I love working here.

By the way, the blood-pact you signed upon becoming a creative states that you don't need to create every day. The council of creative demons allow breaks. You're fine. You're not falling behind. You're no lesser a creative for needing rest. Shit happens sometimes, bro. You're doing great.

Is there a mega dungeon for DCC or Land of Eem yet? What about a new one post Eyes of the Stonethief in 13th Age? No? Okay I go back to sleep again. I suppose I could play Heart.

I had always assumed this was further back in history as we sang the song in grade school.

Always stunned by my ability to come up with products on the fly in my dreams. Keep having dreams about conventions in weird urban spaces. I'm this case a disused hotel skyscraper. Peeking my head behind the scenes I find the hotel has filled an access stairwell with junk.

We played Daybreak last night with the challenge card that made the world start with an extra temperature band and another that made it so we had to get rid of all the cars too. That game got pretty spicy with a turn 4 draw down but going until turn 6 for the cars.

STUDIO CHAT DELAY! Cole and Liz are at SDHistCon this weekend, so we're pushing this month's Studio Chat one day to WEDNESDAY! Join us November 12th at 2PM CDT for some fresh Oath news and other studio happenings. www.twitch.tv/ledergamesmedia

I'm doing my son's birthday this year. The parties I go to with him there are bags of party favors. Are people packing their own favor bags at home or is this a store bought thing?

I just used this 13th Age Bard power to deliver a Coup de grâce which requires you to use your move action to wind up.

Pretty sure Deadlands: Dark Ages is just set entirely inside Medieval Times locations during the period of Deadlands: Hell On Earth.

Could it be? PAX Unplugged is just two weeks away! If you'll be in Philadelphia, be sure to swing by our booth, 2457. We'll also have demos of Arcs and the new Ahoy expansions in the demo area all weekend!

All this being said, I expect some of you to line up and play Path with me once I have built a TTS set.

I regret to inform the public that I have decided not to go to PAXU. I just haven't felt like myself lately and I need to get back in control of my schedule. I am also trying to get some version of PATH ready before the winter break hits and a con at this point costs about 6 to 7 working days.

For those interested… www.youtube.com/live/eLtdV1C...

being a tabletop designer means sometimes you find an Untitled Spreadsheet and inside is just the numbers 1 to 100 in order

Kids plugging in the controllers once and awhile challenge.

Quote from tonight's Blood On The Clocktower game, "The town charter doesn't say a ghost can't be mayor."

I keep quoting this tonight. I love this holiday. From my ghoul home to your ghoul home happy Halloween.

We ran a game of Spirit Island tonight where we sprinted to full terror for Halloween. You can feel the power creep with Breath of Darkness versus Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares but we had a good time. And wouldn't you know once the colonists had fled in terror this happened.

I haven't played the Crawl video game in awhile. Good video game season been playing: Power Washer Simulator 2 Borderlands 4 Ball X Pit The new Katamari Deep Rock Survivor Absolum Since I got back.

Someone tell me the new Katamari is a bit harder or I'm very jet lagged. I'm worried I'm too old to play it. I've failed a surprising amount.

I just woke up from a dream about buying meat futures for a market restaurant. Either I'm announcing MEAT right now or I'm really hungry from jet lag. That being said slept off and on some 7 last night and I feel loads better.

We briefly met @eanderssonsunden.bsky.social who was signing his new family game "The Glorious Guilds of Buttonville" of which the English version is coming out early next year from Ravensburger. We also met @patrickleder.bsky.social! He had one of the best hotel stories ever!

My 5 year old requested that I get him a game with cats at Essen. Any recommendations?

I took a second Benadryl, rinsed my nose, and retained some more water. The pain has gone down considerably. I'm going to dose an hour and then try heading back to Spiel.

I live a block off a historic street in Saint Paul. The mean price is over a million and the houses are generally 5000 square feet. The governor's mansion is on it. If they want to change anything about the exterior they have to contact the city. This is about the White House.

Stay in a hotel without my sinuses going berserk two nights in a row challenge has been well and thoroughly failed. I don't want to seem ungrateful for the effort others took for me to be here but I'm just exhausted. Spiel just isn't fun if I have to walk around in a haze all day.

What do you mean there isn't a Jon Van Ryder? Why would you not use your name in the company name?

I had a funny conversation this morning where I learned the German titles for Power Grid and Wingspan can get mixed up in a crowded room.

I did some reading. There is Mountain Dew. It's a bit more tart and uses real sugar and is only at certain chains. Apparently there is coffee too.

Essen!

Essen! Essen! Essen!

Wait a minute. Is there coffee or Mountain Dew at Essen?

It's one of those mornings I realized I forgot to give my son a fork and I turn around to see him halfway into his very syrupy ladened waffled.

We're playing at a friend's house and had to improvise forgotten materials. I used Song of Heroes in 13th Age to give everyone +1 to hit.

Creature Caravan is a game about racing accross four boards to utopia. In this essay I will explain how Creature Caravans is in fact Thunder Road.

The new controller batteries are wonderful. The miniatures are still sitting in the box where I left them.

This seems on topic today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWU1...

My machine auto rebooted last night. As I reset my work space Chrome told me about new automation features. I took a screenshot with the windows tool. Which informed it had new automation features. Illustrator stopped me twice to tell me about automation features.

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Fighting Penny Pinchetti in Townsfolk Tussel. We've had a rough lineup with Tartar Fishboy first.

It’s that time of year again, time for all our favorite cozy fall drinks!

Lego should make a Matryoshka doll. Ah dang it they are all stuck together again.

Peak middle aged is getting home after a long day and getting excited to swap the batteries on your PS5 controllers and getting to look at new miniatures.

If I do enough pushups I will cure anxiety right?

We are talking about the 16th printing of Root in the office today.

I have been running Land of Eem and Triangle Agency on the weekends lately and this has been some of the most enjoyment I have gotten from role playing lately. As much as I love playing 13th Age on the opposite weekends from Triangle, I wish I could play Triangle more.

I found a bunch of material for Triangle Agency on itch.io. Is it still having issues with paying the designers. I don't really want to support that.

Just finished Triangle Agency for the evening. It still whips.

After a week of staring at Spreadsheets I decided to stare at more Spreadsheets.