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So it's not a dungeon. Stupid science! http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mystery-devils-kettle-solved

Talk shit. Get bit.

Noah Stevens​ and did I see evandro novel​ post about this too? How good is this for solo play? http://www.wargamevault.com/product/188598/Starport-Scum

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Put a sword in one hand, gun in the other. The robot-apocalypse will be way cooler than the trumpocalypse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c

Games Played 2017 Keeping track is surprisingly fun. I won't tease anyone that does it anymore. Games/Sessions Board Games: 6 Card Games: 17 Minis Games: 2 RPGs: 12 Word Games: 2 Dice Games: 5 Total Plays: 44 Different Games: 24 Game Most Played: D&D 5e.

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Tried some solo minis gaming using some sweet Aliens plastic army men I got from Jay Exonauts​. I used the Gruntz! rules in sort of a half assed way. The Marines had to plug the bug holes or kill all the bugs, but they barely got out of the first room and only took out one hole. They did kill all the bugs, but lost Hicks and two Hudsons. Apone and Vasquez made it.

Memories of my retail days.

Something tells me I should be suspicious of this claim.

Hell or High Water was the best western I’ve seen in quite a while. Don’t let the modern setting fool you, it’s 100% western. And Nick Cave soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbhuKjZCsQ

It's time for Perdition ! Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY

Coloring books are supposed to lower stress, right?

Way too real, Onion. Originally shared by The Onion “We need to make certain that harassed transgender students are fleeing to bathrooms consistent with the sex they were assigned at birth so that they can sit perfectly still with their feet pulled up on a toilet seat in an appropriate setting.” http://trib.al/DqYgWfK

Holy shit. Mecha game from Weta Workshop where you can win by blowing up your opponents or tagging their property with advertising. Holy shit. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wetaworkshop/gkr-heavy-hitters

This is interesting to me since we were just at the Field Museum.

Main takeaway from the news from NASA about these seven planets orbiting their star as close as Jupiter's moons is that old sci-fi cover paintings are 100% accurate.

Let me tell you about my character Tetza the Olman Warlock is now 10th level, and my DM just emailed me a dream he has upon leveling up. I’m reading it, it’s awesome, Tetza is on a pyramid leading some sort of ceremony, there are cultists approaching him to worship “and throw little pickles at him.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNgAiGQ_IM

Me IRL when I write an adventure with overland travel, wilderness exploration, and a dungeon, with complete tables for everything.

Brutal but fair. Originally shared by ClickHole http://trib.al/HNhFR37

Originally shared by The Onion "Wow, I guess I don’t need to squawk like a goddamn moron during every single takeoff and landing." http://trib.al/0WgVBCh

Twin Cities peeps, heads up. We're at a swim meet all day, otherwise we'd be there. Jay Exonauts​ especially. Originally shared by Science Museum of Minnesota On Saturday The Force is back for #StarWars Day. From noon to 4 p.m. launch stargliders, compete with wind powered pod racers, meet members of the Central Garrison - 501st Legion, and more. https://www.smm.org/starwars

Originally shared by Matthew “Polybius” H #genius

I never had any of the D&D toys, so I’d never seen this until Andy Garske sent it to me to use as a token on Roll20. This is just a fantastic picture.

Phone threats in St. Paul yesterday here. This is coordinated. If he was really concerned, he’d fire Bannon, declare white nationalists terrorists, and tell Sessions to investigate. But that would never happen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/20/scores-of-headstones-vandalized-at-st-louis-jewish-cemetery-jewish-centers-threatened-across-country-as-jewish-centers-receive-threats-across-country/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mix-cemeteries-10pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.7c04f682e337

Today's action was to email MN state legislators about a redistricting Bill that does not call for independent oversight. email john.hultquist@house.mn asking him to include your email as testimony for HF314; cc: rep.tim.odriscoll@house.mn, rep.jim.nash@house.mn and rep. sarah.anderson@house.mn. Rep. Anderson's HF314 does not provide for an independent redistricting commission minimizing the risk for political gerrymandering in MN's redistricting process.

Point crawl map. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~289733~90061509:Yosemite-

Here's a dungeon for you. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-an-abandoned-connecticut-opera-house-with-a-jail-beneath-its-stage

Highlights from Con of the North >An excellent Stay Frosty session, best part: the quiet, middle-aged lady playing the squad’s officer yelling, “You bitch!” at the NPC that tried to turn her into a zombie and then blowing the NPC away with her pistol. >Hanging out with Jay Exonauts, Jenifer Doll, Matt Towle, and the rest of the Saturday Night Space Opera crew. >Playing MCC with Julian Bernick. >Finally meeting and gaming with John Till. >Getting to bash robots as a lizard man in Brett Slocum's Tekumel game. Thanks for a great time, everyone.

