Returning to Jackson, IL: Midwest Murder Mystery! My wife and I re-watched all of Stranger Things and it got me thinking about my setting for NIGHT SHIFT, Jackson, IL. It also involved the best weird-things investigators I know; my brothers and sisters! theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/retu...

Mapping the Blogosphere - My Corner If you have not seen it, there is a great mapping of many of the popular OSR blogs put together by @elmc.at. It is quite the effort, and I have spent a lot of time reading over it. #osr #blogs theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/mapp...

Did you know I write TTRPGS? It's true! You can find my work over on my itch page; every sale gives the title a free community copy and helps me feed my beautiful wife! farmergadda.itch.io

Magic Backlash! In the AD&D rules a spellcaster can't cast a spell above their prescribed levels. As a rule of thumb, this is often a spell level of half their caster level. But what happens when a spellcaster tries to cast a spell of a higher level? #dnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/magi...

“Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” Carpenter said in a post on X.

Attacked! By a Python! Posting is likely to be a bit sporadic for a bit. I started a new job and while I have expertise in SAS, SPSS, Statistica, and enough knowledge of R to get me into real trouble. My new gig needs me to know Python. Like yesterday. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/atta...

Monstrous Mondays: Wyrdcat I am working on another piece of something that may or may not involve my "The One Who Remains." Think of this as a warm-up sketch an artist would do before getting into their main composition. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/12/mons...

WitchCraft Wednesday: The Hand Mirror of the Silver Witch Working on a bunch of ideas right now. This is one place where they intersect. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/witc...

Last week, I discussed the issues of AI in academia. What are your biggest concerns? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

New Release Tuesday: Labyrinth Lord, Revised & Expanded Labyrinth Lord: Revised & Expanded, aka Labyrinth Lord 2nd Edition, is now out from Daniel Proctor with a new adventure from Pauli Kidd. I am looking forward to the future of this game. #osr #ttrpg theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/new-...

He is not on the list. He *IS* the list.

Monstrous Mondays: Return of the Demogorgon My wife and I have been rewatching Stranger Things in anticipation of the upcoming new season. I thought it might be fun to revisit their classic monster for the system that influenced the show so much. #adnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/mons...

Bias, Equity, and Ethical Concerns in Educational AI Will Generative AI become the biggest tool for education? Well it has some serious issues in bias, equity, and ethics is has to deal with first. #AIethics #EquityInEducation #AIinEducation #HigherEd #EdTechPolicy www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This Old Dragon #100 Today I go back to the Summer of 1985 for one of the best issues of Dragon in my collection. This one had a special cover and the material inside lived up to it. #ttrpg #adnd #dragonmagazine theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/this...

Old-School Essentials DEMON Month May! Gavin Norman of Necrotic Gnome and Old-School Essentials is releasing his long-awaited Demonic Grimoire for Old-School Essentials. And he is not alone. Six others, including yours truly, are joining in. #ose #osr theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/old-...

The Erosion of Critical Thinking and the Risk of Student Deskilling Is AI a threat to the core purpose of education? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism in the AI Era Plagiarism has always been an issue at all academic levels. Does AI make it worse? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Does academia have an AI problem? If so, what is it and what can be done about it? First in my next series. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Monstrous Mondays: The Five Spirits of the Grimorium Verum I have been on a months-long Occult D&D research project, looking for ways to add more occultism and ritual magic to my OSR/AD&D games. Today's topic is The Grimorium Verum or True Grimoire. #adnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/mons...

This is so powerful. They all deserve justice. Release the files now.

Powerful.

Megyn Kelly has always been a horrible person.

The OTHER Old School Gaming, Part 2 Back in 2022 I kitbashed an old TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer 2 into a modern PC using a RaspberryPI 4. I had so much fun doing it, I immediately began my ideas for another Kitbash, this time using a TRS-80 Model 4. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/the-...

PANIC SETS IN Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and others, plan on holding an EMERGENCY MEETING today on the Epstein Files as the discharge vote nears. Rep. Boebert will reportedly be there. It appears there is an all hands on deck effort to try to prevent a vote on the Epstein Files. (CNN)

Plays Well With Others: Witchcraft Wednesday Edition, Part 1 Old-School Working on my last book, there were some other OSR books I thought would be fun to suggest. Just for their general coolness and because I often used their material alongside my own. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/play...

Does your educational institution offer universal free breakfast? Here is why it should. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Monstrous Tuesdays: The Chenoo Little delay today. Had internet issues off and on AND the first measurable snowfall here in Chicago. So here is a monster of cold and hunger. #monstrousmondays #monster #osr #adnd theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/mons...

For this week's topic, I talk about one of the most essential factors in early childhood education: Breakfast. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The contrast could not be greater

Does your organization encourage continuous learning? It should. #education #learning #leadership www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around

Witchcraft Wednesday: Witches, Warlocks, and The Wicce I have been spending a lot of time going back to my roots, re-evaluating, and even rewriting things I have done in the past. Case in point, my The Complete Netbook of Witches & Warlocks. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/witc...

Halloween Hangover 2025 Another Halloween for the history books. Watched nearly 40 horror movies and gearing up already for next year. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/hall...

wait but Speaker Johnson said there was no contingency fund? 🤷🏼

October Movie Challenge: 30 Days of Night (2007) and Dark Days (2010) Here we are, the end of the Horror Movie Challenge! I figure I'll work in some vampire movies. You lose something when watching movies with night as a major plot point during the day. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/10/octo...

Happy Halloween!! Come join my campaign Halloween bash in the back lot of 7016 N Clark Street! We’ve got blood donation, bone marrow donor registration, candy, Chicago dogs, and ICE whistles! Come hang from 12-6!

If Andrew, the former Duke of York, wanted to avoid accountability for associating with the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, he should have been born in New York and become President of the United States. Then Mike Johnson would have protected him. www.mediaite.com/media/news/k...

Urban Fantasy Fridays: WitchCraft RPG It is Halloween! The best day of the year. For that, I want to share one of my all-time favorite Urban Fantasy Horror RPGs. C. J. Carella's WitchCraft RPG. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/10/urba...

New post from "The Other Side blog"! @timsbrannan.bsky.social #ttrpg #blog

Forgotten Realms: Heroes and Adventures in Faerûn Went to my Favorite Local Game Store yesterday. They were doing downtown business trick or treating, oh, and I picked up the new D&D 5.5 Forgotten Realms books. #ForgottenRealms #dnd2024 #5e #baldursgate theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/10/forg...

New post from "The Other Side blog"! @timsbrannan.bsky.social #ttrpg #blog

October Movie Challenge: Jinn (2014) This 2014 indie film from writer-director Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad wants to be an American horror story with Islamic roots, and that alone makes it worth watching. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/10/octo...

Go to your local food bank's website and see what they need. Pick some of that up with your weekend groceries. It doesn't have to be a lot, but if we all do something it will help.

New post from "The Other Side blog"! @timsbrannan.bsky.social #ttrpg #blog

Bankrupting our farms Starving our Poor Dismissing government workers Making medical bills more Cosplayers for security Traitors for intelligence Conmen for the bureau Drunkards for defence Destroying ThePeoples House Dismantling our Democracy Decimating our Population Still think hes for U or me?

Witchcraft Wednesdays: The Witch Queen Advanced Class For all my talk about witch queens here, I have no real witch queen class. So I worked one up for AD&D 1st ed and my Occult D&D project. I have not crunched all the numbers, but I like it so far. theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/10/witc...