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Writer, game designer, podcaster. Winner of the Diana Jones Award, 8 Gold and 5 Silver ENnies. Translated into 11 languages.

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“I’m starting to think we should reconsider how pointy our churches are.”

#quoteOfGame #merryshire

11.03.2026 00:05 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In other rpgs it can be hard to explain why PCs present for the first session of a scenario have gone suddenly missing in the second. But in Merryshire Detective Club, clearly they unexpectedly came upon some pastries

10.03.2026 22:41 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

When you’re looking for harbingers of the end times it’s not escalating conflict in global hot zones it’s…

10.03.2026 21:47 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Taylor Tomlinson, Good Fortune, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin Consume Media: Taylor Tomlinson, Good Fortune, The Strange Death of Alex Raymond

10.03.2026 13:54 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

David Letterman: FRAME MOGGING! That’s what the kids say, they say he was MOGGING A FRAME

Paul Shaffer:

10.03.2026 13:20 👍 738 🔁 70 💬 10 📌 0

What all the top Renfields are carrying

10.03.2026 13:19 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m a sports jinx so if I watched Heated Rivalry their teams would lose

09.03.2026 23:58 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Period engraving of head-drilling tools, one of which is demonstrated on a skull

Period engraving of head-drilling tools, one of which is demonstrated on a skull

There’s a lot to worry about right now so let’s cheer up with some trepanation

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09.03.2026 14:32 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1

As signs of spring go an earwig scuttling across the kitchen counter is not my favorite but at this point I’ll take it

08.03.2026 23:45 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope this email finds you holed up with the other survivors figuring out the aliens’ weakness

07.03.2026 16:45 👍 44 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Forecast for Wed with high of 57 and half an inch of snow

Forecast for Wed with high of 57 and half an inch of snow

What is the weather like in Toronto people ask me

07.03.2026 15:27 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I know, right?

07.03.2026 00:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As a Gen X elder I am not letting young people tell me how to say things.

I am still going to use "crash out" to describe an unproductive day

06.03.2026 18:49 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Episode 689: Bring Out the Claw « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin talk idiot plotting in rpg mysteries, Project Azorian, the Green Man, and Erich von Daniken.

06.03.2026 14:22 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
A screen on Amazon prime. Two movies - Fargo above and Mission Impossible below. The image gives the illusion of Frances McDormand working Tom cruise like a puppet.

A screen on Amazon prime. Two movies - Fargo above and Mission Impossible below. The image gives the illusion of Frances McDormand working Tom cruise like a puppet.

If I have to see Frances McDormand working Tom Cruise like a puppet then so do you

06.03.2026 01:24 👍 78 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1

Dans is not an actual squirrels

05.03.2026 23:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That sound you hear is Canada's Strategic Smugness Reserve topping up again

05.03.2026 20:43 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Markwayne Mullin has to get confirmed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is chaired by Rand Paul, who Markwayne Mullin recently called a “snake” & said he sympathized with Rand Paul’s neighbor who beat him up.

05.03.2026 19:27 👍 828 🔁 137 💬 41 📌 1

When elected, I too will select cabinet members because I enjoy watching them on television.

With that in mind, please meet my Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Squirrelly Dan

05.03.2026 19:32 👍 38 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1

Stagnant air trapping vehicle emissions at ground level.

05.03.2026 15:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Bogart Can Tell You About Page Turners Page Turners, my game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, enables you to create stories resembling the character-driven narratives of films and l

What Bogart Can Tell You About Page Turners

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05.03.2026 14:08 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

That’s his Goodfellas name

05.03.2026 00:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some posts don’t quite warrant a block but still cry out for an incremental demerit points system

05.03.2026 00:22 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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View from the Pelgrane’s Nest — In Like a Lion Edition Your part of the world may be balmy or merely damp but here at the Pelgrane’s Nest winter retains its grip on the land. Like our other cold-blooded staff memb

With Page Turners and 13th Age 2nd Edition out, it’s time to look forward to Paragon Blade, Ballad Hunters, and the Fear Itself Shattered Veil Edition in the latest updates from Pelgrane Press

04.03.2026 20:44 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

After the current murder mystery the players will be launching an inquiry into which of them did this

04.03.2026 17:42 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In Merryshire Detective Club players collaboratively invent details of their home village. Someone decided that the vicar speaks in a roundabout manner, which in the GMing biz is what we call a gift

04.03.2026 14:15 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

Ubiquitous online gambling answers the question “what if we all collectively went Bad Lieutenant?” which personally I was not asking

04.03.2026 03:02 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

“Is there an appropriate amount of blood? I’m checking for vampires.”
“And whether he was killed elsewhere and moved here.”
“No, just vampires.”

#quoteOfGame #merryshire

04.03.2026 01:34 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Are we the accident friends or the murder friends?”

#quoteOfGame #merryshire

04.03.2026 00:43 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

On my (virtual) to read pile

03.03.2026 19:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0