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Wizard challenge. We both rolled 10 spells, so we are absolutely even.

Whale carcass swarmed by giant crocodiles. "We flew down to take a look and we counted 14 crocodiles, including two that came out of the whale's belly," Originally shared by Marko Bosscher That thing is huge Note adult saltwater crocodiles on the right of the carcass o_O http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/crocodile-feeding-frenzy-on-huge-kimberley-whale-carcass/9001166?pfmredir=sm

Puerto Rico Charity Bundle Signal boosting here. I'm putting my stuff in again, but we don't want this bundle to be the same as the Harvey bundle. if you wanted to donate your product to the prior bundle, but didn't make it, I urge you to contact Humza! Originally shared by Humza K Hey folks - organizing an RPG relief bundle for Puerto Rico. if you're an RPG publisher on OBS who's interested in donating, please drop me an email at allandaros at gmail dot com.

First gym battle victory! We usually just walk around collecting Pokemon, but these new rules make it possible for a casual player to actually get a gym badge.

Deadball 1909: Perdition League Another team. Pretty pleased with this one.

Abby was bored last night and counted her dice. She has way more than I do.

Oh, what’s that, you poor child? The internet is down and you can’t watch Minecraft videos by those weird Australians?

Casey, I need maps for Stay Frosty! How about all the Doom levels turned into svg files? I think I've posted this before, but long before Stay Frosty. http://jason.sperske.com/wad/DOOM2.WAD/

Too old to rock, no more rocking for you Why do I go to Tuesday rock shows? Do I feel like shit because of that, or because the kids dragged more plague into the house? Anyway, Fishbone was a fucking party and the Reverend Horton Heat played a great set, bringing out this 20-something goofy looking kid named Matt Jordan to play hony-tonk piano on a few songs. Fantastic stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD6d8vAL9EY

Mother-fucking Fishbone.

This website is freaking great. Stories and interviews with special effects people about movie monsters. https://monsterlegacy.net/

And everyone made fun of the giant gar in the Monster Manual... Originally shared by giacomo bencistà From Big Book of Fairy Tales , 1886. Via: http://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=27068

New community for old-school games that aren't D&D . So, like OSR, but different.

Deadball 1909: Perdition League Gonna try making a four team league for Deadball. Here's the first team, named after my high school team. Players taken from my list of 200 random demon names. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/189BA3IXenu60FxsZVt1YMp0i-Nm0BlnWAYwsbpI6ETI/edit?usp=sharing Other teams are the Sheol Shades, Abyssal Plains Succubi, and the Purgatory Creek Sinners.

What's that on your face? Keratinous sheaths, ossicones, or antlers?

Coop: "Papa, I think we should use my big Alex toy as a giant for Minecraft D&D." Me: "Don't ask me, ask your sister. She's the Dungeon Master." Abby: "I love hearing those words."

From now on when I see "'Merica!" I'm just going to read it as "Mercia!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia

Maze Rats ASE The kids took it out of Mt. Rendon last time, looking at the map and heading for the ruins north of Gansett. I decided those ruins were the lair of Monsator the Wizard and his cornstalk warriors. I used the Moathouse as the map, with a grain elevator replacing the main tower and substituting cornstalk warriors for the bandits. They cleared the ground level, avoiding the drawbridge, so no giant frogs for me :(. Their mule almost got eaten by the giant constrictor, and the Briarborn Moktar made friends with the giant lizard. The lego flowers in the pic are the cornstalk warriors. Heading to the dungeon level, they had a baby grunkie go first, which took the green slime for them, and re-killed all the spore-zombies in the first area. That's where we stopped. Since Thursday I've DM'd Perdition and Maze Rats, and played the Black Hack. OSR Illuminati represent.

The Question was right all along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkNY-XBdOc

Deadball 1909 Red Birds win on an error in the 9th! Pop Corcoran of the Ravens dropped a fly ball hit by Urbane Dwyer, allowing Chappie Arnolds to score.

Minecraft D&D time!

Anyone played this? All 5 star reviews, and I watched the preview video and it was actually good. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/208817/Deadball-Baseball-With-Dice

First day of fall.

A bit of Lovecraftian weirdness from the Aubrey and Maturin novel, The Ionian Mission.

Punisher wins the Emmy for best use of Metallica and gun noises in a trailer.

