Finally gave Bloodsport Gambler a try. As a solo game, it does not pull punches at all. 2-player is also a furious time. So many ideas to mine here for other games though.

These three games I just picked up today. They’re like a collection of what has been and is possible in #ttrpgs. Also got to recommend some folks Michael Korns’ Modern War in Miniature as they’re actually making a version of that game without knowing it. It’s been a neat day for games things.

Finally giving the #boardgame Bloodsport Gambler a try. For a solo game, it offers some pretty intense fun. Four two players, it’s super fascinating. I wonder about combining two sets for 4 players. It has a really interesting use for random secret info that should be used more often in games.

Been enjoying a #wargames mystery started on a comics forum. Seems this game was maybeade by someone on the HMS Malaya and they got to the point of selling and advertising. So many games during this time are gone hit curious if anyone has seen a copy?

Sometimes love is awkward yet overwhelming.

I made friends with a garbage truck driver the other day. We talked a lot about sanitation.

A lot of my nerve damage and carpel tunnel is subsiding thanks to exercise and acupuncture. So now, I’m ready to start a montage to reclaim the flamin finger crown I never had but always wanted but couldn’t have because I had numb fingers…

This kids found a show they liked. It was a ghost show.

One thing about the spaces between #watgames and #ttrpgs is this weird crossover space that existed in the 80s and then reappeared lately. There’s so many neat ideas. Take this from Avalon Hill’s Mystic Wood.

Played some Thunder Road Vendetta #ttrpg from @9thlevelgames.bsky.social. Playing a Viking-themed Zoox Cube named Onboard Bluetooth. Smart Cars in Mad Max is a whole canvas for everyone, it seems. Originally started with post apoc Speed Buggy.

Today is the last day for me in academia. Honestly, my last day was in March of 2020 but I thought I could find joy l…somehow. I met a few of my original mentors last month. Super supportive. Working to live is now the order of the day. What comes next for work will be neat though…

There we go.

Gundam TCG event today. Went and dug out the ole @krystman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy android: Netrunner playmats

I have found myself thinking about the intersection of #wargames and #ttrpgs again. Specifically, i've been thinking about the use of the caller role in early #dnd as a way to streamline play and help ease the anxiety of folks too shy or too anxious to speak or act publicly. This device is...

After a brief stint with glass pens only, I've since figured things out. Am now at the, "Hmm, maybe I need a victorian writing slope" part of stationary and pendom.

Design ideas are hydras and each head is another design idea and also another hydra. - Greg

It is, once again, pierogi making day. Only 11 dozen this time! Prolly actually 12 but there are sticky fingers about.

I was walking around a toy store the other day and saw a crossover I did not expect but also was ok with. Wonder if we’ll ever get Dick Tracy x Fraggle Rock

Will spend today reading textbooks and editing marketing materials. It has been a while! Greg will help me out by judging the books before I even have them.

When I bought this amazingly themed #ttrpg, Kristen demanded we tell her mom that it was a game. It is very convincingly branded as a retirement home brochure!

I'm going to be shocked when Dungeon Crawler Carl does more for Jai alai than Tron did. Time to dig out our parents' old xisteras and start tossing the ball around.

For whatever reason, I find myself constantly going back to The World’s Easiest Roleplaying Game, TWERPS. I know Itch mostly replicates the game in a bag #ttrpg era, but man, spinners of games in a bag is such a feel. Only Button Shy #boardgame displays do it now but they’re rare.

Picked up a copy of Sorcerer’s Cave to continue my obsessing over a new #ttrpg inspired dungeon #gamedesign. My brain keeps flashing these features, these parts, but it’s not fully connected. There’s an idea in there somewhere… So we keep fretting.

I find myself pulling out Cardmaster, once again, to do some #gamedesign. There’s something in this game that is fascinating but I haven’t been able to unlock it. Attempt 13 will do well, I’m sure.

In my mother-in-law’s house, there’s a painting of two hobbits tripping on pipe weed. I wonder what they’re talking about.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character, wrong answers only.

I think a lot about the congruence between Peter Naur saying that Psychologists changed the definition of intelligence to what computing needed and Bruno Latour outlining computing's impact on modelling the double helix in Science in Action. This time the pandora's box seems more destructive.

I didn’t know this song was so perfect for Greg.

I won’t recover from this one piece Meme.