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At Con of the North, in a game of Ballad Hunters, the players went to considerable effort chucking rocks to get all the birds out of a churchyard. Then halfway through the game they suddenly realized they actually needed a bird, and had to resort to magic to summon one. #ttrpg

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TIL Earl Grey tea is named for a real person. The second Earl Grey was the member of parliament who spearheaded the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

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@jeremymessersmith.bsky.social Great show last night! You were right—I woke up with Everybody Gets a Kitten stuck in my head.

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At Con of the North I had the great pleasure to play Triangle Agency by @calebzane.bsky.social and @seanireland.bsky.social. There’s loads to praise, but I’d like to single out the dice mechanic!

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At Con of the North last weekend, I played a fabulous Into the Odd dungeon from @maxmoon.bsky.social : “The Wig-Maker’s Fingers.” Fashionable prostheses! Child labor! Theologically-literate rock ‘em sock ‘em robots!

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Traditional highland Albanian blood feuds, of the type practiced before the 1920s, were surprisingly intricate. Outsiders were sometimes hired to participate in them, and it makes a great TTRPG adventure hook. #ttrpg #history moltensulfur.com/post/hired-i...

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If anyone is at Con of the North in the west Twin Cities metro today... Tower Games will have a bin of our recycled dice out for sale this morning. Check them out! I just made them over the past couple weeks.

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I feel like I need to tap the sign cause I keep seeing people trying to "dunk" on hateful peeps on my feed. This ISN'T TWITTER. Please don't make it into it.

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At Con of the North yesterday, in a game of Ballad Hunters, the players went to considerable effort chucking rocks to get all the birds out of a churchyard. Then halfway through the game they realized they needed a bird and had to use magic powers to summon a crow.

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This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the party returned to a place they’d partially-looted earlier, only to find a new monster had moved in: a pony-sized goose that honked fearsomely, stole their gear, and “exuded mayhem magic.” #ttrpg

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Songs with the same meter can be song to one another’s tunes. Many of the traditional songs in my upcoming TTRPG Ballad Hunters use the “Ballad Meter,” which means they can be sung to tunes like Auld Lang Syne or the Pokémon theme.

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This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the party got their son killed. They’d raised Treeroy together. This time, they encouraged him to experiment with the weird cairn they found. Something he tried got him blasted with a lance of fire. Mercifully, after dying, he got better, but it was close!

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A team of marine biologists from the NGO Condrik Tenerife have documented the first ever recorded sighting of a deep-sea black devil anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii) in daylight near the surface, just two kilometers off the coast of Tenerife. #Nature #Animals #Science

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The Riddler has the alias “Patrick Parker” in The Batman (2022) because someone vandalized Riddler’s Wikipedia page 10 years earlier and nobody corrected it

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This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the PCs lost their pack animals. Without the animals, they couldn’t haul all their treasure, so they buried most of it to return to later. I love buried treasure, and I love that it was legitimately the right option for the party in this situation. #ttrpg

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This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the party instantly trusted the giant beautiful eyeless beast that said it wanted to be their friend. When it betrayed them at the worst possible moment, it almost caused the campaign’s first PC death. So they trapped it in an abandoned underground city.

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This is a great article by Ezra Klein. DON’T BELIEVE HIM.

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1/4 This time through running Ultraviolet Grasslands, I’ve been loving a piece of PC equipment I’d slept on the last time: the clicker box. “Handheld electromagnificent radiation detector. Medium range. Picks up 17 kinds of magical and mundane rays.” #ttrpg #uvg

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Y'all, you are not going to want to miss this. I played Defy the Gods at Metatopia two years ago, and it was an incredible experience.

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This week in Ultraviolet Grasslands, the party stumbled upon a MacGuffin they went looking for six IRL months ago, then forgot about. Suddenly the players are all in on that MacGuffin plot again. I thought the campaign was about to wrap up, but I guess maybe not? #ttrpg

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This week in Ultraviolet Grasslands, the party adopted a pet: a two-dimensional static-electricity ghost of a dog. They immediately and unironically named the ghost “Rover.” #uvg #ttrpg

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Before the Battle of Marathon, the Athenians promised Artemis they’d sacrifice as many goats to her as Persians they slew. They were more successful than they anticipated, and after the battle they couldn’t find enough goats to honor the vow.

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"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?" "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though." - Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next. Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.

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Stumbled upon a fun piece of lewd maritime slang from the 1788 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. The highlighted ropes there are called ‘bobstays,’ which was apparently also slang for a man’s taint.

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This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the PCs slew the dragon who lives behind the face of death. They had meant to beard it in its lair, but accidentally encountered it on the road, devised a clever scheme, and spent all their carefully-hoarded bonus dice to kill it then and there. #ttrpg #uvg

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The 401 B.C. Battle of Cunaxa ended a civil war in the Persian Empire when one king slew another on the battlefield. It’s a super gameable event! #ttrpg #history moltensulfur.com/post/pcs-on-...

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One thing I do admire about Smurf culture is how each one has an equal and unique role in their society where some of them are actual jobs like Housebuilder Smurf, but then there’s a guy just called Jerk Smurf whose job it is to be a jerk and that makes me feel like I have value as well

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Today I learned about Enyalios, a Greek god of war. Classical Greeks often saw him as an aspect of Ares, but maintained a separate cult of worship for him, even in cities that also had an Ares cult.

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Hello Bluesky! I'm developing a renderer that uses very small voxels and displacement mapping to modernize the retro aesthetic of games like Doom and Quake. I posted this elsewhere last May, but figured I'd upload the clip on here as well. #voxels #gamedev #rendering

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This week in the Ultraviolet Grasslands, the PCs—all grad students—agreed to do something dangerous and stupid, and the players spontaneously all stuck their hands into the middle of the table and chanted “Three, two, one, TENURE.” #ttrpg

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