“You have been lied to” “This will change your life” “This one weird trick”.

I’m a little bit over hyperbolic claims in blog post titles.

Youtube would also have far fewer technical tutorials.

Pretty much my only use of AI is asking it what page to look at for the rule I need.

And now we start waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Boil them, then pickle them to keep them fresh.

If I have nothing prepped, it’s goofy random sidequest night.

One of my favourite sessions ever started when the player the session was focused on called out due to work. With my plans derailed I had ninjas crash through the window, steal her famous recipe book, then run off and leap into the back of a van with her biggest rival at the wheel. It turned into a driving battle on the highway with characters leaping from vehicle to vehicle while a supervillain chef pelted them with capsaicin-laced muffins. It ended with an elderly PC duking it out with a morbidly obese NPC (neither of which had any points in fighting) in front of a police station. They traded single points of damage until the cops finished laughing and arrested them both.

Looks like that link doesn’t go external. It might need to be edited.

Sounds like an interesting project. Can you give us more detail? What are the new races? What effect does the karma mechanic have? Will dungeon delving be your game loop?

I’ve never read FATAL, but I’ve read plenty about it. And I’m glad it exists, because it makes every other RPG better just by virtue of not being FATAL.

The videogame industry has been lurching from crisis to crisis for as long as I’ve been paying attention. I’m starting to think that’s their business model.

What was the film? Enquiring minds want to know.

Eclipse Phase. It’s a d100 body-swapping cyberpunk scifi horror game partly inspired by the Altered Carbon novels. In the default campaign the players are part of a conspiracy to steer humanity away from tampering with X-threats like alien viruses and tech left behind by hostile superintelligent AI.

I still might run it. My group cycles through GMs, each one of us running a campaign that can be years long. Last time it was my turn I ran Genius: the Transgression, next time could be Eclipse Phase.

The hole in the ozone layer.

Sounds about on par with the adventures of Captain Al Cohol.

That was cooked on a toastie maker. They’re pretty common where I live. It’s like a sandwich press with molded hotplates to squeeze the sandwich into the shape you see there. They do get kind of dry on the outside.

European comic artist Enki Bilal invented the sport for one of his graphic novels, his fans made it real.

He should have stuck to more sensible experiments, like Comrade Lysenko who tried to teach communism to trees.

Just think, if you open your mind and let other cultures be your inspiration, you too could invent something as reviled and divisive as Hawaiian pizza.

They’re like tiny extra-salty olives. I use them in homemade tartar sauce.

I make the same with dijon mustard and lemon juice in place of the sauce. Always a hit.

WotC really shot themselves in the foot spawning all this new competition, didn’t they?

They can do that as often as they like. This is great!