It is the bane of my existence.

Everything was cooked in schmaltz. How does one compete?

Ojai Rôtie Slings Rotisserie Chicken Worth Sitting in Long Weekend Traffic For Chicken is only the beginning at this Ojai mainstay

I dont normally post anything. But I ate at Ojai Rotie this summer and it was exceptional. Here is a rave review. la.eater.com/dining-repor...

Cat I prefer to lurk and not comment but yes 100 percent correct banger AGAIN.

Check out the new volume of The Hypothesis Podcast on Ludological Alchemy. The most recent episode is an interview about my design practice.

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And be sure to check out the first episode, where Luke talks to Christopher Badell.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Read:

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Best book. 1st year gift for my children.

Get Ready for Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall Reprint and New Hauntings From Wet Ink Games - Get Ready for Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall Reprint and New Hauntings

16 days away from launch for the second printing of Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall 🥡🥟🥢 if you’re interested in a TTRPG about a Chinese American family running a restaurant in the 1920s with hopping vampires creating chaos, give us a follow!

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Love Earthdawn

Got starters for my girls..very interested in the Inkwell

Adventure Time: The Roleplaying Game Experience your own adventure in the Land of Ooo in this epic 5E RPG based on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time!

General all around lovely human beings!

I have had the great privilege of working on adapting Adventure Time into rules and materials compatible with 5E Dungeons and Dragons.

I hope you will consider coming along with us on this fantastic project.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...

The Incentive to Kill in Dungeons & Dragons Motivations in Roleplaying Game Economies Part 1

Friends and Colleagues!

If you enjoy my writing or speaking on game design, systems, and/or tabletop RPGs, I think you will find my new essay illuminating! This is the first post of a ten part series, so subscribe to eventually get it all!

Have a 20 minute presentation/paper/panel regarding Monsters in Media and Culture? The 2024 Festival of Monsters call is now public! (The festival will be held Oct 16-19 in Santa Cruz, CA). www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp

Jennell Jaquays, 67, Dies; Unlocked Fantasy Dungeons for Gamers She created scenarios with myriad paths for Dungeons & Dragons, levels for video games like Quake II, and art that invited novices to try role-playing games.

Very thoughtful obituary of Jennel Jaquays - gift link (nonpaywall)

www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/a...

'fish man'

IndieCade 2023 is still live on Steam!
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A player aims a billiard stick in a mixed reality tabletop game of pool crossed with 19th century British literature

People interact with a light up sphere covered with touch-sensitive metal springs

Photograph of black and white cards from a tabletop roleplaying game

A performer in a bird-like plague mask reads a fortune for a guest

Indiecade’s Night Games continues tonight in downtown LA at the Music Center. Admission is free! www.musiccenter.org/experience-l...

Showing Wobble Sphere in Los Angeles at the Indiecade Night Games this weekend!

OFK @indiecade.bsky.social Night Games!!!!!!!

I saw Turn it Out with Tiler Peck and Friends, and the third piece, Time Spell, an ensemble devised piece she co-choreographed with Jillian Meyers and Michelle Dorrance is the greatest piece of dance I've ever seen. If you can, please go see it.

Join us today for the IndieCade Festival 2023 Awards!
Pre-show: 10am PDT
Awards Ceremony: 11am PDT
Winners Roundtable: 1pm PT

Watch on Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa...
And Twitch: www.twitch.tv/indiecade

IndieCade Festival 2023 is here!
Join us for a two-week celebration of independent games, now live on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa...
Schedule: www.indiecade.com/festival-202...

Get Off My Lawn - The Get Off My Lawn Team
Live Action Spotlight Nominee
Get Off My Lawn is an alt. controller FPS defense game where your goal is to keep your chair rocking while aiming your hose to spray away neighborhood kids trying to destroy your pristine lawn!
drive.google.com/file/d/13cOc...

It is the only way to truly live: in thrall to deceptive machines

Crow Scarecrow presides over pumpkin garden

Carved @ Descanso!!!!!

Puckish - Escape Character
Live Action Spotlight Nominee
In Puckish, Billiard Balls Are People. They have complex hidden relationships, inspired by the emotional tension in 19th Century British literature. On the Mixed Reality tabletop platform TiltFive.
escape-character.com

Survey for CORA by Taralumen Games Taralumen Games has created this form in order to gather information on the current need and desire for CORA, our flagship game, currently in development. CORA is a visually beautiful, single player, ...

Friends! If you have a moment, my lovely friends at Taralumen Games are doing a little product research. If you have a moment, please fill out this survey to help them out! docs.google.com/forms/d/1XgY...

(val)iant: or, val's guide to having a broken vag / Cactus Studio
Impact Spotlight Nominee
A narrative game about "vagina problems", such as vaginismus. Play as Val, a nonbinary student struggling with their relationship to their body and struggling with sex.
valsguide.com

The Forest Quartet - Mads & Friends
Impact Spotlight Nominee
The Forest Quartet is a musical meditation. You play as Nina, the deceased singer of the quartet, who must re-motivate her former band members in preparation for a final farewell concert.
bedtime.io/the-forest-q...