Visited the site where my players blasted some jerkface cultists with shotguns and briefly witnessed Shub-Niggurath in all her noodley glory. Sadly, neither happened on my visit.

So this little pub set us at a table that used to be the village well. Photo doesn't properly show how deep the shaft goes (giggle). Sadly, the girl from The Ring didn't crawl out and bus our table.

Next spring I will be embarking on the adventure of a lifetime as the featured GM for RPG IN THE JUNGLE. Join me at Citadel Fury in the jungles of Peru for an all-inclusive escape from reality, where I'll be running an exclusive, week-long RPG campaign. rpginthejungle.com/upcoming-eve...

We may have gotten a few steps in today

While the original was demolished long ago, and never actually owned by a supernatural detective ageny in 1890, there is a weird connection one feels to visiting the real location of where their RPG takes place. This is one cool benefit to TTRPGs grounded in the real world.

"So are you going to visit 221b Baker St or 9 3/4?" "No. We're visiting sites of real history & not pop culture made-up places." "Like where?" "33 Golden Sq where our Cthulhu by Gaslight characters lived, Cleopatra's Needle where we met Nyarlathotep, & the top of St Paul's where we saved the world."

In 1355, Marino Faliero, 55th Doge of Venice, attempted a coup. He was tried and executed. His portrait in the Doge's Palace is prominently displayed in the Great Council Hall is simply a black shroud that says, "This is the space for Marino Faliero, beheaded for crimes," to serve as a reminder.

After spending way more time than I care to admit, I've chosen this as my 1990s character's phone. He'd love to get his hands on one of those fancy new Motorola Micro TAC Elites, but at $600 it's too expensive for his blood.

I've said for a couple years now that Mongoose should update and bring back the old Traveller Azhanti High Lightning board/wargame. So today, as I'm scrolling through the new Singularity Campaign book I started laughing, "They actually did it!" Now for 2nd Dynasty to make 28mm 3d print files

I righted a wrong and finally watched L.A. Confidential. Flashes of memory told me I must have seen part of it before on TV or somewhere years ago, but I was probably too young to enjoy a noir period-piece. Overall I enjoyed it.

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Working on a character for Impossible Landscapes. I've learned that I can be 100% serious in making a Delta Green character up until it comes to choosing an Agent Handle. Then it gets silly. Sadly, it's set in 1995 and I can't pay tribute to (rip off) the Laundry Files with a Spice Girl's name.

I think I'm might have to get one of these for Jack.

Many of you will have known Bud Baird from @budsrpgreview.bsky.social and will have heard the very sad news of his death aged 52. His daughters would love it if you could subscribe to his channel and get it to 10,000 subscribers ❤️

My humble but ever-growing RPG Moral Panic collection. The two books on the left are about how the three books on the right are total horseshit.

ALIEN (1979) is about sex. Specifically, the darker aspects. Always has been. In the original script, part of the crew's job was to give 'Relief'. There's test footage of Ripley telling Dallas he has to put out. He doesn't get a say. One clue Ash was synthetic was he wasn't sleeping with anyone. 1/2

This image really summed up my Delta Green agent. He was a hacker. Because Bud insisted we use this online dice roller that I swear to Crom personally fucking hates me, I probably made 20% of my Computer Sci rolls. In Delta Green, you improve through failure. My skill improved, but my rolls did not

*SPOILER ALERT* Bud was running God’s Teeth for @sdorward.bsky.social @sskorkowsky.bsky.social @adriangamenerd.bsky.social and me before he passed. It’s a dark game, but Bud always let us chuckleheads sneak in humor to break the tension. Here’s some inside jokes we shared that came from our antics.😅

"Back in my day, fans didn't outrage until beloved characters were brought back to life a few years later. They stayed dead. You snowflakes ruin everything!" Spock: "Hold my tricorder." Sherlock Holmes: "Hold my cocaine."

Once again, Justin's out there spittin' facts

One of the weirder parts of doing TTRPG Reviews and Campaign Diaries based off of personal play experience is how often I can say, "So we did the thing as written, or we made this change, and it worked great." To get the response, "Having never played this myself, I assure you that it can't work."

Many here lost a good friend recently when @budsrpgreview.bsky.social passed away A thread: I was mid campaign with Bud running delta green’s god’s teeth by @hebanongames.bsky.social he was running for a group including @orcusdorkus.bsky.social @sdorward.bsky.social and @sskorkowsky.bsky.social

While researching something else, I came across the old 1980 Forbes article about TSR. I'd heard about it but never seen it before.

I got a bit of a "For Your Condideration" care package from Mongoose Publishing. 2300AD uses Traveller rules, but an entirely different setting. Far harder sci-fi (much more The Expanse than Star Wars). Paranoia is... well... that's classified, Citizen. I'm gonna need some bigger shelves.

