@benriggs.bsky.social brings together @johnharper.bsky.social, @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social to talk gaming while we wait for Apocalypse World Burned Over to go live... youtu.be/Aoa7ehvou9U?...

Jim, Colin, and I are back with Traveller rpg. I'm transitioning to publishing recordings of games rather than livestreams in order to improve the video and audio of each release. Cassette Future Core is here. Enjoy the intro to this upcoming series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL_-...

If I was making a Battletech movie I'd absolutely want Jerry Bruckheimer at the helm. Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and most recently F1 just really nail what I think battletech is. The dude is an alchemist. He understands the vibes of mixing machismo and machines.

Updated list: Tailspin Rusty Nail Bourbon Renewal Negroni Springbokkie

Y'all this game is really fantastic!

My brain as soon as I'm awake: you're gonna see the end of all big wildlife? Like any mammal that ain't a human, pet, livestock domesticate, or pest is gonna be gone. Like a really inefficient tyranid invasion.

I'm sorry but this word play the game can suck a dictionary. this is like the 5th word that aint in its arbitrary database.

Apocalypse World Burned Over playtest Blades In the Dark (with deep cuts) Dolmenwood Pendragon

Well friends it has finally comes down to this. 5 and a half IRL years later we've arrived at the end of the Great Pendragon Campaign today. The final years of the Arthurian saga.

kinda love that daggerheart, draw steel, and shadowdark all sound like thouroughbreds registered for the goth trenchcoat-formal horceracing championship.

You ever think about how much copper we're gonna mine in order to electrify the world and us run everything on batteries and solar and stuff? The amount needed to go from now to there has gotta be more than we've cumulatively mined since the beginning of time

I think I don't jam with the weird west aesthetic too much. I think the externalisation of evil as a separate thing undercuts the culpability of mankind to be the worst thing in the universe and to me that's an unforgivable thing to do in the Western genre.

I taught my parrot how to say 'I love you' and now we're getting married.

ive been watching folks play broken arrow and it looks so fun but i'm worried figuring it all out is too much work and it might be best as a "watch" game

hot take but blades in the dark? Pretty good ttrpg. Like really good.

I finally started experimenting with this bottle of creme de cassis and idk why I waited so long! What a fun ingredient. I did a bourbon renewal and Suzanne and I both loved the whiskey/fruit popsicle vibe. Now I gotta see what else calls for it but that cocktail alone justified the damn bottle

@friendly-ghost.bsky.social's wargame deepest valley might be better than Root

I think traveller works better when you zoom into the trading system and what exactly is going on. I think having a high barter skill doesn't discount (pun intended) your ability to make a deal, but rather I think it offers you deals that cost one their humanity in exchange for real profit.

I think I found a cocktail that isn't technically on the books but definitely delicious So take your a la louisianne which is a rye Sazerac w/ benedictine instead of simple but replace rye entirely with cognac. Specs: 2oz cognac 1/2 oz Benedictine, 3 dash of peychauds in an absinthe rinsed glass

played it again last night and merchant of venus is just one really really good boardgame

This video is so cool. First off that Japanese edition of Traveller's cover art is primo. Second the Sword World fellows mechanic of having a little guy who can come in and help you out from someone elses game and youre supposed to write a thank you for them? 100/100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqHL...

Fresh out of PunchedCon, with @pierrevj.bsky.social @ericvulgaris.bsky.social @joedewhurst.bsky.social we did a video debrief featuring awesome games such as Napoleon's Triumph, @gmtgames.bsky.social The Pure Land, Merchant of Venus, and many more... 🤩 youtu.be/Z8WVrNMBjps?...

PunchedCon day 2, we are playing @colewehrle.bsky.social award winning Wargame Arcs with @ericvulgaris.bsky.social @joedewhurst.bsky.social and @pierrevj.bsky.social 🌠

Gonna be keeping dice in my pockets on my nature walk today.

The blooming yellow gorse bushes all over ireland are so striking they look like the tufts you put on space marine bases.

