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In the "Why Should I Trust You" section: There are certainly finer game authors and more elegant publishers, but I execute like a Jacobin- because getting a job done on time and to spec is its own special sort of beauty. Kevin is being modest in the first point, and completely accurate with the second. This will be delivered early. A 1 on 1 OSR game. You know you need it. Originally shared by Kevin Crawford The Scarlet Heroes Kickstarter is now live. This old-school game of sword & sorcery adventure is designed to allow a single player and GM to use classic modules and newer OSR content without changing the material or buffing the lone hero. It's a fully stand-alone game in 128 pages, but it also serves as a smooth overlay for many other OSR games that you might want to play with just a single hero. As with my last successful Kickstarter, Spears of the Dawn, backers have immediate access to the layout and text-complete beta. Back it, download it, and be reading it wit

Time for ACKS ! #ACKS

Oh no...no no no... http://goo.gl/Ge3Tq5

If I was rich this is how I'd answer every question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_gCOtM75U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

ACKS group!

Last session it was explosive runes , this week it's this: This shrine houses the candelabra and a small, black statue of the cleric’s demon-god. The statue is worth 2,500 gp because of its workmanship, but any person touching and carrying it is 1% likely cumulative per day to attract the attention of a Demon, Type I-VI (roll 1d6 to determine type). We'll see if they find it and I'll have to track how long they've got it if they do. Pic is Pazuzu, Assyrian demon god of wind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazuzu

Do not piss off the stone giants. The scale here is hard to even comprehend. Looks like a model. More pics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25975251

Shirtless selfie in front of the house at sunset. #selfie

"Bones in your hand that make a monster claw, and bones in your head that make a scary face." Ian Williams http://www.theonion.com/video/new-study-shows-that-bones-are-incredibly-cool,35111/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:2:Default

Hmmm...stats apparent in this gif: Dex: 18 Cha: 18 Originally shared by Craig Fifield Muhammad Ali Dodges 21 Punches in 10 Seconds ...and does a cute little dance LIKE A BOSS. #boxing   #gifoftheday   #gif   #animatedgif   Src:  http://goo.gl/Q4c1dM

Just another Minnesota morning. Take note, Atlanta. I made it to work in my tiny Versa and the roads haven't been plowed at all yet. It is actually snowing a lot harder than Google makes this look.

Time for Realms of Cthulhu !

Today's Amazon delivery.

Originally shared by Steve “Gogs” Goggins please load your toilet paper correctly.......

Alison Ziesel Bob Chubarov how are you surviving Hothlanta?

This is a pretty good deal though, in D&D the juice of an innocent is like, 10,000 gold pieces per vial. Wicked spell component. Originally shared by Tim S ಠ_ಠ

Originally shared by Parthiban A So Cute love it  Two baby elephants + 1 kiddie pool #loveanimals   #elephantlovers   #elephantwednesday   #funnygifs   #funnygifimages

Gaming Synchronicity   Players are in the temple of vampire lizardman. One player thinks this is really hard (he's right) and wants to go fight hill giants. I remind them they can do whatever they want.  Same player also wants to upgrade his magic axe Blooddrinker . Making magic items requires parts from monsters totalling XP equal to the GP cost of the item. The axe is named Blooddrinker . Therefore I decree it requires 10,000 xp worth of vampire fangs.  There are four vampires in the temple that equal about 10,000 xp.

Friday night! events/cec700g5idptt2uehceo2nml6po?authkey=CPfg2vz62LTKkgE

So that's a Macklemore. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/01/macklemore_grammy_wins_don_t_hate_the_thrift_shop_rapper_because_he_s_white.html

#yojoeday  again! This one is firmly in the "only pre-9/11" category. Special Missions 9 We start with the Joes and a CIA dude trading Stinger missiles to mujahideen for Russian Spetznaz prisoners. The Joes disguise themselves as Russians, and pretend to free the Soviets. Maintaining the fiction, they send the Spetznaz on a suicide mission to kidnap an American CIA agent being held in Iran. The Joes can't do it themselves, so they are tricking the russians into doing it. In the end, the russian soldiers figure it out, and turn the tables on the Joes. But everyone gets what they want. But the story isn't the most interesting thing about this issue. It touches on several of Larry Hama's favorite themes: -"Uncle Sugar" buying loyalty from whoever is convenient. -A lovingly detailed description of the starting procedure for the Ju52, which shows Hama's love of hardware and his research for accuracy. -Soldiers with compassion for their fellow soldiers. Th

How did I never notice that the upcoming Domains at War rules from Autarch has a Mother of Dragons Memorial Rule ? Awesome. I love stuff like that.

