I got the short form census. I'm really bummed. I'm still chasing that high when a census taker showed up at my house in 2006 and we spent an hour talking about my favourite subject - ME - over tea.

That's a mighty fine lookin' jig right there.

Today I'm building a quick jig for my router so I can mortise and tenon my shelves. According to international carpenter law, I am required to sing this song (poorly) at least once. youtu.be/3JcmQONgXJM?...

Honestly, I don’t know why there isn’t someone doing Etiquettetok or something. A lot of people don’t know what to do and don’t know who to ask, and if they’re given the chance to learn, they actually will.

Cut out the main frame, and did all the router work today. Tomorrow, I get to do something ALMOST as fun as using a router - BUILDING A JIG. Seriously, I once won an award when I was a union carpenter, simply because I designed a jig that turned a three hour job into a 30 minute job. Jigs are fun

Been doing a bunch of spring building the last week, and today I broke out the router. Every time I get to use this tool, I'm grinning. Just an absolute blast. I'm making a simple book shelf out of pine, but it's still so pretty!

Pick your favourite roleplaying game. Imagine you have to release a set of quick start rules for it. You have to showcase the game, AND include some sort of adventure, even if it's super basic. What do you include, and how small do you think you could make this product?

My DCC/OSR module "The Krampus Comes to Kaas Boterham" is now available on pdf! If you missed the ks, now's your chance. It's the Krampus festival, and he's harvesting souls - Unless the PCs intervene! But they've only got til midnight to solve his riddle! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Are YOU an indie creator in the TTRPG space? Drop a link to your work in this thread! -----++----- I've never played Old School Revival, but might give this a shot since it's low level. I am looking forward to running through 50 characters if the stuff I've heard about OSR is true.

If you don't join Alex's Kickstarter, he'll have my legs broken. Again. Please join, i beg of you. This summer, I want to run free in the summer fields, not crawling in the dark of his basement.

We've got more guest writers than you can shake a stick at (unless you're very good at stick shaking, I guess). We've got stretch goals, we've got reward tiers that let you: * Name an enemy after your rival Name an ally after yourself (cont)

I was bored, so I made a spaceship for Traveller. Kind of ship my players would drool over... And I might use it as a replacement for the kind of boring ship found in "The Last Flight of the Amuar" which I might be running soon.

Which culture is most proud of their food, and why? (Not "which culture has the best food", mind you. Which culture is super vocal about how good their food is?)

My Traveller players are probably going to visit the Hellworld of Islent (pax Rulin subsector of the Trojan Reach), and I'm trying to flesh it out. It has strict laws, a bureaucracy government, and an acidic atmosphere lethal to human life. What should I add?

Session ended well. PCs solved the crime, and are now plotting how to recover the Sabre IV. They also had a social dinner with two of the future suspects in the next module, and a business meeting with a third. Next session we do a boarding action, and then there will be a most heinous murder!

Finally get to resume our #Traveller campaign today. We'll be finishing "The Hunt for Sabre IV" today, and probably setting the stage for "Murder on Arcturus Station". I've got the killer set up, as well as a few false suspects, so today is the day I introduce them

Ok, am I the same age I was the first time around? Like, am I suddenly twelve again? If no, I'm gonna shake my fist at the sky in rage If yes, I'm gonna eat SO MUCH CANDY AND CAKE, because in about three months, I'll be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

Tell me this doesn't scream "new age cult that secretly worships an Elder God".

Top 15 TV shows, gut instincts only: Scrubs Ted Lasso Clone High MASH Corner Gas Futurama The Good Place Gilmore Girls Daily Show w Jon Stewart Firefly Home Movies Undeclared Pushing Daisies The Simpsons Brooklyn 99

Pretty much every modern/sci Fi rpg has "the bullet problem". You shoot on your turn. It uses 1 bullet (or 3 for a burst). Roll damage. Whatever. Your gun has 20+ rounds. A typical combat lasts six turns. As a result, running out of ammo never happens.

Cool thing about Mongoose #Traveller: each species has their own rules for character creation, and their own life paths and careers. Uncool thing, same game: most of the time, the new rules are kind of confusing, vague, and add complexity to an already complex system.

First time using a skilsaw in two years, after a decade+ as a carpenter, using one every day. I was afraid my cuts would be crooked, or that my skills were rusty. But nope, perfect cuts, every time. Feels pretty good.

New update for #ArcRaiders. New quests, a new map, a new game type, and some new gear. Digging it all so far, though it still amazes me how the game has evolved from "kill others and take their stuff" to "hey, were all in this together, raider!"

