Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

Heads up: the Ludonarrative Dissidents team—that's Greg Stolze, Ross Payton and me—are livestreaming in three hours (23:00 Europe, 22:00 UTC, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central), talking all manner of RPG topics in all manner of accents. Well, at least three accents. Join us! www.twitch.tv/RossPaytonRPPR

Ludonarrative update: the Dissidents have released a new public episode analysing ALICE IS MISSING, the one-session RPG in a box, of troubled teens searching for a missing friend. Did they find her, and what happened when they did? Meanwhile our Kickstarter backers can hear us go over our (cont.)

Dungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 4 The heroes investigate mysterious kidnappings, which leads them to an orphanage targeted by Killraven, a notorious crime boss. They'll have to protect the orphanage from her. Perhaps the alchemy jugs can help! Ross as…

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Here you go. It's much more a Tolkien style story-telling like game. One roll, and a "Scene" is resolved with overall success or fail, along with individual PC success/fail. Feel free to share it. Cheers.

I interviewed Gareth Hanrahan about Moria for the One Ring RPG: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmA...

New D&D spell: Summon VHS tape cover Elementals: 1d10 pure geometric shapes appear and hypnotize all in their gaze (will save to negate) www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zb...

Did you ever wonder how fireflies do that glowy thing with their butt? Check out the latest episode of our podcast to find out! open.spotify.com/episode/6tab...

Jax wrote a solo horror RPG inspired by the film Martyrs. View evil from the perspective of the villain. Fascinating game and it's part of the RPG zine club.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

like all normal people, I sort memes by which friends I should show them to. "Oh that's a Bridget meme if I saw one." "Oh Jax and Caleb would like this one." "ahh a classic Chris meme." Everyone does this right? Right?

If one can believe in the passage of time, it's been 13 years since my brave little pooch did nothing in the face of chaos. Thank u for allowing him to burn. 🙆 🙇

I ran into him in dealer's room and I fucking cackled

We know Maggie Chung is the glue that holds ICEMAN COMETH together but a close runner up is the screen fighting chemistry of Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah. Every time they fight they deliver an all timer. Plus a plane landing in the background….they don’t make em’ like this anymore!

Delta Green: The Labor of Dogs – Episode 1 John Anthony Titus, a former defense contractor, is rumored to be an immortal alchemist. Delta Green has tracked him to a remote island near Japan and has found a way to send a team of three agents to investigate him. Their highest priority is the…

I should also mention it's EXTREMELY obvious when I get an AI-written email like this. You are wasting your money.

if you want to guest on podcasts, do you really think an AI service that regurgitates a summary of the latest episode and then somehow shoehorns it into something vaguely connected to you is going to impress a podcast host? Oh wow, I do use humor and fantasy in my podcast, thanks for noticing!

I reviewed this scenario on RPPR After Hours - check out this preview on Youtube youtu.be/VDcYNpM6PM8

You might know Call of Cthulhu is the most popular TTRPG in Japan but what you might not know is that Japan is simply playing Call of Cthulhu at an entirely different plane of thought than everyone else

Just discovered the subreddit r/accidentalrockwell and it is delightful

i like how the official mega man 2 novelization does the “bane is the scariest guy i’ve ever seen in my life” thing completely straight

psycho goreman and the skaven, two things that work great together

The Avatar film series is so successful because it tapped into the same tropes of James Fenimore Cooper and a lot of people it turns out want those kind of stories - look at these tropes and see how many appeal to Avatar tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

Dungeons and Dragons 5E: Ptolus – The Night of Dissolution – Episode 3 The heroes explore the basement and find a cursed ice cavern! Frozen monsters lurk in the walls of the cavern, but the team must press on to clear the dungeon. Ross as Thelonious , kobold sorcerer, clockwork soul Jason A as…

I'm running Delta Green and Mothership for patrons this month and you can play too! Investigate a haunted television for a Youtube channel in Delta Green or a mysterious planet in Mothership! www.patreon.com/posts/147190...

new year new post

Welcome to the Public Domain, I GOT RHYTHM (1930) 🎷 Rhythm changes + a swinging 32-bar progression x now free for everyone to play = remix & rediscover! Who could ask for anything more? Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree

Outlook for the new year ...

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

incredible art

randomly browsing a Rifts book and huh they just fucking mad-libbed these things didn't they?

I just posted part 2 of the RPPR deep dive podcast series on the Moria book for the One Ring RPG - find out what the stats of the Balrog are and the dangers of Mocker Crawe, the evil talking crow! www.patreon.com/posts/146949...

I haven't had time to watch this yet but I am intrigued.

New episode of @nightclerkradio.bsky.social - reviewing Secrets in Motion IV: The Ghost Writer by Halogen Star and Tranquilizer by Oneohtrix Point Never in our last episode of the year! Listen now here www.nightclerkradio.com/episodes/dec... or on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjZi...

Watched Man Finds Tape last night - excellent new found footage horror movie. You could use it as the basis for a Delta Green campaign. Have your players watch it and then say "this movie was handed to your agents. You need to find out what's really going on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9g...

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey more like "Oh dang I gotta finish my painting army for the tournament and I guess primer, brown, grey and a bit of red is enough to qualify, right?"

this is a philosophically significant kick in the dick

A large chunk of the new Avatar movie is Jake Sully telling the Navi to sit down or stand up

Handlers Only - New Episode: NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - PART 3 open.spotify.com/episode/5ho7... Available on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. #DeltaGreenRPG #ActualPlay #Podcast @chaosenginepod.bsky.social @rosspayton.bsky.social @zerodeadpod.bsky.social @thenerdyape.bsky.social

I'm skipping this week for RPPR AP - next week should have a new megadungeon meandering episode on the RPPR Patreon!

Godzilla Earth, Megalon, Manda, and Lil Godzilla Jr are hyped for the holidays!

PRESENT DAY PRESENT...TIME!

This is my single favorite Christmas meme of all time. merr chrismas

I hate how Facebook and Instagram don't give you video controls. No volume control, it just autoplays while it's still muted. Ugh.

finding a video on an obscure but interesting topic: good The writing is absolute dogshit "oh I'm just rambling on and here's a tiny bit about the topic at hand but we'll get back to that later": ughhh come on This is the only video you can find on this topic: GOD FUCKING DAMNIT

The Ludonarrative Dissidents are livestreaming tonight (Friday), talking about the year in RPGs, cool new releases, the Robocop statue in Detroit and more. We're live from 23:00 Europe, 22:00 UTC, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central and it'd be great to see you. www.twitch.tv/RossPaytonRPPR

Met Robocop last weekend with @retsmadd.bsky.social and @kamenotaku.com

Black Company RPG Beta – Welcome to Beryl The Black Company Roleplaying Game is a fast-paced, deadly game of swords, sorcery, and soldiers, based on the novel series by Glen Cook. The all-too-mortal soldiers of the Black Company fight and die for an Empire ruled by wicked sorcerers with the powers…