Help me out, nerds. I’m bad at making up names for fantasy things. I need a few more month names for my Perdition campaign’s calendar. Suitably fiendish/devilish.

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Super cool. Originally shared by **** https://www.kirith.com/codex/game-player-guide/ I made my one page player rules into a webpage. I actually made the page editable so you can change the rules around however you like. There is a save button at the bottom that will save what you have done to your browser so you can come back to it later.

Good morning.

OK, I'm all in.

I'm about to Tekumel via the Black Hack.

My MCC characters, Blossom and Pork Chop.

Mutant Crawl Classics with Julian Bernick​.

And this is what happens when the Con brochure misprints your event's time. Oh well. #foreveralone

Stay Frosty at Con of the North went great! Great players all around.

Listening to the Mothman episodes of Astonishing Legends last night in bed while playing a game on my tablet. During a bit about Men In Black my tablet crashes hard, screen scrambled, static screaming through the speakers. It was like I'd just seen Samara come out of the TV in The Ring, I jumped and screamed and threw my tablet down. Scared the living shit out of me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcToNxPvZAE

Started listening to the Astonishing Legends podcast. It's good! Beginning with their Mothman episodes. I didn't know about this recording of the first encounter with Indrid Cold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HxY4suVjSo

Here's a local piece of shit politician. Western suburbs peeps, I hope you can get rid of her. http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/members/members.asp?id=15411 Here's a story from before she was elected. http://www.citypages.com/news/cindy-pugh-candidate-for-state-rep-compares-muslim-women-to-garbage-bags-6556187

It begins. Originally shared by Jürgen Hubert The Deep rises. http://inhabitat.com/octopi-are-taking-over-the-oceans-and-no-one-knows-why/

Shadowrunner caught on camera.

Maybe time to take away the keys to the Falcon. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/15/515328041/faa-investigating-after-harrison-ford-flies-over-jetliner-awaiting-takeoff?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170215

L.O.Fucking.L This is hilarious. It's not a leaker admitting that Trump and everyone else kept Pence in the dark. It's one of Pence's people, on the record, saying Pence is out of the loop. It must be all out war in the White House. But Pence made his deal with the devil so he could oppress women and gay people so he can pay the price. If something happens to Trump, it's good Pence will look super weak. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/14/trump-was-told-weeks-ago-that-flynn-misled-vice-president-about-russia-contacts-white-house-says/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_flynnwh-banner-230pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.778a5268d1e5

Just learned that Atopodentatus did not look like a weird Cthulhu creature, instead it looked like Daffy Duck. My old post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CaseyGarske/posts/HNq1bbbtSaM https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/06/atopodentatus-was-a-hammerheaded-herbivore-new-fossil-find-shows

Originally shared by Science Museum of Minnesota Happy Valentine's Day! 💘 https://www.smm.org/g/creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PmSac50nyo&feature=autoshare

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Good questions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/02/14/daily-202-10-unanswered-questions-after-michael-flynn-s-resignation/58a25127e9b69b1406c75cb0/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_daily202-950a:homepage/story&utm_term=.b49ad81c0711

Today would be a good day to call the Senate Intelligence Committee and ask them to look into a few things: Phone: (202) 224-1700 https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/ Who told Michael Flynn to tell the Russians not to worry about Obama’s sanctions? Why was it that only a couple days after Flynn became National Security Advisor that the Russians arrested three people for treason who had allegedly provided US Intelligence with information on their hacking of DNC emails? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/lawyer-3-charged-with-treason-in-russia-cybersecurity-case/2017/02/01/1b89a9a0-e877-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html?utm_term=.fb4bba9996f5 How concerned are they that Trump tried to handle North Korea’s missile launch in a busy restaurant with people taking pictures of him while looking at top secret information? Several things in the Steel Dossier have turned out to be true. Shouldn't they look into what else might be true? That’s a good start. Also, it's just

Stay Frosty arts and crafts complete.

Inaccurate paleoart as monsters. These demonic and wildly wrong quetzalcoatlus could be a good illustration of wyverns, dragons, or vrocks. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/quetzalcoatlus-the-evil-pin-headed-toothy-nightmare-monster-that-wants-to-eat-your-soul/

Making cardstock tokens for my Stay Frosty Con of the North sessions. Never done this before.

