I mean, it would be a fairER cop if this weren't broadly true of all manner of trad games.

Halaster Blackcloak has a lot to fucking answer for. He's taught generations of adventurers to never be satisfied with their current itemization, to keep fighting and killing for their next upgrade.

Onster Anual
Toe of Agic
Tob of Annihilation
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Ad Age
The Book of Any Things

Örk Borg

Vapire: the Asquerade

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Is it too much to ask for ONE ill-omened heath or demon-haunted wood? c'mon

There are solo TTRPGs now! This motherfucker could be Ironsworning it or doing some damn journaling rather than destroying the republic!

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

www.brandesstoddard.com/2022/10/sess...

www.brandesstoddard.com/2023/02/sess...

I have blog posts describing this in more detail, if and only if that seems helpful. :)

TCOE has d100 tables of weird environmental effects. Consider using/tweaking these as the bad stuff the prison does to them.

This is a technique I’ve used for PCs performing dangerous rituals and participating in mass combat, with some success (and some room for refinement).

What are you looking for here? If you don’t have a plan locked in, I have a suggestion (if you have Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything handy)

Happy to help!

In AI future, buildings only have top floors

That's wonderful!

I’m… actually not sure what I have on quests as such.

The Haunting of Grimtallow Manor

Coming to @momocon.bsky.social? Want to play D&D with me? I'm running my haunted house adventure, The Haunting of Grimtallow Manor, Thursday May 21 at 2 PM! Event registration opens TOMORROW, Friday April 17th, at 2 PM.

Details at the link!

tabletop.events/conventions/...

Brb, buying stock in brain bleach

either that or they'll be the no-guilt villains of action movies, like Nazis have been from ~1941 forward

You're not getting your point across anywhere near as clearly as you think you are.

--The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes

(but I'm posting this because I've been in love with Loreena McKennitt's version of it since forever)

And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.

Trans folks of Bsky and beyond, I hope you feel safe around me. That’s the goal—but it’s not for me to say whether I succeed.

Absolutely phenomenal.

Science rules!!

All of the frantically googling “how to serve god and Mammon?”

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

Anthony of Padua - Wikipedia

Today I would like to offer a heartfelt shoutout to my main dude, St. Anthony of Padua.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony...

Muhfugger took mead-benches from just, like, all kinds of dudes