YouTuber supremo Seth Skorkowsky has just posted his 10th and final episode of the Secrets of the Ancients campaign! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LBK... See how his campaign ended and get his thoughts on the storyline as a whole... #ttrpg #TravellerRPG

My review for ch10 of Secrets of the Ancients is complete. It might be the most in-depth and weirdest TTRPG review and campaign diary in history. Total run time across all 10 episodes is over 6 hours. It's not even close to my most popular stuff, but I'm proud as hell of it. youtu.be/3LBKsjFzCzg

When you go to the vampire club you wear dark colors. When you go to the vampire blood rave you wear light colors. I don't make the rules. 64.media.tumblr.com/dd3f4a80420a...

Ooo, look what arrived in the post today! thelordweirdsloughfeg.bandcamp.com/album/travel... #ttrpg #TravellerRPG #SloughFeg

This feels like the backstory to some terrible sci-fi movie, explaining how civilization got this way in the 23rd Century where Tom Holland is a down-on-his-luck space trucker whose best friend is a talking zebra voiced by Terry Crews.

WotC: "What if we made 5e in space like Starfinder but we'll call PCs Travelers" Anyone Familiar With SciFi TTRPGs in the last 48 Years: "Umm... ya know Traveller is a thing, right?" WotC: "We have one L, so it's totally different. Just like our Aslan Empire sounds nothing like The Aslan Heirate"

Bud was a friend. My last words with him were scheduling our next Delta Green session of God's Teeth (we were about to begin the finale). None of us imagined we'd never speak again. I'll miss him.

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I got somethin' to say, You failed your Death Save today. Doesn' matter much to me, As long as he's dead. Save versus Death, Roll and hold your breath. Come sweet Death, One last caress.

Sketch Comedy shows aren't as popular as they once were, but they were a huge influence on me. From You Cant Do That on Television as a child, to Monty Python and SCTV reruns, SNL of course, to Kids In The Hall, The State, Almost Live, Vacant Lot, etc. I was nursed on absurdist and irreverent humor.

"What are four albums that would serve as an Introduction to your tastes?" No clue why these four, but they were the ones that seemed most appropriate today

Same

There is a 54% chance that at some point in the future I'll stumble across a Reddit thread or the like where some dude is blathering, "SlyFlourish tells GMs they should hand-craft giant mosaics for their players. I barely have time to prep, let alone dedicate 400 hours to intricately inlay tiles!"

"TTRPGs are just so expensive now" According to the MSRPs printed on my AD&D 2e books - PHB-$20, DMG-$18, MM-$30. That's $68 in 1990 money. Inflation puts that at $170ish in 2025. We now have full-color books. Most RPGs come with PDFs. And all for the same price or less. Stop yelling at clouds.

You know what I haven't done in a while? Made goofy Traveller adventure covers out of old sci-fi pictures.

I have no idea what caused it, but after 5 years, this total underperformer of a video started gaining traction this week. YouTube is weird. Anyway, here's my video on how to run a giant, narrative campaign with multiple GMs without anyone being spoiled about the plot. youtu.be/jKkGv_HblpM

Its been 3 years!

The stars were right, but unfortunately, the clouds had other plans. I totally squealed with joy as the dome rotated and the doors opened.

The physical representation of most "RPG Horror Stories" and "Clever Player Outsmarts Bad GM" stories you find online.

Back at my first corpo gig (01-06) our little clique of work buddies emailed this picture back & forth. No 'preview' function at the time, so you had to click to open the file. We'd change the name, give BS excuses like "can you check this report" or "No way!" We still text it every now and then.

The Ennies Hall of Fame award give to R. Talsorian Games for Cyberpunk during Gen Con this year. This puts Cyberpunk in both the Ennies and Origins Halls of Fame.

Opening night of Snyder's DAWN OF THE DEAD was madness. Screaming, cheering, they stopped it at one point and told the theater to settle down. Darth Maul's fight as Duel of the Fates began playing in PHANTOM MENACE. The collective nerdgasm was like being in an old-time tent revival.

We took a break from campfires & stargszing, and held a movie night in the murder cabin. We chose Rough Magic. It wanted to be good. It tried very hard. Then at the 60% mark it said "Fuck it," dropped acid and went bonkers. Watch only with friends and not sober. Repeat: Not a sight for sober eyes!

I will never ever stop sharing the Michael Biehn with an adorable little girl dressed as Ripley. Ever!

I like #TravellerRPG a lot! If you want to know more about it, I strongly recommend to check out @sskorkowsky.bsky.social rules overview and reviews on his YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis...