Ramblings of General Geekery

It’s decided, this year for my Christmas/birthday gift to myself, I’m getting custom frames to put all my Ultima cloth maps on a wall! For now it will include Ultima III through IX, plus Shroud of the Avatar. I’m hoping to eventually also get Ultima Online’s map.

The Ultima VI cloth map, and the boxes of the "middle" trilogy that cemented the video games series spot as an absolute classic of the CRPG genre

In yesterday’s RuneQuest game, the Yelmalion PC marched with a warband to meet Harvar Ironfist in a heroquest. An identification contest was issued and with cunning nerdy bullshit the players tore down Harvar’s god-forming. The PC is now Yelmalio, Harvar is the False Sun, and killing is starting!


Reprints of some old-school Fighting Fantasy books have showed up on my doorstep! Rejoice! And don’t forget to keep your finger at the previous chapter!

The first five Fighting Fantasy books

As someone working on the #UE5 Sequencer and other cinematics tech, I am APPALLED by seeing my kid always skip through cut scenes in his new Pokémon game. Have respect for the craft, man!


I am very sad to report that I don’t like Alien: Earth 😞 I guess I’ll go back to my binge watch of Xena Warrior Princess (almost done!)


That awkward moment when your dog disappears in the bushes, you call him, and he comes back with a brown tongue and an absolutely horrible breath… 😬


I helped Chaosium almost go completely bankrupt but at least I got a T-shirt out of it! 😭

A T-shirt for the “Horror on the Orient Express” Kickstarter (for Call of Cthulhu) which was famously one of those things that went completely out of hand and almost bankrupted the company with stretch goals and shipping costs

Sure, officer, I ran that Stop sign, but hey, this is the day of the year I listen to Earth Wind & Fire all day long, and Philip was about to hit that mind-blowing high note on “Fantasy”, in the “Live At Velfarre” album! You just can’t stop before that happens!


Joining the trend of Disney+ cancellations because that seems like a fun thing to do!

It will probably also be fun to see people move towards piracy and realize it’s actually quite easy and the user experience is superior.

A screenshot of my Disney+ subscription being cancelled.

Yesterday we got back into Dragonbane after a long hiatus… and we all forgot how brutal combat is if the players don’t act as a team! The White Death isn’t gonna go hungry!