“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Amazing soundtrack, literally ran out of fake blood while shooting, manifest destiny as literal vampirism and gay enough that the Hannibal TV show poached half the cast

The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall digital compendium is out now and available on my itch! badbucket.itch.io/the-beasts-and-blessings-of-the-hallowd-hall A bestiary of sixty five strange things and their grim fables written by me and @notquitereal.bsky.social

Man, I had such clear eyed plans this morning, and the motivation to solve a hard script problem. The stakes of this deadline are so incredibly high. But one unrelated non-work crisis after another said: no keyboard for you. It's pure RNG, I'm sure. Yet I can't escape the feeling of being trolled.

Live now on Twitch to paint Kingdom Death's Spidicules! Also testing multi-streaming to YouTube! 😁 If it works we'll do that going forward! www.twitch.tv/nikkikolls

D&D is satanic again let's go

Taking applications for people to do hag stuff with. Comic cred: cassandracalin.tumblr.com

I’ve been having far too wicked a time working on this of late. If you want to hear the devil at your ear, give it a spin. Demo just dropped on Steam. 😈

Narrative Design

absolutely lost my shit in the middle of a teams call because while something was discussed i wondered what the early images of Lilith were and i'm sorry but look LOOK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith#...

Oh man, look at this. Were I still doing dice with death - or allowing the algorithm to steal my face's soul at all anymore ... ... this'd be the perfect paperback to close, feign startlement, then say "Oh, I didn't see you there" in the cliche fashion, before talking about the evening's bloodbath.

If you're into permadeath and D&D and want to test your mettle, try this BG3 mod on Honor mode. The "Trials of Tav Reloaded". (I've played story to death.) tinyurl.com/6x3xemuk Turns it into a roguelike series of escalating difficulty arenas. If you're a D&D combat pervert ... damn it's a good time.

If your group's still playing 5.5, before they f*ck off to Daggerheart or Draw Steel etc Play a Pact of the Chain warlock. You can mix and match now, but Chain is, uh "off it" Yes I know that's dated slang but the point is b o n k e r s fun

New UA - I like the re-issued Hexblade, though its focus is more on enhanced defense 'til level 6+ Probably fine, old one was absurdly frontloaded. I do miss the curse's flat damage. Crit-on-19 is way late now too, so DPR minded folks will clamor for more tweaks. www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/...

Agreed. Danger w/ the Hollow Warden is: like the old Gloomstalker, it makes the otherwise very-tepid Ranger subs look deeply sad 'til... like level 11? Hardcopy books prevent easy rebalancing. If they ship this as is, it may be the only Ranger you see in the 'wild'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sGP...

Made a pilgrimage to this Stag God then the weather cleared. Paganism : it gets results.

Guided by their inner voice, the high priestess seeks to find the truth muddled in our complicated lives. #animalart #art #tarot

New UA. The bad: Okay, 2 skeletal 👎 for the poor Grave Cleric. Double damage & anti-crit, gone. Hexblade is now a grab bag of utility who must concentrate on Hex?! RIP. Wotc, bestie, folks liked the blade bit, not the hex bit. Feedback will be LOUD. (1/2) media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-i...

This is what Dice w/ Death was to me, editing video is *very* soothing. I effed the joy up by imagining "audience expectations" of regularity that were incompatible w/ a fairly demanding job / life. Next round, I'll find a way to relax / preclude that pressure, y'know - since I F-ing made them up.

Every 20 minutes in Avowed you will find a skeleton with a dagger in its ribcage and a note like "damn, I sure hope Giancarlo doesn't stab me with a knife". This is called Storytelling, baby.

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The end of every RPG campaign, as you try to make your lore comprehensible to players, post facto- You: "Something-something dead languages, angels, conspiracy - The Lesbians -" Players, almost understanding: "THE CAT!" (cw: total plot spoilers for The Sentinel, final self-harm by the usual name)

Hahaha - as I fiddle with youtube tutorials trying to get something usable from Final Draft into excel ... and from there to our silly game's data, The Algorithm somehow bullseyes its target audience in one shot. My next 10 D&D characters will be KNIFE WARLOCK, please and thank you

We play on the weekend now, in the mid-AM or early PM depending on timezones, and ...w/ a group of people well over 30, in decade increments- The difference is huge. To quote Brian Cox on Deadwood (re: uh, cowboy viagra problems?) "Might...varying the hour ... produce a different outcome?" Try it

Enjoy A little WIP guide to the tricks in 2024-era D&D to help you depend on fewer ability scores / get more out of one 16+ Not a complete list, but if I missed ways to "re-route" ability scores that are pretty accessible at low-mid levels, please LMK! #gishlife docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Also, re: weird builds, if the dice hate you: seriously, try a build that grants attacks to allies, it's addictive. I've wrung out every permutation of this I can. Your turn, cursed sibling! In 5e, try Battlemaster & the Order Cleric. Rogues... will get Reaction sneak attack, and want to date you 😂

Arc 2 of my friend's now-legendary campaign has begun. 6 players by Zoom is non-trivial, and he did it - balancing players old & new. 👏 He kindly wrote into the story that my Luck has been gambled away - cosmically. I'm trying an artsy dice-minimizing build - a pleasant little puzzle, for sickos.

A little write-up on the D&D 2024 classes and subclasses I did for our home group. Mainly for folks who want to try the new rules and are wondering what to play. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Permadeath D&D streaming may be on hold for now, but I am still a wildman over all things tabletop. Here, you may get little hints of my side projects in that arena, streams, etc. But you'll also need a high tolerance for niche TTRPG babble, yes, even regarding The Hasbro Product.