A wild and ill-conceived 1907 auto race from Beijing to Paris offers us interesting lessons about making car chases in RPGs more fun by making our chases fit what RPGs do best as a medium. moltensulfur.com/post/car-cha... #ttrpg #history
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Ennie award-winning TTRPG designer of Shanty Hunters. Historically grounded RPG content at http://MoltenSulfur.com. U.S. Navy veteran. Big ol' dweeb. Minneapolis. He/him.
I saw the Odyssey last night, went looking for takes, and read this link because a friend had shared it. SO FASCINATING. (It's long.)
Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w agoI have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
Honestly give it up to Gencon this year they finally found a way to make everyone take a fucking shower.
What's this? You can purchase SHANTY HUNTERS and so many other excellent RPGs at Gen Con booth 132?
Indie Game Developers Network (IGDN)@igdn-official.bsky.social · 7d agoMore pics of the IGDN booth at GenCon 2026. We'd love to see more! So reply with your own pics and videos at booth #132. #TTRPGCommunity #GenCon2026 #GenCon #IndieGames #RPGs #TTRPGs
What's this? You can purchase SHANTY HUNTERS and so many other excellent RPGs at Gen Con booth 132?
Indie Game Developers Network (IGDN)@igdn-official.bsky.social · 7d agoMore pics of the IGDN booth at GenCon 2026. We'd love to see more! So reply with your own pics and videos at booth #132. #TTRPGCommunity #GenCon2026 #GenCon #IndieGames #RPGs #TTRPGs
2 Days left on the countdown to GenCon 2026! There are still seats left in some of our games. Search IGDN to find playtests, TTRPG sessions, board games, and a seminar that will tell you all about the Indie Game Developer Network. www.gencon.com/event_finder... #GenCon2026 #TTRPGCommunity #TTRPG
I’m gonna be at Gen Con, running games of Nations & Cannons! I hope to be able to sneak away to Games on Demand once or twice, but we’ll see. :)
The mule deer triplets looking nice and healthy. ❤️ I met up with them in the garden as I went out to check mail so I quickly went back in again so as not to stress them out. Such a privilege to see them.
I Should Buy A Boat Cat Meme
Alt: A cat, wearing clothes, sitting at a breakfast table with a newspaper and a fancy teacup in front of him. He’s thinking, “I should buy a boat.”
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
One of my favorite thought experiments is how similar a historical memory has to be to true events to be considered “real.” Not “was Robin Hood real?” but “how similar do old Robin Hood ballads have to be to some real event(s) for us to say that Robin Hood was real”? 1/7
This week in Dragonbane, we pursued a wounded orc deeper into the demon-haunted woods out of fear he might summon reinforcements. #ttrpg
Time to grab your magnifying glass and pack your scones. The long-touted, short-statured crowdfunding campaign for Merryshire Detective Club is now afoot!
Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
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This week in the Tang Dynasty murder mystery campaign, a negotiation with a brotherhood of assassins leaves us with the suspicion that the masked figure organizing a coup against the emperor is none other than the Princess Gaoyang herself! #ttrpg
This week in Dragonbane, the ranger who has become a devoted follower of the helpful brownie spirit Sothmogg (not to be confused with the three-tongued demon prince Sathmogg) took her first steps towards learning the magic she will need to summon her beloved Sothmogg.
🚨my wife saw a BABY porcupine crossing the road today 🚨
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This week in the Tang Dynasty murder mystery campaign, a mysterious figure in black ambushed the party while we were disguised as Daoist pilgrims. Our cover story is blown—the assassins know we’re coming!
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*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
Got lunch with an old friend who teaches math out East. He runs the correlation every year between homework scores (take home) and test scores (in-person). This year, the correlation went negative -- the better you did on homework, the worse you did on the tests.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w agoabsolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
Every time I see something World Cup related about this Haaland fella, I always think, "Our former Secretary of the Interior?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haa...
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I am not sure if this person was cosplaying the Minnesota State Flag specifically or Minnesota more broadly.
This week in Dragonbane, our all-duck party denounced the cave system they delved as “hydrologically unserious.” With ducks, water’s always gonna be priority number one!
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
The calendar used by a band of 19th-century Dakotas near the Missouri River was defined by each year’s most significant—often unusual—event. A list of unusual events can become a cool table of random encounters! #ttrpg #history moltensulfur.com/post/odd-occ...
Ooh! Rusalka is a fabulous game!
ndp 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium@ndpdesign.com · last mo.Your favorite-designers-favorite-designer and Games on Demand stalwart Nick Wedig is getting a fully illustrated box-set version of his dark fairy tale game Rusałka from @nessundovelab.bsky.social! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
This week in the Tang Dynasty murder mystery campaign, we made contact with the mysterious Beggar King who gave us directions to the secret village of the assassins-for-hire Order of the Whispering Ghosts. The Beggar King only gets paid if we return from the village alive.
This week in #Dragonbane, we killed the insidious demon who trapped us in a Groundhog Day bubble. The demon told us it exists in many places and times simultaneously, so I’m sure we’ve seen the last of it and it definitely won’t want revenge.