Mostly I feel like I want more practice, to be doing this more again, but also at turns frustratingly insecure and discouraged.
I'm also trying to enjoy the simple fun and joy of prep while struggling against it being too hot to think most of the time
Exactly, yeah
Yeah. I'm running a fabula ultima game right now in a setting we've been developed over a bit and right now it's a lot of moving from place to place and I think I need to accommodate my prep to think about things in different terms so it feels appropriate and interesting
Will feel like there's no real thrust for them to hook into or to know what to do with.
I think mostly I'm feeling out of practice and may be overcorrecting in general for fear of not pressing "The Solution" or "The Plot" onto players, or I'm expecting them to be proactive in ways that arent clear
Or I ask "am I making this too detailed or involved?" And I feel like sorting that stuff out for *me* is very important, but then I worry it feels too convoluted for play, or comes off as thin in play if people don't wind up seeking the deeper context (they dont have to want to!!!!) Or that players
For me in single-location or region games, where there's a lot more time to sit, but not as well for "here's a town you pass through for maybe a session or single quest". I also sometimes feel like I arbitrarily peter out at a certain point and then ask "what am I even doing?"
Prepping games lately I've been feeling like I do both too much and too little. I like doing a lot of stage setting and developing local characters because I like places to feel lived in and to react, but sometimes that winds up leaving people feeling directionless or flooded. Works a lot better
*training* isnt the problem. a data center proposed in botetourt county VA is going to use 8 million gallons of water per day to operate. that's 2.9 billion gallons per year just to keep running. a square mile of farmland in VA uses less than 300 million gallons per year. VA has 560 data centers
Book of the Nude Cum
FYP just throwing as much assorted fetish content at me as it can and no matter how much I indicate I'm not interested, it then decides "well what about people in diapers and fox masks, do you want to see them fuck" and I believe in their beautiful love, but I'm not particularly interested in that
Abbot And Costello Mog Frankenstein
I feel that! It was ninety fucking two today!!!!!!
While I have some surface level thoughts on the TTRPG design discourse I'm seeing, I'm not gonna weigh in. I'm not meaningfully a designer, critic, or practicing creative and I have nothing to add
Had a surprisingly challenging week made way harder by the arrival of yet another wave of heat appropriate for the height of summer before spring has even officially begun.
My practice of sending my wife instagram clips of hillbilly outlaw rappers means my for you page is half just versions of this guy
picking up a games magazine in the mid 2000s means you were being treated to approximately 300 images just like this one every month, in between a page of adverts for phone sex hotlines and fawlty towers ringtones
it was the right thing to do at the time, but this is all a consequence of hank hill embarrassing this guy when he manipulated peggy into letting him dig up their lawn
all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Cuz I'm not there, obvi
Hell yeah
@monkipi.bsky.social just had cause to reference your “cock and ball tonsure” tweet, wanted you to know that an all-time banger lives on in my mind
They say you're not supposed to gape the Lord's A in vain, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it
God! I'm sorry, this is so embarrassing. It's not you, it's me. You see, I listened to a lot of Tenacious D when I was younger and I just... I just thought sex was going to involve a lot of something called a French Tickler? And we started going and I didnt see any signs of one and I just freaked
Oh sure it’s not like people who play videogames would be interested in obsessively tracking things like this and then becoming extremely angry about it
Slay the Spire 2 is a very good video game and also it puts my ass into the Machine Zone in a way that sometimes makes me feel sick
I miss when each class level in D&D had a different title
goty
Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
