The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

An interesting take on #TTRPG skilled vs unskilled rolls from The Fantasy Trip:

Extract from The Fantasy Trip:
Players may ask, for instance, “Why can’t I try to climb that tree without the Climbing talent? Everybody can climb!”
The answer is “Easy trees require no roll, harder trees might just require a DX or ST roll. The Climbing talent is for things that everybody can’t climb.”

TIL that the actor who played serial killer Buffalo “I’m dancing naked with my penis tucked between my legs” Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs” also plays the nice bumbling Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in “Monk”, and my brain can’t reconcile the two


Continuing my first watch of the original Star Trek series, and I’m currently at the “gremlins” episode.


There’s a new #RuneQuest #Glorantha adventure out in PDF, written by Finmirage and with many illustrations by me (including the cover!) Get it here now! #ttrpg


One important thing with Apple’s new visionOS is that they’ve already announced devkits. People often forget that when the iPhone was announced, the skepticism and backlash was mostly based on its lack of 3rd party app support and how Steve Jobs said it will never happen.