Found this. It's a Dyson Logos map adventure that I repurposed for DCC RPG and ran multiple times between 2013 and 2015. Super fun little dungeon for zero level PCs! I haven't re-read it so if there's typos and stuff that's ok. I don't care.

It's very strange and troubling that a creator can make something profoundly good and impactful, be outed as doing horrible things, and we can never ever again speak of the things they created. It feels like that. I know we CAN speak of them, and we DO. I still love Sandman and will never stop.

Big ole weird snake from Black Pudding issue 8. It's always a good time when I'm inspired and working on BP. It just doesn't happen very often these days. No plans for issue 9 at this time, but no plans to NOT have an issue 9 either.

Game design: If you give players points that can save their lives but those points also do other cool things, they might save them ONLY for life-saving. Hard to force them to do otherwise unless you just don't include the life saving bit.

Friends of a feather. #grickledoodle #spring #sunny #green #kermit #muppets #yoda #hulk #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Killer Dwarfs was one of those rock bands from the hair metal era that didn't quite fit the Motley Poison mold. Their songs were not hyper focused on sex and love and stuff. I would put them into a slightly more nerd hair metal category. I always enjoyed these guys.

I picked up this Thieves' Guild supplement years ago and I have no idea where I got it. City of the Sacred Flame is a fairly complete city setting for the game, which is easily converted to D&D and probably RQ (?). Anyway, some neat stuff in it. Typical of the time, city map, 100+ NPCs.

No shade on Les Edwards, but this cover art does NOT make me wanna play this. It looks like the cover of a high school history book about the American Revolutionary War. Overall, this late era of TSR was kind of janky. This is high splatbook era, I think. For good or ill, they did crank out a lot.

This badass drawing by Jeff Dee on the GM's screen from the Villains & Vigilantes box set is badass. I have a huge nostalgia love for this game because my friend in high school had it and we made a lot of characters for it. After finally playing it, the system is *troubled*. But that's ok.

I've had this exact same comment show up a dozen times from Andy, Mark, Sarah, Jill, Ted, etc. Fuck all yall who don't exist.

For Goodman Games.

Oh, you mean THIS butterfly knife. Yeah, got it at a gooz flea market.

Among tons of other old mags my wife snatched from yard sales, she got this 1950 issue of Coronet and it has a banger of a pro-cigarette propaganda piece in it. You can smell the ghost of Phillip Morris standing behind the authors, directing their words. I can't alt text type all this bullshit.

Isles of Rone: Quelldem Gray silence and little gurgles. Tiny candle flicker as fugures cross mossy, rotted bridges. Mildew and slime. Who dwells here?

Awesome

Fartled. Redraw of an oldie from 2018. #art #cats

Work continues on the third Gwelf book. Contracts have been signed and dead lines have been issued - September! It's going to be a busy summer. More soon. Tally Ho!

I wrote a short little B/X D&D sword & sorcery rules hack. If you like Thieves' World, The Black Company, Lankhmar, and that sort of thing... and you love some good old fashion B/X, then check it out. All PCs level 7, no clerics, no demi-humans (probably), dirty city and crypt vibes. #OSR

Watching Andor season 1 with my eldest kid. I watch 2 episodes almost every night and we just finished E6. Great show! It's darker than normal SW, but it has the vibes and look. They really went all out to make this show look lived in.

I wish I knew how to prepare fresh water.

I hold no charity in my heart for fantasy movie sequels that move the setting to modern day L.A., or any modern day place (but especially fucking L.A.). I hold only malice, contempt, and lifelong hatred. I'm looking at you, Beastmaster 2: Through the fucking Portal of Time. Fuck you, defilers.

I post pinup art over here at this one. Created it only for that purpose. Still post some here too, but most of it goes over yonder under that asshole's login.

Ok ok ok... hear me out. I SAID the to-hit tables are useless other than nostalgia. But wait... there is a use case, other than aesthetics. The Judge has flexibility for assigning difficulties. "Yeah, leaping that fiery pit is a Class 5 action." And BAM. You know what to roll. But...

"His name was David and he had in his hand a thick biology book that contained no references to evolution and this other book with the fucking weirdest looking creatures on the cover I had ever seen. Title said "Monster Manual"." Old blog post from 2021 that's pretty funny, I think.

This from 2016ish was the genesis of GOZR. GOZR looted the corpse of Dead Wizards for its system and stuff. As of this week, my mind is very much on resurrecting Dead Wizards. But almost certainly without using the to-hit tables. I love that concept, but it's 1000% self-indulgent nostalgia.

Today will be a day of labor. I have a lot of work to do around the house that involves me digging, lifting, and moving shit around. But it's fine. My creative side isn't focused even a little bit, so maybe some honest work will do me good. Here's a pic of me taking a breather from my work.

I still hold Basil Pouledoris' Conan soundtrack as my fave. But dammit, Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack for The 13th Warrior is just clawing for that number one spot. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD. youtu.be/RUZ_l6Z1hLM?...

a full-page drawing from tonnerre the witch. tonn being extra witchy 🧙‍♀️

We need a different word for "problematic". Something less overused with less of a bite. Something to describe our charming, loving, extremely cool and good uncle who *sometimes* tells insensitive jokes.

Finished The Old Gods Waken. A fairly quick read. I did the audio version narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, whose voice is soothing and perfectly suited to the task. The language is almost casual, with many mountain phrases peppered into the narrative, not just the dialog.

Reading Schulz and Peanuts. I'm fascinated by biographies, though I don't read them often. I'm only a few chapters in and we're barely out of high school. It's a deep dive into Sparky's childhood, for sure. I can't decide if it's good or not because I just like learning about people I admire.

This day, more than any other of the year, Vaya Con Dio.

This drawing is black ink on paper. Looks kinda cool in blue.

Spain!

Working on an old idea called Dead Wizards. A sword and sorcery RPG. Sand, sandals, swords, sorcery. Maybe I will publish by 2036.

Some of you may die... but it's a price she's willing to pay. This is from a 2000s pencil drawing that I colored digitally before I got a tablet. Mouse coloring!?? Not fun.

Gorgeous inking

Invasion of the Cephaloids!

Listen. You'll want to pay close attention to this.

This is one of my favorite character sheets. For #DCC but specifically Phantasmagoria zine.

Put 'em up!

That dude is getting shot up by a giant! It'll explode his veins!

Don't threaten me with a good time

Hexcrawl or pointcrawl?

I know of a person who lost a parent. Now all they do is create AI images of the parent with other family members and other people doing things they never did. "Here's dad playing pool with Uncle Steve" only he never played pool, especially not with Steve. It's a lie meant to appear true.

RAVEN'S DOJO BOOK 8 - BACK COVER: Of course the main yarn is Warrior's Glory, but that's to take nothing away from Rodney VS Savage Dragon! As an extra nod to Dragon I had the panel showing them taking on a Thor as Dragon's Thor.

This was dropped on a post that had nothing to do with "mythic-level play". Link for "Ben" leads to a bullshit website. Been seeing a lot of these all of a sudden. Always the same kind of cadence. Vague, positive, saying nothing. Same general word length. Always links to shit. Die, robot scum!

Anyone remember Comics Scene? I had just these few issues. I was fresh out of high school.

He just had one of those faces you couldn't quite describe.

Energy this weekend went to house stuff, yard stuff. But I did crank out a 1,000 word B/X sword & sorcery hack that I'm rather fond of. Every PC is a 7th level thief with some perk based on best Ability score. I'll post it up soon. Maybe make a zine or something. Or you'll never hear about it again.