Ernest Mueller @ernestmueller

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-Fourth Session Thirty-Fourth Session - Adventurers, slugs, and undead, oh my! We go to rescue a kidnapped woman from the clutches of demons! And do, kinda sorta. The party is well and truly jacked up, besides being soul-swapped folks are poisoned, injured... Luckily I missed last session, so Hemp shows up hale and hearty and looks after his twisted brood as we try to heal up for a couple days.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-Fourth Session

Thirty-Fourth Session - Adventurers, slugs, and undead, oh my! We go to rescue a kidnapped woman from the clutches of demons! And do, kinda sorta. The party is well and truly jacked up, besides being soul-swapped folks are poisoned, injured... Luckily…

28.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-Third Session Thirty-Third Session - We continue to spelunk a somewhat-aquatic tower full of lamprey men and sharks and suchlike. We find some weird jellyfish suits that promise to let us enter the water, but there's clearly a big hammerhead shark in there. We start putting together a plan to bait and kill the shark when Gallfred Weasel goes bananas and just jumps in and starts stabbing the shark.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-Third Session

Thirty-Third Session - We continue to spelunk a somewhat-aquatic tower full of lamprey men and sharks and suchlike. We find some weird jellyfish suits that promise to let us enter the water, but there's clearly a big hammerhead shark in there. We start…

25.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just watched The Electric State and I want to punish everyone involved forever

24.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-Second Session Thirty-Second Session - The seas beckon as we leave Kingspire for the Isle of Lone Ait, which looks foreboding even on the map. Foes await! First, we have a quite lively fight with some seafaring skeletons. "Eight skeletons on a boat? No problem, let's get them. AIIIIEEEEEE it hurts" is a good summary of what we said. And then we start in on some adventure about weirdly named people (Shadankin!

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-Second Session

Thirty-Second Session - The seas beckon as we leave Kingspire for the Isle of Lone Ait, which looks foreboding even on the map. Foes await! First, we have a quite lively fight with some seafaring skeletons. "Eight skeletons on a boat? No problem,…

23.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-First Session Thirty-first Session - We head back into the Kingspire. The weaselly Vizier tries to get the runeblade off of us, so I shoot him in his face for his trouble. Unfortunately two elder kith knights cut down Ned. We manage to save his life, but at the cost of permanent disability (-1 STA and a scar). We kill them all and heft mithril weapons meaningfully.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirty-First Session

Thirty-first Session - We head back into the Kingspire. The weaselly Vizier tries to get the runeblade off of us, so I shoot him in his face for his trouble. Unfortunately two elder kith knights cut down Ned. We manage to save his life, but at the cost…

21.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirtieth Session Thirtieth Session - We go find the other elves out of time that should be against the ones in the castle, but they require slaughter as well, so we oblige. Then we find a Conan the Barbarian style dead guy and, like Conan, take his sword and armor. When we go outside we have a Tremors type problem with a big worm.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Thirtieth Session

Thirtieth Session - We go find the other elves out of time that should be against the ones in the castle, but they require slaughter as well, so we oblige. Then we find a Conan the Barbarian style dead guy and, like Conan, take his sword and armor. When…

18.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Eight The last day of the fest. Fatigue has set in. You've seen most of the films so you start picking random stuff out of the schedule. Angel's Egg - A restored 1984 anime by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D). Cryptic, weird, haunting. A little girl (?) tends a large egg in an abandoned world and meets a mysterious soldier (?).

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Eight

The last day of the fest. Fatigue has set in. You've seen most of the films so you start picking random stuff out of the schedule. Angel's Egg - A restored 1984 anime by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D).…

16.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Seven A week in but we're still not done! It starts hurting a bit at this point. But, you know, a good hurt. Let's dispense with the first two quickly, as they were both forgettable. V/H/S Halloween - A collection of “found footage” ultra low budget shorts. They can all be summed up as "something to do with a shakycam and all your haunted house props in the off season." Vaguely amusing, mostly snoozing.

