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It's time for Hollow Earth Expeditions !

Aww yessssss... Includes a feature length profile of Alex Toth.

Edgar Johnson is there a street kids of Ur-Hadad occupation table somewhere?

Cowboys and dinosaurs from someone several orders of magnitude more talented than I. Another person Valley of the Gwangi made a big impression on. #weirdwestwednesday   #RotPL   From:  https://flic.kr/p/aDndVh

Great article. There was an article about avocadoes recently that talked about the same subject.  Originally shared by Erin Kane What can you do when you are an ecological anachronism? "Consider the fruit of the Osage-orange, named after the Osage Indians associated with its range. In the fall, Osage-orange trees hang heavy with bright green, bumpy spheres the size of softballs, full of seeds and an unpalatable milky latex. They soon fall to the ground, where they rot, unused, unless a child decides to test their ballistic properties." There are some trees I saw near the edges of the Tai Forest with big spikes on them, going up maybe 12 feet (4 meters or so). They were too big to be painful when I touched them, and squirrels used them as handholds. I couldn't figure out quite what to make of it, and then I remembered that until pretty recently, the forest was full of elephants who were probably very destructive if you were a tree that they wanted to rub against, or someth

Here’s another prehistoric antagonist for you. Prestosuchus was a large Triassic rauisuchian predator. That means it was giant crocodile looking thing that ran with its legs directly below it, like a mammal or dinosaur, instead of sprawled out like a lizard. Basically a giant croco-tiger. They dominated the large predator niches during the Triassic. At this time, dinosaurs were just small things if a predator, or medium sized if a herbivore. It wasn’t until the great extinction at the end of the Triassic when Prestosuchus and its cousins died out that dinosaurs could truly begin to rule the world.  If you need a model for a more animal-like dragon relative, Prestosuchus fits the bill. They look like some of the art for the 3e and 4e D&D drakes. They’d make good mounts for lizardmen or other reptilian humanoids. In any case, #rollforinitiative  . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestosuchus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauisuchia

Hey, you know what Star Wars? GI Joe totally killed your toy sales. Kung Fu grip forever. #yojoeday   Special Missions 22 No toy commercial here. This is another hostage rescue issue. There seem to be a lot of these. Chuckles, Lady Jaye, Hit and Run, Shockwave are staking out a house where three terrorists have taken a family hostage. One holds a child in his room upstairs, and the other two, a man and a woman, hold the husband and wife in the kitchen. This is kind of a “and now we know!” story. It’s about not making snap judgments about people based on appearances. The terrorists killed 17 people at an airport before escaping and taking their hostages. They were wearing ski-masks, so the only way to identify them is by the horrifying grin on one of them. Hit and Run thinks he sees the same grotesque grin as he looks in the house through his binoculars.  Lady Jaye disguises herself as a makeup saleswoman and knocks on the door. A pretty blonde woman answers the door and Lady Jaye han

Stupid Poker Gunfight Rules Each Gunfighter is dealt a number of cards to make a poker hand with. PCs and Major NPCs Greenhorns get 5. Cowpokes get 6. Gunfighters get 7. Legends get 8. Others Minor NPCs get 4. Groups of henchmen get 4. They all use the same hand but can attack up to as many PCs as are in their group of henchies. Each “step” your hand is better than your opponents, you do a point of damage. Damage removes cards from your opponent’s hand until they have zero cards. For groups of henchmen, each point of damage removes 1 henchman until they are all dead. Need something to bring in raising the stakes, bluffing, and jokers. Maybe jokers are wild and always add a level of damage. Maybe a raise means you do an extra point of damage if you win, but if you lose, you take an extra point of damage. Ties mean you both take damage. Not #RotPL  but maybe.

Have I seen the new cast of Star Wars? Yes! Like 47 billion times!

I'm giving my wife advice on how to handle a kerfuffle with her friends.  What could go wrong?

