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Posts by It's Me, Mike Olson
It was a cool buddy action-comedy until MOM had to show up....
We spent the bulk of the session in the tavern talking with NPCs, which couldn't be rushed -- it's the central part of the mod and we had some good RPing. I followed your guidance for a 2-hour slot and then just crushed the last combat into like 10 minutes with the force of a hydraulic press.
I ran this three-hour adventure in about 90 minutes at SDCC last year, and it still worked great! When we were starting the final encounter, an admin came by and said to me in a low voice, "You have seven minutes." Somehow, we still wrung a satisfying ending out of it. A testament to the writing!
George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"
We should have never doubted this man
The adventure I wrote for Legends of Greyhawk is now available for purchase on DnDBeyond. Come enjoy the wonder of A Village Called Hommlet and uncover the intrigues of the Temple of Elemental Evil.
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Oh, you GOTTA connectiarg, you kiddin' me?
Child has invented a kind of soccer where you can pick up the ball if you feel like it. She calls it Yes Hands, and I cannot explain to her why this is funny.
Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)
Star of Indiana (1985-1993)
When it comes to co-workers, Cam's been stuck with some real clunkers lately.
Bill Clinton crossed paths with the AG on an airport tarmac and Republicans lost their minds.
If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:
$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks
and
$4,049 — weapons and war.
These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay
The raciest!
People who suddenly feel like their transphobic “jokes” and “fairness in sports” takes are a bad look while the government forcibly detransitions people don’t get to say “oh that’s not what I meant!” You did mean it! People told you what it meant and you did it anyways!
Ban this shit from your life.
Seriously. Boycott. And keep away from your kids.
Celebrate Death AND Taxes!
Enter the bone-cracking World of Orkness with Ork! The Roleplaying Game. This standalone RPG of orkish mayhem is the Deal of the Day for 4/15! A "beer & pretzels" game where monstrous, hilarious adventure matters more than rules.
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A splash image for "Mooncroft Manor." Two figures huddle in a dark space full of antique objects. One holds up a flame for them to see by; the other embraces their companion—but holds a knife behind their back, ready to betray them. The image is rendered in cold colors, except for the bright pink light of the magical flame.
MOONCROFT MANOR is out today! Want a story game where wizards ruin themselves against the shores of their own ambitions? Want to play with AND against your friends? Click the link to check it out:
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The one thing about AI that most people don't seem to get, the really critical thing, is that this whole thing isn't a "tech miracle", it's just the wal-mart scam. When wal-mart moves into town, the first thign they do is they run a bunch of sales, for years and years. not because they care. Not because they just realllly wanna help. But because they really want to drive every single store that sells the same things they sell out of business. And because they don't really want to (and can't really compete) on the quality front, they do this by just leveraging deep pockets to offer really, really, really cheap prices. They do two things with this: First, they close every single other business that sells the things they sell. Second, they manage to get everyone used to shittier versions of the stuff they used to have higher standards on - it may not be as good, but hey, it's cheap, and who can complain these days? AI art costs a LOT to make, and it costs way way way more to build the machine models that make it, and this money all goes straight to creating a bunch of waste power, heat, and pollution. It's the anti-environmentalist effect your mother told you about. But it's virtually free to you to use right now, even for the paid services. Do you know why? Because they want you to use it. They're trying to kill off every source of news writing, picture painting, song singing, book writing, movie making, library storing, lesson teaching, code writing, information sharing, community building, thought thinking they can POSSIBLY manage to replace with worse (but cheaper) versions that can run through machines they run and then they can charge you for it, and get BACK some money for the billions and billions and billions of dollars that they keep pouring into this stuff. The people who build this stuff aren't your friend. This product isn't cool. It's not "no big deal" when you share an AI thought, or project, or message - it's about you willingly hopping on board wi…
That's Buck for you.
It may not be cool, it may not be classy, but it IS stupid
Sorry -- "ICE agents who *lean* MAGA"? Could there be any other kind? And just "lean"? It's "fully horizontal MAGA" or nothin', gotta be. Who else would still be a part of ICE?
Absolutely absurd and wildly short-sighted. Just nuking a decade-plus of institutional knowledge in a single blow, almost certainly on the order of a sociopath executive who knows nothing of want, and who cares nothing for the future.
On this date in 1986, I met with Games Workshop about their plans to develop a Warhammer roleplaying game.
Over the next four years I developed and codified the Warhammer fantasy IP and co-created the acclaimed Enemy Within Campaign.
I'm available to consult on your game IP. Drop me a DM!
I don’t like knowing there are so many of theses guys out there but I do like learning who they are via something terrible happening to them
he showed up to a mostly empty auditorium, got heckled by anti war protesters opposing the war he just humiliatingly failed to negotiate an end to, erika kirk stood him up, and he tried to explain catholicism to the pope. the only way he could’ve had a worse time is if he pissed his pants up there.
CHILD 1 (moving Mon Mothma figure around): The Chandrilan arranged marriage is an outmoded social compact. The galaxy has moved on, and Chandrila must join it
Child 2 (attaching Perrin's magnetic cocktail glass to his action grip hand): Certainly hasn't done us any favors
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing