These are so rad!

Patriot is an all-timer!

Eight shapes that look like board game pieces, each starting as a 1.5 inch by 1 inch rectangle, but with different shapes cut in the top: Red rectangle, blue with a dome top, yellow with a pointed top, light grey with a notch cut out of the top looking like a castle wall, sea foam green with a hole through the center, gold with a flat top and angled corners, light purple with a semicircle cut out of the side, and green with a slanted top.

Designing some abstract player pawns with unique silhouettes. I cut them out of some scrap oak flooring.

new zine preview

I just spent five minutes trying to figure out which planet a helicopter was.

Yeah, I don't know how well these would work as an actual tower. I feel like this is one of those mass to surface area things where there's probably way more friction and way less space for fingers than regular size blocks.

Wooden stacking blocks, 2" x 5/8" x 3/8"

The blocks in their packaging: Tumbling Tower Game

Mini Jenga blocks at Dollar Tree for $1.75. These should make perfect dungeon walls!
I've been moving towards plain wood dungeon tiles/terrain. Helps aphantasia-leaning players stay on the same page, but still forces the use of imagination and flexible enough for any theme.

When we played 5e, they were always concerned with "what they were SUPPOSED to do", but after only three sessions of OSR play they're already pitting adventures against each other. I'm so proud 🥲

They are going to attempt to use an enchanted sickle from Bloodmarm Barrow to charm the dragon from Black wyrm of Brandonsford into fighting the titular blood moth from Temple of the Blood Moth. I'm rooting for their Godzilla vs Mothra moment, but we'll just have to see how the dice fall.

Three sessions in, and my Cairn players are plotting to coerce the boss from dungeon #2 into fighting the boss from dungeon #1. I love a good scheme.

This kicks so much ass!

figure with sword, skull in bell jar, mask hood

Pay a vial of tears shed from the loss of a dear friend, and she will guide your way through the Violet Way. Her Skull of St. Rathis lantern casting its pale green light across the path.

There was no answer.

This reminds me of the one time I tried watching an AP of Burning Wheel and they spent the entire session opening a chest.

An orange cat with a blue collar demanding to be pet while sitting on top of a print-out of the OSR dungeon Tomb of the Serpent Kings.

Trying to do some GM prep, Pumpkin is not as helpful as he thinks he is. He's lucky he's cute.

AI is not inevitable YouTube video by sincere on main

this is a fun video and sounds like such a fun art project:

Gus the Goblin

Gus the Goblin was always happy no matter what life threw at him.

A diagram showing the paper dimensions. A rectangle that is 5" long and 1"wide. Subdivided length-wise with a 1" square at each end and two 1.5" rectangles in the middle. The center of the long rectangle makes the top point, and the two square ends get glued together to form the base.

Here are my dimensions if that's helpful. Makes a mini that has a 1" square base and is 1.5" tall.

For bonus points you can "laminate" your art with packing tape and weigh down the base with a penny.

Cairn background art has been printed out and folded into little paper triangular standees with pennies taped to the bottom for stability.

The back sides have the character names and backgrounds.

Paper minis of my Cairn 2e squad.

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Stop trying to build tension in your videos and just show us the fuckin thing you’re trying to show us already

these people gleefully ripped apart the systems that kept millions of people around the world from dying of starvation and disease and now they go crying to a judge because they're suffering "reputational damage" on the internet

hell is not hot enough

You'll have to pry my bullet points from my cold dead hands!

Diving into the Scrooge McDuck vault but instead of money it’s stupid shit I’ve done

As much as I strive to be a Victoria, I am really a Farmer Gloam.

The best part of switching notes apps was realizing that I'd never read or watch or write half the stuff, and just letting a bunch of lists go.

How to lay out a Zine! Making Zines Part 2 YouTube video by JP Coovert

I hope this video about zine layout is helpful! Not too technical, but enough good advice to get you started making your own zines.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylof...

The top 9 videogames trend: Shadow of the Colossus Half-Life 2 Sable Inside Space Engineers Pokèmon Yellow Portal Zelda: Breath of the Wild Halo Reach

These were the first nine that came to mind. The videogames I find myself thinking back to the most often.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the PS2 gets an honorable mention.

I've started carrying around a small notebook everywhere. Not only have I stopped reaching for my phone as much, but it turns out working on projects in places other than my desk has really helped shake up fresh ideas.

A wooden travel case, roughly one foot on each face, filled with materials to GM elf games on the go.

Another view of the case where the front panel has been slid into place.

A view of the back of the case, revealing a pocket that can hold a letter-size TTRPG book, or in this case a pad of graph paper and several folders of character sheets and adventures.

Step aside Monte Cook, there's a new cube in town!