Ian

Colorful illustration of a giant frog with three eyes, horns, and a long tail. It is being worshipped by three figures in the foreground.

For countless millennia, before the ascendance of humanity, THE GREAT BEAST SHOGGULA was worshipped by primordial empires such as Eskragor and the Serpent Hegemony. Massive bleak temples were built in Shoggula’s honor and the frog-like god grew fat on sacrifices and faith.

Old Litkinov This story is one of my favourite things I wrote last year. I'm making it free for 24 hours, so a few more people have chance to read an example of my short fiction. If you'd like to support my writin...

Free to read, just for today: www.tom-cox.com/old-litkinov...

Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan (1981)
Episode 6

A boar with a barrel on this back

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Taking notes.

Line drawing: a very rotund mourning dove perching on a wire.

Have found tumblr user probablyday's #woosterposting series. In shock

More math

Fixed! 8.9 gallons per driveway. Thanks @tabletopastronomer.com for pointing out my energy density value was insanely off

The hunched, horned profile of a ragwretch silhouetted in the moonlight is an instinctively repulsive sight, like a putrid wound.

#lore #incunabuli #ttrpg

It should be the link in my reply! Occasionally picks up a few non-moss posts by accident, but otherwise very good.

Have you seen the bsky moss feed? It brings me great joy. bsky.app/profile/did:...

It's… - Benign Brown Beast Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme (“MPCMRP”) is a licensed comedy tabletop role-playing game designed by Brian Saliba and

Play Report and Review of the Monty Python RPG. (Please someone tell me why the thumbnails are wrong on bsky. 😭 (Or I will have to learn it myself.))

Notes from PAX Unplugged - Benign Brown Beast I went to PAX this year! I met a lot of people and played a lot of games! It was by far the biggest convention I’ve ever been to. This is a list of

Slightly miffed that bsky keeps doing weird things to my thumbnails. Anyway.

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother what will I be
Will I be pretty
Will I be rich
Here's what she said to me

2025 - Benign Brown Beast 2024 2023 I found a job. I visited Baltimore. I got a tattoo. I visited Mexico City. I lost a gallbladder. I went to Warped Tour. I visited Boston.

Trying to remember and sum up the last year is difficult, it turns out.

We do love both of those! I don't remember if they're in it, but "Shake, Stir, Sip" is a good cocktail book that's all equal-part recipes.

Trying to remember good vermouth drinks but all I can summon is that "de grifo" is like the "house vermouth" at a vermouth bar, and it's reliably tasty. (I guess it's from a tap, not a bottle.)

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

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Zines will be 7 dollars!
One page monthly "insert" games/modules will be 3 dollars!

WHAT.
A.
DEAL.

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Han and Luke are eating a giant gingerbread cookie shaped like Yoda’s head. Yoda looks on. #toyphoto

“Lie I will not. Uncomfortable this makes me.”

A minor complaint on the death of the penny: the govt doesn't mint coins for the budget, it mints them for the economy. People who bring up seigniorage are measuring the wrong number.

Gzzzz

Here’s what I know:

* Guys in a dungeon
* Nasty little guys in a dungeon
* Which way you wanna go in this dungeon?
* Stats

It’s gonna be so good. 🥹

Palace Run Remastered — Prismatic Wasteland The Palace Semi-Infinite is richly-appointed, labyrinthine, and endless. A rules-light TTRPG system and adventure generators for an opulent world of nobility.

On the topic of seasonal consumerism, I dropped a new zine on my webstore last night! This one is by @iemcd.bsky.social and I find very evocative. Go get it! This weekend only, everything is 20% off with code BLOGFRIDAY

Even a man who is pure of heart
And flosses his teeth at night
Can develop a cavity
When the autumn moon is bright

Had a great time at #PAXU. If someone frenetically and vaguely introduced themself as only "Ian," that might have been me!

Devlog 2: Jobs, Decks, and Difficulty Hi there! Up front, VOID_SHIFT physicals are out! It’s a cassette case with a (nicely printed) deck, five dice, a J-card in the case with instructions, and a lovely O-card that slips over the case...

Do you want more detail as to how it was made? Great! I just uploaded my 2nd devlog about it.

First detailing the basics: binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift/d...
Second getting into the weeds on job/deck design: binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift/d...

(And the digital version is there too!)