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Weird. An hour ago a guy knocked on our door saying he was an overnight courier, looking for someone that was not us but for our address. I said that wasn't us, and he said he'd take the package back. So if we end up robbed or dead overnight, it was a scruffy white guy, 5'9ish, 190-200lbs. Not these guys though. However, I am contemplating booby-traps.

Just got a fancy new laptop and I immediately thought of this.

Calib Kerensky comments are closed on the message you sent me, so I'm sending this one. Level 9 adventure, I'm not sure. I'll think about it. But hex map makers, I do know. HexKit just came out and it's fantastic. https://cone.itch.io/hex-kit Easy to use, and looks great. Lots of tutorials on YouTube. https://cone.itch.io/hex-kit

Good morning. Coffee and a strawberry banana V8 screwdriver in a Wolverine glass.

Just figured out in Hex Kit if you select a general category of tiles like "mountains" instead of going into that category, it randomly chooses one each hex. You don't have to keep selecting a different one manually to get variety. Holy shit.

Abby's briarborn elf, Angel. "Her name is ironic."

Running my kids and little cousins through the Gatehouse of the ASE using Maze Rats. One casualty from automatons looking for fresh bones. But that death unlocked playing a Moktar, and everyone agreed Lion Man the Moktar was better than Monster Chopper the human.

Obligatory Hex Kit post. This is fantastic.

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River Piracy , as in one river stealing another’s water. If this was a China Mieville novel, the river would be doing it consciously, slowing murdering its rival for water to slake its insatiable thirst. Originally shared by NASA Earth Observatory River Piracy in the Yukon In the spring and summer of 2016, Daniel Shugar and colleagues witnessed an act of piracy in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The Kaskawulsh River hijacked the Slims River, stealing much of its supply of water and dramatically reshaping the region’s drainage. The ongoing retreat of the Kaskawulsh glacier in the St. Elias Mountains spurred this rarely seen process of “river piracy.” For years, meltwater from the Kaskawulsh glacier has fed two large lakes at the glacier front; those lakes feed the Slims and Kaskawulsh rivers. Previously, most of the water flowed northward via the Slims River and into a watershed that ultimately empties into the Bering Sea. A lesser amount flowed southward via the Kaskawulsh into a watershed t

12 year-old me needed this badly.

Watched The Void last night. It was good! No jump scares. Violence just happens. No one does anything superheroic and people mostly act like people might. Gameable as a location based adventure. Great visuals. Nice practical effects. Acting is good, but I’m not sure the sense of grief and loss they were going for hits as hard as they’d like, because mostly the characters are just trying to survive and don’t have much time for anything else.

Looks like it is on for DM’ing for my little cousins and niece and nephew (plus my kids) on an occasional basis. I think I’ll make each kid a folder with the Maze Rats rules, the area maps for the Land of 1000 Towers, and equipment they can buy with their gold.

Ben Milton did anyone make a Maze Rats character sheet with the character creation rules right on it? If no one has, they should!

Hey Twin Cities nerds, Bill Willingham is doing a signing at the Source from 1-5 tomorrow.

Frostgrave + Legos There's a solo campaign in the Frostgrave Folio . The first scenario is on a 2'x2' board, so I thought "I can build that out of Legos and use my Heroica figures." Each 2x2 plate w/ center post counts as 1". The scenario takes place in an alchemal factory that has just had an explosion. This creates a mutant alchemal monstrosity that wanders the board. Bad initiative rolls mean a giant rat enters the board (I used bats) and the monstrosity gets to go first. Right away the monstrosity saw my warband because it's random move gave it line of sight. It's tough, but in a couple rounds I got lucky and killed it. It reduced my archer and infantryman to 1hp each though. But with it dead, they ran around and picked up treasure tokens, and Grishka the goblin elementalist ended up with 205 xp. It was really hard to get my phone in there to take pictures.

More on the Minnesota Iceman. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/a-review-of-neandertal-the-strange-saga-of-the-minnesota-iceman-part-1/

I, for one, welcome our Canadian overlords. Looks almost complete and is right on my way to work. Dangerous!

Holy crap, I found a good game. Star Tactics is a fast playing turn-based space combat game.

