Dandyman
@throneofsalt.bsky.social
Blog-writer. Book-reader. Dice-roller. He/him.
Moloch must be dethroned.
UNICORN MEAT available via Exalted Funeral, Itch, and DTRPG!
Moloch must be dethroned.
UNICORN MEAT available via Exalted Funeral, Itch, and DTRPG!
Got installment 9 of my video game micro-review series.
Somehow, there are even more bangers
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Somehow, there are even more bangers
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Dan Plays Games 9
In the last installment, Arnold suggested writing some bits of gameable material at the end, and I think that's a pretty good idea. Only got...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Got installment 9 of my video game micro-review series.
Somehow, there are even more bangers
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/dan-...
Somehow, there are even more bangers
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/dan-...
Further Asbury Pines notes:
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Further Asbury Pines notes:
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
Grabbed Asbury Pines on a whim, because the idea of a Twin-Peaks style narrative idle game intrigues me
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Grabbed Asbury Pines on a whim, because the idea of a Twin-Peaks style narrative idle game intrigues me
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
Love how I can just tell someone "ADHD hamstrings my memory and chronic stress has made it infinitely worse" and their response is "But what about //more// stress, have you considered that?"
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Love how I can just tell someone "ADHD hamstrings my memory and chronic stress has made it infinitely worse" and their response is "But what about //more// stress, have you considered that?"
Wanted to write something quick and easy, so I cooked up another one of my "line-by-line dissections of monster write-ups in big-name RPGs" posts. This time it's the Gnoph-keh, because Call of Cthulhu is the gift that keeps on giving in this department.
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Monster Dissection: Gnoph-keh
I recently re-read my old dissection of the Yugg and thought “you know, it’s been a while since I’ve roasted a bad bestiary entry”. So let’...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Wanted to write something quick and easy, so I cooked up another one of my "line-by-line dissections of monster write-ups in big-name RPGs" posts. This time it's the Gnoph-keh, because Call of Cthulhu is the gift that keeps on giving in this department.
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/mons...
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/mons...
Hell is Us has one of the best dungeons I have ever seen in a video game. Huge amount of design stuff you can and should swipe for tabletop.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hell is Us has one of the best dungeons I have ever seen in a video game. Huge amount of design stuff you can and should swipe for tabletop.
Welp, i just discovered Kaimere, that's going to be a nice hyperfixation for a while. Extremely inspirational
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welp, i just discovered Kaimere, that's going to be a nice hyperfixation for a while. Extremely inspirational
Me, earlier today: "Oh this linguistic paper looks neat"
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Me, earlier today: "Oh this linguistic paper looks neat"
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
Honestly amazed that no one has made a SCP-ish management sim TTRPG yet. Like we've already got Delta Green at home, let us play as the bureaucrats who have to wrangle the yearly budget allotment for containing the nuclear fusion mangos or whatever
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Honestly amazed that no one has made a SCP-ish management sim TTRPG yet. Like we've already got Delta Green at home, let us play as the bureaucrats who have to wrangle the yearly budget allotment for containing the nuclear fusion mangos or whatever
My run of stumbling across banger video games continues: Hell is Us is "what if Death Stranding was an exploration/puzzle-first Soulslike based on the Bosnian War"
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My run of stumbling across banger video games continues: Hell is Us is "what if Death Stranding was an exploration/puzzle-first Soulslike based on the Bosnian War"
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
Yo y'all need to check this out. Easily some of Rowan's best work. This book is laid out the way Chainsaw Man feels to watch.
The jig is up! CAIN: Glory Unto Them, the homebrew expansion for CAIN that I've been working on the last few months is finally out! Expect some posts looking back on its progress soon!
extremely standout and cool CAIN homebrew release bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io/glory-unto-t...
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yo y'all need to check this out. Easily some of Rowan's best work. This book is laid out the way Chainsaw Man feels to watch.
Secret of Weepstone straight up just flips open a fake TSR dungeon module when you want to look at the map.
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Secret of Weepstone straight up just flips open a fake TSR dungeon module when you want to look at the map.
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
In the spirit of the season, I spruced up one of the Mythos monsters that always felt a lacking to me.
Have some polyps: they fly!
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Have some polyps: they fly!
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The Polyps
Khannea Sun Szu Agent Gilliland bursts from the treeline in a shower of broken twigs, a slick silver canister tucked under her arm like ...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In the spirit of the season, I spruced up one of the Mythos monsters that always felt a lacking to me.
Have some polyps: they fly!
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Have some polyps: they fly!