ACKS Campaign Future Plotting Just some notes about how I will be making my PC's lives difficult in my Against the Giants campaign. That's almost a misnomer, as they've been too low level to take on the giants directly. But if they survive the Tomb of the Lizard King, this is what they will face: Istvin taken over by werewolves. Oytpass Keep destroyed by Chief Nosnra and his band of hill giants. They were vulnerable because the werewolf lord now in charge of Sterich recalled their troops. This will probably make them lead their army of mercenaries in one of these two directions. So, I need to figure out how many troops Istvin can field, and the mass combat values of the inhabitants of the hill giant steading. Thanks to the ACKS rules, neither of these is a difficult thing. If they fight the giants in the field, there is plenty of stuff in the lower dungeons of the steading to slay unwary PCs. And that should set them up for G2 & G3. But they'll probably do something

Here's a neat article about Duolingo. I might try it. But this passage: CAPTCHA led to reCAPTCHA, which was bought by Google and is a fiendishly clever bit of stealth crowdsourcing. Instead of asking you to interpret just one block of blurry text, reCAPTCHA makes you do two. One is to prove you’re human. The other is a scrap of a scanned page from an old print newspaper article or book. By forcing users to type the text they see, Google has managed to digitize reams of content for its own library. Are you shitting me? Diabolical and brilliant. Duolingo for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo&hl=en http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/01/duolingo_the_free_language_learning_app_that_s_addictive_and_fun.html

What're you doin', Casey? Nothin'. Just fightin' a beholder.

40th Anniversary of D&D game time!

D&D anniversary sale for Song of Blades and Heroes . You should have these great minis rules of you don't. Originally shared by andrea sfiligoi Happy 40th birthday to Dungeons and Dragons! To celebrate the game that was my gateway into gaming 33 years ago, for 24 hours all MY products on www.ganeshagames.net (digital and paperbacks, if available, but not OGAM or any other game not produced by Ganesha Games) are 30% off. (The discount does not apply to shipping costs or VAT, where applicable). HOW DOES IT WORK?  Just buy at full price and I will refund the difference via paypal within 24 hours. In addition, any paperback purchase of any Tales of Blades and Heroes paperback book gets a free PDF copy of Talespinner 1. http://www.ganeshagames.net

Calm the fuck down, Marcie.

Happy 40th D&D! Party like Emirikol!

Have a very...(rolls dice)... happy birthday James LaManna!

Kevin knows how to Kickstart. Look for this to be delivered early like Spears of the Dawn was. Originally shared by Kevin Crawford At this point, four more pages of material need to be buffed to pre-proof quality before Scarlet Heroes is ready for its February 1st Kickstarter debut. My artists are coming through with lightning alacrity- Eric Lofgren, Ian MacLean, David L. Johnson, Luigi Castellani, Earl Geier, Miguel Santos, Joyce Maureira, Nate Furman, and a special guest cartographer to be named later are delivering material on a near-daily basis. I hired a lot of artists. It took me a while to pick people who had b/w line art styles that complemented each other, but once I finally lined up the team, I was able to take advantage of their numbers and talent to get art at a breakneck pace. I use a simple slot roster system for organizing and tracking my art buys. Before I hire any artists, I lay out the book and identify the art slots I need and their exact dimensions and topic. Then I

Things overheard while Abigail, 10, was playing Minecraft tonight. "Papa, do you like these flowers?" "I think this creeper picture is cute above my bed." "I knocked down my door again." "I'm lost!" "Ah! Creeper!" "There's that creepy giant again." "These villagers are weirding me out." "I just killed a sheep for no reason." And Alison Ziesel, she says she'll play survival mode on the server. I bought her her own copy and am trying to get my netbook up to snuff to run it.

Old Nerd Makes Toddler's Day Broadway Pizza has a train theme. Model trains circle tracks hanging from the ceiling. When my wife and kids come meet me for lunch that's where we go because Coop is a huge baby train nerd. He will totally behave because he can watch the trains while we eat.  Today we go in and a guy is there fixing one of the trains. These are big "O" scale trains (I think). Coop is nattering on about them. "Papa, big diesel. Couple up to cars." etc etc. The old guy fixing the diesel hears this and comes over and talks to us. He puts this big (probably $300+) Union Pacific model right in front of a two year old and lets him touch and play with it. He tells us how he installs the trains in all the Broadway Pizzas, how he loved trains when he was Coops age, where we could take Coop to see real trains, and was tickled that Coop knew all the terminology he did (thanks, Thomas the Tank Engine). This train guy was an old-school Gygaxian nerd. Sixtyis

Google engineers for the last two hours. Told in Han Solo gifs.

