Mikel L. Matthews Jr.

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During The One Ring last night (1st Starter Set adventure), one of the players said, “Well, I’m not going to be good at intimidating it but I could sing to it and do great.”

There was laughter.

And then me knowing that, actually, later on—-he WILL be able to sing to it and win.

Cuz it’s Tolkien

So...The One Ring..... it's good.

Even though the Starter set (first one) is kind of railroady in many ways, it manages to teach most of the systems and really nails the feel of Tolkien.

Looking forward to getting to the more epic campaign, The Darkening of Mirkwood.

This is embarrassing for you. You're trying so hard and it's all nonsense.

It’s probably

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How much a shitheel do you have to be to order a mask like that? “Yeah! I look cool.”

I still pop in to the see the trainwreck of the old site once in a while and I have to say, Blue Sky is pretty ruthless there

“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor. “Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.” That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference. Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone. “Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.

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That’s how police states function and America is no longer a democracy it’s a fascist police state.

When I was young, you could not only find D&D at the BX, Waldenbooks, and other stores, you could get a lot of other ttrpgs, as well. Before we went to game shops, my parents were getting me all kinds of games in regular places.

Dragon Magazine also was about more than D&D. (Marvelphile!)

Powerful people, random redactions: 4 things to know about the latest Epstein files In the Justice Department's release of millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, there are several instances of unredacted names of Epstein's accusers, raising concerns about privacy.

In the Justice Department's release of millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, there are several instances of unredacted names of Epstein's accusers, raising concerns about privacy. n.pr/4tgh06T

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

Ars Magica: Reign of Spring 7pm Central
Sun, Feb 1

Visions of demons attacking have been plaguing the covenant for the last few years, getting particularly bad recently. The Grass Crown haunts their dreams and must be found.

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I'm not saying this name leaked because Miller wants to see if he can turn the angry white Dems in Minnesota against Latinos as a last ditch effort to sew a divide amongst the "race traitors" that are messing up his mission in MSP but I wouldn't be totally shocked if that was the play.

And, in a game about learning who you are, that level of awareness not only felt like directly translating game mechanics as diagetic (which felt like the wrong answer to me), it was also a level of understanding I didn't think these characters had.

They weren't wrong.
They just weren't for me.

I once played a pbp Promethean game and the other players all had a very different view of how the fiction worked.

Them, talking IC to an NPC: "You see, I can (use mechanic) by stoking my internal alchemical furnace and that will cause X to happen."

"We are supposed to treat the worst people in the world as good faith actors, in defiance of logic or compassion or history, and deny the obvious grim conclusions."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)
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Any time I've had, in theatre, improv, or rpgs, what I'd either call "Immersion" or maybe "flow state," if we don't discuss it immediately afterwards, it fades from my memory instantly

We broke down shows right after improv because we'd forget good shows. Bad shows would live in painful detali

I haven't done any of the deep reading, but I've always found someone saying "X breaks immersion" to be absolute bullshit because, while it may be true for you, that line varies wildly

My hot take: ttrpgs aren't good at immersion.

Theatre and improv can be and I think LARP is probably great at it.

A set of four cake pops that read HAPPY VALENTINES DAY; The first has H, VA, and D; The second has A LEN A; the third has PP TIN Y; the last has Y ES <3. A cartoon below shows a very sad hamster holding up the one that reads PP TINY

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny but it's only people who are in the epstein files

Another banger from Jonathan Guyer, who's been on the USAID-Gaza beat for a few years.

If anyone wonders why I really, really hate Joe Biden and his administration? It's because I had to work for them on Gaza. They're evil, evil people who deserve prison.

Michael McKean @MJMcKean posted Catherine’s knowledge of humanity was always at the center of her comedy, no matter how absurd the character or loopy the material. She could play heartless because she was warm, brainless because she was brilliant, careless because she truly cared. Everyone loved her and everyone learned from her. This is a deep loss.

This is so well written. 💔

Definitely fascinating and most definitely a timely game to play in 2026.

"By playing WINTERHORN you’ll have a chance to reflect on weak points in your own activism, and think about ways to harden organizations you care about against government intrusion."

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@buckfastbadlad happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day to all who observe it @SheriffAlert - Jan 27, 2020 Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

Upon meeting other Lightbringers: Good greetings in ill times, Friends! No person can risk the world alone. Join others you can share with, They need not be like you. If any of the Priests or Lords among those met are hungry or thirsty or in need of healing the Wind Lord must help them. If the people were unfairly treated it is the duty of the Orlanth Wind Lord to investigate, though definitions of this task are intentionally vague.

Re-reading the classic RuneQuest 2e #TTRPG for the first time in decades. I love the Orlanthi Wind Lords’ ritual greetings and obligations.

Look, he has a point. Because nobody has ever been mean to a games critic before.

There are people with principled takes on the 2nd Amendment, like the 1st.

But if you ever believed that the American Right broadly supported 2nd Amendment rights, as opposed to rights for people who agreed with them, you are a fool.