Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Make a Bond film casual The World Is Plenty

Big seven player coop game of Fortune and Glory today! Happy Holidays everybody!

Got in a 1000 point game of #Warhammer40k #WH40k at my friend’s house yesterday. My AdMech got mowed down by his Black Templar. But I learned a lot and had fun. Thanks for trouncing me @503rpg.com

My RPG year in review: I’ve really only been running three games this year. Shadow of the Weird Wizard for the Friday crew (just reached 7th level), Hyperborea for the work group (very rare), and old school D&D for the family (also very rare these days). Having a great time when we do play, though.

To be or not to be, Santa Yorick?

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This is the way.

After what happened today — we need a family The Prince Bride watch party so badly. Rest In Peace Rob Reiner. Thank you for all the good you put out into the world.

Toon is cool. Used to own this RPG as a kid but have no idea where it went. Tempted to jump on it. Or drop an anvil in it. www.enworld.org/threads/cart...

Every RPG blogger is allowed one “What is the OSR?” post. Here’s mine:

What a great headline

This is Huey, checking in to say hi. #Hummingbirds #Birds #PNW #YouMatter #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice

Labyrinth Lord is a great game, and a good stand in for the grand old game. Also the ruleset Stonehell Dungeon uses, though it can be run with most any OSR game. Definitely recommend.

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

Same.

I’m a fan of Purple Sorcerer’s zero level party generator has created the sheets for many a DCC funnel for us over the years.

Cue the shut up and take my money gif.

I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start. via White Rose Resistance

Just finished the two novel collection that is John C. Hocking’s Conan: City of the Dead. Absolutely amazing. Especially the second story. Five stars. Hocking might be the best Conan pastiche writer since Robert E. Howard himself penned the Cimmerian. Fantastic.

BBSes were the coolest. In my teen years I spent a lot of time calling local BBSes with my trusty Commodore Amiga 500 and 2400 baud modem.

Real talk.

In other news, continued our Shadow of the Weird Wizard game last night. Lately they’ve been plowing through enemies without much issue. Lots of whiz bang killer abilities. I think they’re having fun and the mood of the game is cool. But I would like it to be more of a challenge.

Had my friend ask when we were resuming our megadungeon crawling game again and that she’d like to get back to it. Schedules are a bit tough lately, but I’m hoping it happens sometime in October.

Thought I’d drop a proof of life post. I’m still alive! Life is kicking my backside a bit, but I’m around. Running Shadow of the Weird Wizard for my Friday group, painting #Warhammer40k where I apparently started a new Thousand Sons army in time to see them get nerfed. Ah well.

mood

Cool! Can confirm.

Fear is the mind killer.

Yesssssss

This is the way.

Finished my first two Kastelan Robots and their Cybernetica Datasmith. #Warhammer40k #AdMech #Nerdlings #ForTheOmnissiah

Just applied 6 slide transfers each to two different #Warhammer40k #AdMech bots. Only screwed up one and had to find another sheet to get it from. Letting them dry now. Micro Set and Micro Sol are your friend. After drying, it’s Micro Sol and dry once or twice, a dull coat, then weathering.

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Lately I’ve been musing about marketing for indie RPG publishers. I was in a (non-BlueSky) thread yesterday with some more experienced folks and asked if giving away a small freebie product on DriveThru to build up your mailing list was a good idea and received an affirmative response. 1/3

#CurrentlyReading #Read #Books #SwordsandSorcery #ConantheBarbarian #SummerReads

Was musing on the differences between my #OSR #Megadungeon game and my published #RPG #Adventure group. The first is a sandbox campaign, with lots of choices, quests, and goals. It feels like an epic story. The second is episodic, like a series of short stories. They’re both fun but hit differently.

After defeating the serpentmen last week, we started a new fae-themed adventure in my Shadow of the Weird Wizard #RPG group last night. It’s our second expert tier adventure, and lots of fun so far. #TTRPG #NotDnD

Continued my Hyperborea RPG / Stonehell Dungeon game tonight. There’s just something about the old school survivalist nature of a megadungeon crawl that makes it a thrilling game.

That ain’t a random book. That’s my childhood! 😜🙃 #OSR #D&D #Grognard #ForeverYoung

Looking forward to running some more Stonehell with friends midweek. #OSR #RPG #TTRPG

I promise that your life will be richer if you learn how to write, or sketch, or play an instrument. You don't have to be a professional at these things for that to be true. You don't even have to post your work. Being able to do these things just for yourself is life-changing. ChatGPT is not.

Got some real writing done today on my #TTRPG project. Feels good man.

Rest In Peace Chuck Mangione. Many will laud his happier tunes, but it’s hard to beat Children of Sanchez for passion, beauty, and pathos. Such a great tune and great musician and composer. youtu.be/XxIsd1KZywQ?...

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