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The playbooks in Blades 68 are awesome, and I'm really digging the keys mechanic.

Slow Horses really has me itching to start running either Cold War or the Laundry Files #ttrpg. Thinking Cold War first, since it will take less setup than I'll need for Laundry Files. playrole.com might work best for Cold War, since the die roller lets you change dice colors.

There's Save Ferris drama? I didn't think they were still around.

A screen grab of the Minions and Monsters movie trailer. There is a page of a book with a Cthulhu-like illustration and an edritch-looking script on it.

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The cost.

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As far as a classic fantasy gaming fuckery goes, the old wizard/familiar reversal never gets old. Your players think you're doing some kind of Jafar-from-Disney's-Aladdin pastiche, and they THINK they've won when they take out the old man, but then the fucking parrot starts chucking lightning bolts.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

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It's a death cult. Not all of Christianity, but MORE than enough of it is.

Did you know that when you paste a hyperlink into a Bluesky post and it loads the preview, you can delete the link text and the preview with the link will still be there?

Urban Dictionary: pixelbitching pixelbitching: Originating with the point and click adventure games that the computer gaming market was overflowing with in the 80's and 90's, pixelbitching...

Pixelbitching is the pattern in video games, particularly older FPS like Doom or certain adventure-style games like The Longest Journey, of the requirement to be on the exact pixel to make a jump, or to click the exact pixel to find something to progress in the game.

Last week my wife explained to a kindergarden kid what was a vampire and the kid just accepted her explanation without problems.
These parents are lazy arseholes who don't want to engage with their kids and Pete Docte is a fucking coward.

I am becoming less and less patient with people who decide that it's clever to pixelbitch their own personalized definitions to the point of equivocation. Nothing specific, just a PSA.

Three dedicated gaming conventions a year for the past 40 years or so isn't too shabby, and at least they used to be pretty big. Most areas don't have that many. Even here in Seattle, the RPG element at conventions like OrcaCon or Dragonflight is relatively smaller compared to Strategicon events.

I always have everything packed and ready to go, so I just need to get up, get dressed, and brush my teeth. I'd always get to the airport 2 hours early because I hate feeling rushed when I'm already a little stressed about travel, so I'd likely set the alarm for 1 am.

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'Then where does the past exist, if at all?'
'In records. It is written down.'
'In records. And- ?'
'In the mind. In human memories.'
'In memory. Very well, then. We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?'

I use Affinity, but I started with Affinity, so I can't compare it to anything save Microsoft Publisher circa the mid-90s, and I can confidently say Affinity it much better.

I don't understand how human consciousness works, but I know how ChatGPT works and the connection finding machine is no more conscious then a complicated dominoes sequence.

The latest version of the Affinity app does not have separate apps, it's all the same. The new version may not be available on the iPad, those icons are for the old versions.

It's the difference between GIMP and Inkscape.

Photo is the graphics editing mode, and Designer is the vector graphics mode.

There's that old question, which superpower would you want: flight or invisibility?

And there's always some asshole who says something like "Everybody who says they would take flight is lying because who wouldn't choose to get away with anything they wanted?"

Don't stay friends with that guy.

I mean, that's kind of a shit opinion, if you ask me. You're free to pick up or not pick up whatever games you want, but whether someone chooses to create one and put it out in the world is a valid choice for them to make.

Old Coca-Cola was a magic potion that grants psychic powers. But the powers are shared among all the drinkers. They changed the formula so the power could be concentrated in a small elite. Pepsi products, especially Mtn Dew, give you some resistance to the Cola powers.
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The RPG Industry's History and Current State - with Shannon Appelcline Shannon Appelcline, author of Designers & Dragons and Designers & Dragons Origins joins me to dig into the hidden history of the RPG industry: Gygax's abandoned plan for the GDQ series, the Chaosium M...

Jeff Jones of @rpg-ramblings.bsky.social is a publisher after my own heart, because he's one of the people who is successfully producing a zine in the 21st century. We talked yesterday on his RPG Ramblings podcast.

I think my crankiest RPG opinion is I don't like the like, meme culture around it? Like when people strip out all context from a story and post absurd, inside-joke versions of what they did. "We fast talked a failson prince into piledriving his fake mom into an capitalist's prize goblin parade!"

I don't, actually. Do you mean they shouldn't even try to create new games?

BitD is absolutely not "rules light". There are a lot of rules in that bad boy. It's not particularly complicated though.