Playing around with map styles for Scavenger. My pictorial attempt looks cool, but too fantasy for a post apocalyptic game. I think I need to make another stab at it, but it has to be B&W and legible.

Sorry, got something in my eye. It's... It's an arrow. This motherfucker just Crit me. AGAIN. Haunted dice count as CHEATING.

Never expected to be a man in his forties, worried about his Azaleas, but here we are.

In #Scavenger, you don't pick classes. Instead, you pick a starting mentor. As you go out and find stuff that the mentor needs, they'll teach you new abilities. Most scavengers will have two, or even three mentors as their career progresses. Been spending the weekend fleshing them out.

Sometimes, when I'm bored, I go on Facebook and say stupid shit for giggles. Exhibit A.

Our local grocery butcher is angry at corporate because they weren't happy with pork sales, so he dropped the price down to cost, and yours truly got two kilograms of pork for ten bucks cdn. Guess who's making bibimbap tomorrow?

Working on my first #Scavenger adventure today, as a way to organize my thoughts for the exploration chapter. I was trying to think of neat things to put in a rural area of water treatment plants and farms, and wrote down "The World's Largest Potato". Ive been giggling about it for five hours.

Writing is getting punchy.

Just saw a local guy arguing confidently on Facebook that Vikings were the first people in Canada - he accepted that an indigenous site was 14,000 years old, but also that "Vikings were here first". The stupid, people. It's growing.

Made my wife a brunch tray. Of course I had to take it outside to do the photo justice.

I had a great idea today while using the restroom (where great ideas are born). What if we took the classic d&d adventure Isle of Dread, and converted it to Traveller? The isle is now an uncharted planet. The rakasta are savage Aslan. And the kopru are deranged Hivers. Plus, y'know, dinosaurs.

It is my firm opinion that, should the bombs fall and most of humanity is wiped out, the resulting world would not be mad Max. There would be a few rough years, maybe a decade, as survivors learn to farm and work together. And then it'd be like the Renaissance.

Had a good conversation today with @hellsbellsami.bsky.social regarding my first draft of #Scavenger, particularly in regard to Politics. It's a game where humans are inherently good, but where people are inherently bad. It's really cool that he got it, and understands where the game is going.

Idea: a choose your own adventure-style " make your own rpg". It gives a basic rules set, and the gm picks and chooses elements to add, and then, voila, product is done... And unique!

This is how I prep individual chapters for #Scavenger. Lots of notes, arrows, and little spurs to refresh my memory.

Holy crap. Combat chapter is FINALLY done. 11 pages of madness. Time to move on to the next hardest chapter, exploration, and then it should be smoother sailing.

Really digging how #ArcRaiders handles Scavenging junk from the ruins. Basically, every area has two or more tags (industrial, medical, commercial, etc). Different gear drops in different tagged zones. Dangerous maps drop more valuable loot, as does areas blocked by keys or barricades. 1/2

Wounds, Hit Locations, Death, Dying, and Recovery have all been written today. Holy crap I've been dreading this section. Feels great to have it done.

Coffee is consumed, kiddo is at school, and it's time to get some writing done. I ~will~ get this chapter done this week. It's the halfway point for the first draft, so kind of a big deal.

TTRPGs about me: 1st Game: Basic D&D, combo of Black Box and Red Box Latest Game: Mongoose Traveller 2e Longest Game: as a GM? 3e Dark Sun. As a player? 1e homebrew Favourite Game: d6 Star Wars Fave Mechanics: popcorn initiative (sentinel rpg) Fave Setting: Dark Sun Fave Art: Clyde Caldwell

As an aside, I think there's design space for taking the SWd6 rules, and instead of adding rolls together, just count 5s and 6s as "hits", like in Shadowrun. If someone sat down and mathed it all out, it could be a fast, cinematic masterpiece, with very little math.

The board game "Eclipse" had some great rules, but what I loved was the game's economic system Baked into the player boards - players didn't need to know the exact math to know that "more actions = more cost" I think TTRPGs need to do the same, with invisible rules on the character sheets 1/10

Goddamn the new episode of Scrubs hit HARD. Everyone from the cast to the writers to everyone else is hitting it out of the PARK.

The fact Dark Conspiracy will use the Traveller Character Creation system really excites me. Sadly, I fear no cover art for this new edition will possibly beat the original Larry Elmore cover. I hope to be proven wrong, but that's a very high bar

Today in Writing a TTRPG shenanigans: the "healing hit points" problem. If everyone heals 1 hp a day, then the tough fighter with 40 hp takes a month or more to fully heal, while his 12 hp puny friend heals up in less than two weeks. Ran up against this classic today with #Scavenger. Sigh

A conversation I had w a friend of mine. What's your favourite kind of curry?