Cats used to be a useful test for rpg combat failings. In one iteration of the Ars Magica combat systems a housecat had a good chance against a fully armored knight

posting is free and therapy is expensive

The amount of terrible history on this app is nothing short of astonishing. All delivered with the most confident, supercilious sneer at that.

YOUR HISTORY TEACHER NEVER TOLD YOU- *me, checks lecture notes* I definitely told you. YOUR TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT- Me: It is on page 37 and again on 54. HISTORIANS NEVER ADMIT- Me: Look will you just admit already that you slept through class?

Oh man, I almost forgot these!

Please continue to share this picture to raise awareness of the plight of cats trapped in a folk music environment.

We started a tradition a few years ago of watching Casablanca on New Year’s Eve. If you’ve never watched it, I highly recommend it right now.

Trying (desperately) to finish this chapter on Hellenistic mobilization systems has left me more impressed with how much the Antigonids do with so little and *intensely* disappointed with how little the Ptolemies and Seleucids do with so much.

Playing TTRPGs: Goofing, gabbing, fun with friends Designing TTRPGs: I have locked myself in the tower and will only leave for bread and water. My hands cramp with the toil of my labor. Will I see daylight this year? It is unknown.

when I was a kid I was jealous that my grandmother born in the 1910s got to witness "so much exciting history" and I think there's like an 85% chance her ghost has been following me around since 2019 just constantly punching me in the back of the head

Heeheehee!! LOOK! He pronounced my name perfectly and the contestant got it right! 😃!!!

writing is so funny it’s like “this is my favorite thing to do in the world and my dream” “okay then do it right now” “no thanks I would rather do literally anything else”

WELL, SINCE YOU MENTION IT

Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation of her work!

One thing I wish I had known before starting to write my own ttrpg was that It is in fact like 7 different jobs. #ttrpg

Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard. What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT. The experimental design is what I want to focus on:

ooooh, I'm an ELDER

Today in marine invertebrates Hi

we truly have to stop letting people get away with couching their bullshit in four layers of therapy speak as a way to deflect criticism

Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan. #Japan #torii #Shinto

a bunch of u are sucking up to all the new brazilian bluesky users in a cheap and tawdry attempt to get more followers and i gotta say that first of all it’s very unseemly and second of all i highly doubt it’ll work because they’re far too intelligent and attractive to fall for such an obvious ploy

Recently did the GMTK game jam after a long time of doing none, it was so much fun and went great! My bf and I both worked on the artwork, and two other friends did the rest. Slavic embroidery has long been a favorite of mine and is easy to translate in pixel art. panzerr.itch.io/crossstitched

It’s invasive blackberry season in Seattle, don’t talk about my slashed up arms

BG3 slavic fantasy AU! My Tav, the tiefling-sorceress who lives on the outskirts of the village and helps its vilagers with her magic And Shadowheart - the cleric of Mara, the goddess of death and night in belarusian mythology #BG3 #беларт #артшляхта

I admire a woman who knows how to motivate herself

This is another great Tim Walz anecdote

When we issue a kid their first library card and point out that we don’t tell anyone else what they have checked out, we are doing something for them no other public institution does: telling everybody else to mind their own damn business. I think that is beautiful 📚

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Had no idea how prescient these bumper sticker cartoons would be. Don't hate us because we are so cool.😺

me with every new meme format

"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!" This pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet) is so much more bad-ass than the stupid "quick brown fox." Tribute to master Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).

One of my goals for the (ENnie Award Winning) Tian Xia World Guide was to display aspects of Asian culture that isn't mainstream and most people don't recognize. One of my earliest attempts was the redesign of the hobgoblins of Kaoling, which is inspired by Chinese archeological site of Sanxingdui.

It’s an absolute honor to receive the Gold ENNIE for best setting for the Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide! Thank you to every last one of the 40+ writers who poured their hearts into this book, to all our wonderful staff who made it possible, and to the fans for supporting us!

Yes, this! I don't really care about 'accuracy' (and am on record saying so often), but I absolutely *could* use my knowledge of the material to help you find new, cool things for your ancient world game! Historical experts can add a lot of exciting things, they don't need to be fact checkers!

I've invented a new way to classify types of guy

Olympic shooting is great because the athletes can show up in the wonkiest or coolest outfits imaginable, just immaculate drip

Me: "I like to dump the dry ice from shipments into the sink and add a bunch of water so it looks like I'm a mad scientist tinkering with forces beyond my understanding, spitting in the face of the gods with my intellectual hubris." Priest: "Okay, again; kind of weird, but not technically a sin"

BREAKING: The entire World of Warcraft dev team has unionized at Blizzard Entertainment. The new unit includes over 500 developers and is described by the CWA as another "wall-to-wall union." The news comes days after almost 250 workers at Bethesda Game Studios organised.

Ancient Artifacts

Yes, except for

"Workers at Bethesda Game Studios--the developers of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series--just announced that they've unionized "wall-to-wall". That means this isn't just confined to certain departments; it means a majority of the studio’s workers have unionized." aftermath.site/bethesda-uni...

Via Gabriellus Landsbergis, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania: "This is Rango. Rango was rescued from our back yard and immediately promoted to Official Cat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania."

It's the first time I have painted my nails thematically for a game... I'm really excited to run The Blooming Catastrophe, lol #pathfinder2e

In discourse I see on TTRPGs, a recurring worry is that the existence of feats can make it hard or impossible to improvise rulings for characters who don't have the feat (or you don't know about it). Linda and I made this 7 minute video explaining how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOBf...

Phone banking was a bit of a pain in the ass because I neglected to provide myself with some water before I started, but pestering swing state voters with a phone script is ∞% more useful than hectoring randos on social media.

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It's a crass thing to talk about money, because we've heaped so much shame on poverty. But Ashton struggled with finances, and I'll never know how many years that carved off their life. Most of your favorite creatives are hurting. Support them when you can.