Behold! The massive RPG Moral Panic video I've been researching and assembling for years, and why people who call the whole affair the Satanic Panic are wrong. I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system. youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c

Mom's funeral in a few hours. It's going to be a long day.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I received a Surprise Game in the mail. Most Surprise Games don't appeal to me (usually FRPs & 5e games). But THIS GAME looks right up my alley. Demons, Exorcists, 1890s Europe, BRP Mechanics - FUCK YES!! This is so my jam. Behold: the Exorcist's Codex Slipcase Set! Thank you @twostarvinggnolls.com

This past year has been a lot of lasts. "This is the last birthday card I'll buy my mother." "This is the last Mothers Day I'll have with with mom." Last night was the last time I kissed her goodnight. This morning was my first day without my mother. A lot more firsts this next year. Fuck cancer.

There really needs to be a Midsomer Murders Call of Cthulhu crossover. The only real difference between Arkham County and Midsomer County is a lack of fish people.

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Stumbled across this little gem in my Meme Archive. This is how I courted my gamer wife.

Session 1 of Impossible Landscapes is in the bag. Thanks to @jaredlogan.bsky.social @adriangamenerd.bsky.social @discourseminis.bsky.social @sskorkowsky.bsky.social @sdorward.bsky.social for bringing 90s cinematic police corruption, drug use, & disregard for traffic, well before the weird began. 😅🤘🏻

I keep this in my phone to remind me.

While the fold-out map that comes with Cthulhu by Gaslight is pretty, it's also a tad small to make out all the details. Then I learned Chaosium sells larger ones through their Red Bubble store. Poster sleeve, plexi, or something is needed because that bad boy really wants to roll up on ya.

Some dude who has never once commented on the channel before asked me to record myself GMing. I said no. No big deal. Happens all the time. Then the dude tries to pull the "You'd get more respect if you did" card, like some sleazeball coercing girls into sending them nudes. Fuck that dude.

There are only two kings worth honoring. One is Crimson. The other Yellow.

"You enter the room and the door closes behind you..." Dressing up as Bluebeard's Bride for a queer Halloween zine library!

To all the people saying, "I can't trust players not to metagame and cheat," and your players are not actual children, then you're most likely the problem. It's amazing how much better everything is once you treat your players like adults and let your expectations be known. Trust is pretty cool.

Jack's new badge arrived today.

Some cliches are famous for being cliches. My favorite is "The Butler Did It". Everyone knows it's over-used, and "we've all seen it countless times," but few people can name single mystery in the last 100 years where the butler did it & it wasn't some joke like, "OMG, the butler ACTUALLY did it."

One of the greatest movie openings of all time is from Takashi Miike's film Dead or Alive. It's 7 minutes of unbridled madness, violence, sex, and weapons-grade cocaine. The movie itself is OK, but the first 7 minutes are infuckingcredible.

I've been in a lot of old buildings and ridden in some sketchy-ass elevators, but I don't believe I've ever ridden in one of those elevators with the accordion gate you have to manually close. Maybe, like quicksand, Hollywood has completely misled me about how often I'd encounter them.

Fun with Data Juvenile Crime skyrocketed between the 1960s and 1990s. Gang violence and 'super-predators' dominated the news. Then in 1995 it dropped and kept dropping. No one knows why. Some attribute it to Roe-v-Wade passing 20 years before. Possibly it was all those "violent" FPS video-games.

Y’all thin Y’golonac ever just does this?

Well deserved. Bud loved RuneQuest so damn much, and I'm happy to see the love right back at him.

Hunting through RPG Moral Panic materiel online and found my new favorite Anti-D&D pamphlet.

In all seriousness, fuck cancer.

An important part of me watching horror films is where I pause the movie when it frustrates me to go ask my partner what he would do in hypothetical situations just to make sure he's not going to fuck up and get us all killed

OK. Last time. A D&D Stirge detaches after draining 10 HP of blood. Therefore HP are a measurable unit of blood (I estimate 200ml per HP). Characters with high HP might have hundreds of liters contained in their bodies at high pressure. Even light nicks tend to spray anime-style. It's science.

YouTube let's me try up to 3 thumbnails at a time and tells me which is the most effective. Initially, I loaded 3. Within the first day it was clear one wasn't working for people, so I reduced it to 2. After 6 days, the algorithm tells me.... nothing. I can only assume they suck equally

It is a minor spoiler, but it's true. Fucking up ICE assholes is definitely part of this campaign. Also, God's Teeth has all the Content Warnings. All. Of. Them. There were Content Warnings I didn't know should exist until we played this. It's awesome. It's beautiful. It's fucking horrifying.

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

It's kinda weird reading hate comments because the Pulp Cthulhu game I played in my house with my friends... <checks notes>... wasn't sexist enough. I asked my wife if she felt I did her a disservice by not making the game more historically sexist, and she said no. So, I guess, fuck those haters.

There's a Cyberpunk 2077 novel?! Why doesn't anyone tell me these things? I'm gonna give it a shot. As someone who read both 'The Ravengers' and 'Holo Men,' it can't be the worst.

New RPG Review is up. Today we're looking at Call of Cthulhu adventure 'The Vanishing Conjurer' from Games Workshop. It's about stage magicians and evil cults in London. Here's my thoughts, criticisms, and how I changed it to Gaslight Era Pulp for my group. youtu.be/hybUsDT30Cc

Still one of my favorite things on the internet youtu.be/F39UP1mjAnc?...

Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game #ttrpg #dnd

Congratulations to Alex Guillotte and the late Bud Baird. Inversion is a banger of an adventure.

How not to illustrate the similarity of bone structures between humans & horses.

Every once in a while I miss Twitter. Then I peek over there and remember why I stopped using Twitter. I don't miss what it is. I miss what it was years ago.

Back home from 10 days in the UK. Amazing trip and very much needed. We'd originally planned this trip for Fall of 2020, but then Covid and other crap caused a 'slight' delay. My cats are really mad at us right now, but also pretending not to be happy we're home

I forgot about Dune on Nickelodeon.

More fantasy settings should use canal systems. You want your D&D world to feel weird & different but still plausibly grounded? Dig elaborate canals. Some have cool lock systems, some are ancient, their builders forgotten. Religions have canal saints & gods. The PCs home base is a super-sweet barge.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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