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Seven

A week in but we're still not done! It starts hurting a bit at this point. But, you know, a good hurt. Let's dispense with the first two quickly, as they were both forgettable. V/H/S Halloween - A collection of “found footage” ultra low budget shorts. They can all…

14.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So it’s a replacement for making enterprise apps easily and deploying them to a platform where your whole company can use them, like Lotus Notes was back in the day. Customizable via JS on front end and back end.

13.10.2025 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They started out as an IT ticketing system but made a solid platform that lets you easily/low code add tables, workflows, and UIs, and since just about every enterprise app is data, workflows, and UIs they exploded, now 200+ apps on a common platform across most segments.

13.10.2025 00:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Six This morning in the first slot they were also running some D&D! How could I resist. Courtesy of the nice folks at Tiny Minotaur, they ran a Dungeon in a Box adventure where we all ended up taking over mecha to fight a giant bug. I played Scylla the bronze dragonborn Circle of the Sea druid. I had a fun group, the other players were a guy and his dad both of who come to the fest, and two lovely ladies on their honeymoon.

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Six

This morning in the first slot they were also running some D&D! How could I resist. Courtesy of the nice folks at Tiny Minotaur, they ran a Dungeon in a Box adventure where we all ended up taking over mecha to fight a giant bug. I played Scylla the bronze dragonborn…

11.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Five The second half of the festival arrives! Some of the glitterati bail after the weekend, they even sell a "second half" badge, and many of the movies get shown in the first and second halves. Before the first film of the day, I quickly went to the spooky book sale or whatever they called it, focusing on Texas horror authors, where I picked up three - "The Legend of Charlie Fish" by Josh Rountree (

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Five

The second half of the festival arrives! Some of the glitterati bail after the weekend, they even sell a "second half" badge, and many of the movies get shown in the first and second halves. Before the first film of the day, I quickly went to the spooky book sale or…

09.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Four Sunday at the festival starts off slow, as Friday and Satrday nights are full of fun. I considered seeing Holy Boy in the first slot, but decided on a roundup of Indian shorts billed as "Fantastic India!" instead. Really more general SE Asian. I have learned to skip the shorts programming in general after several years of it just being a "how gross can we be" competition but there have been really interesting Indian movies the last two years so I thought I'd hit Indian shorts to get a smorgasboard.

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Four

Sunday at the festival starts off slow, as Friday and Satrday nights are full of fun. I considered seeing Holy Boy in the first slot, but decided on a roundup of Indian shorts billed as "Fantastic India!" instead. Really more general SE Asian. I have learned to skip…

07.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Three It's a fine Saturday morning and the big weekend of the fest is here. They start a silent auction for parts of the diorama they used to film the "spooky church" trailer for the fest, which is cool - I'd love the big stained glass piece to put in my window but the bids immediately hit $500 and Lord only knows what they got to eventually.

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Three

It's a fine Saturday morning and the big weekend of the fest is here. They start a silent auction for parts of the diorama they used to film the "spooky church" trailer for the fest, which is cool - I'd love the big stained glass piece to put in my window but the…

04.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Two The first full day of the fest, which means five movies! The first slot is usually around 11 AM, then 2 PM, then 5 PM, then 8 PM, then 11 PM. Then you stagger home at 2 AM, sleep, be in front of the computer to reserve your next day's tickets at 10 AM sharp, and jump in the car to come back and do it again!

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day Two

The first full day of the fest, which means five movies! The first slot is usually around 11 AM, then 2 PM, then 5 PM, then 8 PM, then 11 PM. Then you stagger home at 2 AM, sleep, be in front of the computer to reserve your next day's tickets at 10 AM sharp, and jump…

02.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very saddened to hear about Jane Goodall’s passing. I grew up reading about her in National Geographic, and she has always impressed me with her constant energy and devotion to improving the world throughout a long and eventful life. Rest in peace.

01.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day One The first day is a partial one - an opening night party and big premiere on Thursday night. The Highball, the bar connected to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar that hosts the festival, was all Dungeons & Dragons decorated - they even had a dragon head set up atop the building outside like the Godzilla head in Shinjuku! Cosplayers in Renfaire garb filled the venue (advertising a "

Fantastic Fest 2025 – Day One

The first day is a partial one - an opening night party and big premiere on Thursday night. The Highball, the bar connected to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar that hosts the festival, was all Dungeons & Dragons decorated - they even had a dragon head set up atop the…

30.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic Fest 2025 – 20th Anniversary Edition! I took a week off and went to my favorite Austin film festival, Fantastic Fest! It's the 20th year of this genre (fantasy, horror, science fiction, action, and cult) film festival started back in 2005. The movies range from the ultra weird obscure foreign films to the breakthrough hits (Zombieland, John Wick, The Babadook, and Smile for example). I started going in 2009 with fellow gamer Chris and have attended on and off since (2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, the online-only 2020, 2023, 2024, and 2025).

Fantastic Fest 2025 – 20th Anniversary Edition!

I took a week off and went to my favorite Austin film festival, Fantastic Fest! It's the 20th year of this genre (fantasy, horror, science fiction, action, and cult) film festival started back in 2005. The movies range from the ultra weird obscure…

30.09.2025 01:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-ninth Session Twenty-ninth Session - And now - weird elves out of time!!! My research indicates that Old Man Fish's desire for darkvision let us into DCC 88.5, Curse of the Kingspire! Things get weird quick, both camping near the ruins of the Kingspire and then as we approach it (leaving our 8 companions and horses at camp) ghostly figures surround us. And as we approach the tower we are suddenly part of a ghostly ancient battle between hordes of beast-men and a castle full of Kith!

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-ninth Session

Twenty-ninth Session - And now - weird elves out of time!!! My research indicates that Old Man Fish's desire for darkvision let us into DCC 88.5, Curse of the Kingspire! Things get weird quick, both camping near the ruins of the Kingspire and then as…

21.09.2025 03:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-eighth Session Twenty-eighth Session - In the aftermath of Glipkerio's Gambit, as well as the advent of the year of our Lord 2025, we make friends with the new extraplanar people that have joined us and deal with swamp life, swamp witches, swamp gnolls, swamp zombies... Ick. The introductions between our normal PCs and the other-time zero levels goes as you might expect, with everyone trying to get each other to take various proscribed substances.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-eighth Session

Twenty-eighth Session - In the aftermath of Glipkerio's Gambit, as well as the advent of the year of our Lord 2025, we make friends with the new extraplanar people that have joined us and deal with swamp life, swamp witches, swamp gnolls, swamp…

19.09.2025 02:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-seventh Session Twenty-seventh Session - Into Mount Tyche where weird stuff continues to happen and we end up fighting a bunch of time-shifted wizards! Hemp is on a quest to get closer to his new deity Aphiel - he has an artifact, the blazefire bow, but it doesn't, you know, blaze into fire. There is a temple to Aphiel up on that mountain, but apparently someone's taken it over and shooed out the priests.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-seventh Session

Twenty-seventh Session - Into Mount Tyche where weird stuff continues to happen and we end up fighting a bunch of time-shifted wizards! Hemp is on a quest to get closer to his new deity Aphiel - he has an artifact, the blazefire bow, but it doesn't,…

16.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Not In Kansas Anymore Not In Kansas Anymore - Paul runs a weird one-shot funnel where we each generate characters from a different time! Paul directs us to go make characters from "anything" in the Purple Sorcerer 0-level party generator! I choose "Trailer Park Shark Attack" and others pick options like "Space Dungeon", "Dying Earth", "1920s Earth", and "Modern Earth." We get a lovely list of 0-levels, some of the most notable are Stacey Thompson the Professional Screamer, Maynard the Meth Manufacturer, and Shad the Trailer Park Santa.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Not In Kansas Anymore

Not In Kansas Anymore - Paul runs a weird one-shot funnel where we each generate characters from a different time! Paul directs us to go make characters from "anything" in the Purple Sorcerer 0-level party generator! I choose "Trailer Park Shark…

13.09.2025 13:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-sixth Session Twenty-sixth Session - Back in Weebrook, some Wormtongue type sorcerer named Sylle Ru is now in charge. We immediately subscribe to his newsletter. This new wizard comes to visit us in the inn with some undead goons. Half of the party is Chaotic, and most of us hate in movies where some good supporting character sasses the bad guy and gets murdered instead of humoring him until they're out of 9mm range, so we have a nice chat about his economic revitalization program.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-sixth Session

