Ramblings of General Geekery

This Engadget article is on point: Topre Keyboards are not for everyone but they’re super awesome. I personally have the mixed key weight version, to give my pinky fingers a break. It was even featured in an EA promo video!


My kids are the type to continue wearing their winter jacket all the way to summer, but to stay in t-shirt and shorts through to October. Because reasons. Small victory: I managed to make them drop the jacket late last week.


Older kid has started binge-watching One Piece a few months ago. He’s about 200 episodes in, with more than 800 episodes to go…


Good morning! The weather is pretty good right now but also this is the weather we used to have in July/August 15 years ago 😐


Of course, with In The Labyrinth, The Fantasy Trip is evolved half-way into GURPS, with Reaction Rolls, Advantages (aka Talents), etc. The two are still fairly easily compatible. The tiny TFT character sheet is almost a valid GURPS character sheet! #ttrpg

In The Labyrinth, showing the chapter on Talents
The tiny Fantasy Trip character sheet of "Ragnar the Impetuous", with ST, DX, and MA stats, two weapons, some armour, and experience points

A bit more about The Fantasy Trip: the box is *packed*. And it’s always interesting to me when an “implied setting” gets slowly fleshed out with a map and locale or two. Plus: MEGAHEXES! (disclaimer: megahexes was a bad idea) #ttrpg


The Fantasy Trip is a giant box that reprints Steve Jackson’s mini-games Melee and Wizard (1977/1978!) These simple skirmish-like rules get turned into a full #TTRPG with In The Labyrinth (1980!) It’s as different from D&D as RuneQuest was. That’s my kind of OSR!


I finally watched the first two episodes of Utopia and wow, I really love it. I have no idea where it’s going, and when I know where it’s going it’s much worse than I thought. I like that!

The poster for series one of the UK show "Utopia"
Arby and Lee point a gun at the viewer
Arby and Lee torture Wilson Wilson with a spoon

In last week’s #RuneQuest #Glorantha game, the adventurers ran into a swarm of Rubble Runners. It occurred to them that they had never seen baby Rubble Runners. Then it occurred to them that Rubble Runners *are* the babies. And then they met the mom! #ttrpg