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Zzarchov Kowolski not only has the coolest name in gaming, he writes fantastic RPG stuff and now is making a boardgame that looks quite cool. Originally shared by Zzarchov Kowolski GIVE MONEYS So I mentioned awhile ago about how I was working on a boardgame for some people and it would go to kickstarter. This is that kickstarter. It is not an RPG, it is a Euro style boardgame. That being said, it would mean a great deal to me if this was successful. It would allow me to focus on releasing some more RPG work as well. I am not the best at self promotion but I hope you know me well enough to know that I don't work on crap and that if I am working on a worker placement game, it is going to be a damn good worker placement game. We've got working prototypes, we've got suppliers, we have completed art from fellow Canadian C Huth If you enjoy boardgames (or hell even if you don't, I am not the fun police) please back this. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1594988817/pio

White Plume Mountain The giant crab is now the crab from Moana. Boom. It's now awesome instead of stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lrosBEW-Q

Originally shared by The Public Domain Review This ukiyo-e woodblock print, by the late Edo period artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), illustrates a story involving the “Sea Monk” or Umibōzu, a spirit in Japanese folklore. The ocean dwelling spirit — so called because of his smooth monk-like round head — is said to capsize the ship of anyone who dares speak to it. The specific tale illustrated in Kuniyoshi’s woodblock tells of a sailor Kawanaya Tokuzo who, despite it being considered unlucky in the world of seafaring, decides to go to sea on the last day of the year. A terrible storm breaks out, and the giant figure of the Umibōzu appears. Against the roar of the waves the apparition asks, “Name the most horrible thing you know!” Tokuzo yells in reply, “My profession is the most horrible thing I know!” The answer apparently satisfies the monster as he then disappears along with the storm: http://buff.ly/2ogjkNC

Kid builds spaceships. Show kid hex map. Give kid dice. He will start mumbling about what's in range with no prompting.

So Flynn is turning stoolie? https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-offers-to-testify-in-exchange-for-immunity-1490912959

Some stuff I hadn't heard of in here. Originally shared by Al Tlön "Phantom dogs, spring-heeled demons and a half-man, half-owl hybrid - these are just some of the strange and mythical creatures from English folklore that have inspired writers for centuries." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-38260413

Look at this raptor beefcake. Originally shared by Scott Hartman Hey, look what I have in honor of #UtahraptorWeek. http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/at-long-last-utahraptor

Seems like a good time to repost this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU

Sharing again because I’m revising Snubfighter. Thinking about adding some complexity by limiting the number of hex faces a ship can turn before having to move another hex forward. Medium maneuverability would be 2, High 3, and Low 1. An Ace pilot might affect that in some way. Also, just looking at this again, Y-Wings are better than X-Wings since they've got better armament. Wookiepedia has Y-Wings at 80 megalights instead of 100 though. Originally shared by Casey G. Just came across this chart that ILM’s effects dept. used to compare the performance of various starfighters for the Return of the Jedi space battle. I think I need to tweak the speeds of a couple ships for Snubfighter now.

Mini Lego rockets to fight some mini Lego saucers, and improved versions of the fighters I posted last night. Decided I didn't like the cone noses.

Blacker than the blackest black...times infinity. http://www.sciencealert.com/this-object-has-been-sprayed-with-the-world-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out

Any of my DCC peeps know how much thieves guild stuff will be in Lankhmar DCC? Being a member, running them, rival guilds, etc?

Some Lego snubfighters.

I wonder what President Obama has been up to since leaving office?...Oh. Originally shared by Sci-fi Covers Worlds of If, January 1962. Cover by Francis illustrating “The Yillian Way” by Keith Laumer. http://bit.ly/2nJCHhn #scifi #sciencefiction #magazinecover #1960s

Spent too much on ebay last night when I found a seller with reasonably priced Star Wars micro machines. Need more ships for Snubfighter. Then I went over to the Litko website and bought a bunch more stands and custom tokens because of course. Anyway, did you know there was micro machine version of the Skipray Blastboat? I didn’t, but now I’ve got two on the way.

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I can't think of anything weirder to add to this. Except that in a CoC game this would be real. Originally shared by The Public Domain Review "February 16, 1896. – The idea of a special handwriting belonging to the planet Mars occurs for the first time to Hélène’s astonishment in a Martian semi-trance." "August 22. – Hélène for the first time writes in Martian. […] She accepts an ordinary pencil, which she holds in her customary fashion, between her middle and index-finger, then writes from left to right the three first lines." At the turn of the 20th-century, a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva spent five years attending the seances of the medium Hélène Smith. Discover her Martian handwriting and landscapes here: http://buff.ly/2nZktcR

You heard her, bio-apes. Originally shared by **** Once Chromatic Soup is published I want to create a Biomega playset for Stay Frosty. Like Battle Acarians replace Armored transports. Marines living in a bio generation ship and boarding space kaiju. (Using the amazing d100 biological dungeon rooms table thing).

