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Hey, Neighbors was pretty freakin' funny.

Date night at Milton's. Why have we never been here before?

It's Clint's birthday. It's a hell of a thing, killing a man... Or not so much in Josey Wales. http://youtu.be/ryuXHtAIqXU

Abby is watching ANT Farm on Netflix, which is normally a horrible show. But this episode has the principal stealing the personalities of the kids and turning them into frozen yogurt. Chyna eats the yogurt and the kids personalities inhabit her brain. The view inside her brain has banks of computers labelled with D&D ability scores. I saw Wisdom, Dexterity, and Constitution.

Wasn't really feeling it with the Legos tonight. But this little hovertank is kinda cute.

Bonk.

Abby found a snapping turtle skeleton. Still rotting.

Ask me anything about dinosaurs and/or RPGs. Or other stuff I guess. The dinosaurs and RPGs sum up the good stuff though.

I’m bored, so here’s a weird dinosaur for you. Nigersaurus’s head is shaped like a vacuum cleaner. This straight row of tiny teeth never stops replacing itself. You can see how many are waiting their turn to rotate to the front in one of the pics. I imagine these things just never stopped browsing. Head down and eating all the time. No need to #rollforinitiative  I don't think. It's too busy eating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigersaurus

Abby, click on  http://www.whopooped.org/ . Originally shared by Minnesota Zoo It's Fischer Friday! Animal Fact: Fischers are one of the only animals that eat porcupines, so quills end up in their scat. Visit www.whopooped.org to learn about animal scat! #fischer #funfact #mnzoo

Me irl. http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientific-community-baffled-by-man-whose-waist-32,36157/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Default

Now I'm setting up the kids’ dinosaur toys and my miniatures in little scenes for reference. #RotPL  

Still time to get in on this. It's funded. If you’re looking for an educational game for you and the kids or you just like cladistics (and who doesn’t?) you might want to check it out. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aemarcy/go-extinct-go-fish-evolved

There's an orc biker gang on Scooby-Doo.

"Where did Dave go? Aw, shit. He had all the loot." #RotPL

Parent Post My 10 year old daughter is immersed in Google products at school and at home. She's got a chromebook and google ID through school, and she's got a gmail address and chromebook at home. She uses Drive everyday, sharing stories and presentations back and forth with her friends. The other day she drew a picture and shared it with me through G+. Now I'm sharing cute animal gifs people post with her on G+. The point of this story is that I quickly figured out how to exclude my "family" circle from who can see stuff I post to "all circles."

You'll like this one, Abs. Originally shared by Thund3rbolt Baby Panda (vs) Bamboo Tree

Just finished listening to the 500th episode of WTF . Crazy. It’s like Maron was giving himself therapy. I’d say it was narcissistic, and maybe it was, but hearing him with his former best friend and his dad was touching.

Good night.

It's time for Stars Without Number !

Raptorsapiens is just a snack for a hungry Thunderbird. Based on one of my toddler's toys. #RotPL

You Shall Not Pass! Originally shared by Richard Branson A penguin vs a predator: photo of a lifetime by Linc Gasking. Have you taken a better one? Would love to see it! http://virg.in/phl

I can't put my finger on what I like about this... Oh wait...EVERYTHING. http://www.cornucopia3d.com/portfolio/maspix

Lots of people sharing this this morning. I'm going to as well as a reminder to myself.  One thing I'll add is Patrick Wetmore's house rule on replacement characters. New characters start at one level below the deepest dungeon level reached. So if you die on the 4th level of the dungeon, your new character is 3rd level. This is a non-railroady way of keeping the focus on the megadungeon. The party can go off and do whatever, but as insurance they might want to press on and open up that next dungeon level. And before the rules lawyers ask, no you can't start a new character at a higher level than your old one was. The best you can do is come back at the same level you were before. Originally shared by John Arendt I've been meaning to do this for a while - put together a list of principles that define my approach to building out megadungeons.  I've been running this style of game for a few years now.

I just named the Hangout event for tomorrow's Stars Without Number session Fly Me To the Tomb . #FrankSinatra   #IlikePrometheus

Hopefully we get three players? events/c1oc183af0dv55enlg2l2v17f9o?authkey=CO_B9qe8jer_OA

"How do you like the color?" "I dunno... " "What's wrong with it?" "If it lives in a cave why would it be green?" "It's a pale green, like it's losing its color." "What about pink?" "OK, but I'm still going to make it creepy." "Any pink is a good pink." #RotPL

Did people back this or playtest it or anything? Opinions? It's really hard for me to not buy western rules. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1861515217/gunmans-law-wild-west-shootout-rpg-and-tabletop-ga?ref=48hr

Kobold for Riders of the Purple Lotus "inked." I don't even know if I want to color this one. #RotPL

Don't mess with the family with a buffalo.

And then everyone read the article from Mike Mearls saying that there would be a free "Rules Cyclopedia" pdf version of D&D on day one and all the nerds were like: http://wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20140527

Don't mess with a guy on a buffalo. Watch them all. Thanks, matt greenfelder, freaking hilarious. http://youtu.be/iJ4T9CQA0UM

Kobolds in Riders of the Purple Lotus are degenerate subterranean raptorsapiens. Barely intelligent, but cunning and able to use tools to make fiendish traps. Feared by miners and explorers. #RotPL

Panorama of the awesome mural of Double Ditch at the North Dakota Heritage Center. Double Ditch was a Mandan village of 10,000 on the banks of the Missouri from 1490-1785. Abandoned when Smallpox decimated the population. Despite being a Anthropology/Archaeology major at a North Dakota University , I'd never seen a view like this before. The most we usually ever see is a recreation of a lodge, not what the city looked like in its prime. Also useful as reference for your non-european roleplaying settings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ditch

Never forget what time forgot.

