Doing layout is honestly the primary reason I think I've got some sort of OCD, because what else do you call the feeling of unbearable & overwhelming frustration at things that //just won't fucking fit together// Powering through the struggle bus all the same

This has been living in my brain since I learned of it and I am positively frothing at the mouth.

Arcane Sword Press@arcanesword.bsky.social · 6d ago

Coming Soon in Fall of 2026: SPACER, my personal rewrite and expanded version of Classic Traveller designed to be released under the Creative Commons sharealike license for FREE. This means people can make their own content for Spacer or design a new game using it!

New month, new video game post The industry is crashing, but like with any mass extinction the small, the adaptable, the hardy and the weird will eat like kings throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/08/dan-...

Thought of the Day: There are at least 2 multi-million dollar sci-fi franchises whose fatal flaw is that they didn't rip off Gurren Lagann hard enough. (Mass Effect and DUNC, specifically. Though for completely different reasons, which is wild.)

How to write a romantic relationship like a champ: Remember that a significant percentage of dialogue is going to be incomprehensible in-jokes. My partner and I will just randomly point to things and flatly declare "that's geometry"

What if, and hear me out, there was a Really Cool Bug

"What if you merged 60 Years in Space planetgen with Traveller/Cephus, clearly nothing could possibly go wrong" - my brain

In what is easily in the top percentile of bad decisions I've made in my adult life, I've compiled a comprehensive timeline of the SCP wiki's abject failure at dealing with a years-long abuse scandal. CW for all that a years-long abuse scandal entails throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-co...

Another convention weekend come and gone. Only ran 2 of my scheduled 6 Mothership sessions, but they were fun. Got some good merch. Hung out with some friends I don't see often.

Well. Of the five sessions of Mothership I've been scheduled to run so far, exactly one has had players. That one was great, had a fantastic time with Another Bug Hunt. There are people signed up for tomorrow's session, at least, but man this is the least fun con experience I've had in a while.

And there we go: 20 PCs, 16 funnel victims, 10 blank sheets left over. I regret not having a YOU DIED stamp and / or badge ribbon, but that's for next time.

Time to put on the DKC2 soundtrack and make a bunch of Mothership characters, because like a maniac I signed up to run 18 hours of games this weekend.

In possibly the wildest example of random generation delivering unexpected results, I rolled up a 60 Years in Space solar system with 4 mini-neptunes in the same stable orbit. I am easily amused sometimes.

Picked up @kennethhite.bsky.social's Hideous Creatures book and yep, this is far and away the best Mythos bestiary I've seen. Except for the three-column layout and faint textured background - have some mercy, Pelgrane Press, I read on a kindle!

Oi, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is free for a while on Steam. Thumbs up from me so far.

I'm starting to seriously consider just writing tables by hand, scanning them, and inserting them as images in future projects. hate hate hate hate hate hate the constant fiddling it takes even to cheat my way around doing them in a layout program

Celebrating a glimpse of blue sky I caught earlier, it's the third and final installment in my experiment to make a public domain ship of Theseus out of Lord of the Rings. I am terribly pleased with how it came out. Some great surprise picks in here. throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/07/rema...

Remaking Lord of the Rings out of Only Public Domain Sources: Part 3

Ilya Repin Part 1 , Part 2 Home stretch, let’s go. The Balrog How did I skip the Balrog? Absolutely shameful. Anyway:  dig too deep and you’...

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Oh. Yeah that's a inescapable apocalyptic pall of smoke

Good news! I found a modular map for High Frontier I can edit so I don't have to make one myself from scratch. Bad news! It's an svg file and I can interact with inkscape for about 35 seconds before I want to rend my garments and tear out my beard like an old testament prophet

I found a site about old sword-and-planet books, thought it was neat, and then saw that the guys running it complain about wokeness My dudes a bit of social awareness exponentially increases the number of evil overlords to fight & hot space people to kiss, the 2 most important parts of the genre!

My third mini-review roundup of Delta Green Actual Plays, which will likely be the last for a long while. I am not, it seems, the primary audience for most of these. Sey la vi. No, ADHD brain, I do not need to consider writing and narrating a solo campaign throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/07/even...

Dare I re-install warframe

Cat update Still no name, but I've been calling him Mr. Cranky in the meantime

Cat update He was definitely someone's housecat before, since he's both fixed and microchipped, but the microchip hasn't been updated since 2016 and is old enough that the company that made it got bought out so who knows if anyone could be tracked down.

So we had been on deck to foster a nearby stray once the rescue was able to take him in, but they hadn't been able to find him after the first encounter early this week. Guess who came over to say hello while I was doing laundry

Had major brain-blast today for the next PD lord of the rings post: Haman as Wormtongue has kicked off a chain of knock-on effects to where Gondor is now Fantasy!Persia

Playing 'The Message from Deep Space, which has A) really cemented that I am in my obtuse puzzle game era B) really made me want to tell my past self "hey if you imagine all that algebra homework as transmissions from an alien probe it's way more fun"

Got a nice bit of Mythos fiction for tonight's post, brought to you by the intrusive thought of "man I would be the best/worst at writing romantasy, because I'd just immediately make the main couple a ghoul and a deep one or something" throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

The Arrangement

Nottsuo Agent Delfino leaves the car at the end of the driveway, right in front of the rusted gate and its corroded “DANGER - NO TRESPASSI...

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Crunchyroll's roku app is so busted the last time I tried it, it wasn't even able to run ads.

unhinged eldritch abomination@rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

Watched ep 1 of the new Ghost in the Shell The hair is huge, the faces are goofy, the collars are popped, the colors are bright, the beats are boppin', the fits are perfected, the blood is splatterin', the gonzo is to the gills