David J Prokopetz
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I enjoy how I can tell from the way that submissions to the 200-word RPG jam drop off to nothing over the weekend, only to promptly pick up again first thing Monday that some of y'all are writing 200 word RPGs on company time.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I enjoy how I can tell from the way that submissions to the 200-word RPG jam drop off to nothing over the weekend, only to promptly pick up again first thing Monday that some of y'all are writing 200 word RPGs on company time.
One of my favourite TV things is when the relationship writing always sucks in the same ways, then a random lesbian couple with none of those problems shows up, and it turns out the dude running the show SPECIFICALLY cannot write het without inserting his terrible hangups, but he's fine if it's gay.
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
One of my favourite TV things is when the relationship writing always sucks in the same ways, then a random lesbian couple with none of those problems shows up, and it turns out the dude running the show SPECIFICALLY cannot write het without inserting his terrible hangups, but he's fine if it's gay.
FYI if you're one of the 3 people following this blog who don't already own "Costume Fairy Adventures" and the idea of a TTRPG where your character class randomly changes every 5 minutes sounds fun: it's 20% off as part of DTRPG's "Teach Your Kids To Game" sale.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
FYI if you're one of the 3 people following this blog who don't already own "Costume Fairy Adventures" and the idea of a TTRPG where your character class randomly changes every 5 minutes sounds fun: it's 20% off as part of DTRPG's "Teach Your Kids To Game" sale.
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I don't know who needs to hear this. I cannot imagine anyone's life possibly being improved by hearing this. It is inconceivable to me that anyone, anywhere could benefit in any way from hearing this.
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this. I cannot imagine anyone's life possibly being improved by hearing this. It is inconceivable to me that anyone, anywhere could benefit in any way from hearing this.
Weighing the savings of getting the basic Steam Cube model against the possibility that at some point I might want to install a third game.
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Weighing the savings of getting the basic Steam Cube model against the possibility that at some point I might want to install a third game.
It always throws me when people say "teenaged" instead of "teenage" because the former reads as a verb to me. Who teenaged this person? What does the act or process of teenaging a person entail?
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
It always throws me when people say "teenaged" instead of "teenage" because the former reads as a verb to me. Who teenaged this person? What does the act or process of teenaging a person entail?
There's a thing that could happen in that weird transitional period between old school console RPGs and the modern cinematic style where it wouldn't stop you from revisiting areas created solely for specific action setpieces, but the game had no assets for anything OUTSIDE that setpiece [...] (1/2)
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There's a thing that could happen in that weird transitional period between old school console RPGs and the modern cinematic style where it wouldn't stop you from revisiting areas created solely for specific action setpieces, but the game had no assets for anything OUTSIDE that setpiece [...] (1/2)
Obviously your fictional characters can wear whatever you want, but if you're trying to make a standards-compliant Girl™ character, the one thing she absolutely cannot have is a normal size hat. It's gotta be either absurdly tiny or the biggest fucking hat you've ever seen; no half-measures allowed.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Obviously your fictional characters can wear whatever you want, but if you're trying to make a standards-compliant Girl™ character, the one thing she absolutely cannot have is a normal size hat. It's gotta be either absurdly tiny or the biggest fucking hat you've ever seen; no half-measures allowed.
I enjoy buying indie TTRPGs and immediately renaming them because the author decided to go with "game.pdf" or "final.pdf" (or "final1.pdf", which raises questions that ought to have been answered by the word "final"), but I think my favourite turned out to be named "pdf.pdf". Like, tell me nothing.
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I enjoy buying indie TTRPGs and immediately renaming them because the author decided to go with "game.pdf" or "final.pdf" (or "final1.pdf", which raises questions that ought to have been answered by the word "final"), but I think my favourite turned out to be named "pdf.pdf". Like, tell me nothing.
Hey, folks. If you had a dropped pledge for "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) and were planning on re-upping as a late pledge (or just missed the campaign and want to sneak in late), today's your last day to do so before late pledges for tiers with physical rewards close. Fair warning!