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Always loved this cover. Originally shared by Winchell Chung Kate Elliot tweeted: Yes, it's true. My spouse & I were the cover models for Jody Lee's cover illo for 3rd edition Runequest We just happened to know Jody Lee. This was one of her early professional gigs. https://twitter.com/KateElliottSFF/status/910393249944104961

Tide of Iron Americans win, but it was close. The Germans got a supply card that allowed them to repair their tank. They also broke through on the northwest corner, but they couldn't hold it to get more units past the razor wire.

Tide of Iron Complaints about set up time are well founded. At the Breaking Point scenario. Germans have to break through the fortified American position.

The Flash I’m like a year behind here, and I’m assuming it’s jacked up in the comics too, because how could it not be, but the difference between alternate timelines and alternate Earths (Earth 1, 2, 18, etc) is fuzzy. They should be the same thing. But cowboy Wells was amusing.

Catching up on GoT, last episode we watched has a very nice scene of Jon Snow petting Drogon’s snout. I was very impressed by the effects, although there was still the feeling that Jon’s hand wasn’t actually touching something solid. But the animal itself looks great and seems alive. There was a decent amount of soft tissue moving around on its face and neck. I wonder if the show’s artists pay attention to paleoart? Here’s a long article on the “shrink-wrapping” of dinosaurs and other extinct critters. http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-convention-of-shrink-wrapping.html Abby came downstairs while her mom and I were watching and we let her watch this scene so she could see the dragon. Her comments: “Aww…that’s a cute dragon! Looks cooler than the Harry Potter ones.” and “I want to be a dragon queen.”

Arsinoitherium, from Mark Witton on FB. Not a rhino, but actually related to elephants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsinoitherium

Drivethru is having a sale and the theme is "Settings." Somehow Stay Frosty ended up in it. Maybe someone is really on the ball recognizing that setting is best implied mechanically through things like character creation, equipment lists, and bestiaries instead of pages and pages of exposition? Probably not and some algorithm scooped it up. Anyway, sale. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/206742/Stay-Frosty

I had to resort to actual parenting to get him to stop watching Minecraft videos on YouTube. Floated a paperclip to demonstrate surface tension, then Tide of Iron and a game of Pokemon. I'm exhausted.

Mark your calendars Twin Cities peeps. Originally shared by Jay Exonauts LET'S DO THIS. http://saturdaynightspaceopera.blogspot.com/2017/09/tabletop-tesseract-schedule.html #tabletoptesseract #saturdaynightspaceopera #RPGs #scifigames #spaceopera

Fighting a beholder right now!

It’s been quite awhile since I posted anything about dyslexia. That is because thousands of dollars of testing and tutoring with organizations that know how to diagnose and teach kids with dyslexia works. Since getting to middle school, Abby has had just about straight A’s. Before this school year started, we didn’t even demand a meeting with her counselors to make sure they knew what they were doing. The only action we are taking is emailing her teachers to remind them of her status and things they should and shouldn’t do. Should: give plenty of notice for writing assignments. Be aware of her taking longer to do work. Should not: Call on her to read out loud in class. Expect a ton of reading or writing to be done in one night. This APM Reports documentary is really hard to listen to. It’s like hearing our story over and over. When you’re dealing with this, you don’t know that there are other people going through the same exact thing. So, if you’ve got a kid, maybe listen. If they get

Originally shared by The Onion "No matter what I try, it just keeps getting worse." http://trib.al/KUW5KE5

Seen too many Twilight 2000 posts lately, and the threat of nuclear annihilation is suddenly as high or higher than it was when I was a kid, so… Just one of a thousand ideas in my brain. Made on my phone in a few minutes.