I'm adding giant shrikes to my campaign. They pick a PC up, fly them to their giant thorn bush, and impale them, leaving them to hang there until they die. Originally shared by Matt Uebel Just as god intended https://youtu.be/Zq8MAEBP8Ac

Explosion!

Thinking about saving up for a new laptop, one with "gaming" capabilities (that means it comes with a video card, I guess?) Say...$700 or under (preferably under). What should I be looking at for specs that will let me run middle-of-the-road games? Current laptop pictured.

Pretty sure the 5 year old can see jale and ulfire. "I see things that aren't really there." "Like what?" "Colors that aren't real. Like behind that tree there's a yellow-pink that's not a real color. And the sky is a not real blue purple." "Okayyyyy..."

Originally shared by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Roll of the dice: Asteroid resembles a Dungeons and Dragons dice. Asteroid 2017 BQ6 safely passed Earth on Feb. 6 at 10:36 p.m. PST (1:36 a.m. EST, Feb. 7) at about 6.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon (about 1.6 million miles, or 2.5 million kilometers). http://go.nasa.gov/2kBAG4O

Whoa. http://bittersoutherner.com/the-lost-continent-of-appalachia-and-the-beasts-that-roamed-it

Random table of 200 demon/devil names taken straight from Wikipedia, thrown into a google sheet, and made into a 1 page pdf. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B927w0kbCuZBb2tSeFNRMExSM0U/view?usp=sharing

Me IRL when someone posts an interesting kickstarter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvplYQO-fI

Ok, this is in fact the cyberpunk future we were promised. via Ciro Villa Originally shared by Takayuki Yamazaki Human-controlled robot arms can lift up to 400lbs Video: https://youtu.be/4Ty-gs7WrN0 This robot has arms to construct what humans can’t. #robotics #robotarm #Sarcos

Thanks, Paul Vermeren, I had no idea this existed. These are fantastic. http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/10/greg-irons-advanced-dungeons-and.html

High quality dinos in a 1970's book illustrated by a Yellow Submarine animator.

My 5e Magick & Megacorps 2085 ended last night. The Lizard People finally invaded while the party’s Bard’s band was putting on a benefit concert for the victims of the Transformer Massacre (the Mall of America was a transformer, and stomped through most of south Minneapolis before being defeated, crushing hundreds of homes and leaving thousands dead.) The Robo-Rex came through a portal and immediately breathed fire and blasted lasers into the crowd. After defeating it, they hacked it’s brain and using a Amulet of the Planes, shifted to the Lizard Dimension and defeated the King Lizard Wizard, trapping them there. Fade to black. The End? Starting Perdition next session, back to some very procedural D&D instead of this loosey-goosey 5e I’ve been running.

It's time for the series finale of Magick & Megacorps 2085 ! Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM8qEuuKtvM&list=PLFBCAD6CD9B80E0C9

One Page Wargames updated their website with completely reworked games. https://onepagerules.wordpress.com

More Stay Frosty play aides. Point-crawl map and combat range chart. Thank you, color work printer with 11x17 paper.

Originally shared by The Onion “I know I should be forsaking him, but what am I supposed to do, let the poor thing starve?” http://trib.al/iwX1jtK

Jay Exonauts has spoken. Here is all the sci-fi gaming you need at Con of the North . http://saturdaynightspaceopera.blogspot.com/2017/02/updated-con-of-north-programming-changes.html

Put hexes on this map. Scale is bottom left. So many terrain types. Originally shared by NASA Earth Observatory The Zones of Kilimanjaro Stories about Mount Kilimanjaro often focus on its height and location. The mountain—the tallest in Africa—is capped with snow and ice, despite sitting at a tropical latitude close to the equator. This volcanic mountain in Tanzania also has been in the news lately because that snowcap is shrinking, and scientists have gone to great lengths to understand why. Viewed from a wide, top-down view, Kilimanjaro becomes compelling for a different reason: To get to the icy summit, you must pass through incredibly diverse vegetation zones. Those zones are visible in this natural-color image, acquired on January 20, 2017, by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite. The mountain rises 5200 meters (17,000 feet) from the hot, dry savanna, through rainforest and hardy scrublands, to a rocky and icy summit at 5895 meters (19,340 feet) abo

Here’s what I did yesterday. I emailed this article to my local police department and asked what they are doing to prepare for when our own skinhead/militia/open-carry types start organizing and wearing uniforms in an effort to intimidate citizens they don’t like. Today at lunch I’m probably going to be emailing all my school board members and asking how they plan to shield our district from charter school nonsense. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/02/06/league-south-announces-formation-%E2%80%98southern-defense-force%E2%80%99

Gross. The fish-scale gecko has a freaky way of eluding danger. When snatched by an attacker, it rips off its scales and skin so it can slip away unscathed. Basically, it streaks to survive. “It looks like a fish until you grab it, and then it looks like a naked chicken breast,” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/science/fish-scale-gecko.html?smid=tw-share

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Well, lookee here. A Stay Frosty character sheet booklet that contains all the character creation rules and equipment lists. This should work for my Con of the North sessions.

