Paul Baldowski 🔜 AireCon, Harrogate

Sound advice, all round.

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A display featuring two illustrated role-playing products, a box and a book, standing upright. On the left is the Pirate Borg Starter Set, its cover dominated by distressed white lettering over red splashes and a group of grim, monstrous pirate figures. On the right is Down Among the Dead, showing a turquoise-tinted underwater graveyard scene with a walking skeleton, shipwrecks, skulls, and a distant ruined fortress beneath beams of light. The books rest on a cluttered desk with other game materials visible in the background.

There's always something new to distract me. It doesn't take much.

#DownAmongTheDead #PirateBorg #StarterSet #TTRPG

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Picking through boxes doing a half cleanup and half pack up. I found this drywipe card with a sketched logo for The Dee Sanction, that obviously never was. Creating something that didn't hit my brain's brief but was fun sketching in the moment 😁

#LogoDesign #ThrDeeSanction

In honour of GMs' Day, me being a GM.

#GMsDay

Even if you don't dig, the UK countryside is replete with fantastic character names, like Levitt Hagg. I love driving the A14 down through Norfolk and Suffolk, because it's filled with great names.

You're Ralph Plessey, sentenced to smothering for your allegiance with the Pythagorean Brotherhood (geometry) and dallying with the heresies of the Steganographia (ciphers) while in profitable employ, in Gloucester, as a Caretaker (farming). Favoured with influence over Trails.

Breakfast with banana, blueberries, no-fat Greek yoghurt, maple syrup, and a scattering of muesli.

Two cups water, one cup lentils, one tablespoon of salt. As noted in the rest of the comments it might be worth considering seasoning during the blend.

I missed leaving the 2:1 water:lentils overnight. But, yeah... Nothing but those two ingredients and salt.

Nothing else required. The pancake held just fine. Non-stick pan, wait until it bubbles and they flipped fine. I was tempted to pan flip.

The recipe I used was literally 2:1 cups of water and red lentils with a teaspoon of salt, then blend, leave to sit for a moment, and then dry fry. I think, looking at the recipe, that you could co-opt the "cumin, coriander, turmeric, chilli powder" for flavour.

I think it's worth experimenting.

I'm always trying to find lactose-free gluten-free recipes that would be OK for my eldest, while knowing full well that he won't touch it because it's not what he's used to/tastes funny/has a weird texture.

I should have put pizza/tomato sauce on the base. Not enough flavour.

Apparently, one option is a cheese, ham and sun-dried tomato pizza knockoff.

Well, replacing sausage sandwiches with anything was a fool's errand.

This was interesting because it's just water and lentils left over night (2:1), blended, left to sit for a while, and then prepared like a pancake. Nothing else. No oil, eggs, flour, or whatever. Literally two ingredients.

What do you have on them, Neil? What's a recommended filling?

Hardcover copy of Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts by John Harper, still wrapped in plastic – featuring a dark cover with a glowing orange molten metal blade, hammer, and sparks – resting on a desk with pens and other books nearby.

I have many books to read, so adding another is definitely a problem.

For those with a gap in their reading schedule, @allrolledup.bsky.social has now got copies of @johnharper.bsky.social Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts, as well as BotD for those who don't have it.

I will make time 😂

Stack of lightly browned pancakes on a plate, with golden-brown char marks and a slightly uneven surface, resting on a kitchen countertop.

Red lentil pancakes: because sometimes scrolling gives you the urge to try something new and red lentils are good for you, right?

I have tried with some sweet toppings. Will try some savoury later.

#Cooking #RedLentil #Pancake

Once I'm comfortable that the game is ready in plain text, I then need to translate that into layout, which will likely mean some tweaks and a measure of minimisation.

I suspect the Beta text will be more than I need. Mörk Borg, in particular, has a terse approach that expects a lot, offering less.

I spent the weekend working through the text of Cörk Børd and adventure Beneath Gotland's Skin to get them into a Beta state for distribution to Kickstarter backers. We're getting closer. I want to offer enough to play with while there's still room for breath—expansion and contraction.

#CorkBord

And that's a back cover completed! #MORKORG

When you post to social media, stop mucking around. Just give it to me straight, like a pear cider that’s made from 100% pear.

#StewartLee

Book cover of “Into Thin Air” by Ørjan Karlsson, featuring a frosted circular ice pattern with red blood-like splatters, a small lighthouse scene at the bottom, and the tagline: “In Norway’s frozen north it’s not just secrets that are buried…”

Yes, I can stop buying them at any time.

#NordicNoir #ReadingList #CörkBørd

All traces of strange dreaming had vanished with his recovery, and my uncle kept no record of his night-thoughts.

40% off sale ends today, on Cthulhu Hack Core Rules—soft & hardcover. Today ends a glorious resurrection!

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#CthulhuHack #Lovecraftian #TTRPG

Reading Sprawl Goons. The main reason I want to bring it to the table is that the book exasperates me, in a good way.

Goons is simple. Omnibus scrapes together a bunch of hacks, plugins, expansions. And two-thirds of the way into the book the font size changes.

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I'm not there, but they are. @allrolledup.bsky.social are at the Sashes Hotel in the Northern Quarter of Manc for the whole weekend as part of Dungeons & Flagons #GeekFayre

All the great games and accessories that you would expect from All Rolled Up are available. Or, just drop by for a chat!

Both the WEG d6 system and FASERIP have lived on, more so the former. I'm not suggesting it's perfect, but even now the WEG d6 system is powering games, like Carbon Grey. Cortex got through quite a few licenses and remain intact as a flexible generic system.

Also, Pathfinder folk don't seem to know how to run a short game. Yes, I'm generalising. Yes, I'm open to being corrected. But, I don't believe it happens.

I won it in an auction at the close of the event. Very much treasured.

Most of the artists who drew face
cards provided half the card and left the person creating the cards, Kev Sutherland, to mirror it.

Not, Carlos. Nope. He did the whole
thing himself. An absolute legend.

I really have to spend time getting the mounting sorted properly.

#2000AD #IAmTheLaw #Artist