Dave Percival
@tetrapod
He/Him. Former Carpenter, occasional gamer + writer, proud dad and husband, hockey nut, fumbling gardener, and home cooking nerd.
My wife has a flight coming up. Naturalky, dutiful husband that I am, I wrote her a love letter.
This is an image that was going around US-based firefighting and flight groups on Facebook. Not only do they completely omit that he was a foreign volunteer, but they have the GALL to use AI generated images. His friends point out that those aren't images of him.
Well, this is the funniest meme I'll see today. Pretty sure only my Canadian peeps will get it, but still.
Wife put in a dinner request - hot wing poutine. Hot wings, a gravy made of hot sauce and butter, cheese curds, and Cavendish brand tater tots. Garnished w a variety of local onions, and some Mexican parsley. Chopsticks because all my forks are apparently in the dishwasher.
My players are looking for a new ship (they don't like the jump drive on their far trader). I'm thinking the 400 ton Survey Scout would be a good hook to dangle in front of them - beat up & in a dangerous place, of course. Might name it the Black Pearl & place it as treasure on my "isle of dread"
Progress report - everything assembled, and now it's time to mount on poster board. Have a few additions I want to make (I want to label every cluster and main, as well as add a legend and title), and then it's time to break out the power tools and make a frame.
Halfway done the mounting part. Because I'm just using an inkjet printer, the pages don't align right so I have to make a bunch of cuts to merge it all together. It's most clear in the Pryme system, in the lower right. Still, looks really good for what it is!
Work on the back deck continues. In this episode, we learn that Dave is the type of guy who would rather keep and refinish, as opposed to throw away and replace. And also, he's absolutely terrible at painting.
One whole session later, and they have all the clues, but they haven't really figured out the smoking gun (but my wife was so CLOSE to it before she was interrupted by another player).
Setting up a hook for my traveller conversion of the classic d&d module, X1: The Isle of Dread Colonists from the vacuum world of Islent were sent to the jungle colony Keltchner Many of these colonists enrolled in Project X1-I0D, the colonisation of a fog shrouded isle No one knows their fate
The PCs will pick up the quest in Islent, when they find Rary Barbarossa's (sp?) abandoned spaceship and logs, as well as a giant diamond or pearl which they sell for half a million credits. Then it's off to the colony world of Keltchner!
I've spent approximately an hour this week searching for the tv remote, which has a tendency to fall between the couch cushions. Desperate times call for inventive measures. And I have offcuts. And zap straps.
These are my blood sugar readings from my sensor today. Those little ups and downs? That's, literally, me when I'm sitting up, as opposed to lying down. I haven't eaten anything today (bad, I know!) and all I've consumed is some coffee with almost zero amount of sugar/dairy in it.
My daughter just drew a portrait of me. It should be in the Met. Or MoMA, at least.
Every few months my kids elementary school throws a dance, and I have to attend as her parent chaperone. I always get bored, and message my wife as if I'm on the front lines in a Ken Burns civil war movie.
It's @lilcoppertop.bsky.social and my ninth anniversary. Went out and walked around Victoria, and ended up in an upscale Japanese bar/bistro in Cook Street Village. Y'all, look at this whisky sour!
I was bored, so I made a spaceship for Traveller. Kind of ship my players would drool over... And I might use it as a replacement for the kind of boring ship found in "The Last Flight of the Amuar" which I might be running soon.
Tell me this doesn't scream "new age cult that secretly worships an Elder God".
Sometimes, when I'm bored, I go on Facebook and say stupid shit for giggles. Exhibit A.
Made my wife a brunch tray. Of course I had to take it outside to do the photo justice.
This is how I prep individual chapters for #Scavenger. Lots of notes, arrows, and little spurs to refresh my memory.
While there are a few TTRPGs I can teach in minutes, the only one I'd say is really "good" is the Star Wars D6 RPG. And while it's very easy to teach, it is also horrendously slowed down by its math, which can require players to roll dozens of dice and add them together each turn! 9/