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Decktamer has the best monster designs I've seen in a hot minute but needs one hell of rebalance patch
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Decktamer has the best monster designs I've seen in a hot minute but needs one hell of rebalance patch
I think the tariffs accelerated what was already an unsustainable system: not every game needs to be a luxury product with a bespoke card deck or a companion app or a featureless black cube.
Sometimes, print-at-home is enough. Sometimes it //has// to be enough.
Sometimes, print-at-home is enough. Sometimes it //has// to be enough.
Tariffs killed Magpie Games' trio of unconventional, card-based games, showing early hints of a long and cruel effect on the tabletop RPG side of the industry.
Tariffs are killing “uncommon” RPGs
Three card-based storytelling games are the latest victim of wanton economic policy
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October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think the tariffs accelerated what was already an unsustainable system: not every game needs to be a luxury product with a bespoke card deck or a companion app or a featureless black cube.
Sometimes, print-at-home is enough. Sometimes it //has// to be enough.
Sometimes, print-at-home is enough. Sometimes it //has// to be enough.
I went from "know nothing > wishlisted" so fast that time dilation kicked in.
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Classic Tabletop RPG Dungeon Crawler - The Secret of Weepstone [Demo]
YouTube video by Wanderbots
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October 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I went from "know nothing > wishlisted" so fast that time dilation kicked in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPp...
I can now add "the guy you go to if you want a Proto-Indo-European insult for your RPG module" to my resume
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I can now add "the guy you go to if you want a Proto-Indo-European insult for your RPG module" to my resume
I have just been reminded that there's a Delta Green supplement with agent profession "Astronaut Corps Pilot" and with this year's contest fast approaching this is dangerous knowledge to have.
October 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I have just been reminded that there's a Delta Green supplement with agent profession "Astronaut Corps Pilot" and with this year's contest fast approaching this is dangerous knowledge to have.
Not a single theater in near me has GDT's Frankenstein.
October 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Not a single theater in near me has GDT's Frankenstein.
And here we go, my wrap-up and reflection of my solo mission in @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space.
What a wild ride.
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What a wild ride.
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60 Years in Space: The Finale
Part 1: Crew & Mission Generation Part 2: Rocket Science Part 3: Mission Year 1 Part 4: Mission Years 2-4 What a wild ride. TLDR Versi...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
And here we go, my wrap-up and reflection of my solo mission in @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space.
What a wild ride.
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...
What a wild ride.
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...
In an uncharacteristic display of productivity, have a review of a 20+ year old Star Wars Saga Edition Supplement
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A Failed Review of the Ultimate Alien Anthology
"Boots off the counter, sir!" I have, by hook and by crook, come into possession of another copy of the Star Wars Ultimate Alien Antholo...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
In an uncharacteristic display of productivity, have a review of a 20+ year old Star Wars Saga Edition Supplement
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-fa...
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-fa...
Fantasy novelists and RPG designers straight up cannot match the Kushan Empire when it comes to wildass crossover settings.
You could reach into your pocket and pull out coins with Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Shiva, and the Buddha on them just while buying lunch.
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You could reach into your pocket and pull out coins with Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Shiva, and the Buddha on them just while buying lunch.
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Kushan Empire - Wikipedia
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October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Fantasy novelists and RPG designers straight up cannot match the Kushan Empire when it comes to wildass crossover settings.
You could reach into your pocket and pull out coins with Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Shiva, and the Buddha on them just while buying lunch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_...
You could reach into your pocket and pull out coins with Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Shiva, and the Buddha on them just while buying lunch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_...
It's time for part 4 of my play report series of @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space: this time round we get to see the sausage-making procedure and make it successfully to Pholus! Now it's just the wrapup post left.
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60 Years, the Return: Part 4
Let's get right into it. Part 1: Crew & Mission Generation Part 2: Rocket Science Part 3: Mission Year 1 Service Risk Triggers Cosmic Ra...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It's time for part 4 of my play report series of @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space: this time round we get to see the sausage-making procedure and make it successfully to Pholus! Now it's just the wrapup post left.
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...
Part 3 of my mission report for @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space is up: at long last, I complete the first year of the Hayabusa's 4 year mission!
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throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...
60 Years, the Return: Part 3
I’ve kept the steps that aren’t applicable for this mission anyway as a model / memory aid. Part 1: Crew & Mission Generation Part 2: Rocket...
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October 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Part 3 of my mission report for @andrewdoull.bsky.social's 60 Years in Space is up: at long last, I complete the first year of the Hayabusa's 4 year mission!
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/60-y...