Ppl think a modern civil war in the U.S. looks like lifted trucks with gun-toting rednecks in back rolling through streets fighting anarchists in masks with molotovs, but it actually looks like gravy seals cosplayers with guns kidnapping and shooting brown and queer ppl with no consequences.

John Carpenter really needs to stop faffing around with expensive CGI and get back to what he excels at: body horror and fighting cops

AD&D dungeon module I3, "Pharaoh," from 1982, includes the mystic guardian shown below. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" debuted in 1975, meaning this is probably one of the earliest published Holy Grail gags in #DnD. (I haven't found an earlier one in publication yet.)

Perhaps some day ppl will realize that when the U.S. bombs Palestinians, bombs Venezuelans, bombs Somali, that those bombs will one day drop on them, too. There is no "they deserved it" or "it's a third-world shithole." There are just powerful people bombing poor people.

Apropos of nothing, suddenly remembering the time a dude in an organized Vampire game said "well this should go like such-and-such, and I would know because I wrote the Tremere clan book" and buddy, the odds of that bluff being called were low but that was just not your night

I'm about ten hours into RDR2 and this game has some of the worst tutorialization I've ever experienced.

A #Ravenloft domain that is a quaint English village with a surprising number of murders and the Darklord is an older English woman who "solves" them

Finally got RDR2, tried to play it, game broke right after the tutorial. Hard progression block.

I've been catching up on a lot of last-century movies lately and I finally got a chance to watch "Blacula" (1972), the foundation of Blaxploitation horror. This movie gets a bad rap. I actually found its choices quite interesting. +

Feels like the only time I post on FB now is to write a eulogy

I dunno about you, but it sure feels to me like this domestic militarization is so that the elites can keep their riches by killing off the masses of desperate and starving people once the use of the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency ends and BRICS moves in.

During his short hang, @mattcolville.bsky.social mentioned bifurcation of the RPG hobby, citing both that it's happened in the past (and will happen again) and the shift in 2023 toward streamers and streamed games. +

Why does the #Ravenloft setting call this central continental jigsaw "the Core" when "heartland" was RIGHT THERE

Now old enough to have seen the discourse go from "Playing Vampire gives you brain damage" to "Playing D&D gives you brain damage"

Bela Lugosi's "Dracula" came out only 34 years after the book

Still on my Ravenloft swerve: A little about domains. Domains are a pretty cool facet of Ravenloft. The land and the lord are one, y'know. ...wait, what's John Boorman's "Excalibur" doing here? +

I've seen like a million people repost this article with variations on "every time we try UBI it works, yet we keep running experiment after experiment, why??" and I do not understand how people do not get that the goal is NOT to fix things, it's to make it HARDER so you must SPEND MORE MONEY or DIE

Some additional thoughts regarding my Ravenloft ruminations. (Ah-ah-ah.) There's a word I used in the prior thread that informs the kinds of ideation I use with Darklords: affront. This ties into the Gothic sensibility of "crimes against nature and/or God." +

Ravenloft is such a funky setting for D&D. Take a game with roots in fantasy wargames from 13th & 14th century western Europe, use it to tell 18th & 19th century styled Gothic horror stories, and set it in a mashup of locales stitched together across centuries and cultures. +

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: • Beastie Boys • Clannad • Wagakki Band • Nine Inch Nails • uh... does Phantom of the Opera count?

Faulty smoke detectors beeping continually at 2 AM are one of my favorite holiday surprises.

“Solace” is a gorgeous song and music video. Finding home within yourself and others… a dedication to our loves lost and to Maui, as we rebuild. Find “Solace” by Joman, Mr. Pink, and Adrianne Grady on Youtube and streaming apps. #EDM #EtherealMusic #InspirationalMusic

When a libertarian says "taxation is theft" and then mumbles something about age of majority, they're saying they understand consent, except they still think that children are property.

I'm always on my Arduin craze and I eagerly await my own Portal to Adventure. I have snuck a bunch of Arduinisms into my current OSR game group already and I kinda wanna toss in the Lost Dungeon of Tonisborg just to mess with them even further

Still kinda going back and forth on whether to visit the Fallout Fan Celebration this month

I finally got a chance to play Baldur's Gate 3, and boy, is that game not landing for me.

