There are two types of stories that I keep coming back to as ones I want to explore in game or TTRPGs. And thinking about it, I don’t think I’ve ever actually set a campaign in a way to tell either of the stories. I’m really interested in the start of coinage and the day after the big announcement.

I am live! Tonight I am going to try out solo play with TTRPGs for the first time ever. We are going with the game Ironsworn. I am excited to see how this goes. Come hang out at twitch.tv/waywornwyrm #TTRPG

LLMs are the most God of the Gaps thing I have ever seen. The less you know, the more impressive they seem.

The single memory from high school I will remember until the day that I die is as follows. World History class, we had a sub almost the entire term. Teacher comes back and On June 6th 1944 an American army landed on a beach outside the city of Normandy France. 1/2

If I said that Mothership/Iron Sworn or many other systems was my favorite system or the only system I play very few people would bat an eye at that, if I said the same thing but said D&D, I would never hear the end of how I just need to play more systems. And that is bullshit. 1/5

I am live! I continue my slow return to streaming with an interview with Jon and Bri of Bright Bard Games. We are talking about their upcoming game Axolotl with a Gun on the last day of its Kickstarter. Come join us and find out about an awesome game at twitch.tv/waywornwyrm

I’m starting a project where I’m going to be talking about the various locations in Faerun. Just finished the script for the first place. Went with a location that doesn’t have much lore so it was supposed to be a short episode, I hope I was wrong. If this is “short” I have to rethink a lot about.

Have you ever been working on a #ttrpg project, just starting the second major part, realize you didn’t quite finish the first part, try to hunt down a source for your ending of the first part, realize a part you made a big deal about is wrong due to an obscure source and have to restart? Same.

I just went down an interesting rabbit hole. I was thinking about that song Rich Men North of Richmond and wondering how someone cares enough about politics to write a song like that but ignorant enough to claim to be a centrist. So I looked more into him to see what he’s done in the last few years

I am pretty firmly against Kroger’s monopolistic takeover of regional supermarkets. Even more so since they are an Ohioan company. But it also means my local supermarket now stocks a regional ice cream flavor that is from my youth in Michigan. So it’s not 100% total evil, just overwhelming evil.

It is wild that most (but not all) of my best memories come from a rather short span of time and generally involve periods of little sleep. From the perfect summer, to the trip to the Balkans, to college D&D, Vampire the Masquerade.

Reposting this for the morning #TTRPG crowd.

For all #TTRPG people! I am going to be running Brindlewood Bay on my Twitch, hopefully starting in two weeks. I don't have a cast for it. So here is a casting call. Please fill out this sheet if you are interested and are able to commit to the game. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Due to a grilling fireball, my eyelashes are shorter than they have been my entire life. This is so weird. My eyes feel wrong.

Apparently polio vaccines are no longer required for children. When my great grandmother was young she was one of seven children in her village to get polio. She is the only one who lived, and had a shrunken leg for her entire life. 1/2

About a year and a half ago I cut my caffeine intake down to 1 can of pop a day. Last March I cut it out for a bit but ultimately ended up going with about one can of pop a week that had caffeine in it. I just had the first caffeine I’ve had in about two months and holy hell, it’s a lot.

I just wrote an entire long thread about how my feelings for Stranger Things, now that I finished it last night, is very different from the reaction I have been seeing online, but before putting the finishing touch on it I decided to look something up real quick and that led me to my solution. 1/3

Wyrmette and I have been watching through Stranger Things. I had stopped watching 2 episodes into Season 3, and last night we just finished Season 4. There is a lot I can say about the show, but it really reminded me of a D&D story I once heard that has always confused me. 1/11

One of my little sisters has a super power I want so badly. She has gotten a job offer from every single interview she has ever had.

Ok, question for those who check #ttrpg. Well, not a question per se. Tell me about the weird little TTRPGs you know about. The ones few people have ever heard of. I’ll go first. There is a great d30 system called Legendary Quest which is based on folk lore not Tolkien.

I had a little bird, its name was Enza. I opened up the window, and in flew Enza. For the first time in almost a decade, influenza seems to have found its way to the Wyrm household.

I have a lot of plans for this year, unfortunately they are all up in the air until I have a job again. This coming week I will learn about a job I interviewed for that I am really excited for.

I am gaging interest, who here in #TTRPG space, would be interested in watching a stream actual play of Brindlewood Bay? It is similar to Murder, She Wrote, but with Lovecraftian elements.

