14 cupcakes decorated to look like Finn from Adventure Time.

An army of finncakes to join your battlefield.

I showed this to my wife of nearly thirty years without comment.

“I love you” was her only response.

I’m reminded of a line from the Music Man: “The sadder but wiser girl’s, the girl for me.”

She is my #1 fan, and that’s all the fanbase I need.

There’s more that can be fiddled with here, but I think it establishes the feel well. I don’t want to play with target numbers beyond Expert.

Ability baseline: 3d
Skill range: 0-4d

Master is just a mundane example of Scale: bonus successes or negation; eg Scale 2 adds or negates 2 successes

D6 Dice Pool Musings w/hint of Blood Bowl
Ability+Skill
Successes as currency
Mods: bonus/penalty dice
6: success
Expert: success on 5; counter Expert
Ace: reroll 1s; counter Ace
Opportunist: combine 2 dice to 6+
Specialist: trade 1 die for +1 success if roll succeeds
Master: reroll or +1 success

I mean, that’s a weird name for it, and weird that everyone on set knows his name for it, but I guess if it’s in the scene and he’s using it, it probably needs a name to ensure nobody confuses it with someone else’s.

Jewel in the Sky: A Megadungeon with a Twist from Monte Cook Legendary TTRPG designer Monte Cook, creator of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, Ptolus, and more, returns to the megadungeon!

Finally going to give Cypher a run. This megadungeon looks fantastic, and I love the design choices (via @rascal.news).
This is my preferred playstyle, so we'll see how Cypher represents!

Jewel in the Sky: A Megadungeon with a Twist from Monte Cook! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Environmental Challenge: aiding others, doing something while you climb or try to not drown, etc.

70s tech (Yak-52) + Shotgunz v. Drones

Not everything requires millions of dollars in tech.

Only thing better would be if Russia sold those planes to Ukraine thinking they were garbage.

The video is heartbreakingly inspiring.

This way you could have dual-wielding fire mages, gunslingers, or telekinetics. You can the also apply it to social interactions and environmental challenges. Eg, someone w/ Quick Wit might sling 2 spiteful barbs at 2 different targets in the same turn because they specialized, but anyone can try it

In NOVA6 we decided this was about extra actions & the limited scope enabling them. We established rules for extra actions & removed the special case of the off-hand weapon. w/ a general rule for specialization, anyone could gain a limited scope extra action offsetting the extra action requirements

This is pure art. @pattonoswalt.bsky.social is a treasure. Every time I see him perform I smile. Thank you for your passion, your service, and your craft Mr. Oswalt.

Relevant for interacting with AI & for political discourse
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There is a framework for understanding how public discourse degrades, which distinguishes between guilt, shame, & depravity

The question for us is what aliveness looks like in a city beyond shame

benjaminrosshoffman.com/socrates-is-...

RPG o’ me

First game: D&D Moldvay (played), Gamma World (bought 1 wk later)
Last game: Tales of the Valiant
Longest game: Hero System
Fave game: Narosia Hero, but a lot of work
Fave mechanics: Right now, D&D with Narrative influence
Fave art: really dig Tales of the Valiant, but then I like blue

I think I cried a little.

Hmmm, MI has enough water for its people without doing this.

Is there something new that needs to be close to a lot of water?

Funny, I just saw one fly over my house.

Why you might spot low-flying helicopters in southwest Michigan this summer - MLive.com

Sending thoughts.

That’s when they realized they needed to normalize stupidity because they can’t compete intellectually.

Annnnd *scene*

Because many folks against science have basically hated Nerds(tm) since they were humiliated by them academically in primary school and culturally this group of nerd haters just wants their lunch money

I like the “pick 2” & the rule of three @clark, & think Hedonism and Stimulation could probably merge

But, w/ addition of “opposed, balanced, or aligned” to a pair you can easily define prevalent social dynamic

Power & Universalism
Or pair 2 in opposition: Pow+Security v Achievement+Universalism

This is so, so well-articulated.

Duality collapsing on singularity.

Alternate scenes between origin and conclusion without explaining the convergence (object of the adventure). Past them and future them solve the same mystery in different directions and mayhem ensues when they collide.

Why not both?

Bruce Lee & Bruce Leroy team up to fight Bolo Yeung and Sho-nuff!?!

That’s the problem with restraint.

Few appreciate the effort we make.

Do they understand that by reducing fuel efficiency you will end up paying the same amount to cover the same distance?

Clearly not.

It takes X energy to go Y distance. Physics don’ give a fuck about your propaganda.

Chuck outlines the current inflection point very well

Like any tool, there are very practical and appropriate uses of the technology

AI should never replace humans in any capacity — it is a tool, not a solution

Any facility it provides should enhance humanity

Not replace it

An amazing read, technically and enjoyably. I love what they did and its story. @philofishal.bsky.social outstanding.

The Ensh*ttificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

Makes me sad. I adored Firefly, but cannot separate art from artists here so: pass.

Leverage artists that weren't terrible humans.
Give Zoe, Doc, River, & Kaylee running the ship with new crew or have them as featured characters supporting a new crew that inherited the ship and its spirit.

Or Monty Python…

That’d be a good Python script ;)