Doug Pirko
@waiwode.bsky.social
ttrpg GM/player without portfolio. Likes games with Samurai, realizes they aren't champions of the working class. He/him.
#ttrpg "The first rule of Italian driving. What's behind you no longer matters." - Gumball Rally. (Or maybe Cannonball Express--same movie, different actors) Past is Prologue. Listening to an Actual Play (I won't throw them under the bus, they're fine) for research on a campaign I might run. 1/x
#PortmanteauReport The old pre-CADPAT Cdn Forces issued field cap--ugly, but I liked them. On the label it had the word "Quarpel"--we all assumed it was a brand or style (or lack-of-style, given the hat in question). But TIL it is a portmanteau for a "Quartermaster Water Repellent" treatment.
If I ever needed art for Sasha, the Old Margreve Druid from back in the day? This would be it. Right down to the colour of the shirt.
Osprey Games 🎲@ospreygames.bsky.social · 3d agoPeter Johnston's 'Hedgerowe Warlocke' from our rustic fantasy RPG, Through the Hedgerow. 🎙️ "An RPG game steeped in a perfect brew of British folklore... what more can one ask for?" - @stuhorvath ✏️ Jonathan Rowe 🎨 Peter Johnston #OspreyGames #ThroughTheHedgerow #RPG #Roleplay #Folklore
I don't drink tea. And I don't need a charcoal fire in my apartment. But I'm sort of fascinated by antique samovars.
#ttrpg L5R5 Session 7 The Yoriki: Quickly overpowered warehouse guards with a fire invocation, and raced onward. The Hiruma scout shoulder-checked a Tortoise samurai into the bay, and made a bold leap to a departing boat. We split the party! And we ended with a climactic duel to the death.
The finest recruiting ad the US Navy ever had. All for under $14 a day! youtu.be/jhioeOeOHsA?...
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My Legend in the Mist crowd-fund #ttrpg arrived a short while ago. These books are just so stupidly beautiful. Glad it's a Friday so I can spend some time with them tomorrow. I need to clone my Sunday group so I can play double Sunday game now. or even triple Sunday game!
"That's weird. Hey honey, look! That giant sea serpent that's been chasing us across the East China Sea? Their dorsal fins seem to be glowing." "Huh. That is weird. Probably some sort of phosphorescent algae."
I don't want to complain about my current mug of coffee. But... This seems like a really great "basically-coffee-flavoured-hot-chocolate" International Coffees day.
So I guess we (🍁) had a Postal Bank for about 100 years (1868 to 1968-9). Still, Canada Post is ceasing door-to-door mail delivery but resuming banking? I already have a place that provides me banking services. What I don't have is another place that will provide door-to-door mail delivery.
#ttrpg I know we're jealous of the quick facility of computer game inventories, but I get a laugh out of any "tt" game where you can access things in your backpack while wearing it. Modern side-clips/pouches aside, without help nothing's coming out of that pack while it's on your back.
I don't usually mention this, but I've patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and porthole down. Put cables to her, 'fore and aft and girded her around. Tomorrow, noon, we hit the air and then take up the strain, and make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
Ilan Muskat@calculon.bsky.social · last wk.I don't usually mention this, but I'm one of the twenty brave men, all fishermen, who would make for him the Antelope's crew, and was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold, would fire no guns and shed no tears from Barrett's Privateers
The old Legion of Doom HQ *is* available as a BnB rental--but they don't tell you there's no roadway through the inhospitable swamp. And we definitely found interior mould. Doesn't compare to staying at Cobra Central. 1 star. 🟢🔴🔴🔴🔴
#ttrpg L5R5 Session 6 Things the Yoriki learned. 1. There are three Gambler* Bosses in town. But are any involved with the disappearance? 2. The Scorpion exile was helpful. Lots exiles in this end-of-the-path town. 3. The tattooed Ronin may have been a Crab. 4. Sinister findings in a warehouse!
To my delight, this morning my "good" and "bad" knees have swapped roles. Truly I am amongst the blessed.
Are the Amber novels by Zelazny part of the Monsters Inc Universe? I'm pretty sure Corwin recruits an army of Sulley's kin from a shadow at least once.
Silly thought, relevant to no one. The golden age of GURPS splat books predates Wikipedia. Even if you weren't playing GURPS, I (and other GMs) used GURPS sourcebooks as quick and ready reference guides. Now? From Edo Japan to Conan to Black Ops I'm probably going to search engine it.
I do love the work of "mull"--fictional but historic clothing armour and weapons that always act as a source of inspiration for my RPG sessions.
𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖑@mudnblood.bsky.social · 2w agoA devout follower of the Diurnist Church, the Pilgrim bears a heavy reliquary shrine. Whether undertaken as penance for his own sins or as an act of selfless atonement on behalf of others, his burden contains a holy relic which brings the light of the divine to the darkest of places.
The Library was such a big part of our lives growing up. From the little turn of the century Drummond Branch on Main St to the sprawling maze (to an eight year old) of the new library on Victoria St, which opened in '74. Citizen of the land of knowledge (and quite a lot of science fiction) indeed!
Beverly@grammylovesyou.bsky.social · 2w ago
#ttrpg L5R5 Session 5. Things the Yoriki learned: a. The courtesies and customs of exchanging monetary gifts w/samurai. (Moneylending). b. The high cost of floor clarinets. (Drugs are bad!) c. Hints of maho. (The darkest magic, my soul swims in... ...ahem. Never mind).
The leaked shots from the new Spiderman movie look fantastic!
From the Table of Contents for the new Discworld (tt)RPG. Item two. Inadvisably Applied Magic. I don't know anything about the system, but it seems they're in the spirit of things!
I was 9 years old when I bought Kirby's Manhunter #1 off the spinner rack. Man, I loved it. So trippy. I hate the modern "Manhunters are evil-bad dudes" thing. And the look would come back for Machine Man (although that was a very different comic).