Bernie Sanders's real plan. Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

The family that plays Dungeon together, hates Green Slime together.

TO&E approved. Originally shared by Rick Hull Gathering materials for taking Casey G.'s Stay Frosty out for a spin

Parcheesi is fucking weird. I'm the Lego hover tanks.

I heard some kids went in there and never came out.

Apparently I put this on FB seven years ago. http://m.imgur.com/E0oS8

Good morning.

How we do Spring Break. Get an AirBnB cabin in a little northern Minnesota resort town in the off season and play games.

Caught the neighborhood deer playing tag. Never seen anything like it. Short video. Some of these deer are probably siblings. Last year there was a doe with triplets in the neighborhood.

As of late last night, 50 copies of Stay Frosty have sold (combined print & pdf). That feels like enough of a milestone to celebrate. Thanks to everyone that picked it up, shared it, etc. I hope to hear play reports soon. http://www.lulu.com/shop/casey-garske/stay-frosty/paperback/product-23093720.html https://www.rpgnow.com/product/206742/Stay-Frosty

It's time for Perdition !

This Lego Ideas thing is expired, but look at these Lego Star Control ships. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/11290

Yep. Originally shared by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4McsQjOgJVk&feature=autoshare

Prequels, etc, but I do love the look of the ARC-170 Starfighter.

First sighting in the wild! #stayfrosty Originally shared by Jay Exonauts My PRINT copy of Casey G.​'s awesome STAY FROSTY arrived this week! Rules lite and filled with language only a space marine could love. Here's a few new Russian-made space grunts looking to hunt bugs. Get your copy today; http://www.lulu.com/shop/casey-garske/stay-frosty/paperback/product-23093720.html?ppn=1 #stayfrosty #gameoverman

More Snubfighter playtesting. A-Wings each splashed TIEs in the first round of engagement. Now it's a scrum. The outcome of this round was shields down on Red 3. Winning initiative will be huge.

Bookmarking for myself. Originally shared by Ben Milton My first draft of a slimming-down/old-schoolification of 5th edition D&D. Still missing the magic section. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kfFFlaRRYqdk5NdDZaakJFQVE/view?usp=sharing

This is the article I was waiting for. An analysis of the new dinosaur taxonomy. Complete with the question I've been asking for a while: "where the fuck did feathers actually start?" And does this new theory help answer that? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/ornithoscelida-rises-a-new-family-tree-for-dinosaurs/

Gaming crap I’m working on Snubfighter: space fighter miniatures wargame. Right now considering a two-page basic rules for free and a full-rules version booklet (still very short). Storming Woeship Malephar: Stay Frosty campaign. Five linked missions and a random mission generator for expanding the campaign. Gaming Crap I’m thinking about Stay Frosty Roll20: how hard is it to put together a Roll20 campaign for sale in their marketplace? No idea. I should look into that. Stay Frosty Intro adventure: pay-what-you-want adventure, the same adventure I used to playtest. Riders of the Purple Lotus: maybe the best way to do this weirdo cowboys & dinosaurs thing is a weirdo solo gamebook? What are you working on?

Snubfighter solo playtesting on Roll20. Two X-Wings vs. four TIE = dead X-Wings. Greater numbers is way more of a benefit than higher firepower. Especially with the boost from getting on your target's six, as TIE A has done here to Red 1.

Worthy. Originally shared by Mun Kao A THOUSAND THOUSAND ISLANDS is a Southeast Asian-themed fantasy visual world-building project, but it's not just a South East Asian re-skin of generic Fantasy. It's a bit more than that, I try to dig deeper into history and folklore and figure out what South East Asian fantasy is and might look like. I have a Patreon for it as I would love to work on this full time. https://www.patreon.com/athousandthousandislands In the Patreon, I share with supporters my research, trivia, thoughts and my drawings, stuff I genuinely think would be interesting. For now I think I might just re-post some of the stuff from my Patreon here, but eventually would hope to figure out what would be the best stuff to post here. https://www.patreon.com/athousandthousandislands

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Chance of playing...approaching zero. Chance of backing...86.7% Originally shared by Pinnacle Entertainment Group Fear Agent™ RPG Kickstarter, March 28th–April 13th! Earth is collateral damage in a war between two alien races, and what’s left of humanity get thrown into a galaxy of terror and adventure we never knew existed! With more twists than anaconda yoga, it’s only going to get darker out there in space! Start your journey at the Fear Agent™ Kickstarter! A setting this big won’t fit in a standard-sized book, and it’s spilled out into all sorts of accessories! http://ow.ly/O0Cy30a7KH2

Originally shared by McFarland New on our bookshelf today: Fascist Lizards from Outer Space: The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson’s V By Dan Copp Available at: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6712-6 http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6712-6

Got a thirty year old filling replaced. I haven't had Novocaine in over 15 years I bet.

