The Stochastic Game

The bubble tea conundrum: I want to sip this quietly at home, but we all know I’ll have finished it by the time I get to the front door

Orbital Blues is a very stylish #TTRPG inspired by Cowboy Bebop. It has lightweight rules with some interesting twists, like a combined attack/damage roll, the spaceship jury-rigging mechanic, and two-tiered goon squads!

We just watched Wargames, it’s 40 years old this year! The technology has aged tremendously (we had to explain rotary phones, modems, newspaper archives, and more to the kids!), but the movie is still a great techno-thriller. The ending still rocks!

Just played a game of The Quiet Year with the kid! We had giants, dinosaurs and monster ants, secret tunnels, obsidian weapons, exile, mysteries, and of course the Frost Shepherds!

Ok so the Mandalorians are the Humakti of the Star Wars universe, got it #ttrpg #glorantha

Me too, unknown person. I’m married to one.

Next in Xena’s amazing season 2 is, basically, a “Miss Congeniality” episode… 3 years before that movie! And for the “everything is woke now” crowd: Xena befriends a trans contestant who proceeds to win the beauty pageant, and they kiss, making Gabrielle obviously jealous!

Continuing the Xena marathon, we now have “The Xena Scrolls”, an Indiana Jones spoof with Gabrielle in the hero role. The cast digs up bronze age artifacts that tell Xena’s story. Then it gets crazy. And then it gets even crazier.

This article on the sources used by ChatGPT has some nice visualization, plus a form with which you can check if your website is being used… and yes, my blog is used! In case you were wondering where the bullshit comes from.

It’s been a hectic week so tonight’s relaxation is brought to you by walking around the lake and occasionally stopping to write #ttrpg material