Best Performance goes to every anchor who says - Epstein killed himself - with a straight face.

Episode 69: On the Idea of a Better Game This episode is another review of a post from the ⁠Casting Shadows blog⁠, though this time the Wayback Machine is just taking us five short years (and a few decades of observation and experience) into the past. This time we look at a post based on the…

There's a good reason why the words 'eschatology' & 'scatology' are so similar. 💩

DiCaprio is just a better-than-average Hollywood actor, but his best 2 performances were both released in the same year and had serious overlaps in personal tragedy.

The only thing on my Bucket List is seeing the Rifftrax guys live. What does this say about me?

stones at sunrise #digitalart #fantasy #rpg #d&d

So many of my adjacent IT depts are in quiet dread about the next 3-5 years, wondering if their jobs will even exist.

Reaching double digit temps today.

endangered species #digitalart #rpg #fantasy

traveller’s rest #digitalart #fantasy #rpg #d&d

As much as I hate the cold, I love living in a place with 4 distinct seasons. Give me a blanket of snow that lasts for 10 weeks, not grey, dead wetlands.

Great fun. Lots of evil. Goodly amounts of insane.

TIL (from Mobland) that "grass" in the UK = a snitch.

The best, unmade MERP module: "The Hunt for Bill Ferny"

Just as it's foolish to stop wasting $ only when you are running out, it's idiotic to wait until you see your death around the next bend to stop wasting time.

Marking the 7th Anniversary on Roleplay Rescue: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...

Railroading in RPGs has more subtle layers than at first blush. The oldest (& likely the largest) culprit was the majority of TSR modules from the late 70s/early 80s, which set the stage for what followed. youtu.be/SC6Kxcrx3Q8

Every game designer:

This week on RPR, listener Alex asked a question about how to make player-driven play work in shorter games. Thanks for the question, Alex! This episode is my answer —> #5 Player-Directed Goals: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...

dungeoneer #digitalart #rpg #D&D #fantasy

derelict stardrive jump-start #digitalart #scifi #rpg

A quick, minimalistic mass-NPC generator I made for my AD&D pals that may save you a little time. primaevalfantasy.com/downloads.html

We learn by doing. The right way to learn new RPG mechanics (or anything complex) is not to read it all at once, but to absorb just enough info to start practicing 1 small section at a time. Learning is also tactile, so actually rolling/writing, etc. With each new section, repeatedly practice it.

This is an excellent read/listen: academyofideas.com/2025/11/what...

There is no such thing as "free" time. Ultimately, time is the only true commodity we have. Every minute wasted is an irretrievable loss.

Mid Nov and windows open with 70F outside. Hard to complain.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense should learn from their mistakes. True wisdom is shown in those who learn from the mistakes of others as well.

Fatty Bolger: The Porkins of Middle Earth.

Pictured: Any RPG designer who claims they can edit their text without tweaking the rules:

Make Hobbits Fat Again!

TFT V: The Lost Lair, on the magic of playing around enough to make a simple dungeon: roleplayrescue.com/2025/11/09/t...

RPGs manifest at the intersection of each player's actions, reactions, and interactions in play, where they are filtered through each person's perceptions of that play, before being morphed by memory, relating those memories as a story, and then by each retelling of that story~ wp.me/pdgy0y-7

Ep2 Jamison and the Magical Bio Sheet: shows.acast.com/roleplayresc...

Happy Bday to Tom Moldvay, whose edition of D&D was the first so many of us enjoyed as kids.

'Discord' is the most honestly named social media site in existence.

To improve access to episodes of the Casting Shadows podcast and the relevant links pertaining to them, I have caused CastingShadowsPodcast.com to come into being. A more memorable link, search and tags which work, and optional notifications are the result~

Cmpgn experiment: Have a date set where the world gets suddenly wrecked. The PCs are involved with whatever other plans & BOOM- Earthquakes, cities destroyed, fire from the heavens, whatever. >90% pop. is dead. Further, NO foreshadowing. No Seers dropping hints. No explanations.

Anyone else use the Pomodoro Technique?

I sometimes find myself a bit envious of those who believe in ghosts.

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason; the madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." Chesterton

The 1920s - A great decade for horror movies.

Heresy alert! Rules Get Out Of The Way, where I report that solid rules actually make roleplay easier: roleplayrescue.com/2025/10/19/r...

Important words roleplayrescue.com/2025/10/12/f...

This is what having a Universal Translator conversation would actually be like: t.co/NTsY3KGMef

There is no right answer to the wrong question.

SNW Season 1 did lots of things right.

@polyroller.bsky.social Happy Bday, pal (whether it's your Bday or not)! Go do something terribly irresponsible.

Halloween dessert. First it gets you fat, then it drives you mad, then it eats you.

Two (non-Tolkien) Fantasy authors with great world elements to incorporate in your RPGs: - David Gemmell - Tad Williams