I can’t believe a technical solution to a complex social problem didn’t work. Ah well, nevertheless

Played M:tG for the first time in years and starkly reminded of the what I find fun and not fun about playing games.

Between 67 and 69, I think textbook publishers should start just cutting out all the 60s pages like hotels do to the 13th floor.

Due to some external circumstances + work picking up as my school tries to pack stuff in before the holiday break + me actually needing to dedicate some more time to prepare for my January campaign, the blog will go on a hiatus for the month of December. Happy holidays!

My practical guide to my steps of prepping for a campaign continues, as I talk about session 0s and my ask for player backstories. www.veritastabletop.com/session-0-an... #ttrpg

In case you missed it! I'm continuing my series about building my campaign that will start in January. This week, I talk about the process of building factions -- based on the guidelines and advice I've discussed in some previous posts. www.veritastabletop.com/planning-fac... #ttrpg

Continuing my series about building my campaign that will start in January. This week, I talk about the process of building factions -- based on the guidelines and advice I've discussed in some previous posts. www.veritastabletop.com/planning-fac... #ttrpg

i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself

In case you missed it: this week's post is about the history of sports, how "professional" sports evolved and the role gambling played, and how you should think about sports for your homebrew TTRPG worlds. www.veritastabletop.com/your-worldbu... #worldbuilding #ttrpg

Charlie Brown had more self awareness than this when he saw Lucy holding a football.

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

The queue of blog articles is growing dangerously short, but I feel like my brain space is occupied by 1) the IRL world falling apart, 2) trying to gear up for my January campaign, and so I just seemingly *cannot* make the time or space to write.

This week's post is about the history of sports, how "professional" sports evolved and the role gambling played, and how you should think about sports for your homebrew TTRPG worlds. www.veritastabletop.com/your-worldbu... #worldbuilding #ttrpg

My friend @nat1advice.tbm.games is on point

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

My next big campaign is set to start in January. This means that the past few weeks has been spent actually trying to get the basic premise sketched out and set up. www.veritastabletop.com/planning-pre... #ttrpg

If you've enjoyed my breakdown of the history of zombie media this month, pick up the Zombie, a creature for Vaesen, on DriveThru! www.veritastabletop.com/zombie-for-v... #ttrpg #vaesen #zombie #history

In case you missed it: how well do D&D’s zombies fit a non-apocalyptic meaning for zombies inspired by early zombie media? The short answer: surprisingly well. www.veritastabletop.com/zombies-in-d... #ttrpg #dnd #zombie #zombies

A great write-up on how to use zombies as not only an effective threat, but a great allegory in your D&D games, highly recommend giving it a read (and not *just* because it praises one of my products :P)

This week for the October series on Zombies: how well do D&D’s zombies fit a non-apocalyptic meaning for zombies inspired by early zombie media? The short answer: surprisingly well. www.veritastabletop.com/zombies-in-d... #ttrpg #dnd #zombie #zombies

In case you missed it: this week's post is the first entry into my October series on how to use zombies in a different way than the "zombie apocalypse"/"zombie plague" narrative. www.veritastabletop.com/zombies-hist... #history #ttrpg #worldbuilding

Session 0 (really more of a session -1) for my campaign that starts in January is complete! I am so hyped to have a campaign in the works again, it’s been too long.

My October series kicks off (a week late), where I delve into the history of a classic monster to use in a different way at your table. Last year it was vampires; this year, we're talking about Zombies. www.veritastabletop.com/zombies-hist... #history #ttrpg #worldbuilding

In case you missed it: this week's post is a review of a Solo RPG called Cinderedge, a bleak game of surviving a world that is burning to the ground. It's very "Thousand Year Old Vampire" in terms of mechanics. Check out the review here! www.veritastabletop.com/review-cinde... #solorpg #rpg #ttrpg

Guess what arrived today! @themonstersknow.com #ttrpg

I got the opportunity to review a new solo RPG! Check out my review of Cinderedge here for anyone who likes journaling games. www.veritastabletop.com/review-cinde... #solorpg #rpg #ttrpg