This is freaking great. https://youtu.be/YZ-bQ_9SyqI

This is my latest internet time-waster. Just clicking around the alphabetical list will get you something interesting immediately. I quickly found these: Striking the Flag https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/striking-the-flag.html General Mess Manual and Cook Book 1902 https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/g/general-mess-manual-and-cook-book.html Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity in the Armed Services 2016 https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/d/diversity-inclusion-equal-opportunity-armed-services.html The Constitution Gun Deck https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/c/the-constitution-gun-deck.html https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room.html

Monsterparts With IT out in theaters and Halloween and the 2nd season of Stranger Things coming, you might be wanting to do some horror gaming where kids are the protagonists. Pearce Shea's Monsterparts is the game. This game is: - Disturbing. I was drawing NPCs to use on Roll20, and there were two where I chickened out. Couldn’t draw them as they appear in the scenario. Censored myself. - Deadly. Just being in the presence of things harms your character. - Weird. There are no explanations here. Nothing will be wrapped up in a neat package. - Bleak. You can't win. Maybe you can survive. Your friends will die. - An OSR Hexcrawl. And it works better for horror than any other game I’ve read. https://gumroad.com/l/fWSrw

Death of an Asshole On September 13th, 1810 Robert Corbet, Captain of the British Navy and total bastard, was killed in action. Known for mercilessly flogging his crews for miniscule offenses, his foot was blown off by a cannonball while stupidly engaging his Africaine against French frigates Astrée and Iphigénie alone, even though there were three other British ships coming up behind him. He was so obsessed with spit and polish that he did not have his crews exercise their guns because it would ruin the finish of the deck and the shine of the cannon. When Corbet was given command of the Africaine the crew almost mutinied before he even came aboard. Another ship had to threaten the crew with a broadside to back them down. The exact circumstances of Corbet’s death aren’t known, it was rumored his crew only really started to fight when he’d been injured, and preferred to stand and be slaughtered rather than fight for him. It’s also unknown whether he bled to death, committed suicide

Card game variations fascinate me. https://www.pagat.com/rummy/handfoot.html My family plays Canasta, which looking at this website, is closest to Hand & Foot Canasta , and even more specifically, the Saskatchewan Hand & Foot rules. Our “houserules” being: -Black threes are worth nothing -Points to meld are based on the team’s score, like in regular Canasta, not on which hand it is. -No “hidden canastas” (I’d never heard that before) -No “wild canastas” with just wild cards -To go out a team needs two clean and two dirty Canastas -Red threes are not played on the table, they stay in your hand until you can play them on a clean Canasta. -and some other stuff about the conditions under which you can pick up the discard pile. My personal rule is to call dirty canastas Nasty Canastas .

High-altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect-a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). In the mid1950s, most commercial airliners flew at altitudes between 10,000 and 20,000 feet and military aircraft like the B-47s operated at altitudes below 40,000 feet. Consequently, once U-2s started flying at altitudes above 60,000 feet, air- traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports. Such reports were most prevalent in the early evening hours from pilots of airliners flying from east to west. When the sun dropped below the horizon of an airliner flying at 20,000 feet, the plane was in darkness. But, if a U-2 was airborne in the vicinity of the airliner at the same time, its horizon from an altitude of 60,000 feet was considerably more distant, and, being so high in the sky, its silver wings would catch and reflect the rays of the sun and appear to the airliner pilot, 40,000 feet below, to be fiery objects. Even du

Mabel: Want to play cards? Ruth: Oh, that sounds like a lark. What shall we play? Mabel: Contract Rummy? Edith: Splendid! I know that game. Mabel: I start by removing one joker from these two decks and dealing 10 cards. Edith: Remove a joker? Whatever for? Mildred: 10 cards? Surely nine. Ruth: You mean seven cards, of course. Mabel: RAW is 10 cards. Jokers to number one less than the number of players. Mildred: Fine, Mabel, we shall reconcile our differences during play. Are runs still four cards of the same suit in sequence and books still three of a kind? Mabel: Of course, dear. later Edith: There, I meld with two books consisting of 4 threes and another of 3 jacks. Mabel: You cannot play that fourth three. Edith: I beg your pardon? Mabel: You may only meld with the minimum cards. You play your other cards on subsequent turns. Edith (rising from the table): Mabel… Mabel: It appears you usually play some inferior version…Shanghai or Liverpool Rummy, only good for the guttersnipes in t

A real problem. 🤔

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Facebook shows me an ad for The Orville: IMPRESSIVE says Looper.com in this article, which is not a review, about the trailer from two months ago, talking about the special effects. http://www.looper.com/76733/seth-macfarlane-the-orville-sdcc-trailer/ TOP NOTCH says Variety in this blurb in their Fall TV preview, which is not reviews, talking about the production design. http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fall-tv-preview-2017-what-to-watch-1202540556/

Here's that new 7,500 piece Millennium Falcon. Look at all the greeblies...

