How Many Times Can a PC Reroll a Check A character tries to roll a skill check in D&D, Pirate Borg, or another RPG. They fail. Can they try again?

A character tries to roll a skill check in D&D, Pirate Borg, or another RPG. They fail. Can they try again? (Now on the blog)

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The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

"We've decided to guess where planes might be in the air based on an algorithm written to predict what racist conspiracy theory an 8chan user might post next. Oh, and it makes shit up, just like that 8channer."

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

lol! Even your shirt is off theme!

SLUMLORD OST album art for my good friend Tanner Simpson! :))

This Effin' GM and This Effin' Wife playing games at the D8 Summit Charity Convention

Classic picture of my wife and I

From the dice community on Reddit: Lou Zocchi has died Explore this post and more from the dice community

Word is that Lou Zocchi passed today.

He was one of the earliest distributors of RPGs, helping them to get out to players across the country.

He published foundational early RPGs like Space Patrol and Superhero: 2044 (the latter the first superhero RPG).

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Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

Birthday painting for my buddy Gaz, who goes by Brutal Whimsy on Instagram!

Awesome artist and friend, really glad I got to meet him. Our weekly voice chats are always a highlight!

Toads a Frog.

Has anyone out there ever filed a technical patent? I'm considering one (assuming the patent search is clear) and, besides obvious legal involvement, would like to know what's involved in actually writing one.

Watching the 2010 movie and John Lithgow is so freaking great in it. I remember thinking how realistic the special effects were, not like Doctor Who (which I did love too). Watching it now it looks so Dr Who!

I’ll never get over this.

a blurry picture of a woman screaming with the words come on artax below her Alt: Never Ending Story seen with Artax fatally stuck in a mud pool

Yes. Yes you are 💔

I was really inspired by the You Cannot Play this TTRPG jam - so I decided to make something for it.

Here is a character sheet I have designed for a game about Goblins which you will never, ever, be able to play.

I'm never sad about killing of characters, indeed I'm generally positively gleeful about it and delight in how angry many of you will be about it. Because I'm a monster, you see.

A middle aged white guy expresses happiness while awaiting going to a gaming convention

About on my way to D8 Summit Charity Con in Dixon, IL

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

This Brazilian Portuguese cover to Cairn: Barebones Edition by @crawlstilho.bsky.social is really amazing.

DCC character sheet I made. Decorative, hand lettered.

Dungeon Crawl Classics! I played a lot of DCC between 2013 and 2016. Been a minute, but I love the game.

To be clear, this isn’t some nefarious plot by RPG companies. It’s due to ad spends, due to algorithms, due to the math of crowdfunding. If you want to pay employees, want to cover your retirement and health care, understanding these dynamics is a necessity.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

If you want to buy a cool tote bag and/or stickers (with incredible art by @amandalee.bsky.social) on it, you finally can!

Yes, stickers. The people demand it. T-shirts are also available.
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Camera traps have photographed a jaguar high up in the Honduran Sierra del Merendón mountain range, the first time the big cat has been detected there in a decade. https://cnn.it/4svaGGY

I got the new cover (without font issues) for Action-Heroes uploaded to DriveThru, and now it's just a matter of going through the process on their end. The print version of Action-Heroes Unearthed has also been set up. Hopefully I can get them both in one order and get them both approved at once.

The Serpent Lands - Map 4

Our latest explorations of the Serpent Lands are now up on the blog.

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Why Do We Play These Kinds of Games? | Between Two Cairns Get more from Between Two Cairns on Patreon

In a very special bonus episode of Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I discuss why we play OSR games.

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A Minnesota county is investigating the removal of a US citizen from his home in January by federal immigration agents as a possible kidnapping. https://cnn.it/3QhTaIX