The adventurers face a closed door in a dungeon. While the thief's player states that they are picking the lock, I write down what is on the other side of the door in my notes. After a roll, they open the door and I describe what I had just wrote. Did I improvise or prep the contents of that room?

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

have you ever wondered if Imperial intelligence is embarrassed that their highest value targets are criminal parkour artists?

what if we rolled dice to build a city around a hole on a moon

when you're browsing old scifi books and discover a particularly intriguing title

Is there a superhero RPG that makes playing the the support person at the computer back in the HQ as interesting as playing the super out in the field? #TTRPG

yes, and voice: when (narrative) art is making its greatest contributions to politics, philosophy, Discourse, etc., it SHOULD be "muddled, without a clear and simple message"

Oh you're a feat guy #TTRPG

Und warum ist da ein Vergewaltiger als ästhetische Inspiration in den Prompts?

I've got places to be

Which is the most "Long Distance Truck Driving Simulator '26" TTRPG? #ttrpg #rpg

Your regular reminder to put your RPG character in a hat. No. A BIGGER hat.

free to use title: House Rules, a base management supplement #ttrpg

I Photoshop Neel into things… Day 144 #StarWars

things to check when looking at a new RPG: Is PC death expected to happen mid-session? What are the protocols to keep that player occupied? Are there systems for integrating that player's new PC into the ongoing campaign? #ttrpg

tab-switching from Clair Obscur over to Youtube to listen to Clair Obscur songs

80s action rpg villain #ttrpg

This meeting could have been a mixtape

#TTRPG skilled GM vs the adventure module as written

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Obsessive devotion to continuity is the enemy of epic/mythological storytelling—especially when there are many authors involved. Whether we're talking about Star Wars, superheroes, or Bond, the answer is to nail the essence of the story and care less about making it all "fit."

Are there superhero RPGs that make the act of saving/rescuing people as engaging as fighting villains or playing the interpersonal team drama? #ttrpg

JESUS CHRIST. That is absolutely NIGHTMARISH. Granted, the act of being healed and having your flesh mend itself in front of you could easily be a bit scary, but still-

when you ask the DnD GM to come up with a new plane on the fly

I wonder if there's an uptick in bullywug PCs currently

Okay DnD people, do something with this: the Thunderdark

You know, "Life Hack" would be a great name for an axe maniac

I thought I was prepared for how long this would take. I was wrong. picrew.me/image_maker/...

pancake brunch healed +100% psychic damage

An RPG where you play a ranger's animal companion. And the ranger is played by the GM as this vaguely benevolent (?) but inscrutable higher power that gives you tasks and treats but also keeps leading you into danger. It's a game about religion, of course.

@notquitereal.bsky.social so there I was, brain-humming a bit of score in my head to pass the time at work, as one does, and for the life of me I could not recall what videogame that bit of music was from, until it hit me that it was the Perpetua intro and I had slotted it in as "videogame score"

Tom Clancy's If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

@darrenmooney.bsky.social‬ the dentist theory is catching on

Dating as a chromed-up street samurai

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

Reading an otherwise excellent book that has the hero "firing" his bow. Takes me out of the moment enough that I'm here posting instead of reading.

It's eye-opening to check out reviews for games you've played a lot. Seeing reviewers miss what seem to be fundamental things about a game makes you question just how much attention they paid or what was lost from play to text/podcast.

Would be funny if one could track if the availability of chatGTP has led to fewer "I have an idea for a novel, how about you write it and we split the money"-type cranks bothering writers.

had a pizzeria next door for a bit, and when we ordered they'd deliver (such as it was) and charge us just half price for the pizza which was great, but then always had me caught in a mental loop of trying to calculate a proper tip for that situation

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Sometime recently I saw a conversation scroll on past that was like, "what's the difference between moves in PbtA and skills in other rpgs?" I can't speak to PbtA in general, of course, but in Apocalypse World, moves aren't skills, they're actions. You know how in a D&D-like game...

My bad, I misread what was happening here. While a writer doesn't have say in illustrations and might not know it was gonna have AI slop attached, I do get it shows kinda poor judgement to use it as a resume lead it once it's happened.

I invented a full history for a mop that made a single appearance in Star Wars: The Old Republic and added so many unnecessary details to the codex entry it needed its own Wookieepedia page

@darrenmooney.bsky.social hey, have you written about the (seeming?) decline of the mixed genre OST album? The '90s had a bunch of all-timers: Blade, Judgment Night, Spawn, Hackers, Strange Days.EDM, Metal, Pop all fused into a cohesive listening experience. Does that still exist with recent movies?

there must be a version of the Andor EDM beach/wedding song overlaid with Nemik's manifesto out there in the SW galaxy there must

Not sure if this is describing the Retvrn fuckers or a villain group in a superhero setting, but: the Broman Empire.

Started reading Fair Rebel by Steph Swainston. It begins with the image of a musician's funeral pyre made up of hundreds of musical instruments. Immediately hooked.

wikipedia should have a category for worst takes, to enshrine them for eternity & conveniently refer back to them