Seth Skorkowsky

Hell yeah!

The Laundry Files did it. They also had Lovecraft be wrong in his description of Cthulhu. He wasn't a blubbery squid dragon man, but more like a tongue-eating louse.
With Ashes of Onyx I had Carcosa and Yellow King be talked about by Bierce, Chambers, and Lovecraft.

Fake article headline. "Opinion by Michelle Cottle" "Is the Cure to Modern Loneliness Searching for Cryptids with Friends?"

Call of Cthulhu campaign about a bunch of lonely people off the internet coming together to search for monsters and finding themselves –just before the swirling vortex of madness consumes them all.

The argument that there's no crossover and it's all-or-none for being only one category is where the whole thing collapses.
It's the same issue when people try to rigidly define and categorize by genres. It's never strictly black and white.

GNS theory - Wikipedia

Gamist Narrative & Simulation. It came out of Ron Edwards and The Forge in the 90s. They say it's now "Obsolete" which is a nice term for "Never correct in the first place but we can't admit we were wrong"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNS_the...

I, too, dislike GNS Theory for being dumb nonsense while also hating how useful it is to explain things.

Look, you gotta let us release some steam by mocking them every once in a while, otherwise it builds up to making an "It got WORSE!!" video. And none of us want that.

I was busy with Cyberpunk 2020 for 4e's run and never paid attention to it. I know very little about it.

D&D has a weird history of refusing to admit edition changes. 1e AD&D had the Gold Spine era when Unearthed Arcana and the survival guides made it a 1.5.
2e had the weird Combat & Tactics "We promise this isn't a new edition" phase.
3.5 they at least admitted what it was.
This one took time to admit

D&D 5E (2024) - D&D 2024 Is Now OFFICIALLY Called "5.5e" Settling a debate that has lasted for over two years, the current edition of Dungeons & Dragons, which has been known by various names up until now, has finally received an official designation: D&D 5...

"You’re going to hear people say that they won, and we lost because we said this wasn't a 5.5e, but your voices calling it that forced us to admit it's actually 5.5e. Those people will only be half right. They won—and so did we."
www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-...

woman with child and a sword called sufferage holding back the ravening beast of war Give Her the Right Weapon and She Will Kill the Beast

Nelson Greene
“Puck”, May 22, 1915

Frodo peddling with Gollum in the front basket like E.T. would have been awesome!

a nokia phone is playing a game of snake ALT: a nokia phone is playing a game of snake

Ancients tech serpent, you say?

a statue of an owl with a clock on its head Alt: The brass mechanical owl Bubo from Clash of the Titans (1981)

Falcons are cool and all, but there's only one owl 12-year-old me wants

I’m a loner, Frodo. A rebel.

We are pleased to announce our Guests of Honor for Chaosium Con USA 2026, taking place in Ann Arbor MI 🇺🇸 in April!
🦑Josh Hoyt
🦑Seth Skorkowsky
🦑Ashley May King
🦑Tom Sullivan
🦑Andrew Leman
🦑Sean Branney
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It wasn’t always bad times.

Still from the set of Star Wars. A cigarette protrudes from C-3PO's mouth slit as someone off-camera hold out a lighter.

While it tarnished the "kid-friendly" aspect of the film, the original Star Wars where C-3P0 chain-smoked the entire time was far better. Then George Lucas edited out all the cigarettes, claiming it was because, "It made no sense why droids would smoke." But we know the real reason.

1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car - Jay Leno's Garage YouTube video by Jay Leno's Garage

YouTube remembered I find classic cars fascinating and has been showing me a great selection of vids of early electric and steam cars.
It's all, "So you can watch geek rage bait, political rage bait, AI slop, or this sweet fuckin' steam car from 1925."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUg_...

The Vehicle Handbook Update 2026 for Traveller is now here!

You can grab your own copy and start designing new vehicles (or shop around for a brand new one) right here:

www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/veh...

Whether you want a rickshaw or a monstrous grav battle tank...

#ttrpg #TravellerRPG

That's just propaganda from Big Cube pretending they did it first.
Here are some Roman dice for you

A pair of ivory with ebony inlay German dice from the late 17th Century. One appears as a male, the other female. They are nude and squat in a roughly cubic shape with black pips marking the different die faces.

Modern D6 are boring.
These 17th & 18th Century dice made Game Night with grandma far more exciting, were educational, and carried only a slight potential of being cursed, before Big Cube came in and ruined everything.

One day I might

Correction: My SECOND D&D character.
My first one died in our first session. Probably because he didn't have a lucky Oil of Acid Resistance.

My very first D&D character started out with an Oil of Acid Resistance.
I carried it for years, waiting for that perfect opportunity. We visited Hommlet, learned the secret of Bone Hill, traversed the planes, shopped the Bazaar on Deeva, dined with Asmodeus, killed Lolth, and I never ever used it.

Two-Headed Serpent. We had our hot femme fatale turn into a Serpent Person who then consumed the likeness of an Oklahoma hillbilly, they dive-bombed a 200ft mechanical water snake, one PC hopped on the hood of a car with twin pistols as they charged giant monsters, and they did lots of cocaine.

I never watched Highlander 2. I loved the original and a buddy warned me off 2. I did get dragged to Highlander 3 in theaters and it was properly forgettable.

I enjoyed the show back in the 90s. It... it hasn't aged well.

The cartoon was weird even for the time.

I was about to step into the office to do some work (code for screw off online while thinking about work). My wife put on the old Highlander TV show. Ep1 has Richard Moll and Christopher Lambert (the REAL Highlander).
It's spectacularly terrible. I can't stop watching.

1e AD&D Saving Throw Table for Magical and Non-Magical Items

While a minority opinion, the biggest mistake D&D made was removing Equipment Saving Throws. Once, losing your Save vs a Fireball, acid, or whatever meant all your equipment was at risk. Swords, armor, left boots, etc.– your precious items could be lost.
Thinking of items as losable created tension.