Halo 3, and Halo 3. SO many good memories. 1v1 swords on Guardian. Jousting on Narrows. Elephant Wars on Sandtrap. Halo’s Edge. Duck Hunt. Ghostbusters.

Yeah reaction rolls, morale, and “combat as a fail state” axiom of OSR play encourages you to play wily heroes who outsmart or bargain with enemies. Ran an OSR game at a con, and they explored the dungeon by befriending every monster faction in it (except the ooze, which they could easily outrun).

Amateur sex work is a symptom of class violence. The ultimate litmus test for whether porn/adult art is exploitative should be: “if the artists/performers had other, better sources of income, would they still be doing SW?” Is it self-expression or turning oneself into a marketable commodity?

Show me how your 2025 went

Way too many blue wave liberals on here sharing AI images making fun of Trump or whatever. Please stop.

Citation is community. You situate your work in a milieu, shared with peers. Observing these commonalities makes a scene. Citation is attention. Certain identities / perspectives just get less play, through no fault of their own. Who do you spotlight? Are there blindspots in your inspo list? 2/

Ultimately: citation is politics. No art arises from nowhere sui generis. Who do you choose to acknowledge? Who do you leave out? Are you not acknowledging *anybody*? That speaks volumes about you, what kind of artists your peers can expect your to be. Whether you *can* be a peer. 3/

I said this about making art before and I stand by it.

The ENTIRE POINT of The Last Jedi was to say that Star Wars cannot survive forever as a series by endlessly recycling nostalgia. If it is to continue into the future, it has to look forward to the future, not remain trapped in the past.

Getting ready for 2026 like

Is anyone else I’m following having Totally Normal feelings about Guild Wars: Reforged and wanna link up?

Am I following anyone else with totally normal feelings about GW Reforged?

listen. listen to me. libraries are getting indie TTRPGs in circulation. high school teachers are bringing weird stuff to the teenz TTRPG club. we continue to be in a beautiful moment for showing more people the full breadth of what games can be. nurture it by playing & loving games!!! a gift!!!!!

We had planned to launch in the near future… but the near-future is now because we just couldn't wait to get #BlackCompanyTTRPG into your hands and onto your table! 🎲🔥 Grab the playtest, hop into the Discord, and join The Company. The gates are open. #ArcDream

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Turn-based RPGs that have cooperative multiplayer but don’t time players’ turns, let players act simultaneously, or give players something to do while it’s not their turn.

Haha whaaaaat no I’m not trying to write Cataphracts For Space Navies, what gave you that idea? *closes an annotated copy of the Mothership SBT* *exits out of 10 tabs about Navy hull designations* *stuffs a drawing of the Survivability Onion under his laptop*

Once, while I was struggling to find a job after college, my parents actually told me to try dressing for the job you want!” I said, sardonically, “Sure, I can start dressing like a wizard, but I don’t think that’s going to help.”

ive struggles for ages to explain my deepset love for OSR design tools to other ttrpg folks and im grateful someone has finally written a blogpost that so clearly elucidates how OSR play is built. required reading imo

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The thing that got me into TTRPG design is that I could make a playable prototype in WAAAAAAY less time than a digital game.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all. thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr

***Desire for a Black Company limited series intensifies***

X! WING! ALLIANCE! Squadrons was fun but didn’t go far enough! XWA had a scenario editor with every ship in the Expanded Universe pre-Phantom Menace. Can you imagine???

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53. Unfortunately, everyone, both the best people you know and the worst people you know, is at least partially right about The Last Jedi.

Introduce yourself with 4 Spaceships! Fuck the Empire but the TIE Fighter engine wail is my all-time favorite sound effect, and they’re more fun to fly than X-Wings. Embarrassingly proud of the time I went 33 and 0 in a TIE in SW: Squadrons PvP. Also I really like Elite Dangerous’s ship designs.

#cataphracts #vanitera450 has brought out my artistic side. Behold: my greatest contribution.

videogame soundtrack composers are on another level

"How do men make friends in their 30's?"

A Knight’s Tale is a sports anime

evergreen

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

“How did you get into ttrpgs?” Well, they quit making video games with couch co-op, so…

Maybe hot take about the Zelda movie: I’ll happily take a Zelda movie filmed in a real location with real costumes over it looking like a Marvel movie. I’m willing to see what they do with it. I just hope Link doesn’t talk.

This is my gift...my curse.

Once again unfurling my banner on the hill of “Fuck continuity in big franchises.” Rigid continuity makes big settings feel smaller and threatens to suck them in a self-referential black hole. Just tell cool stories! Let the fans assemble their own “canon” timelines and argue about them online!

#OVER/UNDER I fucking hate leaving summer camp I cry every single year.

W/alt

Guess who got invited to Cataphracts and immediately made a skull-based encryption system for his character’s evil necromancer cult? • Hand-writable. • Over 2 billion configurations • Knowing 1 person’s config doesn’t compromise the rest of the network Putting the CRYPT back in encryption!

I promise I’m so incredibly Normal about Samus Aran doing the Akira slide.

Alan Moore knows the score

Yeah, so my #Over/Under character is a big-hearted dork who loves sharing his hobbies with people. It’s called ✨roleplaying✨

Halloween this year featured an at-home double feature of 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later (I had not seen either one before).

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