Speaking of minis games involving space tanks. Here’s one of my abandoned projects. I’ve got a lot of 15mm GZG sci-fi stuff. Some of it is painted, enough for one army, but my t-rex alien opponents are not painted. I would use Ambush Alley’s Tomorrow’s War if I ever got around to this. Every once in a while I consider putting all this on E-bay. Flickr link to all the pics: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hexxenhammer/sets/72157622561801107/

Good night. Originally shared by Matthew “Polybius” H

You would come up to Quetzalcoatalus's armpit, at most. 36 ft. wingspan. Fossil tracks show this is how they walked. They could probably fly 80 mph at 15,000 ft.  #rollforinitiative

Twin Cities Post I've got a buddy who is moving to the city with his family. He is looking for a realtor who is, and I quote, "not a complete tool." Thanks to the housing crash I've been in my place for 14 years and my realtor retired. Do you know or are you a non-toolish realtor? Minneapolis/West suburbs area. Thanks in advance.

Parent Post: Co-writing stories As a part of our effort to improve our daughters reading and writing, we've started co-writing stories with her. We trade off writing sentences. Abby and I started ours yesterday. This was actually really fun, and didn't seem like homework to Abby, or "parenting" to me. It was more a game. I did have to do a little prodding for action instead of just reaction to what I was writing, but then she got into the swing of it with action and jokes. I think this is hilarious. Title came after we were done for the night. Abby starts off and the last three sentences are all her's because she had to finish her joke. Dinosaur Attack One day I was riding my bike. At first I thought it would just be a normal ride. But it was not! I went around the corner by my friend Ginny’s house, and there was a Tyrannosaurus Rex eating her dog! I was so scared I screamed “AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!” My scream made the T-Rex turn its head toward me! I rode my bike as fa

Watching Dragonslayer . Tyrian here is a perfect Lawful-Evil character. He's totally ruthless and a dick, but his first loyalty is to the kingdom. When the king wants to bend the rules, Tyrian refuses him.

Coop and I hit the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit at the Science Museum again, then stopped by the FLGS, Source Comics and Games. Here are our respective purchases, which I think compliment each other nicely. Coop only wanted this Quetzalquotalus eating a baby sauropod. "He eat naughty baby dinosaurs." That's terrifying, Coop. And I got DCC, because that $5 pdf made me. And they still had $40 copies. Are the newer printings $60? Their didn't seem to be any difference, aside from the variant cover.

Must be spring, the creek has flooded the road.

Your grandparents were freaky.

Good night.

Did you know there's a Hungarian rockabilly scene? Hooray for cultural appropriation! They're awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdMXMmUNaK8

I'm in flagrante...in every way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetvK6ldl2s

The boy would not nap, therefore I couldn't either. The only solution to our combined crabbiness is Southern Culture on the Skids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs7RwL56YHc

Cyclopean ruins of the Ophidian Empire. #RotPL

The theme of D&D characters throughout history. Originally shared by Matthew “Polybius” H Have no idea why this song just popped into my head. Now it's my ringtone. http://youtu.be/dEbE3fGfF-o

It's time for ACKS ! This is the DM's message to all PCs. #ACKS

Accurate. http://www.theonion.com/articles/grown-man-refers-to-map-at-beginning-of-novel-to-f,35883/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

Gygaxian Democracy Hey, I need a few quick weird occurrences for a city haunted by an evil presence for tonight’s session. I’m adapting a 3e adventure for ACKS, and it’s railroady. To make it less so, I want to roll on a list as the PCs wander around town. Just quick things, could be some combat, but mostly not. Maybe require a save. I’ve got: *Gargoyle starts to fall of church, threatens to crush children. *Mug of ale slides across table of own accord and starts a bar-fight. *Beggar mutters, “It’s eyes are everywhere! Beware!” and then starts talking in an undecipherable language. What else?

Saw this gif and and made up my mind to back the Alpha Bandit kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/168734274/mobile-frame-zero-002-alpha-bandit

Chill the hell out, peeps. Originally shared by Keith Senkowski Seriously, who reads Techcrunch or Ars Technica for technology news anymore? Is it 1999? Am I at my first tech job?