Trailblazers would love to be able to ride a longhorn, but these surly beasts can never be broken to the saddle. They can, however, be driven to market and slaughtered. #RotPL

Wasted.

What's going on here? This is the most hipster pizza and beer I've ever had and I'm in fucking Bismarck.

The ND Heritage Center is rad , yo. Smilodon fatalis vs. Bison latifrons.

Drove through a huge lightning storm on the prairie last night.

I would totally do the Bundle of Holding if I didn't own all these books already! http://bundleofholding.com/index/current

Preparing for holiday traffic out of town. Remember to zipper-merge, people. Don't get pissed when I don't move to the right until I'm at the cones. That's what you're supposed to do.  http://www.dot.state.mn.us/zippermerge

Monument Valley , I give you 3.5 stars. So close to greatness. Style and gameplay are excellent. The minimalist storytelling was nice, but would have been better if they’d not had the little guru ghosts trying to give you tiny nuggets of backstory through terrible writing. No dialogue at all was necessary. The puzzles varied wildly in quality. Some were very good, especially once you start spinning shapes to make new connections. Some of the middle puzzles were just not really puzzles. Just following along opening the next section. They were pretty, but not challenging.

My local movie theater's FB page is pretty awesome. They're always posting stuff like this Polish Godzilla poster or behind the scenes pictures. 

Alright Google, you win this round. These are neat. https://plus.google.com/110773650362547171117/stories/4ce15431-a5e1-3faa-978a-492d1e78e62e1460776cddd/1

Looking for bands I actually listen to: Clutch $10-20k.  I wonder how much is left after expenses? Not much I guess. There's a reason the small bands tour constantly. Buy a t-shirt, you cheap bastards. http://priceonomics.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-book-your-favorite-band

Today I learned that male elephant seals can bite each other so viciously that they’ve evolved a “chest shield” of hardened skin to protect themselves. So here’s a real case of an animal who’s AC differs depending on where you attack it. #andnowyouknow   #rollforinitiative   #horrifyingnature

You'll like this, Abby. Originally shared by Matthew “Polybius” H #caturdayeveryday #caturday

OSR thoughts about Riders of the Purple Lotus I’ve drawn a lot of pictures now, I think it’s time to do some more rules-type thinking. I’ve decided there will be just one saving throw that is modified by whatever stat bonus seems applicable. Str for grabbing onto a ledge, Con for poison, Wis for mind control, Dex to avoid a pit, etc. I’m trying to decide if a first level character’s save target # should start at 15 or 16. I’ve got one character class (sort of). I’ve got the hit die at a d6 right now, but I wonder if that should be a d8. I’ve got pistol damage at d8. Just feels like there should be some parity between the most common weapon damage and HD. Level/HD is such a useful number. Level is your attack and save bonus. Same for monsters and their HD. Defense (not AC, since cowboys don’t wear armor unless it’s a stove plate) starts at 14 (ascending) to get around the no-armor thing. Modified by special abilities, Dex, and at higher levels possibly artifacts the character has discov

Saving this for reference. http://osrcompatible.org/osr-compatible-logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZFLOINfPIg

Bret Gillan I'm glad you posted that youtube link earlier. This freaking rocks. Barrows - Wormhole https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKp-osibI36FjJI4ZpMOv1jRHsqONYGwS0rPUC5sog2ztgWx1Ie7LOW_a10_Wbj7rB71lAbxe1CfCFQNFoqLM9s5fKKJJ_g0DcWElo23f1gK1Kaaz9KWOQQ4FytsyUSwCeRFyfQZqNsxzR8VBLPXBSTiKCZiOZHgMrA8oqcSQ0jAU70lu7o%3D

Time for Realms of Cthulhu !

The best. http://poorlydrawndinosaurs.com/?p=126

My notary stamp in action. Originally shared by Matthew “Polybius” H

More Mary Anning for her birthday. This is the Ichthyosaurus species, Temnodontosaurus, she and her brother discovered. It was not the first ever found, but it was the first ever seriously studied. Of course no one writing papers on it ever mentioned who had collected it and meticulously prepared the fossil. The only person worth mentioning was the rich lord who bought it from Anning. This thing was 40 feet long. Totally worthy of a #rollforinitiative . Another fun fact, Mary Anning was the first one to suggest that the fossilized masses of fish bones found in the abdomen of ichthyosauruses were actually fossilized shit. Coprolites. It’s serendipitous that I just learned that before Mary discovered what they really were, they were called bezoar stones. Abby and I just read the part of Harry Potter where Professor Snape asks Harry what a bezoar was. They were traditionally thought to counteract poison. It is so amusing to me to imagine some old-timey lord dropping a hunk of fossilized

Hey, you should really click on the Google Doodle today. It’s Mary Anning’s birthday. Since the kids and I have been on such a dinosaur kick, we've been reading a lot of dino-related kids’ books. Any book that talks about Mesozoic sea reptiles will talk about Mary Anning. But mostly her childhood, not her adult life. Her Wikipedia page is pretty detailed. When she was a kid she started collecting fossils on the coast of England near her home. Her discoveries helped kickstart the science of paleontology. Predictably, because she was a woman AND not an Anglican she wasn't allowed to participate in the scientific community.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning This painting was done based on her fossil finds. I love these old views of prehistoric animals. They belong in a monster manual.