Need to prep a one-shot for Thursday (and probably do some real-life maintenance), but all I want to do is re-read *Wolves upon the Coast.*

Glorious

*Wolves upon the Coast* is a pleasure to read (unusual for modules/settings), but I will need to fix the rivers on the map before I can run it. (Worse than Middle Earth's...) #osr

I wasn't going to participate in the whole #GoT15 thing, cuz... well, I don't work for HBO anymore (haha) but I owe the show and its fans so much, I thought I'd post a bit about the first episode I wrote - 104: 'Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things'... which premiered 15 years ago today... (cont)

#d&d w/o context "We built this city--" "So, you're Jefferson Flying City?" "Flying city?! That totally solves the sewage problem!"--"Is that why call the area it flew in 'The Wasteland'?" "What do you say we get out of here, horse?" "Is there a gallows? To look at, as a tourist..." "It was rusty!"

"Plea from a Cat Named Virtute" "If You Want Me To Stay" "Say Nothing" Bad Bad Hats "Philadelphia" Standard Fare "JUDAS SONG" Big Special "The Deeper In" Drive-By Truckers "Cannonball" "Block Rockin Beats" "Right on for the Darkness" "Divorce Song"

#OSR #D&D w/o context You are twice gaseoused. Pickled fungus! It’s been restful–except for the guy cut in half. Are there any burrs? Are any coasters thrown in the corner? Fish food for the brain. Now I have room to grieve. I wanna try to fish out the body? They're *fascinated* toothy penises.

D&D w/o context: "What are you, European?" "Everyone levels up *but* my horse?!"--"He's not a character!"--"Quiet, he's *right here*!"--"Look, you're the knucklehead that brought a horse to a fireball fight." "Do we hear ribbits?" "Do any of the mice look jacked?" "Get in here, we got a brethren--"

Tabs currently open on the ol' laptop: My Dental Benefits, Delta Green--God's Teeth Running Notes, Google Calendar, Synonyms for Clusterfuck

A laudable goal for the longest-serving member of the highest court of the land. The Constitution just works!

#d&d (mostly) w/o context: "It’s the dragonlance module, what idiot doesn't learn draconic as their language?" "Sorry, but this is for science." "If you’re attached to your backpack, better get him out." "We need a quick-release turtle pouch." "What’s his smoke inhalation damage?" "It's ass damage."

#OSR (mostly) First game: Moldvay Latest game: Glaive Longest game (years): AD&D 1e Longest game (sessions): D&D 5e Favorite mini-game: Beyond the Wall/Traveler chargen Favorite mechanics: DCC casting/BSH origins/Skill fail XP/B-X Turning Favorite setting: Crystal Frontier? Favorite art: DAT

Are we the baddies?

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

earth upside down wtf

If you see this, drop some armor!

My 13–year-old on Casablanca, “I’m lowkey interested in these old people’s love lives.”

2026 Gaming, so far 35 Sessions, 20 GM’d, 15 played; 18 players, 7 co-players & 2 GMs; 7 Systems (Liminal Horror, Death in Space, Black Sword Hack, Glaive, #OSE, 5E, Delta Green). Campaigns Concluded: 1 (27 sessions, incl. 0) One-Shots: 3 (same one thrice)

Rick Barnes looks like the late-career bureaucrat in a film for whom Everything Is About To Fall Apart.

Decent job by preseason AP voters, getting 4 of #antepenultimate8 in top 10, 7 in top 20. Congratulations Iowa (preseason #37) for showing them. Biggest misses: Auburn, Creighton, Nebraska

#OSE w/o context Looks like no one really liked that hireling. Can we take his finger back to his widow? I apply my floating mouse skull to it. Is the goo fresh? You are no expert in nudeling goo. My god, they're piñatas! I do acid, I don't toss it. How ever many chickens you bring, you use.

ah, the time of year for my annual Quixotic task of demanding a name change to Antepenultimate Eight.

Why isn't True Detective armed?!

Well, today the high school kids took the dungeon dragon (#OSR #Glaive) in the direction that the Satanic panic folks always said it would go ... I mean, no *real* babies were sacrificed ...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

#OSR w/o context (the porno episode) "Hello, plants, are any of you poisonous?" "Do we wanna go down or penetrate?" "The room spreads before you." "It is your time to shine ... er, skulk!" "You can cure herpes with your hands!" "You are loud and clunky."--"Just, wow." "Stupid, sexy Chondro."

#d&d w/o context You have your legs wrapped around Woodcock. "I can't see you, but I can smell your lotion." I think it looked fucked up at the *start* of the battle. "I wouldn't rub my ass on any any old crystal." "You can sense shit magic for 20 miles?!" "Let's go get our egg back, boys."

#OSR Remembering fondly a repeated dungeon/fort, where the players on the second go-round were teleported into the back, soon recognized they knew the pattern, and yet then managed to get themselves, almost right away, onto the wrong side of the defenses.

When I saw Key Largo as an adult, and Edward G. Robinson came on screen, I just laughed and laughed as it clicked.

GTHC

Variegated Vocabularies for Limited Languages Ten Lists for making some methods of communication more interesting with word constraints (Common, Speak with the Dead/Plants/Animals, Thieves Cant, Alignment Languages, Divination, and Telepathy) blog.d4caltrops.com/2026/03/vari...

...as the ACC basketball season comes to a close with the battle of traditional fierce rivals, Cal and Wake Forest.

#d&d w/o context "Are these actual torture racks?" "Don't let the clambear out." They're too dehydrated to cry. "They did not seem to want for meat." "My home village is...uh, I forgot." "We're not putting this fucking thing on a cart." "He has a thick pencil." "Or we *could* build fancier gallows."

#OSE #OSR w/o context "Does he have hands to sign an autograph?" "Most of the chicken names are gender-neutral." "There's plenty we can kill, so let's get to murdering." "Where'd you obtain the meat?" "So much throat slitting-you missed out!" "I'm trying to understand the mercenary price structure."

The resemblance is still uncanny.

They thought "The Buck Stops Here" meant that the presnit took tax money, and nothing else.

for display: cowboy boots, never muddied

Who can forget the other famous American military campaigns? Belleau Wood's Operation Bees Knees Normandy's Operation Killer-Diller Da Nang's Operation Heavy Bummer Grenada's Operation Urgent Fury Baghdad's Operation Wicked Sick #stupidfuckshaveaccesstotoomuchmilitarypower

War is 99.99% diarrhea.

#d&d w/o context "What we do in this lifetime, Drizzle, echoes in eternity." "You fucking sacks a shit!" "Watch how this sphere hits, bitches!" I use my bonus action to notch my belt. I take a croissant out of my breast pocket. "When you're in the middle of a bowel movement, you *have* to finish."

Saw a thumbnail of a basketball result and thought it said, "Duke beats Notre Dame Fighting Trash."

#ttrpg (BSH) w/o context "Unconventionally attractive-like Willem Dafoe." "What counters gravel?" “Quality loincloths up there, if you want.” I'll play 'This Monkey's Gone To Heaven.' I'm NOT going to say catfish is delish. "Have you bathed? Most illness is linked to filth." "Stop eating us!"

Me, seeing birds hanging out in these balmy 40s right before the coming storm

Inevitable irony: Teacher training materials invariably fail to live up the pedagogical fundamentals that the powers-that-be insist we use in the classroom. Exhibit A: Assessments that do not reveal understanding

Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Not for the first time, Posobiec equating himself with Nazis.

First time I’ve ever been “cutting edge”—publishing a review a couple days before The Establishment.