The Snubfighter ship record sheet. No more hit boxes, instead each ship has systems that can be damaged. Of course, ships can just be blown up outright too.

Snubfighter 2.0 still needs playtesting, but here's a mock-up cover. The font is called Snubfighter!

My wife is listening to the hearings and has promised me she'll let me know the moment someone says, "pee-pee tape."

Logan summed up in one panel. It was good. First two acts excellent, third act was kinda turdy.

The men who stare at Martians. Originally shared by trey causey The CIA's report on a remote viewing of Mars dated May 22, 1984: In the envelope was a 3x5 card with the following information: The planet Mars. Time of interest approximately 1 million years ago. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf

Goofing with my Snubfighter rules and felt the need to draw this.

Sophia Brandt, do you accept complimentary games for review? I'd like to send you a copy of my game Stay Frosty. Thanks!

Intermission at King Lear. The Fool is Armin Shimerman.

The Mississippi from the Guthrie Theater.

Need to watch this again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXc0-EME0C8

Weird synchronicity. On this day in 2010 Mrs. G and I went to Macbeth at the Guthrie and tonight, seven years later, we are going to King Lear at the Guthrie. Macbeth's costume design was almost post-apocalyptic. This is the best photo I could find, but the battle uniforms were dusters over chainmail with gasmasks. Weapons were pistols and knives. Dudes rappelling from the ceiling and Macbeth gunning them down like Chow Yun Fat, then knifing a bunch of motherfuckers. I'm guessing Lear won't have anything like that, but I'm sure it will still be good.

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/ghost-vs-world/

I think Kurt Russell's wikipedia page just spoiled Guardians of the Galaxy 2 for me. Let that be a warning to all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgMFY1JFGU

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ochre_jelly/sets/72157647706131447 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ochre_jelly/sets/72157647706131447

I was reading the Tet-Zoo blog, as I do, and there was a link to this amazing piece of local TV journalism with some colorful Rhode Islanders who encountered a sea monster. It’s wonderful. Less than five minutes. Watch it. The blog post is great too. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-soay-island-sea-monster-of-1959/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwwyCW10i7Q

So it's St. Patrick's Day and D&D night and there's a whiskey bottle in the booze cupboard...

Improve your day by taking a survey for a 2nd grade class that went viral. Hard decisions here.

Fucking terrible. “Overall science funding is stable, although some missions in development will not go forward" all climate and Earth facing missions. "this budget no longer funds a formal Office of Education," fuck you, kids. “We remain committed to the next human missions to deep space, but we will not pursue the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) with this budget. " Good. Maybe an asteroid will end this farce. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-acting-administrator-statement-on-fiscal-year-2018-budget-proposal

Starting Storming Woeship Malephar , the first Stay Frosty campaign. Five scenarios pitting Confederation Penal Marines vs. a Manhattan-sized spaceship full of demons. The characters are criminals, given the choice between death and service in the Penal Marines. As such, they do not have regular military training, so instead of an MOS, players choose a Criminal Profile: Arsonist Dishonored Veteran Hacker Murderer Political Dissident Rogue Psychic Street Doctor Thief

Originally shared by Scarfolk Council It has been announced that the UK's armageddon advice guide is to be republished. However, our original cover for the booklet has been rejected for the reissue. More nuclear-related Scarfolk info here: https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/search/label/nuclear News about the republication: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/protect-survive-nuclear-war-republished-pamphlet?CMP=share_btn_tw

Originally shared by John Conway Mountain Iguanodon by John Conway http://buff.ly/2njCjXA

Pretty squatchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYz9L_jl-0Q

#coverswithnobook #stayfrosty

My phone reminded me of this picture from a year ago. I DM'd Minecraft D&D for the kids. Abby took over as DM after this session.

Saw Kong last night. It adheres to all soldiers vs. monsters tropes so closely that Stay Frosty would be an excellent fit for gaming it. Just need to tweak the equipment list a little bit.

Originally shared by gg no re Lots of interesting stuff to talk about this week: Stay Frosty, a stylish illustrator, some movement bragging, and a couple D&D utilities. https://ggnorecast.com/2017/03/12/65/

Beware, Earth.

Holy shit, looks like we're actually getting a small tax refund this year.