Twenty-sixth Session - Back in Weebrook, some Wormtongue type sorcerer named Sylle Ru is now in charge. We immediately subscribe to his newsletter. This new wizard comes to visit us in the inn with some undead goons. Half of the party is Chaotic, and…

11.09.2025 21:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-fifth Session Twenty-fifth Session - Ogre drug dealers enliven the journey back to Fythorp, where baths and treasure sales are the order of the day. This session is mostly roleplay in town, which is fun. I get there late and spend a solid hour on inventory and selloff, as we have a bunch of stuff and seldom are in anyplace with more than two rubles to rub together.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-fifth Session

Twenty-fifth Session - Ogre drug dealers enliven the journey back to Fythorp, where baths and treasure sales are the order of the day. This session is mostly roleplay in town, which is fun. I get there late and spend a solid hour on inventory and…

09.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-fourth Session Twenty-fourth Session - We extract from the Temple of the Carnifex right through a giant Ewok tree village full of goblins! Well, Gallfred Weasel finally gets his wish of unlimited goblins to kill with Shadeslayer. He still spends a lot of the time hiding. And unconscious. With no Mordecai either it's just Hemp, Old Man Fish, Ned, and Podrick against a whole raft of goblins and giant bats and goblin moonshine and bat swarms.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-fourth Session

Twenty-fourth Session - We extract from the Temple of the Carnifex right through a giant Ewok tree village full of goblins! Well, Gallfred Weasel finally gets his wish of unlimited goblins to kill with Shadeslayer. He still spends a lot of the time…

06.09.2025 18:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The removal of “fly me to the moon” unfortunately has me seek other versions of

05.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – A Year In The last session marks a solid year of our gaming group playing in Paul's DCC campaign. (He runs every other week while I run my Reavers Pathfinder campaign in alternate.) I thought it'd be a good time to do a retrospective on how we're finding the game. It's going well! The zero-level funnel was fun and we're all about third level now so not quite as squishy.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – A Year In

The last session marks a solid year of our gaming group playing in Paul's DCC campaign. (He runs every other week while I run my Reavers Pathfinder campaign in alternate.) I thought it'd be a good time to do a retrospective on how we're finding the game. It's…

05.09.2025 03:03 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-third Session Twenty-third Session - Deeper into the Temple of the Carnifex we go, fighting through an ancient cult in order to... Well, we figure that out as we go. We fight a bunch of dudes in here and largely have no idea why we're doing it. "Are we ze baddies?" we are forced to ask. Mordecai finally shares some of what's going on:

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-third Session

Twenty-third Session - Deeper into the Temple of the Carnifex we go, fighting through an ancient cult in order to... Well, we figure that out as we go. We fight a bunch of dudes in here and largely have no idea why we're doing it. "Are we ze baddies?"…

02.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-second Session Twenty-second Session - The party braves Bat Country to go to the Goblin Spires which turn out to be the entry point to the Temple of the Carnifex. We find a nice little monastery (with carved trees like Aladzha Monastery, you should go visit it if you're in eastern Bulgaria!) that distracts us with tales of a nearby goblin tribe living in a stone spire.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-second Session

Twenty-second Session - The party braves Bat Country to go to the Goblin Spires which turn out to be the entry point to the Temple of the Carnifex. We find a nice little monastery (with carved trees like Aladzha Monastery, you should go visit it if…

30.08.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-first Session Twenty-first Session - We brave both Law and oxen as well as ourselves to go get the fabled Helm of Chistu for Podrick! After the Celebration of Temptation's Embrace we have brunch and decide on next steps. One of the great things about DCC is we all have quests we want to go on to get specific superpowers. But it does founder a little upon the shores of irregular attendance.

Dungeon Crawl Classics – Twenty-first Session

Twenty-first Session - We brave both Law and oxen as well as ourselves to go get the fabled Helm of Chistu for Podrick! After the Celebration of Temptation's Embrace we have brunch and decide on next steps. One of the great things about DCC is we all…

28.08.2025 13:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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