WHO THE FUCK IS VOTING FOR HILARIA FR? #dwts

Lauren and Brandon would not be at the bottom if they didnt have that shitty ass cover. thanks for coming to my TED TALK #dwts

Rewatching Avatar and this meme is all I can think about

In my partner's continuing quest to expose me to all of the TV shows that I completely missed as a child, I've recently been watching the first season of Heroes. Here's the lessons that I took from it for TTRPGs. www.veritastabletop.com/heroes-media/ #ttrpg

Bored at work? You mean "time to fiddle around designing NPCs for a campaign that won't start til January"?

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

In case you missed it! Part two of two in my mini-series on talking about the structure of the household servant staff. This week, I focused on some exceptions to the general structure established last week. www.veritastabletop.com/its-hard-to-... #history #worldbuilding

Part two of two in my mini-series on talking about the structure of the household servant staff. This week, we're focusing on exceptions to the general structure we covered last week: the kitchens, the gardens, and more! www.veritastabletop.com/its-hard-to-... #history #worldbuilding

For those who missed it: this week's post was about the roles in a household servant staff, so that you can finally give the normal people of your average noble's household staff the complexity that they deserve. www.veritastabletop.com/the-help-par... #history #worldbuilding #ttrpg #fantasy

Starting to think more seriously about my next full-length campaign. And by that I mean brainstorming all the factions that are going to make the political intrigue feel alive. If more faction articles come out on the blog over the next few months, you’ll know why.

The rich don't live richly without their servants. But when we're writing the stories of adventurers, we often avoid acknowledging the staff. So this week, I'm talking about what the roles in a household servant staff are. www.veritastabletop.com/the-help-par... #history #worldbuilding #fantasy

For those who missed it: this week’s post is about naming NPCs and how to do that in a way that gives you more room to customize names than a random generator, while having more meaning to names than fishing for names at the time they’re needed. www.veritastabletop.com/the-name-list/ #ttrpg #dnd

and stay out, you little rat fucks

May Charlie Kirk’s death in a school shooting get the same amount of sustained media attention and political action as all the previous school shooting victims in this country. Thoughts and prayers.

Coming up with good fantasy names is the perpetual enemy of GMs everywhere. What tools and methods are out there, and how do we improve on them? www.veritastabletop.com/the-name-list/ #ttrpg #dnd

Wired is one of the only outlets to get the headline right. www.wired.com/story/depart...

I recently finished American Scary by Jeremy Dauber. It’s a literature review of the horror genre in America--movies, TV shows, video games, books, and comics. It can be a little dense, but if you're already a horror aficionado, and want to get a ton of new recommendations it’s worth a read.

Whether it's Nancy Reagan telling young people to "just say no to drugs" or Donald Trump turning the government over to a group of cocaine and ketamine addicts, both Republicans took a provocative approach to illicit substances.

In case you missed it: I’ve been watching HBO’s the Gilded Age, and so I wanted to talk about how you can take a “new money vs old money” narrative and put it in your medieval/Renaissance-inspired fantasy world. www.veritastabletop.com/old-money-ne... #history #ttrpg #worldbuilding

Did you enjoy my January series about using drinks in your worldbuilding? Back in April, I converted that into a series of worksheets and prompts to develop thematically-important beverages for your own world! Just $1 on DriveThru: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpg #worldbuilding

once again mourning how em dashes have become synonymous with genAI 😞 parentheses and ellipses just don't hit the same...

So I’ve been watching HBO’s the Gilded Age, and so I wanted to talk about how you can take a “new money vs old money” narrative and put it in your medieval/Renaissance/pre-industrial-inspired fantasy world. www.veritastabletop.com/old-money-ne... #history #ttrpg #worldbuilding

This October, I'm doing a deep dive into zombies and revising how we depict zombies to make them a better fit for a TTRPG outside an apocalypse narrative. I'm soliciting input if anyone has favorite systems/modules that use zombies in a non-apocalypse way! I'd love more stuff. #zombie #ttrpg #dnd