Only relevant review of Paradise: defector.com/its-just-ano...

New blogpost, daydreaming of Mythic Bastionland: A knight can interact with the themes of a myth to draw closer to it. PLUS 12 myth-specific relics. #osr #ttrpg #blog

with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.

Have you blogged today? You should blog today! Make sure to link to other posts as well! Your inspirations, and posts you disagree with. Keep the conversation going. Or just posts you enjoyed. Every post and every link will last infinitely longer than any skeet, reddit comment or discord message

This new video essay by @thomasflight.nebula.tv on the role extras play in movies pairs perfectly with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwUr... Love this trend(?) of essays on the less obvious things that impact how a film feels to watch.

A friend created his own perfect version of "A Perfect Rock" by @deepdark.games and brought it to our weekly RPG meetup yesterday. This game plays as smooth as those planets look, really enjoyed our time with it!

Fascist #slopaganda isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others

Seen a couple of clips the past week from some 1995 Kyrgyzstan documentary The Universe of Manas and had to check out the whole thing. Just absolutely fucking unreal levels of drip here youtu.be/jgJZCaOI5KE?...

Even better: write 24 episodes just in time like pre golden era, to react to the viewer‘s reactions during the early episodes and find what works.

I blogged: personable.blog/human-centri...

“Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life, rather than as an alien in the world or as a deity above the world, aloof and apart from human flesh.” [Carter Heyward, Our Passion for Justice, 1984]

Wrote about why I think writing in networks deserves all the love it’s been getting lately. dungeonmerl.in/3meqjfytmkc2f

Can you represent characters as the relationships they have with others? I expanded on Bonds from His Majesty the Worm to find out. tbr.bearblog.dev/a-miserable-...

I very much agree with this. It's actually one of the things I like most about the RPG space: basically no one you meet is in it for the money, because there simply isn't any.

Blog enthusiasts! It's been a huge community effort. We're proud to present WE READ THE BLOGGIES. The year's best blogging coming to you - in audio form. A show to SAVE YOUR EYES and SOOTHE YOUR EARS. Catch up on all your Bloggies reading before voting commences next week! #ttrpg #podcast #blog

Generally the vibe I go for in all games I run. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLS...

found u on the map

Post a banger that's not in English. Can't not do my boy Guillaume then: www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A4...

I would like to already nominate this for next year's gameable category, please: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

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Wrote about the process that turns blog posts I read into lots of tiny little plants for my new digital garden: dungeonmerl.in/3meeit5e7522w This turned out both stranger and longer than expected.

ngl folks, I'm pretty proud of this one

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP... This is a great essay, and one of those things that reminds you to be in constant awe that something like movies even exist. It's also one of the rare essays that really makes the most sense as a video essay.

Went through ALL THE TROUBLE to take this photo only to realise that reply guys aren't welcome on the orginal post, so now you all get to see two great lens caps on the official camera of the 1980s!

One of the most amazing things about OSR blogging culture is how many times I read a keystone post from 2008 and then check when the author last posted something to the blog and it's like a few hours ago.

Immediately forgot about my plan to do this. Been slowly working my way through this during January, and can proudly report that I'm now... not even 10% finished.

Books should look beaused anyway, so why not get them pre-beaused? accidentalrandonneur.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/t...

Everything that increases the physicality of playing is an instant win in my book. (Without me having to stand up, of course. (So we really need some kind of dice fence here that prevents them from rolling off the table... ))

yourself, but as a cartoon

As someone pointed out to me recently, it's common for rules to say "only roll when needed" without really specifying when it's needed.

Everybody step off the platform please. New load-bearing theory is being installed.

Third rule of DNGN CLUB: Jack never misses. Never.

Ruin a first date: "so depending on who you ask, the r stands either for revival or renaissance..."

Just released the 2nd version of my set of hex tiles based on paintings from The Met Collection. This version brings the number of tiles from 6 to 44 and includes bangers such as ocean tiles, making it usable to create real maps for the first time. jonasmerlin.itch.io/the-met-coll... #ttrpg #osr

I don't always agree with Hank Green but I do quite like what he's saying here. "When we can't find anything we can believe in, the humanity leaks through the drywall and says 'I AM STILL HERE! [...] I AM WEIRD, AND I AM HUMAN, AND I AM NOT FOR SALE!'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMWP...

I wrote something about the DCC discourse in which I: - Summarise the story so far - Attempt to synthesise two contrary module styles - Praise @zedecksiew.bsky.social with a small cameo from my Oma's Nasi Goering dannyfi.st/posts/Doing-...

One of the weirdest people to ever exist

Quick response to @orthopraxy.bsky.social's excellent "Eating the Book--a response to 'We Need to Talk About Goodman Games'" to test my extremely cool new URL: dungeonmerl.in/3mcasvels6s2m (DM... get it?) #ttrpg #osr #blog

Slightly diminish a game: Mausknappe

Slightly diminish a game: Line Agency

Slightly diminish a game: Pile of Rocks

If you like reading adventure names as much as I do, @adventurenamesbot.bsky.social is the bot for you!

Between this and Blades '68, 2026 seems to be the year of RPGs specifically targetted at me. Now who wants to create a Deadly Premonition RPG for me? Northern Exposure?

Gonna steal this format this year.

Important empirical work, but it's absolutely insane that this isn't immediately clear to every single adult human being. You have to be completely ignorant of any form of education, critical thinking, or experience to not intuitively get this. "The map is not the territory" is 101 stuff.

This is good stuff!

Computers & Sexy – A Halt and Catch Fire hack of Lasers & Feelings

four books to get to know me