MILON'S SECRET CASTLE HUDSON 1988 NES

25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

It's about time we talked about @wanderindreamr.bsky.social's favorite anime* of 2025! The brand new season of King of the Hill! www.osmcast.com/2026/01/osmc... *May or may not be anime, but was mentioned in Manga In Your Ears' Best Manga of 2025 Episode as anime so it counts**? **It doesn't.

Tonight in D&D: Make an Intelligence (Arcana) check to see if it would be a good idea to harvest meat from the Fiendish Lovecraftian tentacled monstrosities.

I am still listening back through this. I don't remember where we came down but I remember it required some negotiation on the final ranking to avoid ending friendships. (I'm not sure how much I'm kidding about that.)

Episode 200! It only look us *checks notes*... 17+ years? That doesn't seem right. But what's always good, correct, and never wrong? Re: Cutie Honey! It was our 5th episode, our 1st anime episode, and now our 200th episode. Now that's just quality anime right there. www.osmcast.com/2025/12/osmr...

It's beginning to look a lot like Cidmas! @angeldrkfire.bsky.social gave me all the MtG Cids we didn't have yet for Christmas. Gonna figure out a Oops, All Cids! Commander deck now.

I have favorite games, I don't know if I have a favorite character since they're mostly kind of ensemble casts.

I've got a fever and the only cure is for me to get extremely angry about something that ultimately is of no consequence whatsoever and that I will have totally forgotten about in 48 hours

you're as cuddly as a cactus you're as charming as an eel and i cannot compete with you jolene

In this OSMinterview we got to chat with voice actor Robert McCollum at this year's #MTAC (@mtac.bsky.social). He's had voices in One Piece, My Hero Academia, & more! Like 300+ voice roles more. He's seen everything, he's seen it all. www.osmcast.com/2025/12/osmi... #interview #anime #animecon

Tonight in D&D, the party split up: 1. Enlist our artificer allies to build a magic circle so big and well-engineered that it channels enough aether to reinvigorate the blighted land. 2. Enlist our new townsfolk allies to take us out on a fishing boat and look for a sea monster to fight.

Artists wanting to sell their wares at next year's MTAC, now's your chance!

So, I made a thing. It was an idea I had been working off and on for the past 8-9 year, since Legion. With Legion Remix out, I finally got the gumption to finish it. Anyway, I hope ya'll like it as much as I had fun putting this together. youtu.be/eb5q_trkRik?...

Wanted to make Nintendo games when I was a kid. Learned BASIC in middle school from a magazine so I could make games. Realized more general dev was a more likely career path; couldn't imagine doing anything else because it just clicked for me.

Today's TTRPG blog post was about tools and techniques for working around "blank page syndrome," including shared world/town creation mechanics, blank maps, various types of random tables, and NPC backstory: travelcheck.dylanwolf.com/p/working-th...

RPG tip: Prep what you need to improvise at the table. #dnd #ttrpg

Today's TTRPG blog post is about how Ryuutama and Land of Eem helped me think about how I ran downtime in other games. travelcheck.dylanwolf.com/p/ryuutama-t...

Who is the human, or alternatively, traditionally animated character in Muppet Eva?

Here it is! The full listing* of all the websites we talked about in The Most Useful #FFXIV Websites That WON'T Break the TOS panel we presented at this year's #GATEwayFATE! Hopefully they will serve you well in future adventures. *Plus two bonus links! www.osmcast.com/useful-ffxiv...

My adventures A Dark Flight (www.dmsguild.com/product/4770...) and A Weekend At Camp Oostanaula (www.drivethrurpg.com/product/4768...) got picked up in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale, both under $2.

Don't think I posted this here, but here's my theory on gaming regularly as a busy adult, maybe my preachiest TTRPG blog post yet: travelcheck.dylanwolf.com/p/momentum-m... Got a follow-up to this scheduled tomorrow about how to avoid losing momentum.

Want to run a panel at MTAC Super? Applications are open until Dec 31st, get your ideas in now! mtac.net/programming-application/

Tonight in D&D, the party fought a swarm of Fractal Golems and one of the party members captured two (in Tiny form) in glass jars. I feel like there's some potential for shenanigans here in every direction.

