Saved By the Flumph! youtube.com/live/WoNL5gC... #dnd #dnd5e #flumph

You know what, if an endless parade of mediocre superhero movies and live action Disney remakes is what this industry needs to accidentally make something like Project Hail Mary every couple of years, then I forgive all of it. I can't wait to own this on blu-ray and watch it fifty more times.

Mysteries are notoriously tricky in D&D. A mystery is usually punctuated by an "Aha!" moment, but usually those moments are scripted and performed, not arrived at organically. You're not going to get the same nutrients from your D&D mystery that you did from Knives Out. #dnd #ttrpgs 🧵1/6

I like "fail forward" as a tool in my belt when I run D&D. But I reject the concept as being axiomatically correct. I also reject the idea that failing stalls the story. It's often best to just let the players fail, and then attack the problem from another angle. 🧵1/6 #dnd #ttrpg

I want to read how folks are having fun with D&D and other TTRPGs. I want to see their artwork and hear about their adventures and watch my favorite hobby bring people together. I don't really know how to do that. Social media seems designed to amplify maximum anger at all times. #dnd #ttrpg

Saved By the Flumph is our D&D 5e campaign about weirdos at magic school! I think they're going on a field trick this week. youtube.com/live/wqhKBUi... #dnd #dnd5e #flumph

Of course, sometimes I do crap like this to them: #dnd #dnd5e

My D&D players tend to build up stables of ride-or-die allies to take on adventures with them. Then I get to make up crazy stat blocks for them to play with: #dnd #dnd5e

Saved By the Flumph! Today my players are taking their exams so they can level up. youtube.com/live/ZZTihFm... #youtube #stream #dnd #dnd5e #flumph

We started a 50+ game Archipelago Async because we are crazy people. For my part, I'm opening up with some good ol' Final Fantasy IV Free Enterprise: youtube.com/live/Zx3b6NA... #youtube #stream #finalfantasy #ff4 #archie

It's ridiculous how much better the universe would be if every single Fandom wiki just went down immediately and forever, with no explanation or chance of recovery. #justsayin

Hello, I would just like to briefly remind everyone that the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time is the best dungeon in the entire Legend of Zelda series. #zelda #watertemple #ocarinaoftime

Saved By the Flumph! I am being accused of blooting and/or skeeting. youtube.com/live/tH4Sq5o... #dnd #dnd5e #flumph

Put it all on the page. Whatever it is, however much there is. You're going to come back later with shears and clip away the stuff you don't need. But you can't know what you don't need until it's all there, and you can look at it. So get it down — all of it. #writing #amwriting #doitnerds

Saved By the Flumph! Last campaign, I made the players design a dungeon. Then I waited a year. Then I sprang the dungeon back on their new characters in this new campaign. youtube.com/live/TmrCL77... #dnd #dnd5e #flumph

Saved By the Flumph! Session 34 of our D&D 5e game set at magic college: youtube.com/live/hnfwnFw... #dnd #dnd5e #youtube #flumph

George R. R. Martin's The Hedge Knight is not a series of unfinished novellas. It is a series of completed, stand-alone novellas that currently has three entries. This is an important distinction from his main series. The Hedge Knight is a great low-commitment entry point into Westeros.

Saved By the Flumph is our D&D 5e campaign where the players are currently playing a D&D campaign: youtube.com/live/8amYvDZ... #youtube #stream #dnd #dnd5e

I think I changed my mind, and I actually do kinda hate Portrait of Ruin. Oh well, at least there's two other milquetoast limp-noodle Igavanias on this collection to enjoy.

I don't HATE Portrait of Ruin. But every second of its bland, empty gameplay makes me want an Igavania that has some real muscle and budget behind it. Then I remembered that's Bloodstained. A nice reminder that sometimes the timeline does work in your favor.

This is my foam finger from Minneapolis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1r...

Slowly working my way through Portrait of Ruin. Dang, they really did Charlotte dirty in CVHD, didn't they? Oh wait, nobody remembers CVHD. Lol.

First there was Zelda. Then there was Zelda Rando. Then there was Zelda Rando Multiworld. Then there was Zelda Rando Archipelago. Then there was Zelda Everythingsanity Rando Archipelago with a side of slaw. youtube.com/live/yf8Obum... #youtube #stream #zelda #rando

Saved By the Flumph is our D&D 5e game at weird-ass wizard college: youtube.com/live/bIltPrw... #youtube #stream #dnd #dnd5e

Saved By the Flumph! We're playing D&D inside of D&D. The player characters rolled up characters so each player is playing a character who is playing a character. Oh, and they're playing The Forest Oracle. youtube.com/live/lSuPwRC... #youtube #stream #dnd #dnd5e

The current Flumph adventure is the characters playing D&D. So my players are playing characters who are playing characters. Also their DM is terrible and they are playing the worst D&D module ever published. #dnd #dnd5e

Saved By the Flumph is back for the New Year! Hooray! youtube.com/live/xCfsKDW... #youtube #stream #dnd #dnd5e

Gonna ring in the New Year just right by 1) ripping and 2) tearing. Here's DOOM: youtube.com/live/TzWzAV5... #happynewyear #youtube #stream #doom #ripandtear

Now that I've finished DOOM and DOOM II and DOOM 64 and Legacy of Rust, I'm more convinced than ever that difficulty options are accessibility. These games can be brutally difficult, but they get the blood pumping even on Easy — without gating any content. And they did it in 1993! #doom #retrogaming

I just constructed my LEGO Game Boy. My favorite little detail is they included a battery for the Zelda cart that isn't in the Mario one. (Because you can't save your game in Mario.)

