Friends! Six weeks to the day when I first cast this on, and I’m happy to tell you that the #Startrek double #knitting scarf is complete! This has been such a fun, and very challenging, project to make, at times feeling like it was never going to end. I […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

Ah, dangit, I've been sent to #Whamhalla. Guess that's what I get for staying up too late scrolling instead of just going to bed.

Is it wrong that I'm dreaming of buying a Cameo from Epic Voice Guy to read the opening monologue to Session One of my Daggerheart game? Ahhhh I shouldn't. I won't. That's the epitome of frivolous. But, still. Wouldn't you?

Super spooky synchronicity: Got a call this afternoon from a cemetery where my mom has owned plots since 1977, they were not sure how to contact her This evening: mom calls me to tell me she has (a mild) cancer. What the actual fuck, universe.

Starhawks I am not associated with: - the prominent New Age author - the POV character in a Barbara Hambly fantasy trilogy (quite good by the way) - the Star Wars ship model - the Playstation game - the Marvel comic book character I picked this name for a game some time in the early 90s […]

Thanksgiving leftover win: transforming turkey, veggies, and leftover broth into something resembling chicken a la king, delicious and perfect over biscuits. Loss: there was no room in the fridge for my pumpkin pie and it's already moldy.

#thisweekatmytable the #ttrpg fates giveth and they taketh away. My "weekly" #dnd5e Ptolus group may be DOA. Between holidays, one of my players been stricken with flareups of an autoimmune disease, and another due for surgery in December... we are done through at least the New Year. I have […]

Another agony of #returntooffice policies and open seating, having some numbnut sit right next to me and start hacking up phlegm every 30 seconds. "Dude, are you sick?" "Hahaha, it's just a cough." What I did not say out loud: motherfucker, where have you BEEN these last five years, there are […]

#thisweekatmytable it's the Grand Conjunction of #ttrpg joy! Tonight I ran my #dnd5e Ptolus game, more rampaging through a haunted castle - ended on a cliffhanger, coming face to face with a demon! Tomorrow I'm a player in a #shadowrun 4e game, we're trying to extract our technomancer friend […]

What else hits like realizing at 330p on a Friday that you need to do an emergency deployment, to repair an issue your departmental director found? It was super fun trying to find a sign-off person still at their desk. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must crawl off and die.

My job is forcing us to 60% in-office time next year. Three days a week. My commute is 60 miles, and turns each in-office day into effectively a 12-hour work day. I accepted it because I had been unemployed for six months when I was offered this job. A third 12-hour day is going to be ruinous […]

In other #ttrpg news, #thisweekatmytable the Ptolus #dnd5e game I was running finally had another session. This game was on life support, we are supposed to play weekly but had missed a full month due to medical issues and Halloween. Anyhow, we ran the second session Night of Dissolution, and […]

Also, I seem to have accidentally fostered another #ttrpg group. I reconnected with a former gaming buddy over Helldivers 2, and eventually he brought a pile of people to my place to play a one-shot of ALIENS RPG. That turned into a monthly one-shot, three sessions of DRAGONBANE... and now I […]

Hey, my buddies at Fainting Goat Games are publishing a "Christmas Special" followup to COCAINE OWLBEAR. If gimmicky, funny #ttrpg books are your thing: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/fainting-goat-games/cocaine-owlbear-christmas-special I didn't write for this project and am not getting […]

[uspol] This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]

#thisweekatmytable my dnd game was cancelled again, so Wife, Kid, and I finished up the #IronswornStarforged adventure we started last week. We ended up having to rescue our smuggler contacts from the fortified bunker of a gang who had turned on them. My Weapon Master / Ace got into a […]

[uspol] It doesn't cost that much money to build a fucking ballroom. Mark my words, there's a bunker and/or barracks going in there, meant to fortify the White House for when the fascists refuse to hold elections. I hope they build it out of something flammable.

#thisweekatmytable A few months ago I ran a #DragonBane one-shot for a new group, that went so well they asked me to keep running it on a monthly basis. The Dragonbane quick-start boxed set is GREAT, by the way. It has the full game rules and an entire prewritten campaign, along with maps and […]

#thisweekatmytable The #dnd5e game I usually run on Fridays was cancelled, so I broke out #IronswornStarforged with Wife and Kid. I had originally planned to play solo - since it's designed for that - but they both got interested when I started fiddling with sector/campaign creation. We got […]

#thisweekatmytable I was a player in a #shadowrun 4e game that has been going for almost a year. We had a big story event that ended with 3 of the 4 of us players switching to new characters (1 dead, 1 off to corporate stardom, 1 willingly lost in the metaplanes forever). So we had a nice RP […]

Just a FYI to anyone following me via the BS bridge, because BlueSky can’t (or won’t) get their shit together, much of the Fediverse is thinking about defederating the bridge. Best to follow us directly via something like a Mastodon account.

