Ric Wood

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Ric Wood@grislyeye· 26d

LOL ouch #ttrpg

a hyper-specific experience in mind. This is pretty bog-standard OSR-adjacent platitude stuff. Play to see what happens, prepare the world and not a plot, all those things that you read in Principia Apocrypha or whatever goofy onboarding text some Gen Xer with too much time on his hands and no gaming group wrote up to explain his gaming subgenre to others of his class.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· May 16

This is like a bit from 30 Rock.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· May 8

Fanatical recently had a bundle for the old Dark Conspiracy RPG and boy do I have some thoughts. It wasn't bad, maybe I'll write up a review.

Cover of Dark Conspiracy, shows a group of hungers descending into the sewers and discovering a horde of zombies.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· May 7

Ben very disappointed he can't vote. #VoteGreen

Black lab dog looking longingly at a polling station sign.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Apr 22

A pretty ornament from a good friend.

A small, stitched trinket of a rabbit tied with twine to the handle of an antique chest of drawers.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Apr 8

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is an insanely good show with vibes that are off the chart.

A car drives past a field of dead sunflowers.

A car pulls into a rest-stop at night. Another parked car waits with its lights on.

A sinister man peers over the top of a toilet cubicle.

A dog sits at the end of a darkened hall.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Jan 25

Orden is not explicitly a high fantasy world, even though there are some pretty high fantasy things going on in it, because the average person has very little access to magic. The typical village might have a priest who knows some real prayers that close wounds or cure minor ailments, or an alchemist or hedge wizard who can brew some potions or conjure minor spells, but that's the extent of it. The result is, though Orden is a pre-industrial world with technology and societies akin to 13th-century Europe, the quality of life of the people who live there is a lot closer to ours. They live about as long as we do, die from disease about as often as we do, and generally have diets similar to ours, though with vastly more basic and constricted options on their menus.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Jan 5

Spanish horror is on a high and The Wailing (2024) is an excellent example of it. Very like It Follows, but with its own unique approach.

Poster for The Wailing (2024) depicting the faces of three women cast in shadows.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 28

Calling it: all movies should be from the perspective of the dog from now on.

Poster for Good Boy 2025. A dog on a blue background looks apprehensively at shadowy hands reaching for him from the darkness.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 21

Keeper (2025) was pretty good with some A class monster design. #horror

Poster for Keeper (2025). A woman rests her head on a mans chest. Both their eyes are black. The poster reads:

If Only You Were Dead

A Dark Trip from Osgood Perkins

Keeper

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Oct 26

Crimes. It's crimes again.

THE GUARDIAN:

Special report
The Saturday read
How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew's money
11h ago

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Oct 24

Crimes. The plan is crimes.

Heading reading: Steve Bannon Claims Trump 'Will Be the President' for a Third Term — and Inner Circle Has a 'Plan'

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Oct 6

idk feels like uniformed fascists occupying Soho should be bigger news

Still from Turning Points UK, showing a phalanx of black-uniformed fascists blocking traffic in London Soho.

Text reads: "King's Army stop traffic in Soho's sex district".

And: "Activists from the 'King's Army' block traffic in Soho's sex district."|

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Aug 19

Uncovered these forgotten artefacts of the 90s.

Small stamped metal hanging, depicting a sun in bronze and a moon in tin.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Jul 3

Game night

The corner of my monitor displaying Roll20. Behind rests a set of books and a bonsai tree sitting on my desk.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· May 30

Hey hey hey

Ric Wood@grislyeye· May 29

If you're headed to #UKGE2025 you can buy copies of CONT/EXT from the nice people at @uktin.bsky.social. They're at table 383 in the NEC Hall 2.

A map of the NEC Hall 2. A red arrow points to table 383 in the top-left corner of the hall.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Mar 19

Just finished Octavia Butler's post- (mid?) apocalyptic classic, Parable of the Sower. You can see how it influenced things like The Road and 28 Days Later. Lots about environmental catastrophe and authoritarian capitalism, relevant to our present.

Cover of the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, depicting a stylised black woman wearing a red caftan and dress.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Mar 15

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

Photo of a black Labrador doggy sitting on a reading chair.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Feb 18

Why, the goodest boy of all time.

Title picture from the classic TV show The Littlest Hobo. We see an German shepherd dog standing on top of a rocket premonitory.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Feb 11

The Storm Beneath the World was kinda silly in places, but a lot of fun and some really interesting worldbuilding.

Book cover of the storm beneath the world, depicting a insect person riding a large fly like insect.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Feb 10

Some eerie reading for a cold winter's night.

Photo of the British Library edition of The Ghost Stories of M.R. James, resting on a bedside table.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Jan 9

From S01E03, Jodi was a bit-character who shows up with a list of complaints. She earns House’s respect by admitting she’s just getting the most out of her insurance before she’s fired. “I just don't like being told what to do.” Same, Jodi, same.

A 30-something woman with short hair, dark glasses sitting in a doctor’s waiting room.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Jan 7

This kind of casually passive-aggressive response is exactly why I hate forums/Discords.

Before I answer this a second time, I’d like to know what you found lacking in my first attempt

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Jan 7

Oh please, oh please, let this be good.

News article headline reading:

Trump Privately Complains About Clingy Elon Musk: NYT
Reporter
ONLY ROOM FOR ONE SHERIFF
Janna Brancolini
Published Jan. 6 2025 11:24AM EST

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 31

Not sure if I'm enjoying this. Apart from the lurid cover, it's quite slow and rambling, but I want to know what happens.

Cover of The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, depicting a red headed woman with red eyes and red lipstick over what appears to be a pentacle.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 29

Sometimes I think about things. For example, gritty, shared-universe reboots they'll never make.

Screenshot of note reading:

Cabot Cove

Gritty reboot of Murder, She Wrote, called Cabot Cove. Set after Jessica’s death. Featuring her estranged daughter, Annika, solving serious crimes, and a sinister figure who might be Jessica’s Moriarty.

Guest stars include:

- Betty White as Columbo’s irascible widow.
- Robert Wagner reprising his role as Jonathan Hart from Hart to Hart, now an embittered divorcee.
- The Equalizer as a UKIP-voting boomer.
- Richard Dean Anderson reprising his role as a balding, shades-wearing MAGA MacGyver.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 25

"Do we spoil the dog?" I wonder to myself as we serve him his own Christmas dinner.

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 25

Christmas cuddles

Ric Wood@grislyeye· Dec 23

The Ember Blade by Wooding wasn't bad. I'm not normally into epic fantasy, but this was fairly gripping low fantasy.