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Brian Takle

@wylfing.bsky.social

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UX designer, writer, TTRPGs, sci-fi, books and films. Oxford comma optional. Hard left. Once semi-famous for The Matrix - http://blogs.wylfing.net/coronas/

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Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 2d

This movie still kicks all kinds of ass.

Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 2d

art Renato Casaro
#80s #80smovies

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 3d

As always, Brasco is nailing the vibe.

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 3d

One of the other parts to that Star Wars D6 procedure was the "problems" table, where you generate things that the other table has chances to solve.

#ttrpg #starwars #swd6 #weg

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 3d

This is how they wrote The Mandalorian

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 3d

A long time ago when I was regularly running Star Wars games, I came up with some frameworks for generating "what's next." This is part of it. First you roll a trouble (e.g., broken hyperdrive) and then roll 3d20 and read down the columns for who/what can solve it.

#ttrpg #starwars #swd6 #weg

A table of opportunities that can crop up during a Star Wars D6 adventure, mainly as a response to the troubles that you roll at the start of a session. For example, you could roll that an old friend wants you to extract someone from a prison.

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 3d

@hobbs665.bsky.social used to, and probably still does, call this (among other things) the Takle Method 😅

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 3d

A long time ago when I was regularly running Star Wars games, I came up with some frameworks for generating "what's next." This is part of it. First you roll a trouble (e.g., broken hyperdrive) and then roll 3d20 and read down the columns for who/what can solve it.

#ttrpg #starwars #swd6 #weg

A table of opportunities that can crop up during a Star Wars D6 adventure, mainly as a response to the troubles that you roll at the start of a session. For example, you could roll that an old friend wants you to extract someone from a prison.

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 3d

I know everyone is all "boo" on AI, but when you start it on digging into the lore of a cathedral it gets really excited. I think they're all secretly DnD maniacs who just want to play so badly.

#rpg #ttrpg #darksouls

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 4d

As a person with dyslexia - who had to look up multiple times how to spell dyslexia and even after looking it up I still couldn't do it - masked password forms are the worst. Captchas I also cannot decipher. They're a blind box to me. Can't read them.

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure how real this is but I for sure watched every second of it. Whatever this is, it's made me want to make new adventures for Star Wars D6.

#StarWars #SWD6 #SWRPG #SWRPGD6

youtu.be/6WSIGgv8zJI?...

10 Minutes of Return of the Jedi You’ve Never Seen!

YouTube video by The Rebel Clone

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 8d

Coooooool 😍

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

The punishment for Nat’s failure to predict had been to remove his ability to predict.

The horse’s head came up again, its mouth working. Sure looked convincing. 7/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

Hell, they might not even be real horses. Nat had trouble shaking this idea, but in the end he decided it didn’t matter.

Whoever lived here. Back in the world it wouldn’t even make sense. That kind of ignorance was impossible. 6/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

He hoped whoever lived here wasn’t so wired. Some people lived like that. Willfully disconnected, or gobbed with input-suppression plugins. Although – and this thought iced his stomach more than it should – there was no reason to think the horses themselves weren’t networked. 5/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

Back in the world, anyone who looked at Nat would see the angry halo of his guilt. The guilt of not being a perfect grass-tender. Only it wasn’t grass that he tended.

I’m not part of that anymore, he thought. 4/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

There were no horse criminals. No rehabs for recalcitrant equines.

An absurd thought stuck in Nat’s head, that the owner of this land could be held accountable for not making the greenery green enough to maximize the wellness of these horses. 3/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Galdrar, former lab tech, stumbled on the unlikely horse pasture. A speckled Arabian raised its head, half-alert, and then returned to its grassy fare. Nat envied the beast. Fine gradients of potential morality and neurochemical engineering meant nothing to it. 2/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

Once upon a time, on the bad site, there was a flash fiction challenge. I used to do it. Typically you have to create a world, a character, and a scenario in under 50 words. I broke the rules pretty often. Here's one: 1/7

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

...for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo’s side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep.

#lotr #ttrpg

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

...hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope...

#lotr #ttrpg

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 11d

Far above the Ephel Dúath in the West the night sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a bright star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and... 1/2

#lotr #ttrpg

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 13d

I will eat mayonnaise by the spoonful how did I get passed up for this job.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13d

Initially, our testers (even those who were big fans of mayo) were intimidated by the thought of eating such a fatty condiment by the spoonful. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as daunting a task as we had expected. nyti.ms/42h8Zmw

Three dollops of mayonnaise on a blue background. Headline: We Tasted 25 Different Mayonnaises and Lived to Tell You About Them

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 15d

“to access this transcript please watch this short video”

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 16d

The most unbelievable thing in the Superman movie is that he has a job at a thriving newspaper.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18d

idolatrous dotings