As the Kid has gotten into his teens, we've been showing him the good stuff from the 80s and 90s that was maybe too intense for him before. Sometimes that Zoomer is hard to impress! Today it was grey and starting to feel like fall, spooky-tober, the perfect time to rewatch THE CROW (1994) […]

#thisweekatmytable I also cracked open the hardcopy of #ironsworn #starforged that I bought for my birthday. I had originally planned to play solo, but Kid stayed up late helping me create the starting sector, and Wife is interested now. Maybe this can be what we do when DnD falls through.

#thisweekatmytable The DnD group I started to show my teen son how it is done has been a strange animal. I'm doing a lot more work to push the plot as a DM. I am used to more proactive tables. Anyway we stalled pretty hard between adventures, so I shoved them into kicking off The Night of […]

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this. What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]

hey there, 'Shop! It is not normally Proprietor's role to share, chat and advocate outside of 'Shop business. And I would guess many of you are well aware of the Anthropic lawsuit and settlement. But as the mopper-upper around this wonderful community, who knows how many of you put your real […]

Today I ran the quickstart adventure of #daggerheart and it went well. Like, really really well. The system is like if D&D beat up Savage Worlds, FATE, and 2d20 for their lunch money. It reminds me of the barely-by-the-rules homebrew cinematic play we were doing at the end of the D&D2e era. I […]

Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S […]

Deeply disappointed to find that the owner of one of my favorite ttrpg companies is a right-winger who is mourning Charlie Kirk. I'm working on a project for this game system and if my publisher didn't have LOTS of money tied up in it already, I'd throw up my hands and walk away. Vaguetooting […]

My son ran his first game of #DnD yesterday, at his high school's D&D club. There are 100+ kids in the club. #genx fought the Satanic Panic and this is the loot it dropped. I am joyous that kids today have this opportunity.

As I frequently tell students, at peak strength nearly 600,000 American troops couldn't pacify South Vietnam, which was about the size of Wisconsin. The admin can flex all it wants, but the lesson here is that what is intended as a show of force in American cities is in fact a great […]

The Ptolus #dnd5e campaign I started for my son has finally hit 4th level. I've been sprinkling in published adventures alongside my homebrew and intended to run the Night of Dissolution and Banewarrens modules, but Ugh Reading them over, it's hard to be excited. Weird and weak story hooks […]

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I would mod the system from the ALIENS RPG.... I love the way its Stress Dice model fear. The first couple points make you sharper/better at what you're doing, but as terrible things happen, those extra dice push you over into the Panic Table where you start making mistakes and acting […]

On the first day back from a week's vacation, I got informed about a #returntooffice policy forcing me to commute three days a week. My commute is sixty miles each way, this will force three 12-hour days on me. On the second day back, I got informed my office has a bedbug problem […]

Punk rock on my last day of vacation, sweaty and healing. #badreligion

Yesterday at #GenCon was my long day. I started the morning with the #XCrawl tournament and my dice were complete ass, I fumbled six times! Doubt there is a trophy in my future. In the afternoon, I got to try Worlds Without Number for the first time, a solid take on the OSR. We saved our home […]

🎲 Are you at #gencon and wish you had one of these? I am selling. A lot of stuff I can't play I offload at half-price-books, but these are a little different. #ttrpg

Today at #GenCon I played a Duros mechanic in a really fun #EdgeoftheEmpire game. Then played #savageworlds Flash Gordon, wrecked 2 wolfoid arena monsters and then got crushed for 32 damage by a giant robot! Owwwww! #ttrpg

Actually question: who's got federated #ttrpg blogs around here?

Heyyyy it's time to pack the bag for #GenCon. Being local, I get the absolute luxury of doing it only the night before. And it's just a backpack. But nonetheless, the ritual begins!

36 hours till #GenCon and I officially have the pre-con jitters. I'm off work for a week and can't wait to roll dice with friends and strangers. I'm local, so if you have questions or need help, hit me up. I'm good for a beverage and a hug for anyone who reads this, no strings attached.

Small PSA

I commute twice a week, it's about a 70-minute trip each way. It looks like I left my computer glasses at the office last night. Sooooo it looks like I get to make a 2+ hour round trip for a 5 minute desk check. Damn, I feel stupid. #firstworldproblems

Hey #HoosierMast , maybe stay out of Avon #indiana, the cops there are actively feeding people to ICE concentration camps. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/fbi-confirms-ice-avon-police-executed-federal-warrants-indiana/531-7751de65-d271-42c7-a5d5-5ae533175eac #ice #fascism #indianapolis