There's been a lot of Pokemon around here lately, so I've been overthinking the Pokemon universe, as I tend to do. "Do people eat Pokemon?" has been my latest question. This article from Modern Farmer of all places, addresses the issue. http://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/food-politics-pokemon/

None of the pictures I took gave the scale of the Science March. Thousands and thousands of people. Kids in the lead.

Detail from my Science March poster.

Why have kids if you can't teach them to drink pickle juice?

As was typical of the period, there is a tendency for pterosaurs to be emaciated-looking, with protruding ribs, skeletal faces, and a permanent look of pain and torment. Incidentally, the Rhamphorynchus above somewhat resembles Steve Bannon's true form.

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs had a contest to illustrate how a bunch of utahraptor fossils found all together got there. These are all really good, but this 300 parody is my favorite.

Lulu code: SHIPSAVE17 15% off and free ground shipping. That's a good one.

Ok, that Adventuresmith app is pretty great. It just spit out this kick ass Maze Rats character the first time I used it. Character - Oswald Fisk Strength: +2 Dexterity: +1 Willpower: +0 Spell: Chaos + Servant Appearance: Slender, Ritual scars,     Exotic clothing Background: Slave Personality: Menacing Mannerism: Cryptic Items & Weapons Steel wire, Ten Foot Pole, Vial of Poison, Glue, Rope (50 ft), Chisel Halberd, Whip

Random idea for high-lethality D&D campaigns: Character death unlocks new classes and races. Maybe useful in “special snowflake” campaigns where no one reads your carefully crafted setting material. Instead you roll it out piecemeal as PCs bite the dust. “I really want to play a saurian warlock…sure, I’ll take a drink of that mystery potion.” Someone probably thought of this before.

20 years ago I evacuated from Grand Forks where I went to college to my parents house. I vividly remember watching the surreal sight of the flooded downtown in flames. Firetrucks parked in three feet of water but with no pressure to fight the fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Red_River_flood_in_the_United_States

A little on the cartoony side, and some of the theropods should be feathered, but still just about perfect for Riders of the Purple Lotus . Especially this one. https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/shaunkeenan/ Via Jay Exonauts https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/shaunkeenan/indian-walking-pachy/

Nineteen years married to this lady. Anniversary dinner a day late and after dumping the kids off at home after swimming lessons. "Get out of the car. We are leaving." Now it's wine time.

List your OSR blog on the original post for Patrick so he writes more ASE! Originally shared by Patrick Wetmore OK, so getting more back into D&D here. Everything I knew about ye olde OSR came from blogs that are mostly defunct. What's hot in OSR-land nowadays (is it still called OSR)? I rely entirely on you, Google+-circle-people, without you I am lost, bereft! (p.s. Google+ is nigh unusable nowadays.. is it still the primary way people do OSR chit-chat?)

Holy fuck. https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/micro-monsters-up-close-and-personal

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Use as a die-drop table to choose the antagonist of your Stay Frosty campaign. Yes, of course including the Diverse Alliance of Nice Guys. Fuck those goody-goodies. They break their prime directive all the time. via Wayne Humfleet Originally shared by Boing Boing The only sci-fi star chart you will ever need. http://boingboing.net/2017/04/17/every-sci-fi-star-map.html?utm_content=buffer15cd6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Coop won our first real Pokemon match, winning the Golden Valley Gym badge. Seaking had 40 damage, he healed him with a potion which activated Seaking's badass water horn power that does +80 damage the turn after healing. That almost killed Purugly in one hit. Next turn it was all over.

There comes a time in every warlock of the Great Old Ones life when they contemplate starting a cult. Where’s my downtime activity for that?

I also refer to all fantasy RPGs as D&D.

Results of Saturday’s Maze Rats session: one little cousin totally hooked and anxious to play again. He is very bright and we share a birthday, so he is getting my 5e starter box that I’ve never used. I’ll print out a copy of Maze Rats for him too.

Happy Easter.

Apollo the dwarf, Monster Crusher the human, and Danger Elf the elf enter the Moktar cave. The opening dungeon of ASE was successfully navigated. Maze Rats is a nice and easy little set of rules.

Once again at a family gathering I will attempt to get my little cousins and niece and nephew to play D&D. This has never worked.

Got my tokens for Snubfighter from Print and Play today. Not bad. The most amazing thing is that I managed to create the file and it worked.

These swoop racer things are headed straight for some walkers.

