It's official Halloween for me. Go, be very afraid in my new RPG Zine Von Hynd Manor: Wherein is Told a Tale of Bloodshed and Diablerie. If you have been looking for a strange gothic horror thing to plop into your games then this might be for you. 500poundsofnothing.itch.io/vhm-expanded

Ooh Ooh notice me senpai! I made an annotated bibliography and you are in it!

Just so you all know this (overly) linear map is also from a Jennell Jaquays' product... Loops are good, but are neither necessary or sufficient for good map design.

METTLE Core v 1.85 Update! - METTLE Core planarian.itch.io/mettle-core/...

I can't help but laugh at how grammar and spell-checkers seem to flag famous quotes as bad grammar. For example "a maze of twisty passages, all alike." and word wants to get rid of "all" for conciseness.

Real Plumber Plays SUPER MARIO BROS. For The First Time

I think rich and powerful people had a version of Yertle the Turtle read to them that cuts out the last few pages.

I learned how to fight from souls games and it really works. I just roll directly into every attack to take advantage of my i-frames and always wake up somewhere else later.

Swalwell: You better believe that accountability is coming. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, Greg Bovino—your asses are going to be in these witness chairs.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum. We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

If you're complaining about combat in RPGs, keep in mind that in order for players to do things other than attack there have to actually be things to do in the arena other than attack. The dice are not going to make combat interesting by themselves. #ttrpgs

During the covid heyday I stopped going to a local comic store because their workers were all spewing Joe Rogan/Jon Stewart conspiracy theory crap about china and masks not working. I just couldn't spend money there if it supported food going into their face holes.

I was sitting up watching this and my wife came in, shook her head and said this is exactly the kind of crap she was expecting me to be watching. She makes me feel seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YU0...

Just thought this was neat, game related. #ttrpg ncase.me/trust/

I'm seeing some impressive book lists from people for 2025. For 2025 I only read: Finished: Dhalgren (Delaney) Ambrose Bierce Collection Started: If Beale Street Could Talk (Baldwin) Wool (Howey) I read a ton of science articles for work so sadly my actual book time is low.

I'm upset that Stranger Things didn't do the Head of Vecna bit. I think that would have been a great ending.

Everything is a "distraction" from everything else, apparently.

For my new years resolution I plan to be a bigger asshole to you personally, dear reader.

My earliest RPG memory was looking at the D&D adventure he was reading and asking how you win. He said "you don't" and explained that you just survived or made a new character. I still think about that whenever people are on their discourse bullshit. #ttrpg

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Relatable take. I always cringe when I hear a game marketed as "supporting" an aspect of play. This is a term that deserves to be sequestered within video game rpgs, where it is actually true. "Shaping" as the blog suggests later, maybe more apt but also reveals the actual intent.

METTLE Core Form Fillables Back! - METTLE Core Form Fillable Character Sheet planarian.itch.io/mettle-core-... #ttrpg

Just think, all this child rape, murder, and infanticide stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. The rest of it is redacted!

DragonBong: to prove they can make a bong out of anything, a party of adventurers goes after an ancient red dragon.

Whatever the latest ttrpg discourse is, I just want you all to know that I am on whatever the right side is. I mean the right side you agree with.

Adding more example characters to Mettle Core (pulp). Should be pretty easy to tell what I filed the serial numbers off of for this one.

We must operate under the assumption that EVERY redaction is a detailed account of Trump raping children. It's the only reasonable conclusion until he proves otherwise.

any tabletop game that puts emphasis on "Builds" is like... why wouldn't I just play a video game? I got into that shit because I'm a cringe goth Vampire The Masquerade Larper, I don't wanna throw the highest damaging fireball I wanna be the villain from a barbie movie.

I am going to try playtesting my flagship games (Mutananny/METTLE) on discord. I tried it earlier but it was a little awkward with sharing maps and such. What are some ways to make the process easier?

Due to my father in law getting a job at a sushi catering service, I just had leftovers - a lobster tail and a fresh pear for breakfast.

Why did no one tell me Amazing Digital Circus is actually pretty good? I thought it was more brainrot until the other day.

That weird old man we have running things is very noisy tonight.

First t-SNE graph of the word clouds for each module. Not really much to look at here. They don't group clearly by B or X or M or whatever. The easiest way to read these graphs is to assume modules closer to each other are more similar to each other. #dnd #ttrpg

Kind of on my bs again, using R to make word clouds out of B series D&D adventures. The reason why will become more clear later but for now I think these are kind of neat. #ttrpg #dnd

99% of books should have pages. Please praise me as a genius.

tbh i genuinely believe that people doing shit like breaking down narrative media into constituent "tropes" and actively pursuing media based around if it fulfills their preferred tropes and showing that you can market a work purely on it fulfilling those tropes was a precursor for AI slop media

Hey cool we are about to lose yet another war on drugs. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

When player conflicts come up in games, it is a shame that so many people resort to petty backlash instead of the tried and true, prosocial method of pinning the offender down and farting on their back. That was the perfect solution to every problem with my high school group. ##trpg

Fulfillment kicks off Friday, pre-order these items before they sell out at AgamemnonPress.com #TTRPG #RPG #OSR

A holiday themed Turducken undead for your games. Unducken? I guess that meal used to be called a "farce" so let's go with that. Better names up to you below. #ttrpg #osr #troika

I can only mute those who do not mute themselves.

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

I think this article is actually pretty interesting in regards to TTRPGs. There are lots of instances, such as with rolled stats and imbalanced classes, where one player lords it over the others due mostly to starting luck. I saw this happen at least twice. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-studied-...

Just imagine if the fiction world rated their books based mostly on the cover and paper quality like we do with rpgs.