I say Charisma, Wisdom and Strength. I do abbreviate Dexterity, Constitution and Intelligence to Dex, Con and Int, but rarely. Dex may be my most frequently abbreviated of all the stat words.

I’m not too picky about color, but I prefer a color other than yellow.

You?

I prefer red, but I will accept blue or purple.

Amen, brother.

When I worked for Mister Softie it was known that for any given Office product a user only used about 50% of the features, but every user’s 50% was different.

And everyone hated the ribbon, except the UI designers who insisted it was necessary.

I love this so much.

YEAH PHIL! SHE CALLED IT! SUCK IT!

This is one of the many reasons that as a GM your default responses to a player stating an action should be yes-and or yes-but, and then you roll the damned dice and they will tell you how it all worked out.

GMs narrate. The dice dictate.

I support independent creators. You can, too! Here’s a link to Community Radio on itch dot io —

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Picture shows a hand painted miniature figure of a werewolf in mid transformation for a tabletop roleplaying game.

From the archives…

Haven’t we all known Ticketmaster was a monopoly since like 1987? How is this happening now? Didn’t they freeze out Eddy Vedder after he crusaded on this some 30 years ago?

Like, of all times to go after the TicketBastards!

I realize now change is slow, but … damn!

You may be seeing indications of it already, but yeah. 13 is when the brain kicks into development overdrive. There’s a lot going on in there. The self asserts. 😏

Another RPG unicorn. Written and talked about, but never seen in the wild.

Also, I found Luke Gearing’s bsky!

Now, guess which book I brought with me for reading on the airplane.

Holy wow. Check this stuff out! I do so enjoy B&W illustrations and this stuff is hitting all my favorite notes.

Don’t just look at the one. Go to the page and scroll.

Go!

Another amazing illustration by the completely deranged Tim Molloy. Empire of Bones is full of insane artwork. It's like nothing you've ever seen before and it is coming in for a landing! We are about to send it off to the printer! The last few finishing touches are underway. #TTRPG #DnD #OSR

I worked at @chaosium.bsky.social from 1996-1998 as a Call of Cthulhu editor. But I was aware that we'd already slipped back from being the progressive heart of Cthulhu design thanks to the amazing work being done by our licensee Pagan Publishing, even before Delta Green was released in 1997.

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I started a game club for adults 18+ at the local library. I met a LOT of local gamers in very short time.

Spiral-bound notebooks, post-its, and accordion folders. I used OneNote in olden-times, but pretty much all analog now because I do not want to use screens at the table.

Eyes of the Overworld is the best place to start with Dying Earth. The picaresque with Turjan and Liang and so on is good, but it’s so early for Vance that in my mind he’s not quite up to speed yet.

Lyonesse is one of the best fantasy series I’ve ever read. Try 50 pages of Suldren’s Garden to see

This is an amazing illustration. I would love to have something this inspiring in my own game projects.

That song all day, every day.

Thank you, Hugo Montenegro for the ear worm to end all ear worms! It is the one song I can use to displace any other song from my head and I love it for that.

You have my attention. Where is this mythical place?

Not just you.

I played on Xbox, watched the progression of updates through the Vaarun storyline and played most of that. I got into base building and ship construction, too. I hopped through several instances of New Game Plus.

It was fun enough that I might start playing on my PS5. I say take it for a spin.

Thanks, Levi!

For what it may be worth to you, Starfield is the most Traveller CRPG I’ve yet played. I liked it and took two characters to 100. I’ve played no previous Bethesda games and am in general not a fan of Triple-A CRPGs (I gave Bladurs Gate 25 minutes outside of chargen and that’s all I could stand.)

Oh? 🧐

Looks like I’ve been using that term in the UK-style.

Finally we learn the origin of the Albino Bat Demons of the Painted Wastelands!

Go PDF crazy. You’ll get much more for your dollar. And then you can figure out which ones you’ll want in print.

Happy Birthday!

OMG. Was it popcorn? How cruel!

What did this hold?