My favorite thing about @brightbard.bsky.social's Trash to Treasure is that @residentbard.bsky.social made sure that the GM gets to roll a bucket full of dice as well as the players. Rolling dice is one of the most fun parts of TTRPGs and probably why I still love running D&D after over 20 years.

As you might expect form someone who has run TTRPGs for 22 years, I am slowly making my own rules, the biggest thing I want, and the hardest part, is coming up with a magic system where each magic user makes spells. Something like Morrowind's spell crafting system or Tyranny's magic system.

I put up the first of a two part video series on a semi recent video Missing Enigma did where he interviewed Michael Bouchard in his new book about the Trenny Gibson disappearance. You can watch my video here. youtu.be/jESD-ou4Msk

I’m not sure which I dislike more, how often I look at what seems to be a good piece of TTRPG art and then worry it might be he stove “AI”, or how I am basically always right when I think that.

The newest clip where @bridanann.bsky.social of @brightbard.bsky.social bravely states that Power Rangers and Captain Planet are Magic Girl shows is up! www.youtube.com/shorts/jbxw-...

My mother in law got me the coolest gift two weeks ago. It is a cube and each face of it is a spinner for a different sized die. I'll try to add a picture of it to here later.

A hill I will forever die on, the successful rebrand of Luddites to be anti technology instead of what the Luddites were actually against is the biggest win the owning class ever had.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I am seeing more and more video game companies (especially RPG ones) talk about using gen "AI" to create placeholder assets. One of three things is happening. 1 they don't know what placeholder assets are. 2 they are ok with them being left in. 3 they are just pretending its a placeholder.

Sometimes I forget that with a new D&D edition there is a new edition war, and for a large chunk of the community this is their first one.

A few days ago I posted a great interview I did awhile ago with @bridanann.bsky.social and @residentbard.bsky.social of @brightbard.bsky.social, today I have pulled out a clip from that interview. Watch the clip here: www.youtube.com/shorts/hNLkC...

Reposting this for the morning #TTRPG crew.

Question for everyone on #TTRPG, what is your favorite pre-made campaign? Any system. I want to hear you gush about your favorite campaign someone made.

I loathe the term "Late Stage Capitalism" because it implies inevitability that I outright reject. I think capitalism is pretty disgusting, and we should move on to a better system, but I'd rather in fights against this worst form of capitalism it wasn't treated as how all capitalism always ends up.

So this year I am going to get back into streaming TTRPGs. I have one unannounced project that will be announced likely later this month, but beyond that I need to figure out what games I will run. I figure I'll list in a reply or two the ones that are likely and people can comment/ask for more info

I have taken about a quarter off from playing TTRPGs, I was having some really bad burnout as shown by my reactions to bad news. I think I am about at the time to start playing/running again.

I am looking into a new to me TTRPG right now, The Land of Eem. So far its fun and I might want to run it sometime.

I haven’t played 3.5 D&D in almost two decades because I liked the direction 4E went in. I don’t really care for Pathfinder 1E because that went even farther in the direction I didn’t like about 3.5. Pathfinder 2E is better, but I have 5E D&D instead. Continued

I've been playing Star Traders: Frontiers recently and I am enjoying how much it wears its Dune inspiration on its sleeve.

Its sinking in that I haven't hosted an in person TTRPG session in almost 6 years, and its been about 5 since the last in person. We had a group that tried really hard to meet in a pandemic appropriate way, but that fizzled out because it was really hard.

At some point this new year, I might put together a 5E Eberron campaign set in Sarlona. That could be great fun.

I have a goal for next year to run at least 40 sessions of TTRPGs. I'm not sure how I am going to get there, but let's find out together.

A little 12 days of Christmas treat for all of you from the Trash to Treasure girls! 🎄❤️

This interview was a lot of fun 😊 Make sure to check it out and subscribe to th channel! Much more Trash to Treasure content to come soon!

I don’t understand how the Oregon Unemployment office expects me to call them when the number they give to call is nothing but a busy signal until after they close. If a member of the Oregon Government can explain that to me that would be great. I’ve been trying for over a week now to talk to anyone

It is always my deepest pleasure to hang out with Bright Bard Games. They are two of my favorite people, both in and out of the TTRPG space. Please enjoy this interview, and make sure you subscribe, there is a lot more to come.

The part about making videos I dislike the most is the video editing. After years, I am a serviceable editor but it is clearly not my passion.