I'm leaving this under your tree for tomorrow morning. Merry Christmas, you crazy internet wonderland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=67nW... #merrychristmas

I think what drives me away from most FPSes is they are designed with quicksave in mind. You're supposed to save after each encounter. You might say "well just don't do that" but then you're stuck replaying entire maps because of a gotcha trap the dev included because they thought you'd quicksave.

DOOM 64 was pretty cool. I had it as a kid, though I didn't remember much about it. It's a neat change of pace, although the levels get quite backtrack-y. I like how you can find the hell laser and then upgrade it with artifacts from the secret levels, the first of which I remembered how to reach!

My Steam Replay stats are always meaningless because I often have an idle game running while I'm working on stuff, so I inevitably end up with 36% of my total playtime watching spinning circles or whatever. Tabletop Simulator remains my most consistent game. (That's what I use to run D&D.)

I hope Capcom only accepts robot master designs from kids. I remember back in the day Nintendo Power published a bunch of unused designs for Mega Man 6. They were all crayon drawings and they were awesome. Actually, just make Mega Man 12 in crayon, please and thank you.

Just completed DOOM II properly for the first time. We used to blitz it with cheat codes back in the day, but I've never sat down and gone through it for real until now. Solid sequel. Higher highs, lower lows. Has the same sort of stretchy-weirdness quality that Portal 2 has, come to think.

Hi Bluesky! I'm in a grumpy mood tonight, and I'm about to make it y'all's problem. Here's ten reasons I dislike "Rule of Cool" at my D&D table! ("Rule of Cool" is defined as bending or breaking an established rule because it would make for a cool moment in the fiction.) 🧵0/10 #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

We all have that moment where we have a blast playing the game everyone else already played 20 or 30 years ago. For me, tonight, that's DOOM. I'm the last human being to play DOOM. I just shoved 50 rockets up the cyberdemon's hey-hey, and now it's time for bed. #retrogaming #doom #hey-hey

After all those years of development, mis-development, and re-development, it looks like they pretty much decided that Metroid Prime 4 should just be more of what Metroid Prime 3 was. And I didn't like that game much. Oh well.

Still haven't had a chance to play Daggerheart, but that's not gonna stop me from dragging it a little for its take on languages: #daggerheart #ttrpg 🧵1/6

So does every high-level DOOM challenge map just boil down to carving out a safe place to sit and wait while all the monsters kill each other?

I'm playing DOOM seriously for the first time. (I know, I know. I'm a bad 90s kid.) So far my main conclusion is that secrets in this game are impossible to find. If anyone needs me, I'll be scraping and grunting against every wall I see for the rest of my life, thanks. #retrogaming #doom #secrets

Suikoden is one of the all-time great classic JRPGs. Hits right in that late SNES/early PS1 sweet spot. Anyway here's stream number three: youtube.com/live/H8yGfy2... #suikoden #retrogaming #youtube #stream

Fighter might be my favorite class in 5e. I played a champion fighter from L1 to L20 and he was awesome. His god forbade the use of bladed weapons, so he rocked a +1 staff with the Sentinel and Polearm Master feats. His name was Large Tom. Later I made a bugbear version of him as an NPC! #dnd #dnd5e

Late Nite Suiko & Chill: youtube.com/live/aGtFTdp... #suikoden #retrogaming #youtube #stream

Part of the strength of 5e is that I can engage players who have read all the same rulebooks I have, and I can engage players who don't care to learn and are only going to play once. Anyone can roll a d20 and have someone show them what to add. #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

The one book I really, really wanted for 5e, but never got, was an Arms & Equipment Guide. That was one of my favorite splats for 2e. It was filled with great descriptions and artwork of non-magical weapons and equipment, including the amazing Gnomish Workman's Leather. #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

Alright, let's put this newfangled Suikoden remaster through its paces: youtube.com/live/TrVpr3S... #suikoden #retrogaming #youtube #stream #108starsofdestiny

My next D&D campaign is going to require more work to get out of the gate than any I've run so far. So I'm developing it alongside my current D&D campaign. That means I'm unreasonably excited for two campaigns simultaneously, and my weird little heart can't take it. #dnd #dnd5e

Making fun of ragebait articles means you are engaging with ragebait articles, which is what authors of ragebait articles want. You don't win against ragebait by going to war with it, or by mocking it, or even by debunking it. You win by ignoring it and choosing to put joy into the world instead.