RUSTY SELLSWORD DESIGN X CORTEX
Huge news for fans of the Cortex system and more news to come. I’ve been working for a long time to get to this point and I’m thrilled to share the announcement!
news.direwolfdigital.com/cortex-prime...
It was the supplement for Don’t Rest Your Head. I think it was called Don’t Lose Your Mind. It was all madness powers.
And she was right
i forget who said “why should i bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?” and i think about it constantly
“New federal police force planned by Stephen Miller launched its website. Called the Homeland Security Task Force, it operates in every state across the U.S. with 8,500 federal agents + analysts drawn from over 20 federal agencies and hundreds of state, local and international partners.”
— @kenklipp
From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks
A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.
In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."
Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!
Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴
My day job (self-employed) includes wandering around the internet and keeping track what people say about PbtA. Occasionally a new one will pop up.
Lately I've been seeing "in a PbtA game, you shouldn't be rolling dice that often anyway."
I'm like, you shouldn't what now? Where did THIS come from?
People are arguing if not altering the gm to wolves having pack tactics is cheating or not and holy shit just play a good game.
Y’all keep arguing while playing a dogshit game.
Be more interesting. Play more interesting games.
the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it
I’ve seen so many times where players ignore what’s happening in the game to rush for a joke and the scene collapses because the stakes don’t matter anymore and they don’t know how to get back to it.
This.
I think another problem is where and how the humor is put in.
I despise “the bit.”
In long form improv, we have to teach that going for the joke kills a scene. It cuts all the tension out. You can have a very funny show using strong character desires and honest reactions.
I’ve got two nights a week I hit karaoke because I need a bit of performance in my week. Some Thursdays I do open mic stand up.i do kind of miss the 4-5 shows I’d direct a year
I can handle about 30-40 dwarves but need to do the deep dive on a bunch of stuff for bigger populations
Games Workshop has always known the same thing the writers of Star Trek knew: if you include just a little bit for the horny weirdo, they'll spend thousands on your merchandise. This is something George Lucas only did by accident, because he doesn't really know about sex
When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.
A 2-page spread from Ride or Die, showing a synopsis of the system for Heists. The art depicts a crew of Drivers pulling off a heist on a moving train at night, while fighting the cops. One car is descending via parachute and another is driving full tilt across the top of the train cars. Other characters are embroiled in a gunfight.
Ride or Die is pretty minimalist in its rules, so I'm going maximalist in presentation. Having way too much fun. :)
I didn't say it meant you weren't an adult, I said that your experience is pretty thin.
Your reference to "even games for adults" and then "I suppose with my kids, they can take their turn whenever they want" seemed to say that not having turns wasn't an "adult" game
Powered by the Apocalypse games don't have a structured turn order.
Some board games, everyone plays at the same time.
This isn't some new thing and trying to pretend it's something for children is pretty telling on your experience.
Explaining how to play TTRPGs that don't have initiate systems always feels like I'm explaining how to have a conversation to someone who has never talked to another human before.
"How do you determine who goes first?"
Um, you just take turns? Sometimes I go first, sometimes you do? Like adults?
MID CAMPAIGN ADDITIONS - WHAT IF WE JUST DESCRIBE DIE DIE: it’s like Jumanji for nerds. It’s Gygaxian Isekai. It’s Portal Fantasy with HP. Get in here. Sure, you can roll Reflex to take half damage from a fireball. Try doing that to the emotional splash-damage of your parents’ divorce Life never worked out the way you wanted it to. Now you’re trapped in a fantasy kingdom, and life still isn’t working out, but at least you’re a catgirl now Is It Wrong To Try To Process My Emotional Trauma In A Dungeon? (Yes. You should have gone to therapy. But now you’re trapped in a magical kingdom, it’s the only option you’ve got) Boyfriend Dungeon taught us we could love the dungeon. Dungeon Meshi taught us we could eat it. Now: what if the dungeon was a thinly-veiled metaphor for your strained relationship with your dad? You’re thirty-seven years old. Your job sucks. Your wife just left you. And you’re trapped in an interdimensional fantasy realm forged of your own dreams and fears, which really is the icing on the cake Maybe things weren’t better back in the day; maybe you were just younger. DIE takes the gentle, reassuring confection of nostalgia and reduces it to a bubbling heap with the oxy-acetalene torch of postmodernism THOSE JACKALS AT WIZARDS OF THE COAST ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH OF YOUR MONEY. Give US your money instead in exchange for the DIE Metadungeon If you only play one TTRPG this year, you should probably try Realis. It looks great. But if you play two TTRPGs this year, one of them should definitely be DIE DIE the RPG finally endorses your relentless obsession with dice by making them diegetic. And if you need us to explain what “diegetic” means, you probably wouldn’t enjoy the game anyway How many dice do you reckon you could fit in your mouth? Normal-sized ones, I mean. Six-siders. I think I could get about twenty five in there before I started choking
let's see how many of these blurbs for DIE RPG Backerkit will let through their quality control net
'Live off the rain and dirt' is the level of COLD we should all aspire to.
Whenever Gumshoe gets a round of attention, something inside me dies. Not because I dislike Gumshoe. I don't at all! But because I will die on the damn hill that it doesn't run mysteries. Those aren't mysteries. They're procedurals. Which is fine. Gumshoe does it AMAZING. But that's not mysteries.
For people who use Streamlabs:
1) Anyone found how to stop it from doubling the sound from everything while it's on?
2) Tonight was the first time we had this happen. My microphone was catching some sound from my noise cancelling headphones and echoing. Noise Gate/supression didnt' help
her: then SHODAN straps you into a table and saws off your arms and legs and jams in cybernetic components while calling you an insect
me, so aroused all the blood in my brain has vacated: wogh thas shoulds awfl
First game: pre red box D&D
Last game: The One Ring 2e
Longest game: either Vampire 1st edition (3 years) or my current Legends of the Wulin campaign
Favourite game: Smallville/Cortex Prome
Favourite mechanics: The Far Roofs
Favourite art: Invisible Sun
