I continue to make pointless things, but with high technology.

Never played Pathfinder or even looked inside a Pathfinder book, and the only post-AD&D version of D&D I ever played was a single not very successful session of third edition. (Never played any WW games, but did at least read some of the books, or anything PbtA.)

Happy Too Much Indian Food Day, to those who celebrate.

Regular reminder that none of us in the TTRPG space are in competition with one another. We are ALL in competition with obscurity, uncertainty, confusion, and other ways to spend your time. And sometimes D&D.

My entire corpus is bad art! I am undeterred.

With all the Bond films since 1987, I'd be happy with just second volumes of Thrilling Locations and the Q Manual.

Oh, hey, looks like those are from @tspcalligrapher.bsky.social, and one in particular is here: bsky.app/profile/tspc...

Got new arts for xmas, which have gone up on my office wall.

The cinnamon rolls are ready for tomorrow. It is inadequately tomorrow.

To be fair, they both have to deal with a lot of returns. And like any retailer, they are ONLY TAKING ORDERS, hashtagNuremberg.

I was part of a geographically distributed team which, every two or three years, got flown to the home office for f2f meetings, team building, and the like. Our manager kicked the first such gathering off by outlining basically an open door policy. If we had questions or issues, we should feel free

We have one of these. It used to belong to my grandmother and it's probably about as old as I am. Quality tool which is still used regularly.

Oh, good. I'd run out of topics in critical need of study. (Narrator voice: He had not.)

Woah.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Return of the King Crimson.

This reminds me of when I first visited @thehappysorceress.bsky.social's home town. We went out to eat and the hostess asked us "Smoking or non-smoking?" I'd been away from places with public smoking so long I froze up because the question has lost all meaning to me.

Follow the science.

* unsalted

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Toon the Cartoon Roleplaying Game Second Edition crowdfunding now on Backerkit. I have done the thing. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

So none of my stuff is specifically on sale, but there's a progressive discount on (Most? All? Unsure) PDFs. Buy $20 bucks or more of PDFs, get 10% off. Buy $50+, that jumps to 15%. Get GURPS cheap(er than it might otherwise be)!

U1 Nine Inch Press-Ons Medium Hot Chili Peppers Thalium Zepplin Van Hefflin Grand Duke Crimson Paramoreorless Gladys Knight and One Pip #BringitDownaNotch

Hate to be so predictable, but this is true.

I know it's a gag list, but ten. That's what a craft-oriented grandmother and an advanced degree in archaeology will do for you.

Universal Brunelleschi Interiors.

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Of possible interest to the kinds of people who follow me: Classic 1980/1 action adventure cartoon "Thundarr the Barbarian" is available on Tubi. Bonus: subtitled sound effects which are *literally* "vroom vroom" and "pew pew."

day 14 #ArtAdventCalendar #MiniaturePainting Druer rhino from @fenrisgames.com

YOUTUBE: you like history ME: I do! YOUTUBE: and you're white ME: well, I mean YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor-- ME: no no no No NO NO NO

"A Night At The Opera" at a restored 1920s movie palace, playing to a packed crowd. I saw it again years later on video and it felt incredibly slow. I eventually realized that it was deliberately paced for an audience, giving them space to laugh before the next gag.

Cozy Eleusinian Mysteries were rare ancient Greek manuscripts about retired agrarian priestesses helping to solve murders.

banana frog ! 🍌🐸 #frogart

Running with an idea ultimately deriving from @thehappysorceress.bsky.social, I made another thing.

These are always interesting.

"Snowfall" 7-dice sets will be available when our shop updates this Saturday, December 13th, at 12pm ET!

We just picked up the complete Timmverse Batman, Superman, and JL animated series for cheap in anticipation of catastrophe. (Had some older copies, but the are...well, much the worse for wear.)

Hey, guys! I found Snakes Georg!

Current status:

Which, to be fair, is a convincing argument.

Me? I mostly know the classics, so probably GURPS, Paranoia, James Bond 007, and Toon.

Happy Saint Nicholas Day!

cc @thehappysorceress.bsky.social

NOT ENOUGH

I might complain about an earworm like this one @gailsimone.bsky.social gave me, but it's very much an old favorite, so I'm good.

Tennessee doesn't have a state dinosaur, but we DO have a state fossil. It's Pterotrigonia thoracica, a Cretaceous bivalve.

ACAB: All Cyborgs Are Bronze.

Pedantry. Though technically, not being Catholic or Orthodox, I'd be closer to the tutelary deity of pedantry.

One of the great glories of my undergrad years was access to the main stacks at UC Berkeley. I spent hours just looking around.

The more I learn about the actual Renaissance and Renaissance historiography, the more I understand why Old School Renaissance gaming seems so dissimilar to the actual experiences I had playing TTRPGs in the late 70s.

Collecting a thread from a few months back into a blog post so I'll know where to look for it (also useful for those wanting to use one ttrpg's lists of goods in a different game), but I figured out a plausible conversion between GURPS and DND currency.