Played Mac Attack like 4 hours. Lost.

#MacAttack cobbled together enough stuff to run a 6mm game for the first time.

The best part of it getting colder, is that Oly goes from: "don't touch me it's fucking hot in here" to "I must always be on you"

@thorazos.bsky.social is easily my favorite comic making person. I finally finished World Within the World. I own most of the zines in the collection already, but it's a really monumental collection. The amount of great comics within is staggering. www.fantagraphics.com/products/wor...

M.A.C. Attack is the raddest skirmish game. Ever wanted to play Battletech but then looked at the rulebook and noped out? This is the big moments of Battletech without all the simulation crunch. Way faster, way more kinetic, easy to run. Same results less work.

Oh yeah I also designed and playtested a new boardgame today. Just finished playing 3 matches. Busy day.

I just have no stomach for selling myself or marketing. I would like a chance to perform for the 10 friends that will actually show up, and then they can pretend to like it afterwards when I ask.

I had to do a lot of things very against my nature in the process of trying to book a gig today: I shot a short video of me playing I made an Instagram account and messaged a stranger there I filled out an application I signed up for a booking account and made a bookerpal profile

It's cool to have new music ready for live performance for the 1st time in a dozen years. It's not cool to realize that I'm now so divorced from the scene I don't know how to book a show.

I'm obssesed with this font, and am unable to find it. Original user forgot which one this was.

BRO WHAT

Feeling good enough about rehearsal today, that I'm pretty sure I'm ready to perform. Now to try and get booked after being out of the scene for a million years.

If anyone has a source of information about the cryptographers that tried and failed to crack the Voynich Manuscript, I'm interested in the actual stories about that. Not ancient aliens and theories, just the real stories about folks taking a run at it.

It pretty much sucks that we live in an age of misinformation. Trying to look up stuff about any real world mysteries just leads you to straight to text to voice shorts and ai slop and pseudoscience.

Some of these are getting closer to actualization.

Midlife crisis demands of me the following: Play a show on the eastcoast Collaborate with a dancer to make a real weird performance Get a rapper to spit over my music at a show Get one of my records on vinyl Get a copy of a TTRPG book I wrote printed for myself Run a TTRPG I made at a con

damn itagaki died thats wild. he was almost certainly evil but also ninja gaiden black is the greatest game ever made so. mixed bag i suppose. lets all remember him with how he promoted devils third like he was broadcasting terrorist messages from a cave

Sometimes when you write a lot of songs you sometimes accidentally plagiarize yourself, and sometimes when you write a lot of songs you sometimes accidentally plagiarize yourself plagiarizing @thehorrormaster.bsky.social garydpryor.bandcamp.com/album/day-of...

After 4 years of making only one video about Dark Souls 3 and then not turning it properly into a series, today I'm righting that wrong! Dark Souls 3 Dissected is back with a brand new episode about its Invisible Walls and weird collisions! youtu.be/POnhZQ5OBQM

I love talking about game theory, but it feels like the only place left for that is Reddit. Reddit is full to the brim with folks that certainly read a lot of rulebooks, but I'm unsure if they have ever played any game.

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I love Chronomutants, but my biggest design regret is that though it is simple to play, the rulebook is insanely long. Happy to report that the player rules for game 2 fit on 6 pages, and I reckon the GM rules will fit on 7 more. #TTRPG

Working on some extremely dorky stuff.

It was a lot easier to create game systems when I was much worse at creating game systems. It's much easier to fix something broken than to polish something that is working.

We did it! photos.app.goo.gl/UhF78F3v4hNp...

Itzli also likes the smell of weird old paper. photos.app.goo.gl/kSvr662Q5gJu...

Our new single "vermeer", written for Louise Weard's Castration Movie Anthology II is out now everywhere dooreater.bandcamp.com/track/vermeer open.spotify.com/track/4wXAQN...

I got to 78. Pretty close.

Yesterday I did the fun creative work so today I'm going to: Edit, print, and assemble 100 custom cards Create a new group character sheet Revise the old character sheet Send out playtest invites

RiP S.W.A.D.E. too bad, I really liked that game.

I've done this twice in a row now. Chronomutants uses FFG weird dice and Now BPTBS uses custom cards and generic tokens and minis/terrain. I'll figure out how to make it work, but c'mon. I maybe should looked ahead.

Y'all. I'm hella dumb and my new ttrpg plays great, but is built in such a way that it is huge pain in the ass to play online. #Why'dYouDoThat

An interesting thing about Silksong is the way that it combines elements of the classic Metroid and Castlevania games. Could this be the start of a new genre?

Motley Crews is very cool. underscore-nubmark.itch.io

After turning it over in my head for months, I think I finally have a good rough draft of a meta/downtime system for my TTRPG magical library setting. Pretty stoked.

Since I moved to working at the front of the post office last week, every customer with a septum piercing has asked me about Post Office by Bukowski.

Crunchyroll started as a piracy website that would steal the work of fansub groups and lock it behind paywalls, which caused Fansub groups to literally encode messages during the "Brought to you in part by these sponsors" segments, warning viewers that if you paid for the subs, you got scammed

Midlife crisis demands of me the following: Play a show on the eastcoast Collaborate with a dancer to make a real weird performance Get a rapper to spit over my music at a show Get one of my records on vinyl Get a copy of a TTRPG book I wrote printed for myself Run a TTRPG I made at a con

This year I ran Cthulhu Dark and it was amazing. a beautifully designed game by Graham Walmsley. Easy recommend for anyone that plays CoC without having to learn CoC.

I keep playing around with character creation today. It's pretty fun. Rolled: cookbook+utopian+case study. So I'm reading "The Flavor of Perfection" by Chey McGlick and I would use references to that imaginary book as my skill set for the adventure. So now I know all prosperous societies eat leeks.

but why do you ask? because in the TTRPG setting I'm writing you play librarians out on field research expeditions into a fantasy world. Your skill set is determined by what book you are currently reading. Sell me on the Erotic True Crime Coming of Age book you are reading has pertinent information.

Created a random book genre generator. Mashing up 2 genre makes mostly coherent things, but three is always funny. Let me tell you about the Erotic True Crime Coming of Age story I'm reading.

It's a lot like an analogue video game. I'm sure it will be well crafted, but I want a game that plays to the strengths of having my dumbass friends over, not a cooperative tactics game. I'm sure fixed DnD is something a lot of folks will get down with though.

Draw Steel 1.0 is out in the wild. I've been following that youtube guy for a really long time, and why I relate on matters of sincerity and tone, I don't fuck with Draw Steel at all. I'm a patron, but stopped following the updates years ago when I figured out that this wasn't for me.

Years ago when I was playing a lot of Mobile Frame Zero (a really great tabletop skirmish game that uses Lego for units and scenery), I designed a bunch of mecha for it. Put the instructions all in one folder for anyone who wanted to build them too: photos.app.goo.gl/udWQvaWVBMwv...

Research materials and research assistant.

The new game will invert cosmic horror. Where knowledge is the light that keeps the monsters away. Where freedom of information is what society needs to survive. Where songs and mysteries and wild places are documented and studied. I'm hoping I can capture a bit of the wonder of fantasy.

It's easy for me to design games and adventures full of arbitrary violence, desperate people doing what has to be done to survive, funny weird dark. Cyberpunk radioactive wastelands oppressive monarchies. Antiheros mercenaries hard choices. Excited to push myself the other direction.