Eat God
a tabletop roleplaying game about causing problems on purpose
www.kickstarter.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hey, folks. If you had a dropped pledge for "Eat God" (www.kickstarter.com/projects/pen...) and were planning on re-upping as a late pledge (or just missed the campaign and want to sneak in late), today's your last day to do so before late pledges for tiers with physical rewards close. Fair warning!
"Why does the metric system still use base 60 time units" look: metricated time has in fact been attempted, and ended up contributing to the fall of the French Republic. Weights and measures are whatever, but turns out folks REALLY don't like it when the government fucks with how long a minute is.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Why does the metric system still use base 60 time units" look: metricated time has in fact been attempted, and ended up contributing to the fall of the French Republic. Weights and measures are whatever, but turns out folks REALLY don't like it when the government fucks with how long a minute is.
Yes, yes, "they would not fucking say that", but consider: "huge fucking dumbass randomly displays inexplicably deep insight on some pertinent, narrowly defined topic while remaining in every other respect a huge fucking dumbass" is never not funny.
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yes, yes, "they would not fucking say that", but consider: "huge fucking dumbass randomly displays inexplicably deep insight on some pertinent, narrowly defined topic while remaining in every other respect a huge fucking dumbass" is never not funny.
Scrolling down my feed and getting hit with posts whose avatars are, in succession, comic book Ramona Flowers from the 2004 graphic novel, live action Ramona Flowers from the 2010 film, pixel art Ramona Flowers from the tie-in video game, and anime Ramona Flowers from the 2023 cartoon.
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Scrolling down my feed and getting hit with posts whose avatars are, in succession, comic book Ramona Flowers from the 2004 graphic novel, live action Ramona Flowers from the 2010 film, pixel art Ramona Flowers from the tie-in video game, and anime Ramona Flowers from the 2023 cartoon.
I think modern media should revive the pulp fiction twist where what seems to be a period piece with fantastical horror elements is abruptly revealed to have a science-fictional explanation. I want a film about vampire hunters in 15th Century France where the "vampire" turns out to be an evil robot.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I think modern media should revive the pulp fiction twist where what seems to be a period piece with fantastical horror elements is abruptly revealed to have a science-fictional explanation. I want a film about vampire hunters in 15th Century France where the "vampire" turns out to be an evil robot.
I'm not saying I buy the theory that Dess got run over by a car, but if she did, it'd sure add an extra wrinkle to the facts that Cyber World a. is implied to be partly informed by Noelle's Internet search history, and b. has a structural preoccupation with memetic humour about car crashes, huh?
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm not saying I buy the theory that Dess got run over by a car, but if she did, it'd sure add an extra wrinkle to the facts that Cyber World a. is implied to be partly informed by Noelle's Internet search history, and b. has a structural preoccupation with memetic humour about car crashes, huh?
It's astounding how service outfits will game those "rate my service person" things to ensure nobody ever makes quota. I once did tech support for a place whose rating out of 5 was secretly a rating out of 6 – it had a field for "other comments", and filling it in counted for the secret 6th point.
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's astounding how service outfits will game those "rate my service person" things to ensure nobody ever makes quota. I once did tech support for a place whose rating out of 5 was secretly a rating out of 6 – it had a field for "other comments", and filling it in counted for the secret 6th point.
Very funny how Hollow Knight consistently refers to Herrah as "Herrah the Beast" and implies there's something eldritch going on, only for Silksong to reveal that she really is godspawn, but that's not why she's called "the Beast"; the Deepnesters gave her that epithet because they're spider racist.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Very funny how Hollow Knight consistently refers to Herrah as "Herrah the Beast" and implies there's something eldritch going on, only for Silksong to reveal that she really is godspawn, but that's not why she's called "the Beast"; the Deepnesters gave her that epithet because they're spider racist.
