets are out there. We all can help each other make things.
26.07.2025 18:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You need to re-lyric Soft Cellโs Sex Dwarf (very NSFW and mildly off for some folks) to Space Dwarf. All the grognards will fall all over themselves.
26.07.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gen Con is around the corner. The Old Gods of Appalachia RPG is back in stock on the MCG Shop. We've been sharing exciting news about upcoming changes to the Cypher System every week. Surely we haven't had time to be cooking up anything else.
Surely....
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Itโs because everybody in charge has an elementary school equivalent maturity. Full stop.
26.07.2025 17:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Free League is doing amazing things; and frankly Iโve never seen a bad title come out of them. Not that Iโve had the chance to play them all! I have a crew that I run Vaesen for and Iโm all over Alien right now - need players for that. Dragonbane and Symbaroum are our funny/dark fixes.
26.07.2025 14:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thatโs super exciting. This is one Iโve been drooling over since the new edition dropped. Unfortunately, some of my crew are solid fantasy-only, so we may need toโฆ split the party! <rimshot>
26.07.2025 14:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A photo of a cute black lamb.
Hot sheep huddling in the shade
On a hot day, sheep hide in shady spots to stay out of the sun. Kind of like me!
I feel really bad for our sheep right now. Everyone is basically just a floof potato.
23.07.2025 20:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Todayโs heat has me feeling like digging a series of tunnels and moving underground. ๐ฅต
23.07.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โSheep are so cute!โ Yeah, until they get out of the pasture and donโt want to come back in. โThey flock, so it should be easy to move them all at once.โ Unless the grass they want covers five acres, then they scatter like marbles on pavement. Bunch of fleece-covered assholes. #iampooped
23.07.2025 02:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh, thatโd be bad for me. Iโd be thinking โIโll die of old age before I get done, and my ghost will haunt the developers, forever asking how it endsโ.
21.07.2025 19:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0