Working on new posts for the TTRPG blog (travelcheck.dylanwolf.com) and I realized I haven't posted most of the newer entries here (or anywhere else). So here's a list of (what I think are) the best posts I missed:

today in ttrpgs: probably my biggest design hack, as a gm, was to change my mindframe from "how do i restrain player power" to "how do i give the players power" "wait samantha aren't ttrpgs all power fantasies" yes but in a totally incoherent way let me explain

Tonight in D&D: Finally revealed a hook that's been in planning for a while. After absorbing an ancient dark fey in the last arc with Dark One's Blessing, the warlock is compelled to activate planar portals to an unknown location, and his fiendish patron is *very* interested in examining this soul.

In the old days, you'd occasionally run into somebody totally normal who had one utterly insane belief, like a co-worker who just causally says he thinks the sun is alive. Social media is like if we extracted all of those individual bits of madness, cooked them into a stew and ate it for every meal.

Pre-Reg for MTAC Super is now open! Go to MTAC.net/register and get your tickets for MTAC Super, April 3-6, 2026!

Made a joke in a chat this morning and realized I might have accidentally summed up my whole deal. "I am cursed to live on this godforsaken Internet with a memory and a pathological need to check myself for consistency."

The OSMtable is back and ready to throw down!!! About how communication between players and the gamemaster as a group unit is really important. And about the various tools that can help get you there! With words, not fists (this time). www.osmcast.com/2025/08/osmt... #ttrpgs #tabletop #roleplaying

Written by @dylanwolf.com.

Into the Wilderness is available now. Get it here: tinyurl.com/5brehn2d A small collection of optional rules for traveling through the wilderness, making it feel either more desolate and dangerous, or cozy and cottagecore. #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons

Also put a short, somewhat lighthearted one-shot up on DMs Guild that I wrote for a one-shot day a while back: www.dmsguild.com/product/5329...

I put together an Orbital Blues ship sheet this week since I couldn't find an official one to go with the character sheet. dylanwolf.itch.io/orbital-blue...

Tonight in D&D: the party surrounds a long-time big bad, prone and defeated. The next 2 PCs in initiative attack non-lethally. Hanging on to 6 hp, he tries to bring a fireball down on all of them, which the wizard counterspells. It enrages the warlock, next in turn order, who finishes him off.

Oh hey! It's the weekend of Kami-Con HAI! And I still have panels! Please go to them! Today we've got the FFXIV panel and the Pain Train, my off brand Anime Hell wannabe clip show panel.

Kami-Con HAI may not be on Bluesky (and they should be) but I am and I am ALSO doing panels there this year. If you're in the Huntsville, AL area please come to them! They'll be a good time, I promise. www.itsbasiltime.com/2025/07/18/b... #animecons #kamiconhai #panels #ffxiv #ff14

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

When your anime podcast is largely based in North Carolina

An exchange I had this weekend: "How's people's dating life going?" Me: "Well, I'm getting back into playing Magic, so not great."

We podcasted about that whole Magic: The Gathering thing with the Final Fantasies that the kids are going crazy for! www.osmcast.com/2025/07/the-... #MTGxFINALFANTASY #FFXIV #podcast @en.finalfantasyxiv.com

And not only do we have a new episode out, big news! We're going to @gatewayfate.bsky.social! Our panels got approved and we couldn't be more excited! Y'all should go too: gatewayfate.carrd.co

Ryuutama. Book art is great and really sets the tone I want in a TTRPG. Travel and downtime has a nice rhythm that's influenced how I run D&D etc. Rules-light and easy to homebrew to nudge towards your preferred tone. Lots of community content even years after its release.

The nephew is visiting, so we are gonna rev up the ol' Mario Kart World Machine! Come watch us wreck, or get wrecked. www.twitch.tv/itsbasiltime

I'm not a dog person but I'll make this one exception.

Sometimes the Chocobo deck works.

Old name, new format! @dylanwolf.com has cast resurrection on the OSMcast style of roundtable episodes and has given it a TTRPG twist! Dylan grabbed @nicholasqualls.com, @rtobias.bsky.social, and @itsbasiltime.com to talk about #TTRPG world building. Check it out! www.osmcast.com/2025/06/osmt...