Someone please do a detailed analysis of this blurry screenshot and tell me if that’s a new A-Wing variant or an old Jedi Starfighter, and if that’s a new T-70 X-Wing or an old T-65. The frigates are serviceable, but not the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

"Dick, I'm very disappointed." http://www.brothers-brick.com/2016/10/11/you-have-5-seconds-to-comply-4-3-2-1/

No no no no no no no... And if the firearm in question is a shotgun, you can use the Shotgun Shot Clock scatter pattern to track all 12 pellets from the scattergun…all at once. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kenzerco/aces-and-eights-reloaded-a-wild-west-role-playing

The latest I Was There Too podcast with Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks) is absolutely great. He’s got some amazing stories about his experiences working on Star Wars, including meeting Michael Jackson and helping choreograph Yoda and Dooku's lightsaber battle based on anime and Jet Lee movies. http://www.earwolf.com/show/i-was-there-too/

Born (possibly out of wedlock?) in a stable, this jobless thirty-something of Middle Eastern origin had had previous run-ins with local authorities for disturbing the peace, and had become increasingly associated with the members of a fringe religious group. He spent the majority of his time in the company of sex workers and criminals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/04/12/crucified-man-had-prior-run-in-with-authorities/?tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.51a1db951334

Is this Japanese? Anyway, point-crawl map of the original Skull Island.

My feed is full of cosmic horrors this morning. Originally shared by Hubble Space Telescope IMAGE HIGHLIGHT: Planetary Nebula MyCn18 http://hubblesite.org/image/398/news_release/1996-07

Oh, so this bridge of dark matter is a pair of eyes 50 million light years across, watching us from the void. Not pictured: blind idiot gods piping madly. Originally shared by Ciro Villa First image ever of Dark Matter bridge captured by Scientists! "Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society." Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-capture-image-dark-web-galaxies.html https://phys.org/news/2017-04-capture-image-dark-web-galaxies.html

This was a nice start to the morning. OMG ... I bought this during the Deal of the Day because I thought with a cover like that the game couldn\'t be bad: it\'s not, it\'s *GARGANTUANLY GOOD* . I read it twice, laughed my axx off, called some friends, planned a match for yesterday evening. In a couple hours I created a random-based, point-crawl, \"dead space\"-like mission. Printed and some tables (even just for their names...), three carboard sheets, some tape and built a master screen with some Cpl Hicks pics on the front (...because you don\'t die off-screen, is that clear!?!?). Game night came: we created characters and played for three hours and my friends were blasted away by the sheer awesomeness (and some rockets). The game is smooth, pace is wonderful, balancing Tension to keep fighting at best but don\'t lose one\'s own mind makes it very real. One of the soldier rolled a SAW as his weapon and I think he\'s still giggling like a schoolgir

Snubfighter solo playtest pics. I wanted to test the shields and repair abilities, but added asteroids for fun. I also inadvertently ended up testing a bunch of edge cases that came up. Missiles in a turret? How does cover from asteroids work? What if someone doesn't want to go around the asteroid, can they fly through that hex? Called the game after four rounds because Mrs. G needed the table back. The Resistance got some lucky rolls and had three kills, but many damaged ships.

Tonight's solo Snubfighter playtest.

I was quite shocked when I opened up this pack of small toys for children and realized many of them have what appears to be male genitalia. Not sure if they were supposed to be codpieces or the real thing but about half the pack appears to me to be inappropriate for children. Many teachers get these types of toys for their students and this could lead to some serious problems at someone's job if they don't realize this before giving them out. I posted a picture so you can see and judge for yourself. Thank goodness I caught this before giving them to children! After separating them, 66 out of the 140 looked to me to be completely appropriate for children. The appropriate ones are very cute and I would probably buy them again because even if you throw out the inappropriate ones, the overall price is still pretty good. But I definitely recommend looking at them carefully before giving them out if you are using them in a work related situation. p.s.: The colors are different than p

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Minnesota spring. 😑 It was 70 this weekend.

70 micro machines on hex bases.

Tonight's project: Litko bases and Micro Machines. (Not Easter cards...)

Possible t-shirt.

Jeez, the Marvel movie villains are so boring. Do you remember the name of the bad guy in Thor 2? And Guardians of the Galaxy is great, but Ronan was just another scowling generic evil dude. So I don’t know about Thor 3… Waitaminnit… Holy Hel…