It is such a great feeling to finally have Blades in the Dark localized in Ukrainian. I am so happy to be able to dive into this amazing book by @johnharper.bsky.social while sitting next to my newborn. Life is good.

Since a few people asked. It is my intention to post up all the materials I'm using for this training as well as other resources that I will be sharing with the students. Probably on a Google drive, but that is going to require a discussion between me and my ADHD about when.

Flash back to 2006 and I'm in my advisor's office talking about my dissertation and whether I should include fieldnotes from rightwing groups where they claim immigrants murder 10 million per year. My advisor says 'no' b/c no serious person would possibly believe that such obvious lies.

I appreciate the feedback that everyone's giving. I'm getting some great suggestions to add. To clarify, I am not spending time on each and every one of these that is listed. Instead, this is part of a 20-minute portion of a 4-day training to give them a sense of the development of the hobby.

what is anarchy? anarchism is the opposite of authoritarianism

Also Peterson's The Elusive Shift for a cultural history of the subcultures and ideas that shaped the tabletop gaming industry over the past 50+ years.

Also if you are interested in learning more about the early days of TSR and all the messy drama check out John Peterson's Game Wizards.

So I've had a few folks ask 'Are you going to write a history of ttrpgs?' and the answer is Nope! Because there are already great histories out there. @shannonappelcline.bsky.social 's Designers & Dragons series is a fantastic and comprehensive and I believe is about to be updated and reprinted!

Secretary of War (L)

For the 'teaching kids to GM' thing it's something we developed at Innoplaytion. We will be running a bunch of middle and high school kids for 4 days at a summer camp. This is a very diverse group of kids, so rec's that would help them see themselves in the material and story would be great.

Ok, lightning round of questions I've been asked either here or on Discord. My most played? If we don't split by edition it has to be D&D followed by Shadowrun, Star Wars, Delta Green, GURPS and Mage/Werewolf. By edition D&D3e, Shadowrun 2e, D&D2e, Star Wars WEG, Shadowrun 3e

Sounds like it's time for a little propaganda dei fatti...

Hi RPG hive mind, I'm working on a class for GMs. We will be going over the history of TTRPGs. I have a year by year list of important or noteworthy games. I know I missed some. So I'm going to reply to this with a year by year breakdown. Please add anything you think I'm missing.

You'll never guess the culprit (just kidding, it's AI, these days it's almost always AI) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I watched the press conference and read the indictment on the Minneapolis 15. Seems pretty clearly intended to criminalize opposition to ICE/CBP and further demonize antifa. More thoughts below. 1/x

Ben Shapiro's wife agrees.

One of my medications has just tripled in price and insurance is still refusing to cover it. My out of pocket just climbed to a couple hundo a month. So now it's either ration my meds, stop taking it (and deal with both withdrawals and being unmedicated) or figure out how to re budget. FML

In a functioning democracy, the governor of New Jersey would just declare this fucking loser dead (unless he cares to prove otherwise) and appoint a new representative until a duly elected one can be elected.

MFer out here disrupting mass killings, American innovation at its finest!

Fuck, I forgot that one of Ohio's senators is a failson car salesman who was able to evade justice on the dozens of wage theft charges he was facing. Looks like he was local with Trump shitstain Brendan Carr today threatening media organizations.

Yo, if you are employed by any of these universities get ready for a new round of 'staff cuts' after they take a bath on their exposure to risk in those endowments.

The local Ohio 'news' is running this bullshit story multiple times per hour. The tl;dr is some economists (NOT DOCTORS) p-hacked bunch of data looking for any correlation, found a correlation that they just vomited out there and got the media to credulously report on it www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/h...

If you wondered what a bunch of bootlicking scholars from fields with deficient methods training (and who appear to have not learned much from whatever training they got) can tell us about using AI to do research, I have an answer for you. Spoiler: They think AI making shit up is good actually.

Behold! Our evolutionary future!

Why can we speak with such clarity and conviction when talking about ICE in schools, but not when talking about cops in schools? The harm done by cops in schools is objectively, measurably, 3 orders of magnitude more extreme. Black kids have asked repeatedly for cops to be taken out of schools.

Didn't have 'Elon restarts The Troubles' on my 2026 bingo card, but hey let's revitalize all the old hatreds!

Local Ohio news: "Storms are more intense than previously seen. The damage from wind and hail has caused damage and power outages. Nearly every county in Ohio is under a heat advisory. You can learn more by going to [local utility] website. Also don't eat sugar or drink alcohol." WTF?

Congrats to the Knicks on breaking that curse.

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Trump Curse! Knicks fans, you know the only way to break it right?

Boosting in case I have any folks in my network who could help Neil.

Trump Curse! Knicks fans, you know the only way to break it right?

No 'Star Wars', no 'Star Trek' Name a fav scifi franchise.

Look, I don't really gaf who wins the NBA, but the absolutely funniest thing would be if the Knicks choke on this game, and then fumble the series giving San Antonio the chip. The discourse around the 'Trump Curse' would be so so good.

I feel like my parents' neighbors may not be as thrilled about the raccoon and skunk strip club that they've opened up in their backyard. My kids love it though.

Cleaning old shitty out of my parents' basement and found this. Time to party like it's 1982 bitches!

When I was living on St. Louis it was common knowledge that GEO would hire you if you were a cop who washed out of the academy (which you had to be seriously damaged to have happen) or if you were a cop that got fired for 'bad shit' and the union couldn't get you a gig at a county department.

Ah, the same treatment Nazis at a public library used to get. Tip from an old anarchist, the cops aren't watching the cars the fash arrived in. And as long as you don't put a whole ass cinder block through a windshield they probably won't.

Khana is one of the chief apologists for Silicon Valley, an industry built on ignoring consent. Not surprising that he is downplaying this.

Not saying that anyone should do this, but the tech for these things are really pricey, and tend to be out there where they can be hit by, hypothetically, a slingshot or other forms of monkey wrenching.

Walked by a cyber truck wrapped for a home remodeling business the other day that had a big old 'Blue Collar and Proud' sticker right next to a 'Back the Blue, Defund Universities' right next to an USC alumni sticker that would have made the NYT explode with joy at the 'Real American'-ness of it all

Stray cats.

The birds at my parents' house are getting out of hand.

I believe it's been proven that the best way to 'explore life's deeper questions' is to take a homemade submersible as deep as it can go before popping. Maybe David can invite some of his wealthy friends/handlers to cram in with him.

Just saw someone defending Platner with the old 'if this was 40 years ago no one would care' and yeah man, you can see why that's changed right? Right?

So this reads an awful lot like they might be going after cosplayers and fan material in the not too distant future. Can't wait for the WotV defenders to let me know why it's good actually. icv2.com/articles/new...

Elon about to take a bunch of Boomers' cash like it was life saving medicine for sick kids overseas.

It's not just ICE agents folks, the vast majority of law enforcement are thin skinned piss babies who can't handle even the softest criticism.

I commissioned this from @jacobblackmon.bsky.social a few years ago. If you want to use it in your pro-Pride or similar efforts (even for profit), let us know. We've given out free, nonexclusive royalty-free licenses before, and we're happy to do it again for the appropriate projects.