If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

DC-area folks! Pure Panic Comics and Games is hosting a little mini-con September 28th (almost exactly a month from now). Tables running games in both the morning and afternoon, vending all day, two panels. Be there or be square!

Hey thanks @ndpdesign.com #ttrpg

Indie Games on Demand is alive and well at #GenCon. Want to play an interesting #TTRPG? No need to plan, just show up at Westin Grand Ballroom 3 with a generic ticket and join our boarding process. Also visit our friends: @ipr.bsky.social @pelgranepress.bsky.social @igdn-official.bsky.social

Yes! Play this game. Had a great session with @mint-rabbit.bsky.social this morning. Or if your group isn't up for it catch me at the GenCon Games on Demand events and I'll run it for you.

#Toronto #cocktails at Civil Works.

Discard.

#57 Nightcrawler - ink and gouache on 13 x 19 bristol

#NIH staffers signed on to the #BethesdaResolution for many, many reasons. This is one of mine. Add your name to the public support letter here: actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Those of you asking what you can do to help save medical research - please sign the support letter to the #BethesdaDeclaration and share it widely. What is happening is not normal. Every name helps. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

@paulczege.bsky.social it begins. Thanks again for running the contest. #BalsamLake #TTRPG. (Not pictured Twin Peaks soundtrack)

Seven years ago I went through the core books of 156 RPGs I own from the 70s through that year that all used character stats and made a word cloud of their commonality.

I think about this comic at least once a week

CISA planning to fly blind. www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Yes! Be like @smalltowncreepy.bsky.social and enter the #BalsamLake giveaway. Don't let some weirdo like me who is just going to back the project anyway win! #TTRPG

Your regularly scheduled reminder that you only have to pay to do your taxes because of these jerks.

Great cocktail history panel discussion at the Smithsonian featuring @davidwondrich.bsky.social, Noah Rothbaum, and Philip Greene. Thanks to @catoctincreek.bsky.social for the lovely whiskey in the sample #cocktails. Get the Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails accept no substitutes.

Special thanks to @lymerpg.bsky.social for running a demo of "Fear & Panic" for me this afternoon at #AwesomeCon. Enjoying #TTRPG s #DesignedInTheDMV.

Seen at #AwesomeCon

Local Washington DC area designed #TTRPG s at #AwesomeCon in the Labyrinth gaming area.

Interesting. Promising.

Hey #TTRPG Sky. I have high hopes for @paulczege.bsky.social's forthcoming game of solving necromantic unmurders check out #BalsamLake.

Pelgrane seeks Gen Con game masters

Oh hey I just found out about, and so obvs I'm supporting, the Stonewall Monument on Lego Ideas: ideas.lego.com/projects/ade...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwH... #science

I'm not really a fan of the martini, especially as it is practiced today resulting in a glass of ice cold Gin. But it turns out the earliest recipes are Manhattan variations calling for genever and sweet?!? vermouth. Gave it a shot, still not my favorite, but better and interesting. #cocktails

Hey #ttrpg BlueSky let's do this thing.

We all need something cute right now. Origami squirrel designed by Beth Johnson (folded by me). #origami #squirrel

Great play testing opportunity here. #ttrpg #indierpg

I've been working on a catalog of local indie tabletop games with some other designers. The goal is to give this to FLGS's to see if they have interest in buying games from us directly or from places like @ipr.bsky.social We are printing the second edition now that has a bunch of cool local games!

Great resource for indie creators of all types. Need art for a RPG or a barber beats album cover? Look no further!

The Quarter Century Cocktail by Anders Erickson 0.5 oz Campari 0.5 oz Apricot Liqueur Dash Absinthe Stir. Top with Sparkling Wine #cocktail #cocktails

Hello BlueSky, you don't yet know my strange tradition of posting "A Long December" to my socials each #NewYearsEve.

2024 in #TTRPG I played / ran 18 new to me games including: Eat the Reich, This Discord Has Ghosts in it, Pendragon, Dragonbane, Jubensha 2x, Light Hearted, Tiny Frog Wizards, Candela Obscura, Extra Ordinary, Red Markets, CBR+PNK, Vikings & Vampires, Mundo Fantastic, Our God is Dead, Shadowdark

@artofdrink.bsky.social you are probably just holding your name here, but if not quick question: How does continuous stirring affect extraction? This recipe I found that calls for 2wks to extract roughly crushed allspice into rum for allspice dram is way too long on a magnetic stirrer right?

OK fellow #cocktail nerds. @catoctincreek.bsky.social makes real peach brandy. Not sweet liqueur, just distilled peach wine. It was an important American base spirit Jerry Thomas would have known and used. Support them so I can keep buying it. I recommend it as a simple old fashioned cocktail.

10 things scripted reality tv teaches us about role-playing. This is about games which foreground character drama (Monsterhearts) and those times you want a bit of character drama in your dungeon. 10 ways to create more drama and story in your messy relationship games. Enjoy! 1/11

Made up a Pornstar Martini (spouse: what are you drinking? me: can't say in front of the kid). Also ran out of vodka. It's flavorless so buy from from Ukraine 🇺🇦. #cocktails #vodka

In the thirty (!) years I've been in it, the core body of RPG discourse has moved from: "There is only one true way to play" to "There are many good ways to play, but mine is best, and that one is mid." And I'd like to acknowledge that this counts as progress, technically.

"A graphic novel history of the cocktail—from prehistoric wassail to our current boozy renaissance—featuring 20 recipes by drinks historian, Daily Beast columnist, and award-winning author @davidwondrich.bsky.social" -- Yes please. Preordered.

Great game. Strong "Twin Peaks" vibes.

Tell you what, Black Friday is a great opportunity to delete your account from all those places you'd forgotten you were signed up to until they sent you a marketing email today.

Murder mystery LARPing has an interesting history too, not least because it's been attributed to the artist Neysa McMein. I've tried to untangle some of the details ... FYI @jameswallis.bsky.social @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social boardgamegeek.com/blog/13034/b...

#Ghosts is a unique game straddling the line between #RPGs and #larp - it is played in darkness with a touch-based system for resolving uncertainty. Play with friends who trust each other to do that responsibly and respectfully. This is not a great game for strangers.

This is one of those games from my long history playing indie TTRPGs that I have never gotten to the table. It is brilliant work, but how should I approach it? Will playing it feel disrespectful? Like disaster tourism? But surely it is meant to be played.