This is so awesome. I wanted to do something like this but with Mausritter while having adventurers in it but I just couldn't solve the time syncing problems between them and grew fatigued with the mediocre adventure scene for mausritter. samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...

the 1930s hollywood moral codes got me down, so I snuck in a Paul Blart and the audience loved it. Hollywood Animal is seriously so much fun

I know everyones playing blue prince or whatever but Hollywood Animal got my full obsession right now. What a game! I can see its potential for the full release. Almost a classic Hollywood crusader kings.

Nobody asked but my favourite cocktails right now: Dominicana Oaxacan Old Fashioned Orgeat Sour Negroni

Crackpipe theory: Americans elect Nolan Batman villains as presidents. 2020: Ra's al Ghul 2024: The Joker (Kamala is twoface) 2028: Bane So in 2028 expect some kind of macho wrestler thermidorian running on populist Law and Order and antiimmigration rhetoric and going after the economic swindlers

Looks like my next few campaigns are gonna be: - Blades in the Dark with the Deep Cuts rules - Swords of Cepheus testing with UVG - Warlock! with Beyond Corny Gron

I'd like to one day try and run a campaign with the gimmick you only have one life. if your PC meets a premature end you gotta give up your seat at the table for someone new. I wonder how that'd go?

On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

Playing pendragon in the twilight years of Camelot really shows how thing falls apart when your leadership doesn't show up, huh. We're at when King Arthur "trusts the process" and lets his wife be on trial for a shocking murder nobody can believe she did it. Couldn't possibly be relevant to today.

I would really like to give up more American tech but everything local in Ireland really hinges on Facebook/Whatsapp and basically all my ttrpg friends and games are on discord. They're basically load bearing pillars of my social life these days.

📉We like to think this is the golden age of data visualisation. But check out this chart from the US military during WWII👇 German production of synthetic oil, plant by plant, and how it collapsed when Allies bombed the plants. Much more on this in Ch 14 of Material World...

I gotta say I've been in absolute nirvana music hole the last few weeks. At this point I can't tell if nevermind is making me depressed or if just im depressed and enjoy how good nevermind is.

ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @empirepoduk.bsky.social SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland With me and @willdalrymple.bsky.social and special guest Prof Jane Ohlmeyer. Out now.

Not much to do in the Irish countryside so I've been getting into making my own cocktails this past month The three I think you must try are * Last Word * Army and Navy * Brooklyn I tried a lot of last word riffs (shout out to the division bell) but the original reigns supreme.

woke up today and my legit first thought was Rage against the machine's sleep now in the fire but lyrics changed to A streetcar named desire

can everyone designing OSR games just agree on a standard length of rope please? 😅

Despite this one not particularly engrossing me and taking me a long time to finish, the Phillip Marlowe series is a must read, yall. Look you probably don't need my ignorant butt to tell you these books are classics but like I promise you these books are better than anything on TV right now.

I've released the Outdoor Survival Scaffolder - a tool that automatically generates lairs, monsters and treasure based off the terrain of the classic OD&D wilderness map! It's still WIP, but has been an enormous undertaking so far - I hope it's of use! chaoclypse.itch.io/outdoor-surv...

I'm piling sandbags on the hill of "Sushi is a perfectly fine breakfast food." Tamago is the intuitive choice of course. But fish is great too. Like crushing an onigiri with a cup of coffee is a great way to start the day.

Is the last word the best cocktail?

CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 is💫OUT NOW!💫 Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt, in this Dice Driven RPG. “The perfect sequel, offering complexity, consequence, and quiet optimism in a world of strife.” - PCGamesN links below 👇

Any experienced Mausritter GMs out there have a curated list of good adventures? I'm disappointed in the average adventures out there on itch for MR and could really gain from someone's experience -- Second mouse gets the cheese and all that.

Just when I was feeling good about living in Ireland and the universe gotta tell me about my local cave fungus zombie spiders. phys.org/news/2025-01...

I'm coming around to rating the Brooklyn cocktail just a better Manhattan cocktail all around. I think this will take a lot of research to be conclusive, though. Yeah. A lot of research.