I sympathise with the frustration at a certain flavour of TTRPG fans claiming it's elitist to learn the rules of the game you're playing, but I have to laugh at analogies like "you wouldn't say it's elitist to watch a TV show you claim to be a fan of"; people in TV show fandoms 100% do say that.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I sympathise with the frustration at a certain flavour of TTRPG fans claiming it's elitist to learn the rules of the game you're playing, but I have to laugh at analogies like "you wouldn't say it's elitist to watch a TV show you claim to be a fan of"; people in TV show fandoms 100% do say that.
I can't speak for anybody else, but for me, sometimes the whole executive dysfunction thing can get bad enough that I wrap all the way back around to being productive. I once wrote four hundred lines of code while procrastinating on the act of putting on a shirt.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I can't speak for anybody else, but for me, sometimes the whole executive dysfunction thing can get bad enough that I wrap all the way back around to being productive. I once wrote four hundred lines of code while procrastinating on the act of putting on a shirt.
Reposted by David J Prokopetz
The official Power Rangers ttrpg including rules for getting Tetanus is what radicalized me into a deep believer of "Design with Intention."
I know this may come across as unreasonable, but I feel like when I pick up an officially licensed TTRPG adaptation of some piece of media, it shouldn't be a coin toss whether there will be any mechanism for playing as the sorts of characters the game's ostensible source material is actually about.
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The official Power Rangers ttrpg including rules for getting Tetanus is what radicalized me into a deep believer of "Design with Intention."
What? No, it's not a "mechsplo forcefem" thing – she'd already figured out that she was a girl long before getting into the giant robot. The combat drugs DID however make her gay.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What? No, it's not a "mechsplo forcefem" thing – she'd already figured out that she was a girl long before getting into the giant robot. The combat drugs DID however make her gay.
[1/3] More favourite useless wizard archetypes:
1. Wizard who knows exactly four spells, and suffers from the world's worst case of "when all you have is a hammer" syndrome
2. Wizard whose magic has predictable side effects it somehow never occurs to them to account for until after the fact
1. Wizard who knows exactly four spells, and suffers from the world's worst case of "when all you have is a hammer" syndrome
2. Wizard whose magic has predictable side effects it somehow never occurs to them to account for until after the fact
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
[1/3] More favourite useless wizard archetypes:
1. Wizard who knows exactly four spells, and suffers from the world's worst case of "when all you have is a hammer" syndrome
2. Wizard whose magic has predictable side effects it somehow never occurs to them to account for until after the fact
1. Wizard who knows exactly four spells, and suffers from the world's worst case of "when all you have is a hammer" syndrome
2. Wizard whose magic has predictable side effects it somehow never occurs to them to account for until after the fact
I know this may come across as unreasonable, but I feel like when I pick up an officially licensed TTRPG adaptation of some piece of media, it shouldn't be a coin toss whether there will be any mechanism for playing as the sorts of characters the game's ostensible source material is actually about.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I know this may come across as unreasonable, but I feel like when I pick up an officially licensed TTRPG adaptation of some piece of media, it shouldn't be a coin toss whether there will be any mechanism for playing as the sorts of characters the game's ostensible source material is actually about.
Small-town murder mystery about a brooding film noir type who monologues about "their town" like they want to have sex with it, as one does, but instead of wanting to fuck the idea of Los Angeles or whatever they're horny and repressed for the concept of a village with a population of 3000 people.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Small-town murder mystery about a brooding film noir type who monologues about "their town" like they want to have sex with it, as one does, but instead of wanting to fuck the idea of Los Angeles or whatever they're horny and repressed for the concept of a village with a population of 3000 people.
Trials of Autism #137: is this person REALLY being inconsistent, or did I mentally add extra stipulations to something they said because I found it annoyingly imprecise, decide that's what they "must have meant", then forget that those qualifiers weren't present in what they actually said?
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trials of Autism #137: is this person REALLY being inconsistent, or did I mentally add extra stipulations to something they said because I found it annoyingly imprecise, decide that's what they "must have meant", then forget that those qualifiers weren't present in what they actually said?