Me IRL. Originally shared by The Onion "Nearly 90 percent of people experience their greatest feelings of delight and contentment on occasions when they wake up early and get to spend time alone in their quiet house while their spouse and children are still in bed." http://trib.al/MxER0TV

Stacy Dellorfano​ Zaya's Promise already made it onto my new campaign's hexmap. Excellent stuff!

We're playing games all day instead of watching the game everyone else is watching. I died of dysentery.

Mythic Creatures exhibit at the Science Museum is pretty cool.

On the 507th layer of the Abyss the ground is flesh. Had to camp in the Pube Forest.

It's time for some D&D !

I forgot to share this. Coop DM’d some Wild Kratt’s D&D for me last weekend. Chris, Martin, and Aviva had to free animals and fight robots using their Creature Power Suits.

Originally shared by Marko Bosscher Meet Bulbasaurus phylloxyron Interesting for reasons beyond its name, Bulbasaurus is a newly discovered species of an ancient mammalian relative called a dicynodont. It is described by paleontologists Christian Kammerer of Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and Rodger Smith at the University of Witwatersrand and Iziko Museums of South Africa in a recent paper in PeerJ. http://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2017/02/02/paleontologists-who-like-pokemon-name-newly-discovered-turtle-pig-fossil/#520a0946abc5

Jack Shear​ your podcast introduced me to http://www.kindertrauma.com which led me to big scans of TV Guide ads for V . Thanks, man.

On a whim, I also called the Senate Armed Services Committee, which John McCain is chairman of, to express concern about the necessity of the botched raid in Yemen, that if the military was leaking information to the press they must be unhappy, that the president did not appear in person to monitor the situation, and that I hoped Sentator McCain would consider an investigation. (202) 224-3871. I talked to a very nice lady in person. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/

Hey, did you know you can call the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and let them know that having Steve Bannon sitting on the National Security Council is fucking insane? 202-224-4751. You’ll have to leave a message. I did it. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/

“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightaway out of the water: And lo, he scuttled from the banks into a copse of fig trees. And there he did wriggle, and strain at his shell, and his mandibles did gouge a seam upon his chest, until at last he squirmed free, pale and new. And John saw that Jesus was soft now, and sticky with amnii, and he cried out, ‘Lord, you are prey!’ And Jesus hissed” (Matthew 3:16-21). Originally shared by ClickHole http://trib.al/9Zm4i4k

T-Rex running 25mph sounds pretty realistic. Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette How fast could Tyrannosaurus run? How hard could Stegosaurus hit? The physics of dinosaurs! http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2017/feb/01/deducing-how-dinosaurs-moved … http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2017/feb/01/deducing-how-dinosaurs-moved

One more post from this Filthy Monkey Men blog I found today. I have watched a YouTube video about the Neanderthal super predator nonsense. It's pretty fun. Neanderthal's as Uruk-Hai, basically. http://www.evoanth.net/2015/06/22/cannabalistic-neanderthals-hunted-humans/

Here's a human origin theory quack hypothesis I was unaware of. The Kumari Model of human origins claims that humans didn’t evolve in Africa, but rather, they originated on a continent in the Indian Ocean known as Kumari land, which was swallowed by the sea ~14,000 years ago. This Atlantian-esque region was huge, connecting India to Africa and extending southwards into the Antarctic. As humans migrated out of Kumari land and populated the rest of the world they took two routes, one West into Africa and East into India. Those moving into India continued migrating northwards, eventually settling Europe and the rest of Asia too. http://www.evoanth.net/2013/08/05/the-kumari-model-did-humans-evolve-in-the-indian-ocean/

Me IRL today. http://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/bring-me-down/

Decided to start a new collection. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-strange-case-of-the-minnesota-iceman/

Originally shared by The Public Domain Review "What We See Ghosts With" - from Vaught’s Practical Character Reader (1902). See more here: http://buff.ly/2jv3E7G

Originally shared by Lamentations of the Flame Princess We've gone past $10,000 in donations generated by this offer. Still hundreds of books left to be claimed. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. Could be so much more. Anyone with relevant media contacts that can help publicize?