Impromptu MCC funnel!

Richard G​ there's a CCHC mini-game or downtime activity here. Mr. Fellowes failed his roll.

That's a pretty good one. Especially if you're buying more than one book. Lulu shipping is brutal. Originally shared by Steve Sigety New Lulu code Save 10% on All Print Products, Plus Free Mail or 50% Off Ground Shipping Use code BOOKSHIP17 | Expires September 10

This starts off like an LotFP adventure. What can I say about Madame Francine Descartes (better known to us simply as Madame F.), that has not already been said, so many times before? Today, a full five-hundred years after the occasion of her particularly senseless end — delivered in the dead of night by the soiled and ignorant hands of a superstitious sea-captain — we can, perhaps, glean a new appreciation of her contributions to the then-fledgling science of our own, independent, history. We can only imagine the horror that her father-maker, Monsieur Descartes, felt upon learning that this petty and provincial tyrant of the yawning oceans had discovered the fabricated doppelganger of his daughter, sleeping in a casket by the passenger’s bed, and recoiled with horror at the unexpected nature of her anatomic assembly, casting her, without trial or hesitation, into the churning waters. Madame F.’s body was never recovered. But her legacy, as First Lady of the Robocene remains. http://pu

Harvey Relief Bundle The Hydra peeps put out the call and a bunch of cool people answered. Proceeds from this bundle will be split between the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund ( https://ghcf.org/hurricane-relief/ ) and the Coastal Bend Disaster Recovery Group Fund ( http://www.cbcfoundation.org/ ) There is some amazing shit in here. Just about all of Hydra’s stuff is in here, so I can fill out my collection. But the most incredible is that Jacob Hurst put his brand-fucking-new super-rad Hot Springs Island books in here. It has barely been released and Jacob is already giving up a ton of sales to donate to this bundle. Snatch. It. Up. Also, Stay Frosty is in here. But you have that already, right? Thank you to Humza K for putting this together. http://www.rpgnow.com/product/220354/HarveyRelief-BUNDLE

Completely amateur cover making, by Casey: Hexes made with HexpaperPro. Using it in the crappy-but-generally-does-what-I-want-it-to graphics program I use did leave gaps between the hexes. Easy to clean up with a pencil tool. I’ll be buying this font. It’s called Snubfighter, I have to use it even if I could easily find a spacy free one. Ships and asteroids all from the free game icons website. Tweaked by me. All assembled in Google Drawing. It’s the only application I know that instantly shows you when things are lined up or equidistant from each other. It’s amazing.

Roll for initiative. Originally shared by The Public Domain Review The curious case of a sheep with a 26 lb horn growing from its throat. Full account of the presenting of the sheep before the Royal Society in London, 1755, here: https://buff.ly/2eFEmCM

Finally got Colt Express on the table. I liked it a lot. Screwing up each other's plans is very amusing.

So HexPaper Pro is making it way easier to work on Snubfighter. I was worried I'd have to try to make a bunch of images with hexes myself, but the diagram below is just the font with a black background and the ship and arrow images on top. What a relief. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220331/HexPaper-Pro

The Rangers were triumphant. Couldn't even kill one of them. With Rita the only bad guy standing, the Rangers formed the Power Blaster and destroyed her.

Playing Power Rangers Warstuff .

“Mom said you can’t sleep. What’s up?” “I can’t get this scary monster out of my brain!” “What is it?” “It’s a bunny…” “A bunny!?” “With no eyes!” “Ok…” “It’s head is like a hexagon but with ten sides.” “A decagon?” “What’s a decagon?” “I think it’s a hexagon with ten sides.” “Ok, it’s head is a decagon and it’s all rectangles for a body and ears and it’s got a creepy smile.” “That’s a pretty crazy monster. Know what you do with it?” “What?” “Make a folder in your brain called, ‘D&D monsters.’ Now put that monster in that folder and don’t think about it until you’re dungeon mastering.” “That’s...not going to work, Papa.”

Originally shared by The Public Domain Review In 1915, Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouts movement, published his DIY guide to espionage, My Adventures as a Spy. Read more about his ideas for hiding away intelligence on the enemy in innocent looking natural sketches in our essay "Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues": https://buff.ly/2vPOsmK