Because I'm in a dinosaur mood, two pictures of Cryolophosaurs I took at the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit. Cryolophosaurus is a large early Jurassic theropod from Antarctica who lived about 190 million years ago. Think about the time scale for a second. T-Rex lived at the end of Cretaceous, 65 MYA. It’s separated from Cryolophosaurus by around 130 million years, twice the time that has passed since non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. That’s incredible. Anyway, Cryolophosaurus is cool for many reasons, number one, its awesome pompadour crest, which gave it the nickname “Elvisaurus.” They should have just named it that. On the PBS show, Dinosaur Train , there’s a Cryolophosaurus named King who talks like Elvis and sings rockabilly tunes about dinosaurs. But he’s kind of agoraphobic and gets nervous when his fans start to crowd him.  The other awesome thing about Cryolophosaurus is that it’s from Antarctica. It’s fossils came out of a glacier. That’s badass. In the Jurassic, Antarctica wa

Quickly copied from the British Library collection on Flickr. Pharaohs become snake-kings and queens. #RotPL

Good stuff about why you shouldn't feel bad about those half-done projects. I have a ton of half-done projects and they gnaw at me! Originally shared by Brendan S The benefits of not completing things. Also, a few words on Wonder & Wickedness, which is on track for being finished. Formal talk about that in the near future. http://www.necropraxis.com/2014/04/23/in-praise-of-aborted-projects/ http://www.necropraxis.com/2014/04/23/in-praise-of-aborted-projects

Calling this one done. More fiddly work was just making it shittier. Bleh, this was the hardest one so far. Avoiding anything this complicated going forward. #RotPL

I was going to go to bed, but now I may never sleep again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES1PGbawfqs

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RIP Father Patrick, blasted by a Deep One priest's spell. Very nearly a TPK for this half of the party assaulting the Temple of Dagon in Innsmouth. I barely got out with 3 wounds.  But holy Nyarlathotep, my art thief character blasted 7 out of 8 of the deep ones in this temple.

That's right, kids! It's time for Realms of Cthulhu !

Engraved Damascus steel Persian helmet. Features adjustable nose guard and the little thingies to the right and left of the guard are for inserting decorative feathers. I forgot I took this picture at the science museum a couple weeks ago.

Emergency Replacement Campaigns Do you keep a contingency campaign handy in case of TPK? If my Greyhawk players are crushed by the giants of Geoff, Anomalous Subsurface Environment is up to bat.

Reading more Dungeon Crawl Classics . I'd really like to play it, I don't think I want to run it.

Holy crap! #rollforinitiative   #savevsdragonfear   Check out that fighter's sweet sword.  Many, many more at the link. http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2014/04/the-anatomy-of-a-dragon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+digitisedmanuscripts+%28Medieval+Manuscripts%29

Fuck yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z65aq1EVGhs

Shoulda thought that through, kid.

#yojoeday  eases the pain. Special Missions 21 This issue is pretty much a giant set up for the punch-line on the last page. A bunch Joe nobodies (except Tunnel Rat) are hunting down Cobra in the sewers of New York. Larry Hama gets to show off some NYC trivia with the gimmick of one of the Joes using a tourist guidebook to provide useful information for the team. It seems Cobra is installing nerve gas bombs in the sewers and the fuses are too tricky to disable. The Joes chase the Cobras through the sewers until they meet a group of homeless people living in the still-posh underground home of a turn-of-the-century aristocrat, a-la Lex Luthor in the Superman movie. The homeless people are led by Sgt. Gamble, a WWII vet who despises surface-dwellers for abandoning veterans like him. One of the barely-a-character Joes lets us know how Hama feels about whining like that. Tunnel Rat appeals to him as a fellow grunt, and Sgt. Gamble agrees to help the Joes. After an encounter with an albino s

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Must be Tuesday. Could never get the hang of Tuesdays.

Sometimes I suddenly get the urge to play Space Marine .  This is one of those times. But I'm at work.

I solemnly swear to only use my powers for good and to witness the signature of legal documents.

Some more photos from the model railroad club Coop and I visited. These were dioramas depicting several Brainerd area towns at the turn of the century. Mostly mining and logging towns. The mine diorama is especially great. I've only built terrain for wargaming, which is usually really utilitarian and modular. Railroad modelling peeps beat the wargamers every time on terrain.