Used to be the Pope of the OSR, now I am just a quiet monk writing game material in the dark. I try to avoid politics.

Joined February 2024
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This is the best Zelda game. You are allowed to have a personal favorite that isn't this one, but Link to the Past is one of the few perfect games ever made. It ages like fine wine. It's pixel perfect graphics and wonderful soundtrack are timeless. It's gameplay is laser smooth. In 40 years it will still be perfect. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
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I offer you a philosophical question on a warm summer evening. Those who know me well can easily guess my answer, but I am interested in yours.
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The limestone facade of the Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir, Russia, built between 1194โ€“1197.
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Its wizard time!
Reconstruction of an ancient Scythian costume. Author: Daisy Victoria
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North Ossetia. aday_travel / IG
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This is true and I think one of the things that I do which annoys people is to clearly make definitive claims. And I only back down for facts and reason, never for emotional pressure. You ARE what you will not bend on
This clip lives rent free in my head now, so I'm going to keep talking about it I will not defend Brennan. What he's doing here is indefensible. However, I am going to explain it: BLeeM is the pinacle of the Toxic Positivity mindset. The Apex Pleaser. Part of a whole culture of people who have been entirely transformed into human possums They have no more defense mechanisms, least of all against bad ideas. The only thing such people are permitted to do in any confrontation is play dead. Challenging anything that isn't one of the Approved Targets is totally verboten. They're forced at every turn to approve of every bad idea they hear, no matter how vile And you can tell Brennan disagrees with this woman viscerally. That's what the silly teasing is: his only acceptable form of pushback. A desperate plea for her to make it all a joke. To laugh it off so he isn't forced to say something he doesn't believe But in the end she doubles down, so he takes her side anyway. He must. To do anything less would be to make himself a villain in his own culture It's despicable cowardice, but that's what this mindset does to people, given time
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This is how @Crawl_Club and @Lordmatteus2312 described doing parkour in my ShadowCity game at NTX on Saturday night. It was very fearsome
Peak athleticism. #parkour
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North Texas RPG Con Most con goers here will tell you it feels like a family reunion, and that is the perfect description. This was my first time, but itโ€™s small & personal, and I felt like I knew half the people there. This has shot up to the top spot in Cons I must attend during the year. ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ George Barr, AD&D adventureย GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders, TSR, 1986
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Paladin artwork perfect for a player's PC and art by Julek Heller
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You cannot run a restaurant where you sell sandwiches, 90% of which taste like shit, then make a good sandwich and be surprised people are not buying it.
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The Other OSR: GM Companion for ShadowDark A review of the third-party supplement from @ChubbyFunsterGC for #ShadowDark published by @arcanelibrary. rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/20โ€ฆ #reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #OSR

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Iโ€™m curious about this as well
I don't get what wotc's idea with D&D Encounters actually is. It's like one 3 hour session (that can have up to 5 groups playing the same adventure) and then 4 weeks of ~2 hour sessions that are basically 1-2 combat encounters and that's it. Who is this actually for?
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This pic of Kelsey Dionne (creator of Shadowdark) as Lolth at Founders and Legends is just too cool ๐Ÿ˜† Hope to be able to make it next year.
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Hey everyone, my online community is looking to add more GMs. This is an amazing living world D&D campaign! ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ 1. Join the Discord: discord.gg/zZ3J2Hn 2. Send an email to esper@esperthebard.com with your name and Discord name, and a guide will reach out.
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After an exhausting weekend of pain, I am now a North Carolina resident. Whooo hooo!
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By popular request, I just released my new Shadowdark supplement, Black Rifles and Dark Alleys, a settingless toolkit to run your own modern games, inspired by my Blacklight rules. If you backed the original Blacklight kickstarter, you have access to a special discount code. Everyone else can get it at the link in the reply!
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I really enjoyed this video. Chubby's epistemological objections to AI are much more thoughtful than the "clutch pearls and scream" usual negative reaction. A corollary, then, should then be "never use AI for any skill you want to improve". Sensible. Wise. youtu.be/NrTn0VLzTiQ?si=rRKdโ€ฆ
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IT HAS ARRIVED. Thank you for your attention in this matter. My goodness.... What a gorgeous book. What? No... You can't look at mine... Go get your own. Congrats @archon for yet another home run of a Kickstarter campaign. #ACKS2
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