The burden of proof lays with those who — dangerously, in my opinion — claim that there is no RATBOAT. Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette "The absence of one ghost-rat ship does not equal the absence of all possible ghost-rat ships." http://the-toast.net/2014/01/24/prove-the-ratboat-does-not-exist/ http://the-toast.net/2014/01/24/prove-the-ratboat-does-not-exist

Thinking about Stars Without Number and ship names. I think meteorological phenomena make great ship names. Like the Clear Air Turbulence from the Culture novels. Let's see: The Cyclonic Rotation The Polar Vortex The Tropical Depression El Nino The High Pressure Front Pic from: http://th01.deviantart.net/fs13/PRE/i/2007/063/5/6/Clear_Air_Turbulence_In_hanger_by_bluwolf22.jpg

I've had the flu all week, but I'm at about 85% healthy today, so I'm having my first cup of coffee since Saturday.

My wife and kids were bored today since school was canceled because of the cold. Time to put glasses on the dog and take pictures.

I spent #yojoeday  yesterday in a semi-conscious flu-addled state, so I didn't even remember to put up a gallery. For shame. Well, I'm well enough to do it now.  Special Missions 8 This is an interesting issue. Larry Hama doesn't like the CIA. This issue introduces asshole agent Anderson. The CIA is having the Joes extract a defector from a nameless south-east Asian country. The defector, Portland, is taking some important computer chips to the Communists. If the Joes can't extract him, Low-Light is to take him out. An aside, Low-Light is one of my favorite Joes. He's the only Joe from North Dakota. His backstory is that he was a timid kid, afraid of the dark. He gets lost on a hunting trip and when they find him three weeks(!) later, he's smiling in the dark caressing his .22 rifle that he's been hunting with to survive. I wanted that to be me so bad. The Joes pass a village that is something out of "the Killing Fields," and have to deal with th

Being sick makes me watch TV I guess. Just watched the first episode of Maron . The nerds hating Mark but loving Dave Foley was pure gold. Dragon Master being a Nerdist fan was also delicious, knowing the one sided rivalry that Maron seems to have with Chris Hardwick.

Went home sick. Discovered Bob's Burgers. No one told me Mabel's voice from Gravity Falls, Jon H Benjamin, and the guy that wrote Home Movies that wasn't Brendan Small had a show.

Aw, yeah. Coil bound Stars Without Number .

Back into Minecraft. My house is a head.

Now this is Shakespeare.

My morning. Defeated by the forces of Strahd.

Heroes for today's solo Ravenloft boardgaming.

Mike McCarthy here's our ACKS group's G+. Go ahead and join.

Welp, in #ACKS  tonight, the elf got his arms blown off by explosive runes. One of his flying fingers put out the eye of the party's other elf, and his severed fist knocked 5 teeth out of the thief's mouth. I love being a DM.

Time for ACKS ! All PCs heed the words of the DM Chong Li!

Tonight's adventure features a big, fat spellbook for a high level wizard. 80% chance it blows up the elf if he looks at it. 20% chance he has awesome spells to choose from for the next few levels. Either outcome is acceptable.

Earplugs for the old rockers Including Michael R and Mike McCarthy. I wore these earplugs to the Reverend Horton Heat show last night. They are effective! The Good *My hearing is completely normal today, no (extra) tinnitus. *I used the "medium" protection tubes. The volume of the show was at "loud car stereo where if you turned it up any more the speakers would start to crackle." *Sound quality was good. Everything was clear. I heard every instrument. I thought they were muting the vocals, but that was our position (on the rail with the vocals coming through the speakers above the crowd, so they were going right over us.) The Rev had extra vocal speakers on each side of the stage which solved that problem. *I could hear my buddy perfectly well even over the music and crowd. In fact, I could hear him better than he could hear me if I said something to him.  *They are comfortable. I wore them for about 3.5-4 hours and no soreness or anything. *Discreet. They go way i

The Rev, Deke, Scottzilla, and Jimbo.

Double bass forever.

Tonight! The Reverend Horton Heat! Horrorpops! Nekromantix! It's a psychobilly freakout! And because I'm old, I'll be trying out some professional grade earplugs that aren't supposed to degrade sound quality. http://youtu.be/H96XcNWKZVg

Since I brought it up, how crazy was Machete Kills ? This crazy.