Dwarf Fortress 53.16 is up. Another quality of life patch, this also fixes up some issues like invisible divine items and the one where a dwarf ordering a drink at a tavern with multiple staff would be served a drink by every staff member, sometimes resulting in acute alcohol poisoning.

the real way we SHOULD be buying these giant old novels that were originally serialized is re-serializing them lmao. this was never meant to be bound in one big tome. it was published in 18 "volumes" over the course of a year and a half. mail me a chunk of that book every month like it's a manga

My Appendix N Jam adventure is up gizmowidget.itch.io/sons-of-the-...

Sons of the Horn Mask by Gizmo Widget

A small mystery adventure

gizmowidget.itch.io

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Morbo saying: stop it stop it its fine. I WILL DESTROY YOY

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

I know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.

Gilgamesh

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Question for you – After The Odyssey, what should Christopher Nolan tackle next? Reply with your answer, and you might see it in print in our next issue...

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

Ok let's do the bird app thing. sign up with my code HG93N3. roostsocial.app/invite/HG93N3

This explains why I'm so childish.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains and the more languages you speak and the earlier you speak them, the better, according to findings from a study being presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona.' 1/2

Spades in the Park: the guerilla gardening ttrpg

Pick six things by indie developers you have been meaning to buy (ttrpg, video game, novels whatever). Roll a d6. Ignore the die roll and buy all six. Hard mode. Pick twelve works etc and so on.

Aaron Lim 林家丰@ehronlime.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again

Did you know this years ENNIEs judges were 100% white and 80% male? Anyway unrelatedly here's the application to judge next year ennie-awards.com/judge-applic...

There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

Random Blogwagon Roundup — Prismatic Wasteland

In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!

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I wrote about how good rolling with advantage is compared to a flat bonus. It was more subtle than I thought. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/advanta... This was originally planned to be part of @prismaticwasteland.com 's Random Blogwagon, but I was so slow to put it together that I missed the window...

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

Lego Pirate Ship TTRPG.

SprintingOwlDesigns@sprintingowl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay. You have unfortunately been hit with the curse that makes you adapt a work you liked as a kid into a ttrpg. What thing are you adapting?

Did you see the sign today about hobbies?

Give me a Dark Cloud/Dark Chronicle remake, remaster, sequel, anything.

iKE PASTEL@ikexpastel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I would like to know! 🤓👾

Infrequently? Sure why not

Jonathan Gibbs@jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Question: do you dress like you write?

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

This might be the best video ever

Unreasonably proud of my own joke. Please clap.

Gizmo Widget@gizmowidget.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So in poland 2d6 + 1 would be + 2k6 1

They should do a @yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social tries to understand the lore of Dynasty Warriors where he reads out the same summary of the romance of the three kingdoms for each game.

the Air Bud Double Negative Rule is so, so important. Every server and community needs it

Do I want to come over and watch TikTok? No. Send me the video I'll watch it here. What is wrong with you?

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2mo ago

lol I thought this was going to be about the more understandable but still fraught debates about removing offensive language in older books. But they're just stuffing them with new pop culture references?

Gimme... thirteen coffees and some toast.