TTRPG about me FIrst game: D&D 2e Last game: Star Wars d6 Longest game: D&D 2e Favorite game: BESM 2nd edition or His Majesty the Worm, depends on the discussion. Favorite mechanics: "Fellowship Mechanics" in the original One Ring Favorite art: Original Everway’s Collectible Cards

Gundam TCG event today. Went and dug out the ole @krystman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy android: Netrunner playmats

King's Field (1994) is an action RPG by FromSoftware for the Sony PlayStation in Japan. An ancient sanctuary has become infested with evil, and the King has tasked your father to cleanse it. Now it is up to you to take up your sword when your father goes missing within... (a launch dungeon thread)

Finally setting down some thoughts on #emergencymanagement and #wargames. Wanted to outline the various barriers EM has over the typical topics wargaming approaches. Or basically i'm just going to advertise John Curry's work, I guess.

Have a couple papers at #chi2026. Crossed the 10 paper line which is neat as my advisor has 0 and didn’t think it was possible. Still haven’t been to the conference, though. Had meant to go to Hawaii but COVID, then Japan but got busy. Then decided to leave academia and won’t ever go. Weird

One of my last MS students won runner up in a research competition today. Super proud of her!

I think about the Marvelous Land of Oz sometimes, especially the Interpreter Scene between Pumpkinhead and the Scarecrow. oz.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mar... No real reason i'm thinking about this scene.

I have found myself thinking about the intersection of #wargames and #ttrpgs again. Specifically, i've been thinking about the use of the caller role in early #dnd as a way to streamline play and help ease the anxiety of folks too shy or too anxious to speak or act publicly. This device is...

I keep wanting to write a paper about unintended consequences being usurped and branded by tech firms but I’d have to read a bunch of Merton...again. Still, giving it its old fidelity of ignorance, error, immediate interest, basic values, and self-defeating prophecy again would be nice.

Found myself pulling out modes of existence from Latour again. Need to finish part 2. So dense! As I get ready to leave academia, theres a slow realization I no longer have to dumb down theory for technologists. No more reviews saying I need a “native speaker” to edit my heavy theory sections.

Design ideas are hydras and each head is another design idea and also another hydra. - Greg

It is, once again, pierogi making day. Only 11 dozen this time! Prolly actually 12 but there are sticky fingers about.

4.7.3 Are the "sciences" cold? Rigorous? Inhumane? Objective? Boring? Apolitical? Modern? These unattainable qualities have simply been attributed to them by their enemies who thereby hoped to stigmatize them (Interlude VI).

I was walking around a toy store the other day and saw a crossover I did not expect but also was ok with. Wonder if we’ll ever get Dick Tracy x Fraggle Rock

A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

Will spend today reading textbooks and editing marketing materials. It has been a while! Greg will help me out by judging the books before I even have them.

At 5am, I got bamboozled by a Gundam TCG spoiler. Stupid April 1.

This week’s chapter of One Piece gonna see soooo, so many memes.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

I think @krystman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy convinced me to get into the Gundam TCG.

When I bought this amazingly themed #ttrpg, Kristen demanded we tell her mom that it was a game. It is very convincingly branded as a retirement home brochure!

Past couple years I’ve been involved with game dev that starts in peace studies focusing on the Balkans. Simultaneously, I’ve been developing #wargames that aren’t focused on war, but logistics. It’s been interesting to face the past that forms the basis of modern games in multiple perspectives.

I'm going to be shocked when Dungeon Crawler Carl does more for Jai alai than Tron did. Time to dig out our parents' old xisteras and start tossing the ball around.

For whatever reason, I find myself constantly going back to The World’s Easiest Roleplaying Game, TWERPS. I know Itch mostly replicates the game in a bag #ttrpg era, but man, spinners of games in a bag is such a feel. Only Button Shy #boardgame displays do it now but they’re rare.

Picked up a copy of Sorcerer’s Cave to continue my obsessing over a new #ttrpg inspired dungeon #gamedesign. My brain keeps flashing these features, these parts, but it’s not fully connected. There’s an idea in there somewhere… So we keep fretting.

Here I am, writing up UML diagrams again. Why can't I quit you...

RIP Jurgen Habermas - one of the five major social theorists of the past 60 years. Much to learn from his work. Many gaps, some errors, but he was so rigorous that he inspired some of the best simultaneously dissenting and generative thought of any postwar academic.

Traveling on Monday will certainly be...interesting.

I find myself pulling out Cardmaster, once again, to do some #gamedesign. There’s something in this game that is fascinating but I haven’t been able to unlock it. Attempt 13 will do well, I’m sure.

The amount of drywall tears I need to repair is daunting

In my mother-in-law’s house, there’s a painting of two hobbits tripping on pipe weed. I wonder what they’re talking about.

Becoming left handed because my right hand doesn't work so well anymore is a gift of getting older. Love it.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character, wrong answers only.

I have had 7 distinct lives as a person ranging from homeless man to working for nasa. I decided to get a PhD one night after stealing books and being shocked that you could write about weird things for a living. Have only recently realized that it’s time to find what actually makes me happy.

This week has been a ton of moving very heavy things around. I’m really feeling my age but it’s been mega nice to feel this sore. Been a while.

The other day I watched a group of academics pile on a LinkedIn post about how they only post ironically there and can’t believe anyone takes it seriously. The virtue signaling was intense. Then it seemed to go on a social media tour, this signaling. I’m sad I saw every group of posts.

Someone should give Matt Vancil the #litrpg license for Noobtown and a bucket of cash to make a series with. I know Dungeon Crawler Carl will be king if it actually comes to be a show but I feel like Noobtown needs something fun as well Just so puma checks can become a thing.

Veteran in ww2, then quarry worker and carpenter. Veteran in Korea, then homeless alcoholic.

Kristen just worked her last day at her current shelter. She‘ll get a month off to recover from 3 years of political and cultural bruising. And gets to be with her mom. Me, I get to figure out what I actually want to do for a living soon. Weird times ahead.

dang. This is an amazing achievement.

I think a lot about the congruence between Peter Naur saying that Psychologists changed the definition of intelligence to what computing needed and Bruno Latour outlining computing's impact on modelling the double helix in Science in Action. This time the pandora's box seems more destructive.

Got chastised the other day by a mechanic for not knowing what type of oil filter my car has. Asked him what kind of connecter connected the desktop to the monitor of the POS kiosk he was using and he said he didn’t care. This has made me think a lot about why wargames don’t have certain things.

I didn’t know this song was so perfect for Greg.

I won’t recover from this one piece Meme.

Teaching R to programmers is hilarious compared to teaching MIS majors. Programmers: "I didn't get this so I wrote my own function." vs. MIS: "I couldn't get the magic words to give me the statistics I wanted."

Got to experience stress hives for the first time last fall. They didn’t show in visible places. Weird. Coincides with my heroic ability to hide things. Even set my own broken wrist so it didn’t look weird as a kid. Like my wrist, no one ever believed I was broken. Should prolly stop doing that…

I dusted off a notebook that captured the design of a dungeon-based game. There is a ton that has been said about dungeons and perhaps the concept is stale but something's in the periphery i can't make out. Keep thinking about found footage and pov escapes movies www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

These are the same picture.

Somehow, the snow has returned.