The Season 4 finale came out less than a week ago but we're already looking for guests for Season 5! If you're based in Seattle, you have a cool home TTRPG campaign, and you'd like to talk about it on a podcast, then you should DM us about it. #ttrpg #indiettrpg
Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field
Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field https://theonion.com/finnish-ski-jumping-team-caught-tampering-with-earths-gravitational-field/
Network diagram scribbled messily on a white board
We use these all the time, especially when building larger live action events where player motivations are the primary action/plot. But ours aren't as neat...
Five things I have been paid for:
GameMastering RPGs
Sherpa
Moving Heavy Boxes Around (different than Sherpa)
Keeping People from Panicking (Project management)
Data and Technology
There have been a significant number of days in the last year and a half that I am glad I no longer work in the elections/politics sphere. Today is right at the top of that list.
Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun
Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun https://theonion.com/explanation-of-board-game-rules-peppered-with-reassuran-1819579569/
- Podcasts: I was on one once
- Actual Plays: Been a while, but yes
- Playing on-line: Discord, yes
- weekly 0r, at least, regular club: Yes
- domestic games in the home: yes
- figure collection/painting: no
- reading/collecting TTRPGs: yes, although it has slowed down since pandemic.
Planning my next Ravenloft TTRPG adventure and working on which domain to use. I have already done:
Borca
Dementlieu
I'Cath
Kartakass
Lamordia
Mordent
Tepest
Keening
Zherisia
Nova Vassa
Any suggestions for the next journey?
#dnd
We announced last year our friends at Studio Agate had taken over the development and creation of the legendary #TTRPG 7th Sea, marking the beginning of a new era for the iconic game.
And now they're soon to launch a Kickstarter for #7thSea3e: learn more at the link!
Ruin a bard by changing one letter.
Hwx regions attached to a Dyson Sphere
Black Shield had a great Orcacon. We averaged around 6 players at a time over the eighteen hours that Beyond the Gates ran. That is about 125 total player hours. And they defeated the (removed for spoilers). Thanks Orcacon for having us again (our 7th time here running a continuous game)
They finally figured out where the missing parts of their planets were going
#orcacon #beyondtgegates
I might be sitting at a table at a gaming convention reminiscing...but I am also the one and about before 8 AM at a gaming convention, so there is that.
The favorite times I ever had at gaming conventions was a smaller convention that was at a hotel that had free breakfast for attendees, and so everyone came to breakfast, and Saturday morning was basically just a big social hour before everything got started and I miss it a lot.
Two regions have been consumed by the mysterious alien force...can the explorers save the rest? #orcacon #beyondthegatea
Beyond the Gates banner and a bunch of FATE character sheets
At orcacon, starting the first run of Beyond the Gates this year.
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Events I'm Hosting Starts Duration Event # Name Room Space Tickets Available Jan 09 Fri - Events at 8:00 PM 2 hours 57 Story Gods Cascade 05 Flex Space 8/12 Jan 10 Sat - Events at 2:00 PM 4 hours 60 The Banker's Gold Cascade 07 & 08 220 0/6 Jan 11 Sun - Events at 10:00 AM 4 hours 59 Sweet Dreams Are Made of This Cascade 09 4/12
Here is what I am directly hosting at Orcacon this weekend. It's a LARP, a FATE RPG conversion and a dark horror about nightmares. Only the Banker's Gold is just me, otherwise doing the GM with others thing. #ttrpg #orcacon
#thisyearsbestrpgmoments
Call of Cthulhu session were they were trekking across a swamp in the winter in the middle of the night and decided to turn it into a flirting session about carrying each other through the swamp into certain doom.
I am not (in any way) the best networker at cons. But I have used this specific piece of advice for everyone that sat down at my table for a con event and it only took a few years before I always had a full table at my regular cons.
Sponsored Actual Play casting call for UNDYING CORRUPTION, a korean folk and mythology 5e D&D campaign. Seeking performers to hire for a sponsored livestream actual play campaign on twitch.tv/stellaluna. Sponsored by Nine Heavens Press.
SEEKING PERFORMERS for SEASON 2 CAMPAIGN of UNDYING CORRUPTION, a 5e Korean Folk & Mythology adventure book, sponsored by @nineheavenspress.bsky.social & streaming live on Saturdays, starting in February 2026.
Casting call closes January 10th.
Apply: forms.gle/QVwbSC5hk1XF... 👻
#TTRPG #Casting
Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Cage the Oliphant
Large spruce tree uprooted and fallen on a garage
Four years ago we had two of the tallest trees in town. Two wind storms later, we only have one of the longest trees. For a little bit longer. #MT
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