I am kinda known as a big Arduin nerd, since I had the good fortune to grow up with the game back in the '80s. This gonzo variant fantasy game is a wild mash-up stream-of-consciousness of every bizarre and over-the-top table or character you can come up with. +

Change one letter, ruin a candy S&Ms

@jachilli.bsky.social who wins in a fight, Thompson Twins or Cocteau Twins

Ok so it's well understood at this point that Republican strategy to get rid of government has, for many years, been "underfund and mismanage a department, then call it inefficient and useless to convince voters to shut it down." (Then they privatize it.) +

Setting up an aspirational dungeon (the sort of thing you hear about in the campaign and decide you gotta go visit it) and I'm thinking a megadungeon built beneath a small temple to the god of dungeons. Climb a mountain to get to the entrance, pass the gift shop, tithe on the way out. +

The current administration desperately needs a protest to turn into something violent that they can show on every news channel 24/7 to justify a response that they will ultimately do anyway, for two reasons: (The second one is the ugly one) +

Happy #falloutday, survivors! Did you know that the original Fallout game owes a tiny bit of inspiration to the prior video game Bureau 13? Right-clicking to cycle the mouse pointer through different operations appears in that game too!

Me: Why do I feel so grotty today Also Me: Does leg day and forgets to have any protein

If you saw a bunch of people at a No Kings event today, that's good. You saw lots of folks in the community all galvanized to get out and take the next level of effort up from posting on social media (like this). Did you make some friends? Make a few connections? See some folks you recognize? +

But remember, it was political suicide to call them "deplorables" www.politico.com/news/2025/10... This is who they are when they think nobody else is watching.

The intro to Tron: Legacy is so ham-fisted They are so scared that viewers won't be able to figure out what's going on by showing them stuff, that they added a prepend narration to spoon-feed it to you +

Was watching a series with an episode titled "Hard Times" and the streaming service starts playing the Burt Reynolds movie "Hard Time" Like it's mislinked in the service, if you try going from one episode to the next it just goes to the movie (which is unrelated to the series)

I learned some time ago that anything of which I am a fan will be AWFUL when it's rebooted in media. When Netflix first did Daredevil and Luke Cage and Punisher I was like "This is pretty good! Oh they're doing Iron Fist? I actually like Iron Fist so this is gonna suck." And it did! It was awful. +

Was just ruminating on ppl going "Oh this is just ripped off of this other thing from years ago" and it's like... the thing I referenced is something I did. I expanded on my own material. Memories in gaming are short +

Evangelical conservatives be like "You can't make me participate in trans people's delusions! Now here are the rules you must follow from my invisible sky fairy."

Dang I do not like going to the gym

Gonna be a fun time when the investorbros finish buying all of the construction companies and imploding them for bonuses, leaving nobody able to build houses in the U.S., and then pop the champagne because the housing scarcity makes the homes they already own more valuable

I've noted a couple people arguing that ICE can't possibly keep arresting everyone because it would destroy the labor pool, and it seems that some people have forgotten that the fashy solution to that problem is labor camps

Ah, a new update to psions for D&D, and they still got the history of psionics in D&D wrong media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-i... (Psionics appear in Eldritch Wizardry for original D&D, and a psionicist class appears for 1e in Dragon #78 in 1983). </nitpick>

The accelerating cycle will be: * Ppl move to a new social space that provides them with useful features and try to curate that space for their safe use * Bigots and elitists migrate in b/c it has an audience and start harassment campaigns * Ownership refuses to alienate the rich & powerful * Repeat

It's October now and you know what that means www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtK...

It is so stupid that I have to post "Peacemaker spoilers" before this +

Back in the misty dawn of a few years ago, @modiphius.bsky.social said "Wanna do some more writing for Fallout?" and I said "Sure." And now there's a book! Royal Flush is an adventure book for Fallout 2d20, detailing a dangerous road trip from New Reno to New Vegas!