Mikel L. Matthews Jr.

It’s really not that hard to just set up a Shopify store I will help you do it stop giving dtrpg moneyy

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

A page from the game describing clues, conspiracies, and contacts, along with polaroid photos of abstract things, a man in a suit, and a bloody hand.

A two page spread from the game showing the prologue, rolling for your stats (name, health, gear, soul) and the contact associated with them. A polaroid photo of a cigarette in an ashtray is in the upper left.

A two page spread showing two scenes from the game. Penthouse 55 and cult of glass, each have white text on dark photos.

A two page spread of a character and a cold case in the game. Both have white text on dark photos backgrounds.

Solve cold cases. Meet strange characters and stranger scenes. Survive your own bullshit, and probably get worse.

Kassandra King: Devil's Dice is out now.

Birthed from the External Containment Bureau.

Mechanics from @shawntomkin.bsky.social's Ironsworn.

notwriting.itch.io/kassandra-ki...

“Goliath lost”

Amazon wasn’t Goliath here. Amazon was Truman Burbank not realizing he was showing up to a battle.

A vampire that is not Dracula.

YES this is an important distinction

1) At last! Having submitted last April, the gears of academic publishing have finally ground round and my article on Twilight: 2000 in the Journal of American Studies is now available! And it's open access, so anyone can engage with it!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Said it before, will say it again: If any other product in America showed signs of causing or worsening psychosis in a fraction of its users, it would be pulled from public consumption immediately and heavily regulated.

I'll give the Saudis this, they may keep announcing insane megaprojects that will never exist, but every single one of them would make for an absolute banger of a disaster movie.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

The Far Roofs tonight at 7pm Central.
After traveling to the Far Roofs with the Fortitude Rats, the players are near to facing Hedge the Fang, who is eating the moon. We'll see if their journey has made them ready to face such a Mystery.

twitch.tv/improvgm

Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."

As a supervising attorney, I am here to tell young lawyers that AI is absolutely a threat to your career. I do not mean that it will replace you. I mean that if you use it, you increase the risk that another attorney will replace you when you are fired. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Ten years. Ten entire years.

Thanks for coming along, y'all.

EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

gonna keep banging this drum: Chicago area folks, if you sign up for Know Your Rights training with @icirr.bsky.social
it’s only 90 minutes & through the org, you can be connected with people who are trying to protect our communities. Other ideas: find local food pantries or Mutual Aid groups 💚

Rocky & Bullwinkle WILL be the font of all new RPGs

Never forget when I famously said "mortal kombat is just avatar the last airbender for people who don't eat their wives out"

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot.

We can never normalize this:

Every day I am tempted to form a strong opinion about something on which I am fundamentally ignorant, and every time I make an effort to not do so without asking someone smarter. So today it’s about carrier groups.

in case you missed it, you can get Uneasy on itch today! This gmless #ttrpg has you squabble and scheme as important nobles in a royal court, and it's really good adambell.itch.io/uneasy-lies-...

I think the Harold is the D&D of improv.
It's often looked at as a gateway format and I think it's weirdly structured in a way that you often have to unteach players who branch out to other formats.

It’s goooood. Most of the Aliens crew are the Vampires and it’s directed by Catherine Bigelow

Near Dark, which is an under watched gem

Federal Judge Jeffrey Cummings has found that ICE agents violated the terms of a consent decree by detaining people without proper warrants. He ruled that as of this week ICE must wear body cams at all times and can face arrest and contempt proceedings if they conduct unlawful, warrantless arrests.

My guilty pleasure is reading the PbtA feed until I find an overly broad statement about PbtA games.

"All PbtA games just feel the same-" Play better games! Of course Dungeon World and Monster of the Week feel the same, they're the same damn game.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sometimes the urge to start a Smallville game gets strong

Smallville/Cortex Prime and Dogs in the Vineyard are far and away my favorite. In those, there’s a back and forth that takes place that helps the players escalate naturally (a skill most people are bad at) and focuses the conflicts/arguments on important things.

i laughed at loud at this bit in the gender section, which is great
:)

Oath of Moment 【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

SURPRISE!

I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.

It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?

Anyway enjoy!!!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...